Charting influence. It’s amazing when you look at the intersection of science and social media. Dr. Marc Smith is the Chief Social Scientist Connected Action Consulting Group, who has taken social network analysis to a whole new level. He has created a free application to visualize social media, called NodeXL (see an example of one of [...]
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 [...]
I’m really excited about failure this week! Failure, you ask? Well, I am delighted to have the organizer of FailCon, Cassie Phillipps, on this week’s edition of The A-List. What I love us is that Cassie’s creating an event around ‘failure’ (some might think the opposite of what leads to influence), when in fact, we [...]
[Editor's note: This post and podcast originally produced for Eastwick Communications here...] With a guy like Guy, where do you start? Throughout the highs and lows (has he had ‘lows’?) of his career, his winning personality has endured. Positive, yet candid and – dare I say – ballsy, Guy Kawasaki is a survivor [...]
[Editor's note: This post and podcast originally produced for Eastwick Communications here...] Today I had the pleasure of discussing how influence happens today and much more with Tom Foremski, the former Financial Times journalist, who now heads up Silicon Valley Watcher. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.874316&w=210&h=105&fv=] [Click here to listen if player above does not appear] (Please pardon [...]
[Editor's note: This post and podcast originally produced for Eastwick Communications here...] Today we’re thrilled to have Harry McCracken as our guest on our podcast, Break through the Noise. I’m my opinion, Harry has one of the great Silicon Valley stories: Starting in the “traditional” media world to creating the blog Technologizer. I’ll be asking [...]
The power of social networks. That’s what we’ll be discussing at Duarte Design in Mountain View this evening at 6:30 PM, the site of tonight’s Social Media Club San Francisco Silicon Valley chapter. The evening will kick off the evening with a half-hour fireside chat with John Hagel, network effects expert and Director at Deloitte [...]
Full disclosure: I worked in local and network TV news for more than a decade. I’m told that makes me a ‘veteran’ journalist. I’ve been lucky to have worked mostly on the frontier of the industry; I was the only ‘cyberjournalist’ I’d ever heard of when I signed on to be one in 1999 (proud [...]
I love the line from “Ocean’s Thirteen” when Roman tells Danny and Rusty that they’re “Analog players in a digital world.” I think about it a lot as it relates to the subject of the ‘digital divide’ – how everyday people can be excluded from conversations, especially those among experts, to get at the information [...]
As a consultant that works globally, I am all too familiar with being on the consumer end of the travel retail business. We have an exciting new partnership with Mark Thornton, who has deep industry connections. We’re looking forward to educating and empowering retailers to harness the unique needs and buying power of today’s [...]
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