Origins
When it comes to Social Media, it’s all about standing out, breaking through and making an impact. That’s why our mascot is the streak of bright light that can be seen from Earth as a meteorite enters the atmosphere.
This is a place for social media evangelists and enthusiasts to meet, ponder, and discuss.
Since this is a non-commercial site, contributors at Social Meteor pretty much stay in the shadows. Nevertheless, we’ve posted short profiles below. After all, you probably want to know who’s generating all the information, ideas, insights and madness.
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Mark Anderson, humble contributor, is a designer, blogger, tweeter and facebooker. He rarely acts his age and just might be the world’s worst Quake player. Until very recently, he was the Webmaster at the Wisconsin School of Business. Even more recently, Mark hooked up with Troy Janisch at American Family Insurance in the digital marketing group. We’re gettin’ the band back together.
Twitter: @doodlehaus |
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Tom Buchheim is the tallest member of Social Meteor. He’s a seasoned communicator, recent tweeter and power Facebook user. At 6’5”, he’s a tall drink of water, which helped him hoist a video camera over big crowds during stints as a TV news and corporate video guru. Tom’s been using the written word to tell stories lately and recently joined American Family’s digital marketing team after he heard they needed a good post player.
Twitter: @tombuchheim |
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Troy Janisch, Publisher of Social Meteor, is a digital marketing professional and social media beatnik. Previous projects? Until 2009, he was publisher of the Business Owner’s Toolkit and host of its nationally-syndicated radio show of the same name. Troy leads the digital marketing team at American Family Insurance, but don’t let that scare you. He rarely talks about insurance in mixed company [grin]. Explains some of those tweets about bobbleheads, though, doesn’t it?
Email: tj at social meteor dot com | Twitter: @socialmeteor |
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Annie Vang, is a LOST fanatic. She loves writing, watching dramas, graphic design, photography, web programming, and spending time with the family. She’s also a digital diva and cannot go without her iPhone, Mac, high speed internet, and electronic gadgets. When she’s not “connected”, she’s usually sleeping or roaming the halls on American Family Insurance is search of an O’Reilley Book. Twitter: @annievang |
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[circa: April, 2009]
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Just found you on the web… from somewhere in the SM universe. Great stuff. I’ll be following in more than one way. Keep it coming.
Tuesday night I attended another great Accelerate Madison meeting. The guest speaker, Daniel Berg of Skype is another Madison area native success story. AC provides people an opportunity to meet interesting people, discuss ideas, network and connect with funding sources for start-ups.
Categories: Personal Web
How about that iGoogle?
Lately, I have been getting an iG pop-up ad when using Google to search the Internet, which I promptly close. I didn’t have the time or interest to check it out.
But then, when I got home one night this week and fired up my MacBook Pro (No, Apple did not pay me to reference my computer – but hey if they want to … show me the money), I again used Google to search – and this time when the pop-up ad appeared, I said, “what the heck – let’s check it out”. I’m glad I did.
Within five minutes I had my very own custom home page to greet me.
I use other Google applications… email, You Tube, maps, etc. – and now those options are right at my fingertips, along with a “look and feel” I like.
The template banner I choose reminds me of where I live – Dane County, Wisconsin. Plus I have NPR, business, finance, stocks, local weather, and art stuff right in front of me.
It’s very cool! Give iGoogle a whirl.