@RyanNewYork
He sits on the Broad of Directors of The Ali Forney Center, where he is the founding producer of their annual Broadway Beauty Pageant fundraiser. He's also on the Board of Directors of The Deconstructive Theatre Project and the Board of Advisers of the startup TV Dinner.
He's also a director/producer, who lives in Brooklyn, NY and created the musical White Noise. Ryan writes about politics for The Huffington Post & The Hill. He has been a guest editor for Queerty and is the host of the podcast Gay History: Uncut.
Here Ryan blogs about politics, film, TV, history, religion, science, books, theater, digital media, LGBT issues, Bushwick & Williamsburg, New York City, and anything else he's interested in at the moment. Oh, and he'll probably talk a lot about himself.
This is a personal blog. Any opinions expressed here and on my Twitter represent my own and not those of my employer or clients.
Here’s me talking about Twitter’s 7th Birthday. Click here to watch.
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A remarkably beautiful story of a lesbian couple, one who serves in the military, told via a familiar social network. Kudos to Freedom To Marry and all involved in producing this, it’s powerful and deserves an audience.
To learn what you can do to help repeal DOMA, click here.
Finished Paul Adam’s interesting and succinct Grouped this morning. It’s an important book to read for anyone who works in social media marketing and occasionally relies too heavily on influencer outreach and not heavily enough on creating quality content that speaks to your online supporters.
Paul manages to squeeze lots of the latest research on social influence into 200 pages that can function as either an excellent introduction or a quick refresher.
(Keep track of my digital book recommendations on Pinterest.)
lambjustin Asks:
ryanjdavis Said:
It’s a great question and one that Twitter has clearly thought about, since reports surfaced they were interested in acquiring Instagram too.
Images have rapidly become the lifeblood of social media, they are the most favored content syndicated the Facebook News Feed and have spawned other image-centric networks like Pinterest and Tumblr.
Twitter has tried to incentivize picture sharing, updating their website functionality and integrating with iPhone’s camera. To some extent, they’ve been successful. Instagrams make great Twitter content and are now responsible for the largest percentage of images shared over Twitter. So its growth has so far been a net positive for Twitter.
I was talking about Twitter’s future with a digital director of a large organization a few days ago and he convinced me that Twitter’s space as a real time news and information service has yet to be challenged.
As long as Twitter maintains it’s hold on journalists and other news makers, it will keep an influential active audience. It’s too early to be talking about the decline of a channel that sees over 340 million tweets a day, up from 230 million tweets a day in September.
So until something else comes along, I’m gonna keep tweeting.
Photo by William Beasley.
Even this girl isn’t on Google+.
(via liquidzoot)
Looking forward to co-presenting a Blue State Digital webinar today on the Facebook Timeline. It’s free, so if you run Facebook for a brand or organization, jump on this afternoon at 3PM ET to hear Evan Moody and I on some of the changes.
Plus, we’re taking questions on Twitter with the hashtag #BSDWebinar.
Leave it to The Onion to have the most honest description of their Facebook sharing app.
Shove The Onion Down Your Friends’ Throats
Log in to Facebook now to see what your so-called friends are reading and watching, and to let them see every fucking thing you’re reading and watching.
Three images from last night’s Blue State Digital panel for Social Media Week DC. The animated gif is courtesy of Allison.
I was lucky enough to speak with two big social thinkers; Clay Shirky and Adam Conner. Interesting stuff, hope to have a video in the near future.
Really enjoyed this Navy Seals of Comedy sketch dramatically reenacting a tween Facebook conversation. It’s a clever idea, that they promise to explore further.
Probably my favorite social media comedy since Aziz Ansari’s Harris bit.
Hands down the best part of this is “G+ - I’m a Google employee who eats donuts.”
(via liquidzoot)
A man shoots a nail into his brain and then posts a picture on Facebook of the x-ray from the ambulance.
“At first, Dante Autullo though he just had a minor cut. Then doctors showed him the X-ray.” Pretty incredible story.
I get asked often by clients to explain the difference in tone between the different social networks. The above image is a bawdier version of my typical answer.
Try this in a Facebook comment box:
Step One: From your mobile number number, take the last 3 numbers.
Example - 086 969684 , take the “684”onlyStep Two: Write this @*[684:0] in a comment box, replacing the 3
numbers with your own.
Step Three: remove the * sign and press enter in the comment box.
What did you get? Mine said Julia Forgie.
