Maegan Carberry

How Twitter Will Realize Obama’s Biparatisan Vision

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ June 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

As we kick off today’s Personal Democracy Forum, in which political high-rollers from both sides of the aisle will gather in New York to discuss how new media has altered our political process, I’m compelled to revisit the topic of heightened opportunities for bipartisanship or even post-partisanship within the netroots and emerging rightroots. I recently [...]

The Hybrid Media Takeover

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ June 17, 2009 ⋅ One comment

As I left the 140 Characters Conference (a.k.a. “The Davos of Twitter”) yesterday afternoon, I was approached by a lovely suit-by-day-DC-based-lifestyle-blogger-by-night who wanted to chat about the business of blogging. The whimsical tone in her voice implied that her relatively interesting day job was not half as rewarding as the passion project she feeds in [...]

First Post Live on CauseCast.org

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ May 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I recently joined CauseCast’s blogging team, and my first contribution was published Friday. Their site is going through a fab redesign (I checked it out at the Santa Monica offices they share with Mahalo before I left LA!) and soon you’ll see a lot of great blogging from inspired young people based on the most [...]

#facebookshouldnotbetwitter

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ April 20, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

My typical late-night routine of catching up on news and friends has taken a serious hit ever since Facebook launched its unfortunate redesign.
I’m a journalist and web site proprietor; I know most redesign backlash is really a learning curve for the lesser evolved among us who will eventually embrace the enhanced services in the [...]

A Very Sociable Week

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The idea was that New York would make me a more interesting blogger, but I was so busy attending Social Media Week events, conference panels and doing actual work that I neglected to update until today. Of course, because of Twitter I don’t really dedicate time to lil posts with recommended links anymore. It’s just [...]

W&W: Republicans Dominating Online? #topprog Plays Catch-up on Twitter

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Looking for a Twitter primer? Listen in to today’s show and hear from Chris Cardinal, CEO of Principal Strategy, Inc., who introduces us to the wide world of hashtags for twitter: #topprog for liberal thoughts and news, #dontgo for conservative thoughts and news, and #tcot for microblog entries from top conservative lawmakers. Are Republicans suddenly [...]

How Did I Live Without TweetDeck?

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ January 12, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I’ve decided to take my obsessive compulsive relationship with my Twitter community to the next level tonight by installing TweetDeck, and after a little help from @stephenkruiser I’m feeling really good about that decision.
One could say that I fell head over feet for Twitter at our very first meeting. I like to think of [...]

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