Last night’s Social Media Club meeting focused on the the changing face of media, and a phrase ending with “…the people formerly known as the audience.” The setup was a little different than usual, because we had a set topic and a slate of specific presenters (Steve Riley from WSB-TV and Marlon Manuel from the […]

Brief update on our members and co-founders call this morning.  We have created a page on the Wiki for the Leadership Council which will be the public place to stay up to date on what is happening with the organization as we move forward and evolve the organization.  It seems our work over the past […]

This morning someone forwarded me the latest press release from Ragan Communications promoting the MyRagan site and yesterday someone forwarded me an email from Ragan promoting their next social media conference. In both cases, Ragan is claiming to be the first. The first social network for PR Professionals, and the first social media conference […]

Two indications that the heyday of the “blogosphere” is over this week.
First came the rapid rise and seven figure sale of WallStrip. From an industry perspective this is vlogging’s “Dan Rather” moment. I expect a lot of heat around vlogs in the next few months. DIY Internet media always proceeds from easiest to produce/lowest bandwidth […]

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It is with great sorrow that I write this post today. I have been searching for a business partner to help me realize some of my visions for many, many years, and in Howard Greenstein I thought I had found “the one”. He is a bright guy that has been through this before and has […]

On May 1st, after I had a conversation with Chris Heuer, he wrote “Conversations take time, managing them takes energy.”
This is true in so many ways. In fact, Chris captured this critical fact:
“… we have had to expend so much energy in managing the Club to host conversations about Social Media, that we have little […]

I am really excited about being on RSS Ray’s show tomorrow, and glad to focus my attention on the fun parts of my work - helping more people learn and understand how communications is changing as a profession to be effective in a world where the company is no longer in control (or holding onto […]

Since I have received a few emails from some members already, let me just say I am disappointed that Mark Ragan has decided to take this action.  I have setup Social Media Club groups on Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning and many other social networking sites, so that members who use those services can come together to […]

Is DIY Internet video a new media type? Or just a minor league development system for traditional media?
The announcement that CBS is acquiring Wallstrip, a business group vlog covering stocks, sure looks like the classic minor league or indie rock development path. Wallstrip founder Howard Lindzon tells the rather unremarkable tale of the company’s development […]

I’ve been hanging around in Second Life lately. My avatar, Chauncey Barkkorn, is an omnivore. He’s a 28-year-old male. But I am not, and I am finding the interface daunting, although friends in both SL and RL are helping. It took me a long time just to dress Chauncey and choose his appearance, and […]

Probably due to the fact that I lived for seven years in Germany, and for much of that time my English lanuage radio fix was provided exclusively via crackly Long Wave by BBC World Service, I adore podcasts and am rarely in transit without white wires hanging from my ears.  One of my favourites is […]

At last month’s Podcast Hotel, I finally had a chance to catch up with good friends Ted Tagami and Kathleen Craig, who have been moving at warp speed working for Millions of Us producing some amazing work inside Second Life for some very, very big brands. After delving into the practical business value and […]

Just a quick note for anyone who was considering becoming a co-founder of Social Media Club as an individual or a business.  We are going to be making many announcements next week about the next phase of this experiment in organizational formation via Social Media, some very exciting and some a bit disappointing. But that […]

James Au, whose pioneering beat for Reuters is Second Life, has a fascinating story this morning about the rise and apparent fall of Avatars of Change, one of the first native religious orders to be formed in SL.
The group was founded  as a Neo-Confucian “ecumenical religious and cultural order, united by the Avatarian Way.” It’s […]