I do get a kick out of the entire dustup over the social media release - very happy to hear people talking about it really, even if some don’t fully understand the deeper purpose and the broader implications. Those progressive, anti-establishment folks screaming that our efforts are co-opting social media are doing the exact [...]

Earlier this week at Third Thursday, we talked about the Social Media Release and thankfully recorded the next NMRCast, so the full conversation will soon be online.  Stowe Boyd was in attendance and had some very pointed questions, which we felt we answered to a degree, but did not dive into more deeply so as [...]

Social media was made for me. Tonight I went to my FastTrac program bearing new business cards from Flickr and Moo. I chose ten of my favorite photoss from my trips, dogs, and family and had them printed into minicards with my business information on the back. They were very well received. I can see [...]

One of the reasons we use Eventbrite rather than a Wiki for event registrations is that it allows us send email to registered attendees to provide updates.  The Social Media Cafe we are hosting tonight in San Francisco is a perfect example as to why this works and why we chose this path.  We had [...]

Instant Messaging (IM) is not dead or even dying, but EM is about to change everything. While IM emphasizes the immediacy of the communication, EM can represent the value of the communication. Then again, like any communications channel, what gets transmitted can also be pure drivel. EM, however, has tremendous potential for solving [...]

As part of the exciting offerings Social Media Club is going to roll out in 2007, we’d like to introduce the Social Media Now feature. The goal of Social Media Now is to provide brief highlights of some of the important and interesting Social Media ideas, items and events happening on a regular basis. Expect [...]

Thanks very much to the folks at Social Media Club in Boston for allowing me to present the other night. Special thanks to IDG Network World for hosting the event, and to Todd Van Hoosier and the folks from Topaz Partners for organizing the event .
As part of the meeting Computerworld Senior Online Projects Editor [...]

We are very excited for our Social Media Club Round Table in San Francisco - which became so popular, we not only had to close registrations, but we have had to change the format for the event to accommodate the group - we also need your help in finding a sponsor to cover the costs, [...]

Damn, we did it again! Although about five people who had signed up called in sick, about fifty people who hadn’t registered in advance showed up, and we blew the doors off the room for the third month in a row. When I asked people to raise their hands and tell me if they were [...]

Howard has been working on a Powerpoint pitch to tell people the story of the club, explaining why we think you should join us in making more of a formal community for Social Media practitioners and seeking financial support for our efforts in the form of paid memberships. He will post the complete ‘deck’ online [...]

There are some good elements from Eric Rice’s article here about how comments and criticism change in tenor like the different wave sizes/wavelengths of the ripple of a stone thrown in a pond. (thanks to C.C. Chapman for the link to his article).
A few excerpts:
My previous post on income levels and the Long Tail had [...]

Welcome to the first issue of Social Media Club’s ‘Calendar of Events’ for 2007. Here we will bring you updates on all the latest gatherings happening around the world that will connect you ‘live’ with other great people who are also interested in Social Media.
In this issue:

Social Media Club Gatherings (now in 13 cities)
Social [...]

Today I’m one of the guests in the featured podcast on the front page of IT Conversations. A direct link to the piece is here.
In this podcast I interview Jamais Cascio, and we talk about Social Media, Web 2.0, Mashups, and how they ‘break’ existing value networks.
This piece was recorded about [...]

At CES, Robert Scoble interviews John Chambers of Cisco.
Some good comments by Chambers on simplicity and making things easy for customers. Discussions on moving video around etc, and “any device, any application.” Always interesting considering Cisco owns Scientific Atlanta (cable box and IPTV systems) as well as Linksys (home networking).
Chambers says Cisco can be one [...]

What is a beercast you ask?
Beer + conversation + digital recorder = Beercasting
I think our buddy Greg Narain coined the term back in 2004 when he toured the country, visiting something like 11 cities, recording 300+ podcasts on close to 100 different topics - and all along the way, a pint of brew in [...]