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It has been a while since I have done one of these, so with so much going on, it seems like a good time to do one.

Let me start with a few “house cleaning” items, in no particular order. I will do them in list form, as… well.. people like lists.

-I want to thank everyone who voted for me, tweeted and shared my video  To Be Ashton’s VP of Pop Culture“. I do mean that. As  so many of people took part like, my family, friends, kids school, the Twitter community, my Facebook Community, my Blog community, folks at SXSW and so on.

- Being one of the top 3 allowed me to meet some amazing people like Jessie Csincsak from the Bachelor.  Jessie and I ave actually become “buddies for life” as he put it. I have also gotten to talk to  Diane Mizota an actress from such things as well.. here  you’ll recognize her:

-Then there is of course the  Twitter king himself Ashton Kutcher. I got to spend sometime with him on the phone. He was a pleasure to talk to and seemed really easy going.  This is the week that popchips team and Ashton will decide the winner of the contest, so send me good luck. I would be thrilled if you left a comment telling them to pick me here.

-While at SXSW Meshin demoed our soon to be in closed beta: MeshinMobile.  It got nothing but positive feedback. Wanna be part of the beta? Sign up here.

-One of the panels I took part in was  My Kindergartner Markets better than You, you can read a review here.

- I thought I would share the Crowdtap SXSW Launch Party video I go to be part of, it was really well done:

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Last week I did a post about “What Is The Must Have Gadget For Xmas 2010?” Though I thought it might be something else, it was hands down the iPad.

So, you want mey to give away free iPad… I will giveaway a free iPad! Hey, I listen!

So here is what you need to do for a chance to win an iPad! (I made sure to keep it really simple and easy to do.)

Step 1: Between November 16 and December 15, 2010 download and install Meshin.

Step 2: Use it for at least one week.

Step 3: Then email us at feedback@meshin.com with the subject: iPad with  two pieces of either  feedback, comments, or ideas.

Step 4: Enjoy Meshin

Yep that is it. Pretty easy huh? So you can take that $500 you would of spent on the iPad and put it towards apps, videos, books and music. I aim to please!

PS you can learn more about Meshin, a semantic outlook plug-in here

Yes, I get this question, well a lot.  Not only from my family and friends but my online communities.

What is my job? What do I do?

I am the Social Media Strategist for Meshin a Xerox-funded project incubated at Palo Alto Research Center aka PARC.

Yes, that Palo Alto Research Center,(PARC), A Xerox company (a wholly owned subsidiary), a place of innovation including laser printing, the personal workstation, natural language processing and yes that is what Meshin is based on.  It is technology with the brains to understand your information.

It is my job to use Social Media tools to bring brand awareness to Meshin. I need to let people know what we are doing here at Meshin,  like what the team is creating, answer questions,  give demos, invite people in who want to know more and a lot of other things. I think you get the point.

So, what is Meshin. First ever semantic Outlook sidebar helping you find, discover and organize information across your communication streams starting with email.

What? You want me to try explaining it again?  I think you will do better if you download and install it. It is one of those things you need to try.

If you want, you can signup for the beta and request an invite to check it out. If you leave a comment that you signed up, I will see if I can work some magic and get you the beta asap. Move you to the front of the line We currently only have so many right now. So just click here, request and let me know via comment below.