A review of Optimize by Lee Odden, plus a video discussing an ‘optimized state of mind’, optimizing B2B vs. B2C communications, staying competitive in the world of search, and more SEO-related gems.
Interview
Social media: Increasing access to public meetings
Social media increases accessibility to public meetings from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘m at NewComm Forum this week, probably the best gathering of minds around social media, marketing and new media anywhere. (I’ll be speaking Friday about the future of journalism.) It’s also a superlative venue for networking. Last year I met Kathleen Clark of […]
PNN: A blog platform for women
Personal News Network from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s an 8-minute video interview with Leigh Behrens, president and editor-in-chief of PNN.com. The Personal News Network is a community site and blog platforms that targets mostly women, “the fastest-growing segment of user-generated content creators,” Leigh says. PNN allows you to easily get up and running with […]
How an LA Weekly journalist uses social media
How LA Weekly uses social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 7-minute interview with the utterly charming, thoughtful and geekworthy Alexia Tsotsis, the tech and business reporter for the LA Weekly newspaper. The bangin’, off-the-hook tech columnist talks about how how the LA tech scene differs from the scene in Silicon Valley: In […]
Netvibes: The widget factory
Here’s a recent interview I did with Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini in the company’s San Francisco offices. Widgets (little pieces of code that bring in real-time data) are becoming increasingly important in the Web 2.0 world — to individuals, companies and organizations — and Netvibes has been an early pioneer in the field. Netvibes provides […]