The Intel Insiders program just marked its first anniversary, so it’s worth mentioning a few highlights over the past year. We advise Intel on social media matters. (I wrote about the program at its launch a year ago and posted this disclosure statement.) I’m glad to see Intel taking out an even greater public presence […]
Social media
Twitter, Facebook Just ‘Virtual Ballrooms’
Tools don’t matter, and the best ones get out of the way, allowing people to connect more easily and effectively. That was my big takeaway from last Friday’s second-annual Blog Potomac. Obsessing about “what’s next” in online services and technology saps too much valuable attention away from what’s really important: connecting with people. We need […]
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 […]
Social media think tank
Spent Saturday afternoon at a think tank put on by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators, who’ve just begun their World Conference. As 30 of us gathered at the San Francisco Hilton, organizer Shel Holtz said that this was the first IABC think tank convened around a single topic: social media. […]
How will Twitter be governed?
A recent post by Marshall Kirkpatrick, How Twitter’s Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems), makes some interesting observations and raises questions about the direction of Twitter based on the way Twitter staff use it: We’ve examined the posting and following habits of people on the company’s staff and found that Twitter team […]