Meghan Asha on technology & the Traveling Geeks from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘m back from my trip to London and Cambridge with the Traveling Geeks — I was the chief organizer of this second annual event — and I’m still going through withdrawal pains after all the amazing encounters we had. One of the […]
Will NBC, grassroots media clash at London Olympics?
During yesterday afternoon’s Econsultancy Roundtable at the Globe Theater, I was seated next to Alex Balfour, head of new media for London2012.com, the committee that is organizing the 2012 Summer Games in London. (See info about the London 2012 Open Weekend on July 24-26.) Midway through our session, the discussion turned to media coverage of […]
Time for innovative news models
One of the highlights of the Traveling Geeks trip to the United Kingdom this week came Tuesday night when the Guardian held its first-ever podcast in front of a live audience for its Media Live program. The panel — tech blogger Robert Scoble, Sarah Lacy, blogger at TechCrunch, columnist at BusinessWeek and co-host of Tech […]
Social media ‘literacy gap’ growing
Intel exec on social media literacy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Tristan Wilkinson, director for public sector for EMEA, Intel UK, talks about the need for social media literacy in this 9-minute video. Tristan met with the Traveling Geeks in London at the outset of our Innovation UK trip yesterday. Wilkinson told us the term […]
Survival Guide Chapter 1 Overview
Here is the beginning of the chapter review series I will post over the next few months from my book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization. The book is doing very well, and I even have a couple of 5-star reviews. A big “Thank you” to the contributors and readers of […]