Recently http://30THREADS.com attended the re-launch of Social Media Club RDU monthly meetup at iContact office in Durham, NC. Afterwards 30THREADS asked a few of the attendees what is Social Media. Leave your answer here: http://idek.net/1s

http://30THREADS.com sites down with three bright kids, Toby, Dominique, and Samantha to talk about how they use social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, blogging and twitter. Also they talk about friend-ing their parents on social networks.

Public Service Announcment: We’re going to continue to discuss ways to use “Talk thirty to me”. Until then, do you monitor how much time you spend on the internet using Social Media

30THREADS - http://30THREADS.com connected with two local bloggers who share the same first name (John), but have very different blogs. Also, we need your help. Submit your ideas for what we should call our video show.

New video on http://30THREADS.com - The Triangle is ripe with food bloggers. We introduce you to several food and restaurant blogs and invite you to submit your own.

We're throwing a blogger meet-up/bash and you're invited! Free food (bbq & drinks) July 30th at Edge-office (http://edge-office.com) , Raleigh, NC With a big announcement. http://localconvo.com - http://www.ginnyfromtheblog.com

Ginny Skalski and Wayne Sutton square off in a text messaging competition see it all at http://ginnyfromtheblog.com.

Local Conversations http://blogs.wncn.info/wsutton had a chance to interview Tara Hunt http://twitter.com/missrogue of http://www.horsepigcow.com/ while she was in Raleigh, NC for MyNCCamp http://barcamp.org/myncCam& a few other projects.

Local Conversations http://blogs.wncn.info/wsutton had a chance to interview Gwen Bell (http://gwenbell.com/) from Tech Stars (http://www.techstars.org/) and Colorado startups (http://coloradostartups.com/) while on an East Coast network swing.

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Todd and Sandy Masinter two California natives’ moves to Raleigh, NC to open up the areas first Segway store (Triangle Segway)http://www.trianglesegway.com. Local Conversation talks with the owners about why they picked Raleigh & new segway store.

Local Conversations talks with UNC student and community journalist Katie Spencer on Community journalism and Carrboro Commons http://carrborocommons

Local Conversations http://blogs.wncn.info/wsutton interviews web designer Rob Goodlatte http://robgoodlatte.com, about his new design job at facebook and talks about how the Triangle area is a great place for startups.

Local Conversations interviews multimedia, journalist Karen Mann http://mannsworld.blogspot.com about her 5 year blogging anniversary, writing about local music in Triangle, freelance writing and why she stayed with blogger over the years.

Local Conversations interviews Apple & Adobe training company Lodestone Digital (http://www.lodestone.com), CEO and founder Josh Cavalier.

Local Conversations talks with Bret Doughtery - http://bretdougherty.com about social networking with his sports talk radio show, blogging with a voice to build your online community and live blogging college sports games.

Local Conversations talks with Tola Oguntoyinbo founder of social media broadcasting startup Sonecast, about social media, diversity in social media, how companies can get started in social media and how he got started in technology.

Students from UNC Association of Black Journalists announce their plans for careers in New Media after the Alternative Media: The New Wave of Journalism session at UNC.

The triangle user experience meetup with world "programmer" renown Ben Forta from Adobe was showing Flex and AIR at the Railinc office in Cary, NC.

Duke grad student Jason talks about how it's great to see scientist, publication mangers and journalist integrated at the Science blogging Conference and discuss using new web technologies to improve science. Jason mentioned as a new blogger he doesn’t have a voice for himself online yet but releases that it's not difficult for him to establish a voice using social media browser flock as an interactive blogging tool and networking device.