When I speak at conferences these days, I often say, “In a former life, I worked in the news industry.” That’s only partly true — I still cover conferences and events as a working journalist, and Socialmedia.biz is a site for social media news and analysis. But my 11 years at the Sacramento Bee is […]
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Social media and your personal brand
Shira Lazar on social media and building relationships from JD Lasica on Vimeo. If I could point all the 18- to 29-year-olds in the land to one video about how the social media revolution has fundamentally reshaped power relationships and entrepreneurial opportunities, it would be to this 13-minute video riff with Shira Lazar. I’ve been […]
AOL executive on its social services toolbox
AOL sure is in an interesting place these days. They have a brand new CEO (ex Google VP Tim Armstrong), a legacy dial-up access business that more than 20 years after it was launched still makes billions of dollars a year and the rest of AOL split up into three different groups: Platform A, one […]
Lunch.com: a beta launch worth buzzing about
C an you feel it? The flutter of excitement. Call me a complete geek but nothing quite compares to a beta launch and the energy that surrounds it. So who is causing the latest buzz? Lunch.com, based in Los Angeles, is a social review site where you can express your opinions and connect with users […]
Using Twitter at the Chicago Tribune
I‘ve been arguing for some time that journalists need to embrace the best elements of social media — going beyond the new media and multimedia elements of the craft developed over the past 15 years to develop a true conversation about the news with members of their communities. In the past few weeks I’ve begun […]