The Social Media Club folk in London got together last Thursday for our monthly discussion group (thanks to Ben & Hayley at Fleishman for putting us up again!), this month led by Michael Spencer and Ronna Porter of Sound Strategies. Michael, formerly a violinist with the LSO and head of education at the Royal [...]

We have been working our little fingers to the bone and are happy to announce the launch of four new SMC groups over the next 30 days:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA): March 26th
Silicon Valley (SF South Bay Area), California (USA): April 4th
Berlin, Germany (Europe): April 13th
Denver, Colorado (USA): April 17th

There are another seven cities that have been [...]

No doubt Twitter was the story of the week. In fact, given the character limits on Twitter messages, there were probably more words written about Twitter on then Internet this week than there were words written in Twitter messages–from raves about Twittermap, a mash up of Twitter and Google Maps–to a big media wrap up [...]

A decade ago Tom Watson and I gave a lecture to graduate students in journalism at Columbia University. In those days Blogger wasn’t even a twinkle in Evan Williams’ eye but the Internet had already changed journalism. In the new era, we told students, everybody will be a reporter of his or her own life [...]

Tomorrow at the London Club, Michael Spencer and I will show you that we are all hardwired for music.  It’s in our very heartbeat.  Naturally, we want to walk the talk and include appropriate sound effects in the accompanying podcast.
There are several ways to include message-appropriate, cost-effective, and life-giving music and sound in social media. [...]

From the bad timing department:  today MyToons  , a cartoon-specific video sharing site, takes the wraps off its service which has been in private beta. The site is being pitched as a place where animation pros and fans can share “their creations” not the creations of others, and naturally the company has a DMCA-compliant take [...]

Another set of 3 C’s - I am beginning to think that C is the most powerful letter in the alphabet… This should be a long post, but there is not enough time to do so, and I promised Nate Ritter from Eventful that I would try to be short with my posts (also [...]

This isn’t a defense of YouTube. Not a legal defense anyway.
The Viacom/Google suit will revolve around how much control YouTube has over the content posted to it, whether YouTube’s business was deliberately built on copyright infringement, and the nature of the prior negotiations between it & Viacom. If the case reaches the Supreme Court Google [...]

Over the past 24 hours I have continued to ask people this important question around What is Community 2.0, and some clear trends are appearing which are touched upon here. This podcast includes answers from Mike Flood, VP of Community Relations for the Seattle Seahawks, Jake McKee from Big in Japan and David Churbuck [...]

On this fine Tuesday morning from Las Vegas, Giovanni Rodriguez and I drove to the Red Rock Casino for Community 2.0 and had a very focused conversation on the use of the word Community. More importantly, we talked about the real meaning of community and the interest in serving that community as opposed to [...]

On Monday morning we drove to the Community 2.0 conference and dug deeply into a conversation about What is Community? How it can be done by corporations and whether or not Community is even the right word. I was joined by Kristie Wells and Giovanni Rodriguez for a very insightful chat, which was [...]

I’m at the Reuters and Attention Trust Open Data seminar/workshop today.
Dick from feedburner is talking about how ’subscribers are the new publishers.’
What I’m getting from his talk is that, as everyone uses lots of services, feeds, flickr, stumble, etc. that you don’t even have to be a blogger to be a publisher. A service [...]

There are two classic ways of thinking about start-up opportunities. The first imagines solving a specific problem, the second imagines building a better mousetrap.
The mousetrap model has largely fallen out of favor, particularly among media technologists. After all, the history of new media technology is a tale of worse mousetraps (VHS, redbook CD, lo-rez MP3) [...]

During the opening night of the Community 2.0 Conference I had a chance to ask a few people the question what is community 2.0? There were a few good answers. On this podcast, we hear from Lois Kelly from Foghound, Sylvia Marino from Edmunds, and Social Media Strategist extraordinaire Deb Schultz. Listen [...]