Technology, Social Media, Photography, TEDxMaui
I had an amazing day with the folks at the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust (HILT) yesterday during the 12th Annual Buy Back The Beach event. It began with a trip to the airport to meet my social media colleagues Jon Letman from Kauai, Laura Kinoshita from Kona on the big island of Hawaii and Melissa [...]
It’s been almost a week, and I’m still buzzing from our tremendous TEDxMaui 2013 event last Sunday. Over 1000 people attended, and we even saw surprise guests Mick Fleetwood and Steven Tyler show up in the audience, backstage and mingling with the crowd during the breaks and after party. I can honestly that while TEDxMaui [...]
My TEDxMaui 2013 teammates and I are on the front page of Maui Time Weekly today! Many thanks to Jen Russo for writing such an excellent story, art director Darris Hurst for the fabulous cover design and publisher Tommy Russo for making it all happen. We’re very honored! Our event on Sunday is going to [...]
I became aware of TED talks around 2008, about two years after I moved to Maui from the Silicon Valley. I was surfing the net one morning and came across Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight. I followed the link back to TED.com and watched talk after talk—Garrett Lisi: A theory of everything, Majora Carter: Greening the [...]
In Hawai‘i, where I live, you often hear the phrase “preserving the ‘aina.” ‘Aina is the Hawaiian word for “land,” but its meaning goes much deeper here. The Western culture is defined largely by material wealth and possessions. By contrast, the Hawaiian culture is based on the land. It’s a sacred thing, held in reverence. [...]
There’s a new party coming to the Maui town I live in. It’s called “Kīhei Fourth Friday.” We’ve had a “Fridays” tradition going on Maui for a while now. First Friday happens in Wailuku, Second Friday in Lāhainā, Third Friday in Makawao and now, Fourth Friday in Kīhei. The Maui Friday Town Parties is an [...]
One of the questions people ask me most often about social media is, “How much time does it take?” The answer varies, of course, depending on the size of the project and the strategies involved, but more often than not, they’re hoping I’ll tell them it really doesn’t take that much time once they get [...]
Jill Mayo and I just had a great discussion about disaster management and social media with Suzanne Frew of The Frew Group on Living Maui Social. Enjoy the video. There are some handy resources on disaster management and social media at the bottom for your reference. For more information, refer to: Social Media 4 Emergency [...]
I was just on a great Google+ Hangout On Air with Tara Coomans of Akamai Marketing and Social Media Club Hawaii, Jill Mayo of Living Maui Social and Erik Blair of Geek In A Box. We covered a lot of ground and talked about a lot of hot topics in social media. It’s a little [...]
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Jill Mayo and I did some experimenting with the On Air feature of Google+ Hangouts. Jill has a podcast called Living Maui Social, where she has people on Maui talk about how the social web has transformed their businesses, on which I appear once in a while. Until [...]
