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New beginnings in 2010

janequigley — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:34:58 +0000

We announced this morning that Powered, Inc. has acquired crayon – here’s the official press release http://bit.ly/4rIR1q. We’re very excited about this merger and where it takes us, especially as the roll-up also includes two other great companies, Drillteam and StepChange.

I’m getting a lot of questions about what this means for me, personally. Immediately, it means that I have more resources to do my job and support our current client roster. Our services have exponentially expanded, and I’m having a lot of fun getting to meet everyone on the new team. I’m also hoping that this frees up some of my time to speak, write and learn more.

And maybe, that means time to blog again.

Some additional posts:
Greg Verdino
Joseph Jaffe
MediaPost
Powered, Inc.
AdWeek

SXSW: Here We Come…

janequigley — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:56:46 +0000

…and by “we”, I mean me and my fellow-crayonista, (and social media Boy-Toy) Greg Verdino. Not only are we going to hang with the TechSet, maybe hit some Karaoke, and be social in a way that, well, isn’t me, but we have actual WORK to be done!

Two of crayon’s clients, ooVoo and Panasonic, will each be participating at SXSW.

I’ll be one of the people staffing the booth (#231!) for ooVoo, where they’ve announced the official debut of its open API - so they’ll be lots of demos and question-answering. And all you developers? Ask about the App Store that ooVoo’s putting together to showcase your applications – oh, and also make some money. Another sneak peak? Contests for the best application (and there are multiple categories) – if you ask, I bet someone will even suggest some apps to start. BTW – I’ll be looking for an iPhone app, once Apple opens the camera to video.

Also – another crayon client, Panasonic’s Living in HD Community, is one of the sponsors of the live Diggnation event on Saturday Night at Stubbs (see Event info/RSVP here and here). I’m really enjoying working with the Revision3 guys (Hi, Ryan!) and am really excited to show off the community (and announce some cool contests!) to this audience.

So – if you’re going to SXSW, let me know, it would be great to say Hi!

Pownce No More…

janequigley — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:26:29 +0000

Today on the Pownce Blog, Leah Culver announced that the service would be closing in a few weeks and that the team would be moving to SixApart, makers of MovableType, TypePad and Vox blogging software. I was really excited about Pownce when it began because it seemed to take the next logical step from where Twitter was and enabled actual sharing of files and media. Perfect for my team and making a more social-enabled workflow. Immediately, I signed up for a Pro Account, to show support (although when it came time to renew, it was difficult and I quickly gave up) and distributed most of my invites. At the time it was the “New Shiny Thing” so a lot of Twitter conversations ported to Pownce. Unfortunately, even before coming out of beta, most ported back.

Acccording to the SixApart announcement, the incredible Leah Culver and Mike Malone are joining the SA engineering team (I see that as hugely important as the annoucement last week that Rael Dornfest is joining the Twitter team). Huge coup for 6A. Many people are taking that to mean that Pownce will be absorbed into the SixApart universe in some fashion, but I don’t think so. Too many microblogging platforms exist, all of which can be imported into any platform – why have another? Especially when there are so many features that I can see this team producing, adding immediate value to 6A – especially to TypePad!

It seems that Pownce Pro users will get their own free TypePad account for a year and that Powncers are able to export their posts and can then import them to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.

Thanks to the Pownce Team for all of their work and a platform that I think might have been slightly aheaad of its time – I’m looking forward to seeing where SixApart goes from here.

Event: Network Solutions – Solutions Stars Video Conference

jquig99 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:56:59 +0000

Disclosure: I’ve been working – in a small way – on this wonderful event with Livingston Communications for Network Solutions. ooVoo (a crayon client) is the video platform of choice for this event.

The Solutions Stars Video Conference is happening October 29th at 1pm. A number of social media luminaries (listed below) – the kind that you usually pay a couple thousand to see – have participated in this incredible event.

The format: Videos will be uploaded one at a time, one after the other and will focus on the following nine areas:

Building Web Presence
The Social Opportunity
Start with Listening
Strategy Drives Outreach
You Need Social Networks
To Blog or Not to Blog
Visibility Through Search
Rising Above the Noise
Time Demands

And when Network Solutions says “stars” they mean it. Take a quick look of the participants:

One of the things I love about this event is that it’s such a cool format – with budgets getting cut and time at a premium, you’re able to experience the best part of an A-level conference without the headache of air travel and seeing all of those people you don’t like anyway.

(Not you. I totally can’t wait to see you again.)

The other cool thing – you can participate! There’s a live chat room, where you can talk amongst yourselves, as well as the ability to ask real-time questions of Now is Gone’s Geoff Livingston and Network Solutions Shashi Bellamkonda.

And of course you have the option to share what’s going on to your social networks and also track this event on Twitter by the #solutionsstars hashtag (What’s a hashtag?).

Also – Please visit the “Solutions Stars Video Conference” event pages on Facebook and Upcoming:

So – please come, experience (and participate in!) this event on October 29th at 1pm – I’ll see you there!

crayon’s panel at Podcamp Boston 3

jquig99 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:42:17 +0000

I was going to be on this panel (until I took a certain job...).

The crayon Panel at Podcamp Boston moderated by Greg Verdino, with Doug Haslam, Phillip Robertson and Adam Broitman!

My ooVoo Day Political – Let’s Caucus!

jquig99 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:21:10 +0000

(First – full disclosure – ooVoo is a client of crayon).

This week I’m involved in a pretty amazing event – My ooVoo Day Political (MODP). ooVoo is a video communications platform that allows up to 6 people to chat simultaneously. A couple of months ago, the social media community got together for a charity event – My ooVoo Day - where all the proceeds went to charity. It was quite a success. This time around, My ooVoo Day is about politics.

This is a really incredible Election Year, with many people participating for the first time. For the first time, after years of talking about it, we’re seeing young people registering and becoming really active. My ooVoo day Political is about taking all of those conversations from all different issues and platforms and giving them a forum. All ages, all opinions, all parties invites – respect all the way around.

My ooVoo Day Political started on Monday (Video will be up shortly and I’ll link to it) and will continue through August 4th. We’ve had a lot of spirited conversation and I’ve had a lot of fun watching people use and fall in love with technology that they might not have used before. So grab your webcam and head over to My ooVoo Day Political, look at the different hosts and sign-up for a session or two.

Just another way of participating in the political process!