On the 25th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it’s only fitting that we focus The A-List today on social good and nonprofits. Join us for an insightful hour with Beth Kanter, who returns to The A-List to discuss her highly acclaimed book, The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change. [...]
Join me this weekend at the Startup PR Summit 2010 this Saturday, October 16 in San Francisco at Atelier. I’ll be joining a stellar group of PR professionals to speak about the ins and outs of pitching to the media for your startup. This is an exclusive opportunity to learn from accredited members of [...]
I am thrilled to be teaching Understanding Google Analytics, an online course, for mediabistro. The first classes begin July 29th. That course is ending soon, but you can now sign up for the next session that will begin on Thursday evenings beginning October 7th. Sign up here. Here’s the course description: Business owners used to only [...]
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 [...]
Editor’s note: This show is live and unedited. Due to a communications mix up, I close the program without featured Guest Shel Holtz, then come back on and chat with him. So, skip the first 10 minutes and enjoy the chat thereafter! Shel Holtz might be the ultimate communications professtional. Perhaps known (at least to [...]
I had the honor of being asked by the gracious and giving Christopher Coppola – who just lost his father, August, this week - to be one of the judges for PAH-FEST Hollywood 2009. If you don’t know what PAH (Project Accessible Hollywood) is, take a moment to find out, because it’s a very important part [...]
If there were one person on Earth I would want to discuss nonprofit issues, causes and how technology and social media can help, the answer would be easy: Beth Kanter. Thankfully, Beth has received numerous distinctions that back me up on this. From how to, to thought leadership, to fundraising to global issues, she has [...]
I have a double-hitter on The A-List for you this week, starting with someone once named Sexiest Geek. It’s none other than Miz Veronica Belmont who joins the program to talk tech, gadgets, games and I’ll ask where she’d like to see all this acclaim eventually take her. In the meantime, you can listen to [...]
Jeremiah Owyang, the well-known and whip-smart “Web Strategist,” has left his post as Forrester analyst to join Charlene Li and Ray Wang as a partner at the Altimeter Group, a consulting firm that helps big companies figure out how to use new technologies. For those in the social media space, it’s huge news, but even [...]
[Editor's note: This post and podcast originally produced for Eastwick Communications here...] This week’s podcast brings us ‘double the pleasure, double the fun’ (sorry, guys, I keep thinking Wrigley’s Doublemint gum commercials from back in the day…). But, seriously, I could not be more pleased to welcome these two, distinguished professionals onto the program: Jennifer [...]
And, of course, I’m embarrassed to seem braggy, but if you can’t brag on your own blog, where can you? I am the quote that opens chapter 8, “Is It All About Business Exchange?” in, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Social Media, but were afraid to ask…: Building Your Business Using Consumer Generated [...]
[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 [...]
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