Tools to Build an Engaged Online Community View more documents from JD Lasica. Here’s the Social Media Bootcamp presentation I gave at Seizing the Moment, the workshop for ethnic media publishers at San Francisco State University the other week. At 41 slides long, it’s called “Tools to Build an Engaged Online Community.” (See it on […]
Photos from TechCrunch 50
Couldn’t be at TechCrunch 50, one of the biggest tech conferences of the year, the past two days? Here’s a 70-photo Flickr set to make you feel as if you were there (almost). One of the startups that may not have a great business model but makes a very cool Web 2.0 tool is Duffel […]
Best International Startup at TC50: Trollim
Trollim was chosen by TechCrunch as the Best International Startup at TC50 yesterday — well done! Trollim is a competition platform for programmers unlike any other you’ve encountered before. Trollim assesses the coding level and performance skill set of programmers via one to one or one to many coding “battles” no matter where they are […]
Why corporate blogging is like selling uncut cocaine
Or, why your company should tell its own story before letting others cut it up My company, Spark Media Solutions, is based on the premise that every business has the capability of being its own media network. Given the endless tools for cheap to free production and distribution of content, there’s absolutely no reason a […]
5 questions for the author of ‘Trust Agents’
Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, co-authors of “Trust Agents,” at SOBcon in May. (Photo by JD Lasica) It’s always cool to see one of your friends hit the best-seller list, and that’s what just happened to Chris Brogan, the Tiger Woods of inbound marketing. Chris (@chrisbrogan on Twitter) and Julien Smith (@julien on Twitter) have […]