I just received my new 15-inch MacBook Pro Wednesday, the one Steve Jobs unveiled earlier this month. Above is a photo of the new model (left) and the original MacBook Pro I purchased in 2006. (Photo taken with my loaner Nokia N96 cellphone.) What I like about the 2008 MacBook Pro: • Bright, brilliant screen […]
Protect the vote — with your cell phone
Do
you have a video-enabled camera phone (iPhone, Nokia N95, etc.)? Here’s
how you can help protect the vote on election day! Join The UpTake and
the “Video the Vote” coalition’s effort to make sure every vote
counts. Reports of voter intimidation and disfranchisement are already
coming in from around the country.
Bid, buy and help nonprofits on eBay
eBay Giving Works from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 9-minute conversation I had earlier this month with Kristin Cunningham, general manager of eBay’s Giving Works program, about how you can help nonprofits through your purchases on eBay (and how nonprofits can help themselves). Giving Works is about to celebrate its 5th birthday this coming […]
Highlights from BlogWell
I enjoyed word-of-mouth marketing firm GasPedal’s BlogWell program yesterday afternoon in San Jose. The focus was: “How big companies use social media: 8 great case studies on the best social media programs at large corporations.” I attended, wearing my social media in the enterprise consulting hat, to get a feel for how social media initiatives […]
At Digital Hollywood: the evolving media ecosystem
Spoke Monday at Digital Hollywood at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, then returned late last night, so missing the next three days of panels and speeches. (Try typing Loews into your iPhone, and it keeps miscorrecting it to Loess. Weird bug.) The topic of our 80-minute panel was "Personalized Media Platforms – Widgets, User […]