Regular readers know that Socialmedia.biz covers not just social media but also citizen media — and it’s all melding together anyway into one giant conversational media ecosystem, right? So I was gladdened to hear that Google and YouTube have taken another tentative step forward into the realm of citizen journalism with Monday’s launch of the […]
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Social media recruiting done right
Murphy-Goode Winery becomes the talk of the Twitterverse [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AqKRvFFH_E[/youtube] I’m not going to lie. It’s hard to work in PR and branding these days. You are bombarded with all sorts of expert information and advice. People are constantly suggesting you try this strategy, platform, or network. Your brand is not only expected to sustain a […]
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 […]
Introducing Traveling Geeks London
One reason I’ve been overstretched for many months is that I’ve been working since last August as the (unpaid) chief organizer of the second Traveling Geeks expedition to explore cutting-edge technologies in a hotbed of innovation. Last spring it was Israel. This time around: London! On Sunday we launched the TravelingGeeks.com website using WordPress, and […]
How Twitter could overtake Google
Guest column by J.R. Johnson CEO, Lunch.com Last week I did a simple Google search. I was looking for an old article about “bootstrapping” written by a woman named “Mitra,” so I did a search for “Mitra bootstrapping.” The number one result was from Twitter. It was a page containing a single tweet by Ms. […]