Listen to, and offer words of encouragement to actual Olympic Athletes right before they compete by following the “official” Twitter list of Olympians If I want to feel a little closer to the action than the traditional media can get me, I do a quick advanced twitter user search based on the GPS co-ordinates of the event to tap into some citizen journalism (i.e. I love the Olympics. Besides the excitement of the actual events, I love the sense of camaraderie, national unity and general goodwill that the games bring with them.

My big three channels are now Twitter , LinkedIn and my Blog . Ten seconds later it downloaded, talked to my device’s GPS and mapped out a path for me to walk (since I was on foot). You’ve seen this one before on TV…I downloaded the “Urban Spoon” app and located the nearest vegan restaurant based on our GPS location with the click of a button. I recently switched smartphones (now representing 50% of the worldwide cell phone market ) from RIM ’s Blackberry Storm to Apple’s iPhone 3GS . Why did I do it, and more importantly

Three years later, his group has raised $10 million from 50,000 donors (most in the last year), claims 500,000 Twitter followers, and most importantly has brought clean water to one million people. He posts photos and G.P.S. Reports Kristof: "This spring, charity: water raised $250,000 through a “Twestival” — a series of meetings among followers on Twitter. NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof just wrote the fascinating story of Scott Harrison, a fundraiser and skillful marketer who, as Kristof puts its, is making clean water sexy. Some important fundraising