Patrick Ruffini at TechPresident.com riffs on what Zack Exley wrote on his blog. When do we stop making the distinction between being an “Internet Strategist” and a “Strategist” or an “Internet Communications Director” or a “Communications Director”?
I’m guilty of this as well. Looking at my business card, it says “Social Media Strategist.” But what I [...]

Warning - this is my first attempt at liveblogging in a while…
Very happy to have been able to make it to downtown San Francisco to see this great session at Supernova featuring David Weinberger talking about his book Everything is Miscellaneous and Andrew Keen talking about his book The Cult of the Amateur. According [...]

Good morning! Back from Las Vegas in one piece, without a hangover and ready to get to work.
The Social Media Workshop and the FAST Track Future of Media events I helped facilitate last week were filled with excellent conversations that touched upon trust as crucial to the success of Social Media and the need [...]

There is a really vibrant social media environment developing in London, and around the United Kingdom in general. To try to get beyond the hype and to capture some of the real issues faced by different parts of our social media community, we prepared an ultra-quick You and Social Media Survey on Survey Monkey (worth [...]

As we get into summer a few of the Social Media Club local groups will be taking some time off as people travel and regroup with some more formalized structures. So pay close attention to the Social Media Club Events page and sign up for your local mailing lists to keep in touch. [...]

I am very happy to report that a good portion of the Social Media Workshop we are doing on Monday at SAP will be broadcast live on UStream. While we will be able to take some questions during the course of the day from the chat room, our attention will be mostly focused on paying [...]

While we continue to get a few new members registering, there has not been much movement on the mailing list, on blogs or on the wiki for establishing the leadership council in earnest. The call last week was promising, but once again, the amount of activity in regards to followup has been lower then [...]

Rather than reposting the original here, I want to direct your attention to the Social Media Workshop blog for a podcast interview I did with Lionel Mechaca, Digital Media Manager for Dell.  It is a great insight into what it takes to make lemons from lemonade, or should I say to move from Hell to [...]

Last night’s Social Media Club meeting in New York hosted Craig Newmark of Craig’s List. The 65 or so attendees saw Craig speak of the list, building online community, and his other interests in philanthropy (see Craigslist Foundation) and journalism that takes on powerful interests. He mentioned politics several times, and specifically called out Tech [...]