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Category: Nerd-Alert

  • TV-centric network borrows Foursquare’s check-in metaphor

    An iPhone application called Miso lets users “check in” to movies and TV shows that they’re watching, posting updates to other social networks and letting marketers send targeted messages. The network is one of a growing crop of “Foursquare-for-FILL-IN-THE-BLANK” networks that are applying Foursquare’s “check in” metaphor to events rather than just places, notes MG Siegler. TechCrunch

    (via SmartBrief)

    I downloaded the app today, we’ll see how it plays out. So far – I like that it easily integrates with Facebook, Twitter & Foursquare (extra bonus).

  • How to Make Plancast and GCal Be Friends

    In T-minus a few days (yippie!) I’ll be among the masses in Austin for this year’s Nerd Spring Break 2010 (that is SXSW of course). There are entirely too many events to keep up with. Which is why, I am being quite friendly with Plancast.

    Being the nerd that I am, I figured out how to sync my Plancast with my GCal (google calendar) which will then of course be on my iPhone. Do you follow?

    A few moments after posting this fun fact on twitter, the lovely Sydney Owen wanted to do the same. So, I decided to share my ohh so top secret ways of making plancast and gcal be friends.

    1. Go to your profile page on plancast. Mine is http://plancast.com/elysa
    2. Right click the little Red iCal icon at the top.
    3. Click “Copy Link Locations“
    4. Open up Google Calendar
    5. At the bottom left under “Other calendars” click Add
    6. From the drop-down you will want Add by URL
    7. and voila GCal and Plancast are now married, or at least dating.

    And if you wanna be the ultimate nerd like me, you can import your my.sxsw.com for your panel choices, and add Plancast for parties and put then all together into a fun calendar to share. Checkout Elysa @ SXSW

  • What I’m Looking Forward to in March

    This upcoming month is going to be jam packed with excitement, and traveling, and meeting fabulous people. Pretty sure I’ve never been so excited!

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    What’ I’m looking forward to this month:

    • 3rd: I’m going to be on TV! I was interviewed by a local new station about my blog and life in the social media world. It airs Wednesday night the 3rd in Dallas some time in the 7-9pm slot on channel 21. I know it’s also set to re-air on channel 11, not sure of the date yet. If I figure out how to get a version online I will most definitely share.
    • 3rd-4th: I’m going to Memphis for work. This is my first traveling by myself adventure since I’ve been at my current job (June 2009).
    • 10th: I’m on the board of the local Social Media Club (Dallas) – we are having a tweetup (aka geek happy hour) after work just for fun. If you’re in the Dallas area – join us!
    • 11th-17th: This deserves about 47 exclamation points – I’m going to Austin for SXSW!! Also, I have an ever-growin twitter list of who to watch/meet at SXSW, if you want to be added to the list just let me know.
    • Monday the 15th @ 3:30pm: For all of you lucky enough to be attending SXSW mark your calendars. I’m on a panel with 4 fabulous Gen Yers. We are speaking about Why Gen Y Wants to Work ‘With’ You, Not ‘For’ You. Though we all are gen y, our work experience and current working environments are very different.
      • Sydney Owen work out of the Chicago office of Weber Shandwick – one of the world’s leading global public relations firms with offices in major media, business and government capitals around the world
      • Ryan Paugh is the Co-Founder and Director of Community at Brazen Careerist, Inc. His job is to manage and develop one of the top social networks for Generation Y professionals.
      • Nisha Chittal is a writer, blogger, and new media consultant, she’s based out of Washington D.C. working as a Digital Strategist for New Media Strategies which has about 100 employees.
      • Ben Smithee (aka my glober trotter friend) is a founder and Managing Partner of Sypch Research, he works with a small team but gets to travel to work directly with his large client base.
      • and then there’s me: Elysa Rice, I work for Ellipse Communications, Inc. we provide websites and develop software for the multifamily industry (apartments). Our company can best be described as entrepreneur owned and operated with a little less than 50 employees, if we don’t count the Spiderman cut-out (he’s doesn’t produce a lot of work these days).
    • 23rd-24th: I will be attending the Optimization Summits, two days of unconventional conferencing which is sure to give us a few ideas for what’s next in our marketing plan.
    • Tuesday 23rd @ 6pm: Jason Falls, will be our featured speaker at the Social Media Club of Dallas talking about social media best practices for agencies and corporate marketers.

    And so there you have it ladies and gents! What are you looking forward to this month?

  • Newsroom / Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

  • Ashton Kutcher Explains Twitter to Kelly Ripa

    There are a multitude of Best Of 2009 posts circulating around the interwebz lately. The following (ridiculous) video comes from GeekSugar’s Top 10.

    Ashton Kutcher Explains Twitter to Kelly Ripa

    The king of Twitter appeared on Live! With Regis and Kelly earlier this year, and explained the inner workings of the social networking platform to Kelly. Hilarity ensued.

  • where do I go?

    I’m a fan of Foursquare (and GoWalla) and pretty much any location based social network. Today I found Where Do You Go (via Steven Ray), which creates a heat map of my Foursquare checkins.

    Checkout my map!

  • font nerd: lady gaga parody

    Lady Gaga parody on Neutra Typeface
    (via swiss-miss)

  • How To Create a Twitter List

    (via Bitrebels)

  • Big (D) Slides

    Our slides from Big D …
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