i love innovative thinking, here it is…

I”ll be giving a keynote at Infopresse tomorrow morning, interviewed by my friend Mark Evans.  Then fly out right after to join the band and bus in Winnipeg for the show that night. Its going to be one of those days, but thats the way i like it:)

Ok, yes i know its been a bit quiet here at Cloudid.com. I have to admit that the launch of the album, the full blown tour, finding new merch designs and the new project Ive been working on (more on that later as we come out ot stealth mode) have zapped my ability to write here or comment much on anyone else’s blog. I still keeping up with my Google Reader but haven’t been able to participate as i would like. Anyways I’m coming out of the woods and will be putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard soon.

Note: I’ll also be speaking on community building and web engagement at the Infopresse conference in Montreal on Oct. 29th.

This is a great example of social media at work. It use to be that only major players like SNL could get create and distribute something like this. Well not anymore. I love it on so many levels.

I’m David Usher, and I approve this message…

…to charity. Here i go again talking about Seth Godin. If  anyone else was running this i would think there was a catch, but i guess this is an example of someone whos built “trust” online.

Just go to this link and vote for your favourite charity and thats it. Squidoo is giving away $80,000.00 to your favourite causes.

Its an so important that ’causes’ get on board with social media right now. As messaging gets more and more crowded its going to become harder for charities to rasie money and gain awareness. Seth Godin breaks it down in a great audio conversation with Network For Good. If you know someone who works at or for a social cause have them listen to this.

Im a little late writing about this but things are crazy with the album release. Ill be speaking with my good friend Mitch Joel on stage at Podcamp Montreal.

If you make it down make sure you come and say hi. Oh and i was really happy to finally met CC Chapman. We showed him a good Montreal bavet(sp) with fries:)

I was reposting a Twitter tinyurl link in Myspace status and this “http://tinyurl.com/3vy75z” turned into “www….com/3vy75z”. Apparently Myspace really doesn’t want you to leave its walled garden. So much so that it will disrupt links to keep you. You would think that a network so big and well financed would realize that the power in the web goes to the “connectors”. To those that help enable the conversation, not disrupt it. Be a utility, not a destination.

Austin Hill and the gang over at Akoha have launched their new online / offline social multiplayer game. We were all embargoed from talking about it till now but it seems like a very worthwhile attempt at changing ‘pay it forward’ to ‘play it forward’. Austin gives a good explanation of what its all about on the Techcrunch 50 stage. I haven’t been able to try it out yet (with the record release) but i intend to join as soon as i can.

Hope its fun. If it is there’s going to be a lot of good karma spreading around…