Social Media in the Real World: Successful Applications of Social Media Strategies is a course I am teaching at San Francisco State University: College of Extended Learning starting at May 2nd.   To describe the course, I ask the central question:  How do established companies in business-to-business, business-to-consumer and non-profit areas use social media to build [...]

Augie Ray (@augieray) first joined The A-List back in April 2009, before he became a Senior Forrester Research (@Forrester) Analyst, filling the shoes of Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang), who left to become a partner at the Altimeter Group. Somewhat ironically, the very thing that urged me to ask Augie to join the program back in 2009, [...]

This one is a must-listen for entrepreneurs and those that aspire to be. Join us for a joint interview with Dave McClure, Founding Partner and CEO of 500 Startups and John Ramey, CEO of iSocket. Dave McClure is a venture capitalist and founding partner at 500 Startups, an Internet startup seed fund and incubator program [...]

Join us for an insightful interview with Randy Paynter, Founder and CEO of Care2. With more than 14 million members, Care2 is the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare. Care2 empowers individuals to “Make a Difference” with daily actions, healthy living advice, news [...]

She had us at ‘Whuffie.’ Actually, she had us even sooner than that! Named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology in 2009, she is a top speaker, entrepreneur, mom, Canadian, karaoke addict, Flickr fan and Twitter-holic and much more. She is speaking high-demand, speaking at conferences around the world and we’re delighted [...]

Nielsen and comScore tell us from their stats that advertisers look at all of us through a generational lens. Coming from more than a decade in the television industry – both on-air and digital – I have long been taught to use information we know about what appeals to members of each of the four [...]

  We have a stellar group joining The A-List to talk about what you can expect to learn at this conference, coming up Friday on 17th September from 9:00am – 5:30 PM at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. We’ll have conference organizers Luke Brynley-Jones (@LBrynleyJones) and Murray Newlands(@MurrayNewlands) of Influence People (@InfluencePeeps) and London [...]