You’ve been there before.  You’re speaking at a conference and you scan the audience.  You see the flood of laptops, iPhones, and Blackberries in the audience furiously Tweeting away or using some conference IRC back channel to chat about YOUR presentation.  Instead of ignoring it or asking your audience to turn off their electronics, this week’s guest blogger Olivia Mitchell has some great advice on how use Twitter and your Tweeting audience to your advantage. In this post, Olivia gives us seven compelling ways to use Twitter to engage your audience. Thanks Olivia.

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From RadioHead to restaurants, hotels, real estate, graphic design services, magazines, and even ballet performances, the idea of pay-what-you-like pricing has really been catching on. The viral nature of the pay-what-you-like pricing-scheme scheme has proven very successful for many companies. But why? How does it work? Nate Chenenko offers a unique service in the Washington, D.C. area as a bicycle taxi driver and has agreed to share some of his views on the subject of pay-what-you-like pricing. I hope you enjoy his guest post here on EdgeHopper about this interesting topic. Thanks Nate. (By the way, that’s Nate in the picture above)  Read the rest of this post

The Global Oneness Project is exploring how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world (and we’re not talking Twitter and Facebook here). Since 2006, they’ve been traveling the globe gathering stories from creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world.  Read the rest of this post