Have you guys seen this video yet? Boy oh boy is this guy into rainbows! I swear this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. It’s had almost 5 million views on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI&feature=youtube_gdata

Looking back on this WTNH news piece the #getitdone crew did with Chris Velardi, it’s hard to believe what has transpired in the last week! 30 sessions in 7 days. Bringing thousands of people together. I was lucky to be at the anchor events each night and I was repeatedly blown away by the amazing people I met, the great conversations & and idea sharing that happened and the sense that we want to make the world a better place by starting right in our back yard. As I said in my interview: “The whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.” has really proven itself to be true. Social Web Week has transformed the energy into action and brought virtual to reality.
This will live on beyond GoogleHaven, Social Web Week & Podcamp CT. The connections we have made have made us all better because of it.
Tonight is the 30th event. A time to look back and celebrate what we have accomplished and to look forward to the next journey on our evolving path.
Join us.

Fiona captured the launch of social web week CT!

http://qik.com/m/v/e9cbced8b08045a28c21d1fdc53c3684/dl

I wanted to post an Email that Andre Yap from Www.ripple100.com sent the Social Web Week Group this morning. He sums up my thoughts exactly. I am so excited that the #getitdone crew has been able to harness the energy that was formed from the GoogleHaven movement to make this world a better place. I have been blessed to meet each and every one of you.

“Many of us have known each other from the GoogleHaven days, and as we said then, the process is its own reward. 

Social Web Week CT is proof of that. Look at how much we can look forward to in OUR SOCIAL WEB. When it comes to us, I have stopped using THE, and instead refer to it as OUR social web – our connections, our conversations, our collaborations, our community, all the mighty things we’re getting done in days that would have taken years. It’s clear to me now that social media and technologies are only as good as what we, the community, do with them.

So, big congratulations to all of us for being part of this, Our Social Web Week CT.”. – Andre Yap @andreayap

Check out this video on YouTube:

Social web hits the streets hard connect(ing)icut

25 Events, 7 Days, 1 Week: For, With, By the People of CT


Social Web Week CT is coming to town!  A grassroots movement started with a few, turned into many individuals, businesses and organizations joining together to pull off seven days of 25 events July 10-16, 2010.  This soon to be annual week. and its events, are hosted by New Haven, but will be passed off to the next CT city during the final event.  For a full list of events visit www.socialwebCT.com.

The week is dedicated to bringing people together in CT to explore how best to use the social web to improve our quality of life.  Most events are free, open to the public and geared towards making the social Web easy to understand and enjoyable for all, not just the Techies, although there is something for them too.  

Meet every day heroes of the real and online community.

Daily themes include Destination CT, Friends & Family, Technologists & Entrepreneurs, Across the Sectors(Business, Citizenry, Community), Marketing for Marketers, Fundraiser for a CT Cause and Connecting in Connecticut.  This year’s daylong fundraiser, the Share-a-Thon, is benefiting Best Buddies of Connecticut (www.bestbuddies.org).

Bonding the people of Connecticut together in new ways, Social Web Week CT stands for: Connection, Conversation, Collaboration and Community.