One highlight of the Traveling Geeks‘ trip to London came during the Econsultancy Roundtable that took place on our last day in London, in the storied Globe Theatre overlooking the Thames. Patricio Robles of Econsultancy conducted a Q&A with me about the state of social media. Here’s part of our conversation: In your opinion, what […]
Photos of Traveling Geeks in Cambridge
Here are 117 Flickr photos of the Traveling Geeks’ visit to Cambridge, UK, last weekend, from meeting local business leaders to local architecture to punting on the Cam. We had a brilliant time — and learned a lot, as well as contributed back — so need to thank Karyn Barnes, Sherry Coutu and others who […]
Go to Bad Pitch Night School
Digital PR rockstars Kevin Dugan and Richard Laermer are increasing their Bad Pitch Blog efforts and having a tele-seminar for anyone who needs to improve their approach to media relations — and by default social media. They obviously don’t see me, Maestro Abraham, as an attendee, but they thought you guys might be interested. It’s […]
FasterWeb: Making sites perform 2 to 10 times faster
If you listen to Google (and these days who doesn’t?), speed is everything on the Web. “Page load times are the critical metric,” says Marissa Mayer, Google’s SVP for search. She says the entire basis for Google’s success was their emphasis on extremely fast page loads way back in the dial-up era when the Web […]
Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies
21st century media literacies from JD Lasica on Vimeo. A week ago, as we were wrapping up the Traveling Geeks‘ two-day visit to Cambridge, I was walking down the main drag with author Howard Rheingold when we stopped for a moment in front of King’s College. I took out my loaner Flip Ultra and shot […]