My longtime friend Tom Watson, author of CauseWired, launched a new venture on Thursday: CauseWired Communications LLC. Tom writes on Facebook: Susan Carey Dempsey, my longtime partner in publishing onPhilanthropy.com, is joining me in launching the new firm, which will assist organizations and campaigns in creating inspiring messages for causes that change the world. … […]
Who isn’t a social media strategist?
TwistImage: Who isn’t a new media/social media strategist? If you look at many of the profiles found on Blogs and people’s ultra-short/sharp bios on Twitter, you will notice something very interesting: almost everybody says that they are either a New Media Strategist or a Social Media Strategist. What, exactly, does that mean and how can […]
Welcome to the empowerment age
John Eckman at Open Parenthesis: Welcome to the empowerment age.
2009 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing
I published this a week ago but am republishing it now because it’s quite timely on Jan. 1 and because I added several additional events to the calendar.
For the past two years I put together a calendar of some of the best social media, technology, media and marketing conferences for the upcoming year. Here’s the list for 2009. Apologies, I had to leave out events outside the U.S. or the list would triple in size, and I left out newspaper conferences.
Beth: harnessing the power of the crowd
Beth Kanter talks about harnessing the power of the crowd (her friends and social network) on behalf of a worthy social cause — in this case, to help children in Cambodia — with her upcoming birthday as the trigger on Facebook Causes. I adore Beth so readily contributed $52 (Beth, you look much younger!). We’ll […]