Are you happy with the choices Facebook offers as the image thumbnail to represent “likes” of – or links to – your website or blog? If you are unsure what I am talking about, look at the image at the right. When you post a link on your Facebook news feed or share a site […]
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 […]
Twitter success demands both top influencers and everyone else
Many people are keeping their circles of influencers small, believing it is better to invest limited time and resources on the most influential. Find out why a wider and more open-minded audience has more positive effects than we can realize.
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 […]
Reimagining journalism in the age of social media
Reimagining Journalism in the Age of Social Media View more presentations from JD Lasica. 9 ideas for taking journalism to a new place Social media is far more than social marketing, which is why Socialmedia.biz returns regularly to the subject of how social is reshaping the worlds of media and journalism. I arrived in […]


