Here’s an Animoto video consisting of photos I took on the opening day of Social Capital Markets 2011 at Fort Mason in San Francisco — a breathtakingly beautiful day in the Bay Area that brought together 1,500 attendees at this year’s SOCAP conference to discuss social entrepreneurship, collective action, crowd-funded investmentments and lots more. Great […]
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Social media, tech & marketing events: September
A scene from last year’s DemoFall (by Rob Lee on Flickr) Guide to events & conferences for the coming month We’re heading full-on into conference season again, now that summer is fast receding. Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events for the month of September. Lots of great gatherings […]
How WikiLeaks has changed the role of journalism
Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesperson for WikiLeaks (photo by JD Lasica) WikiLeaks official criticizes New York Times before international group of journalists WikiLeaks has changed the role of journalism and “made journalists braver,” Kristinn Hrafnsson, the official spokesperson for WikiLeaks, told an international group of journalists assembled in Santiago, Chile, on Thursday. Braver, that is, with […]
Journalism and the social media revolution
Jolie O’Dell of Mashable at “Journalism and Social Media.” Last night I attended a nice gathering at the San Jose Mercury News, organized by Social Media Club Silicon Valley, called “Journalism and Social Media.” The organizers put together a powerhouse panel made up of: • Kym McNicholas, anchor/reporter, Forbes Video Network. • Jolie O’Dell, reporter […]
MyMic: Leave an audio comment on Facebook
If you’re launching a startup today, your best bet is to build on top of a widely adopted platform — Facebook, anyone? — rather than try to rally users to a completely new site. That’s the smart course LeaAnna Hernandez took with MyMic, a still largely undiscovered app (2,797 Likes) that lets anyone on Facebook […]