Charlene Li is a legend, a young one, but a legend nonetheless. In 6 months she’s created a new breed of business with her consulting company, Altimeter Group. In that time, she’s also written a new book, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead, out May 10th and remained a popular [...]

Funny coincidences happen all the time, and it just so happens that one of them reminded me that Kara Swisher needed to be on The A-List. I was watching CNN or BBC World News from my hotel room in Paris after the first day of the LeWeb conference. Lo and behold, I heard for the [...]

I’m exciting to be moderating a great panel on Social Media and business Tuesday, February 16th from 6-9 PM. And I’m calling for your questions now (tweet in to @jennifered)! The question?: To “go social” or not? And should we still be asking that question? With San Francisco and Silicon Valley leading the world in [...]

I have yet to talk to someone who has an answer as to how to separate our personal, professional and even ‘secret’ lives… until now. Enter Sam Lawrence, CEO of Blackbox Republic, a social networking site that allows you to decide what gets published to ‘public’ social networks that anyone can search, such as Facebook and Twitter, [...]

This is a guest blog post from Richard Binhammer is the Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs at Dell. Richard might be best-known simply by his Twitter handle, @RICHARDatDELL. Some of my A-List podcast guests described Dell’s early efforts to deal with the advent of social media discourse as ‘ignoring it,’ while still others said they had their ‘head [...]

This week on The A-List, I am excited to welcome Stowe Boyd, international authority on social tools and futurist. With the iPad hype this week, it seems like the perfect time to discuss the tools that run on our digital devices – new and old. In addition to his other accomplishments, Stowe is launching a series [...]

The A-List is back and better than ever! After a rather long winter’s nap – following our coverage of LeWeb conference – we return with Dave Morgan, CEO of Simulmedia (dontcha just love the name?). The company, which launched in March last year, aimed to improve the impact of TV program promotions by lifting the [...]

This is a guest post by Cassandra Phillipps, an event producer for the Bay Area startup community. She produces FailCon, co-produces Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, and production manages SF Beta, SF MusicTech Summit and Finance4Founders. She also keeps a blog on upcoming startup events and event advice at webwallflower.com You can follow her on [...]

This is a guest blog post from Amber Naslund, a social media and marketing professional, and the Director of Community for Radian6, where she’s responsible for client engagement, community building, and helping companies tap the potential of online reputation management and social media monitoring. She’s spent the last decade or so raising funds, building brands for [...]

This week we’re wrapping up the LeWeb conference, held December 9th and 10th in Paris, France. It might have been a bit dreary and wet, but when it’s Paris, who can complain? You might be asking yourself, ‘why this big deal around LeWeb?’ Well, it’s a huge deal, actually. When you consider the Internet is [...]

This is a guest post from The A-List podcast guest Marshall Sponder. Marshall is the founder of Webmetricsguru.com, one of the most influential and viewed blogs on Web Metrics, Web Analytics, Social Media and Search Marketing. He  writes a monthly column for Entrepreneur.com on leveraging online marketing technologies that help businesses succeed in a challenging economy. Marshall [...]

I wanna give a shout out to the lovely Loretta N. Green-Williams of the show “Sumatra: The bold, strong, smooth-Blogtalkradio….”. She was kind enough to invite me to guest on her program and, as I think she’d share, it was ‘off the hook!’ It was a great time, talking about everything from some one my [...]