Personal News Network from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s an 8-minute video interview with Leigh Behrens, president and editor-in-chief of PNN.com. The Personal News Network is a community site and blog platforms that targets mostly women, “the fastest-growing segment of user-generated content creators,” Leigh says. PNN allows you to easily get up and running with […]
How an LA Weekly journalist uses social media
How LA Weekly uses social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 7-minute interview with the utterly charming, thoughtful and geekworthy Alexia Tsotsis, the tech and business reporter for the LA Weekly newspaper. The bangin’, off-the-hook tech columnist talks about how how the LA tech scene differs from the scene in Silicon Valley: In […]
Social Media Hour: From health care to Hollywood
Today I appeared on AdHocnium’s Social Media Hour podcast with host Cathy Brooks and guests Chris Heuer, Adriana Lukas, Jeff Pulver and Hayden Black. It was a fun-filled hour that flew by fast, so I thought I’d repost it here. (You can find the show’s details, and past episodes, at our BlogTalkRadio page.) Here’s the […]
Social media think tank
Spent Saturday afternoon at a think tank put on by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators, who’ve just begun their World Conference. As 30 of us gathered at the San Francisco Hilton, organizer Shel Holtz said that this was the first IABC think tank convened around a single topic: social media. […]
Tim Ferriss: Tips on what works in a blog
Yesterday was my first WordCamp, held all day at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. I’ve been caught up by WordPress fever since early this year when I switched from TypePad. Some 730 people turned out at WordCamp, about double last year’s number. Here’s a Flickr set of WordCamp photos I took. The […]