Transitioning from a print to a digital news world from JD Lasica on Vimeo. If I were starting out in journalism today, I’d probably opt to work for a Web-based publication — or start my own — rather than learn the ropes at a newspaper. Because those ropes are becoming increasingly frayed. We’ve been checking […]
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Social Media Week expands to six cities
Rachel Sklar, Rachelle Hruska and Anastasia Liapis at last February’s Social Media Week. SF, London, Berlin to be part of wide-ranging global teach-in Spent an hour on a conference call this morning where it was announced that Social Media Week, inaugurated last February in New York, will expand to include San Francisco, London, Berlin, Toronto […]
7 tips to increase your online media literacy
Is your BS detector optimized to deal with the new realities of democratic media? It’s become a truism that we’re all media creators now, from bloggers and podcasters to the most wet-behind-the-feathers Twitterer. Along with the new freedom to create comes more responsibility: The new media ecosystem places an increased burden on all of us […]
Cisco: ‘Why vlogging is better than blogging’
How Cisco uses social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Cisco Systems, the Silicon Valley powerhouse, has become the poster child for how to use video in the enterprise. Recently I caught up with two of the key players who made it happen. • Jeanette Gibson (above), director of new media in the communications group, […]
Radian6 and the Yellow Brick Road for brands
A chat with the CEO of Radian6 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. CEO Marcel LeBrun on how companies should listen, monitor and engage with customers I‘m still getting out from under the atomic dustbin that is my home office. It’s been an insanely busy year, from the relaunch of Socialmedia.biz as a distributed consulting firm […]