Social media smarts for business from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Monitoring, analytics and more for companies of all sizes “If you’re a brand, you simply cannot afford to sit on the sidelines any longer. This is the reality: People are going to talk about you regardless of whether you’re in the room. So you might […]
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Highlights and photos of SXSW 2010
From Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter addiction to Evan Williams’ keynote I‘ve learned long ago the challenge of covering South by Southwest Interactive, which hums along at its own idiosyncratic pace compared to more linear conferences. Thus, I spent last year and this year doing less blogging, conducting more interviews (which I’ll roll out in the coming […]
Embarrassing childhood stories from Diggnation’s host (and his mom)
Set fire to a house and you too could grow up to be a top podcast host After Alex Albrecht’s rocking performance at the live Diggnation show at South by Southwest, I asked his mom, Cathy Albrecht, if she could dish up any good embarrassing stories about her son. She tells a story of him […]
Connecting with your community through Twitter
Using Twitter to engage the community from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Should news organizations be wary of social media? Or embrace it? I’ve been arguing the latter for years, and now there are beginning to be lots of examples of journalists using Twitter and other social media tools in smart ways to engage their local […]
MindBites: The how-to video marketplace
At South by Southwest Interactive a couple of weeks ago I heard about MindBites, a year-old instructional video marketplace based in Austin, Texas. I had the chance to sit down for a few minutes with Jason W. Reneau, founder & CEO, and Huntley Tarrant, vice president of business development, who walks us through the online […]