We're three social media techies who decided to do something crazy: Take two weeks to travel around half the country, go to a conference in Omaha, & meet up with friends & thought leaders along the way.

We also decided to document the whole adventure in our blog posts, tweets, online videos & pictures - basically, we wanted to share everything with our social networks so everyone on the Internet can vicariously live the dream.

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KurtyD, a.k.a. Kurt Daradics, is a Social Catalyst based in Los Angeles. His startup, FreedomSpeaks, takes the friction out of civic engagement; & he's on a mission to wake up the neighborhood!
Jolie O'Dell is a tech journalist & video blogger. She writes for industry blog ReadWriteWeb & is documenting nascent social media scenes across the Midwest.
Jonathan Dingman is an L.A.-based Wordpress developer & tech scene photographer. He runs a Christian music lyrics site, Christian-Lyrics.net, and a blog about all things Google, Ginside.com.