Back in the earlier days of 3rd party Twitter apps (just a few months ago, actually), a few very effective web-based services got my attention: SocialToo, TweetLater, and HootSuite. Sad thing was, while they were all very powerful services, they were all poorly designed, very hacked together, and fugly. Enter the elegant, sexy, feature-rich HootSuite […]
Marc Andresseen on 17 layers of management
At the Fortune Brainstorm:Tech conference in Pasadena, Calif., on July 22, 2009, one of the lighter moments came when Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen spoke on stage about “one of the defining experiences of my career” when he spent 9 months as an intern at IBM in 1990-91 when it had 400,000 employees. He used a […]
18-year-old finds the podcasting formula
The Emo Girl Talk podcast from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4 1/2-minute video interview I did with Martina Butler after her appearance on a panel at the Teens in Tech conference in San Francisco this past spring. (Now that my schedule is clear, you’re going to see a truckload of interviews from past […]
Socialmedia.biz helping you find a job in the social media world
Disclaimer: Donanza is a client of my firm, Blonde 2.0, a one-stop-shop for all your social media needs. People don’t look for jobs in the newspaper classifieds anymore. Instead, job postings are dispersed through a variety of niche networks, from groups on LinkedIn, tweets on Twitter, and widgets and search engines on a variety of […]
Top three trends in social media distribution
While the majority of traffic still comes through search engines, that’s all poised to change with these three trends: connecting your content to existing social networks, distributing content through advertising networks, building relationships with contests.