Luke Brynley-Jones (@lbrynleyjones) – one of the UK‘s most experienced social media consultants – brings his A-game to San Francisco on May 23rd for Social Media Marketing and Monitoring 2011 (#SMM11). Get a preview full of tips and advice right here.     From “Using Social Gaming Mechanics for Marketing” (aka Gamification) presented by Rajat Paharia, [...]

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 [...]

Marsha Collier made her mark as the top-selling author on eBay. Her books, including eBay For Dummies, Starting an eBay Business For Dummies, and eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, have sold more than a million copies combined! Marsha’s now expanded her expertise to cover social media, especially its use as a customer connection tool. Marsha [...]

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, [...]

After seeing a big gap in Social Media Marketing tools and realizing she can help small businesses launch themselves into the space, Tammy Kahn Fennell (@TammyKFennell) started Pie Dog Media with Alan Hamlyn. Today, Tammy joins The A-List to talk about their popular subscription-only social media monitoring dashboard, MarketMeSuite. MarketMeSuite was the first Twitter application [...]

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 [...]

Join us for an in-depth interview with Kailash Ambwani, CEO of FaceTime. FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0, including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive years, FaceTime’s award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security, [...]