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Twitter: For Better or Worse

July 5, 2009 By 7 Comments

David Masters’ son Army Private Aaron Fairbairn died today in Afghanistan. A suicide bomber breached the perimeter and detonated his truck, killing Aaron and another officer.

I did not know Aaron. I do not know David.

@DavidMMasters broke the news on Twitter. “They killed my son, Aaron!” he wrote. It was very hard to read.

He asked the Twitter community to tweet #ThankYouAaron. And we did. By the thousands. Comforting a grieving father. Another testament to the power of social media in general, and Twitter in particular.

I suspect David will read this post at some point. Leave him a note.

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Have camera will travel

July 2, 2009 By 2 Comments

Social Media Club of Seattle for June: I realized it had been a month since my last blog post. And, going to the Social Media Club of Seattle’s June get-together, I realized my next post was just a video camera away.

At the event I interviewed Shauna Causey (@ShaunaCausey), SMC Seattle Board Member and Kenji Onozawa (@KenjiOnozawa), founder of SeattleSocialMediaProfiles.com, a blog dedicated to introducing  and connecting some of the movers and shakers in Seattle’s social media community.

Hear what they have to say about social media, how easy it is to get involved, and how they’re using it to network in Seattle.

Meet Shauna

Meet Kenji

So get out your camera, keep up your blogging, and, if you’re local and haven’t done so already, join us at SMC Seattle.