Monthly Archives: August 2009

The Google Holodeck at FooCamp

I’m here at FooCamp this weekend, geeking out with some of the brightest minds from around the world. Google was cool enough to setup their “holodeck” system that uses Google Earth + seven flat screens + an awesome omni-directional joystick to let you fly around the Earth, Mars, and the Moon. Here’s a quick video [...]
Posted in Innovation Design

Social Media Marketing at the NASDAQ MarketSite

When people ask me what iStrategyLabs does I usually say the following: “We bring communities together online and off, adding value to them in order to stimulate word of mouth in an authentic and relevant way.” So how does that actually play out? With the example of NASDAQ, we painstakingly integrated streaming financial data into [...]
Posted in Community Development, Digital Word of Mouth, Experiential Marketing...

techARTS – Uniting the Creative and Technology Communities

iStrategyLabs is launching a new initiative – techARTS. We’re no longer doing TwinTech, which grew to 2200 RSVPs and was at the time the biggest tech happy hour in the country. Kinda crazy. techARTS is going let us scratch our creative itch a bit more. It will focus on merging Creative and Technology communities – [...]
Posted in Community Development, Innovation Design

iStrategyLabs Opens Its NYC Office

It’s with great pleasure that today we’re announcing the opening of our New York office, located at 220 Lafayette St. #2, New York, NY 10012 (MAP) . We’ll be co-located with Personal Democracy Forum, Open Congress, and other like-minded civic innovation organizations. This move comes at the heels of our bid to run the NYC [...]
Posted in Citizen Engagement, Community Development, blog

2009 Facebook Adoption Report: 36.5% for Universities vs. 5.5% for Community Colleges

In our last post, we showed how the ‘declining’ Facebook numbers of the college-aged can be explained by removing their school affiliations after graduation, (rather than an act of frustration now that Mom and Dad are friending them!).  We thought it might be interesting to look at the actual Facebook usage on the biggest campuses [...]
Posted in Buzz Monitoring, Content Creation, Digital Word of Mouth...