Announcements, Products, and Pretty Pictures

The Announcement

As some of you may know, I am a Senior TED Fellow. As such, I am going to the TED conference in Long Beach, CA at the end of the month. I am also going to visit a friend in San Francisco and then to SXSWi. It’s going to be a really amazing trip, and I am already bouncing around in excitement. (And some despair, at leaving my infant and my kindergartener.)

I have a few questions: Are any of you in LA, SF, or Austin? Should we try to have a meet-up? My blog stats seem to imply all the Americans come from the east coast, but I am not sure if that’s true or some data issue I don’t understand.

Also, what kind of blogging would you like to see from TED and SXSWi? I don’t plan to live tweet unless something epic happens, because I hate live tweeting but I do want to blog a bit.

The Products

I’ve been getting friends and colleagues set up on Twitter for a while now. I’ve got lists of good people to follow by subject, a whole process for identifying what you want from twitter, and etiquette and best practice notes. I have now codified it all into two different Twitter jump-start packages you can purchase from my online store. If any of you aren’t on twitter already, it’s a useful way to start.

The Pretty Pictures

I am finally putting together an e-book based on this blog. I need a picture for the cover. Please vote in the comments for the picture you like best. Two  are from Tajikistan and the last one is from Lebanon.

Picture A:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture B:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture C: