Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events scheduled for the month of June. For the full year, see our Calendar of 2010 social media, tech and marketing conferences. It’s another busy month, and I’ll be kicking it off by flying to New York today for the Mobilize Your Cause Bootcamp […]
JD Lasica
A workshop to help you advance your cause
Craig Newmark at Reboot Britain last July (cc photo by JD Lasica) I‘m excited about the bootcamp that I’ll be co-presenting this Wednesday, June 2. For the first time, Personal Democracy Forum will be hosting a Mobilize Your Cause Bootcamp put on by myself and Katrin Verclas, founder of MobiileActive. We’ll dive deeply into the […]
Biz360: Tracking business intelligence
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 […]
Review of ‘Open Leadership’: Winning by letting go
The first thing to understand about Charlene Li’s smart new book “Open Leadership” is that this is not a call to arms for top management to deploy a loosey-goosey, feel-good strategy of giving up complete control of your management structure. Nor is it yet another business book about effective corporate leadership techniques.
Has Facebook gone too far this time?
Like others among Facebook’s 400 million members, I’m awed and dazzled by the sheer power and growing grandeur of the site. But I’m also perplexed by the almost cavalier way in which it has approached the topic of privacy, as if privacy were a remnant of a bygone era. (Is this partly the byproduct of having a 26-year-old CEO — who grew up in an era where sharing trumps privacy — at the helm? I suspect so.)