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Posts tagged "blog"

TechWeek Chicago: Saturday rundown and impressions

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Saturday at TechWeek in Chicago had a fairly big emphasis on social media and social aspects in apps, games and other digital publishing uses. This unique event brought scores of technology professionals from Chicago as well as from major companies on the east and west coasts. A panel on Social Data was one of the... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
July 26, 2011 at 10:01 pm
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Introducing Media Tech Connection blog app for Android mobile devices

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Get connected to your tech news with Media Tech Connector! Introducing Media Tech Connector, a new application for Android smartphones that supplies news headlines from the Media Tech Connection blog, and what appears to be the first app available for a ChicagoNow blog. Media Tech Connector will now also provide the top ten technology news... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
July 17, 2011 at 11:33 pm
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Weekly Social Media and Tech events for week of November 8

We are in full swing of November now, and the social media events don’t stop as it gets a little colder outside. The ChicagoNow.com blogger network is holding their monthly meetup this Tuesday, November 9th at SUB51 (lower level of HUB51) at 51 W. Hubbard St. in Chicago. If you are part of the blogger... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
November 7, 2010 at 1:14 pm
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How emerging technologies can change news layout and reading trends

In the streets of Chicago and the rest of the world an invisible war rages in broad daylight, vying for the attention of the average newsreaders and technophiles: a war of news reading technologies. The average reader may not be aware, though, just how much thought is going into the technologies behind their news. Each method of traditional print format... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 31, 2010 at 12:11 pm
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ChicagoNow blog community idea turns a year old and growing

  ChicagoNow blog writers and contributers celebrate one year of the online Chicago community news idea. The experiment that began as ChicagoNow a year ago and a bit more began last August 12, 2009. Now, according to this official ChicagoNow staff blog post, the Web site is home to more than 300 blogs written by... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 29, 2010 at 9:27 pm
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Social Media driven contest at Science Museum and urban scav hunts

Today, August 11, is the last day to send in your applications for what should be a very unique contest for a winner of the latest contest brainstormed up by the minds at the Museum of Science and Industry.  With the museum being the “largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere”, the building is opening it’s... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 11, 2010 at 1:56 pm
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Weekly Social Media Tech Socials

Social Media events coming near you. Hey Chicagoans! Here’s a new idea for the social media tech saavy among us. On Mondays, Media Tech Connection will list here all of the local Chicago events for social media and tech-related panels, workshops, gatherings and Tweetups in the city. While many things involved with technology keep us connected in a... Read more »
By Jay Yearley,
August 2, 2010 at 10:36 am
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