The reason I’m in the Netherlands was an invitation by Adrie and Roeland Reinders and Marion Freijsen of the E.Factor to speak, along with Bill Sobel and two gentlemen from the Netherlands at a “Beyond Web 2.0″ event. at the Philips Innovation Center (research labs) at Eindhoven.
After a great drive out to Eindhoven, (thanks Martin), [...]
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Communication Nation: How Obama reinvented campaign finance
Barack Obama is the first major candidate to decline participation in the public financing system for presidential campaigns. He’s found a more effective way to raise money – by leveraging the power of the American people through online Social Networks. Get the pdf version here.
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Coming out of the Supernova 2008 conference, three social web developers have started a show to discuss some of the top issues around openness and give an intelligent backgrounder on the disagreements between Google and Facebook over connecting systems to benefit users.
The Social Web TV: The Pilot: ‘Talk to our lawyers… bitch’
In the pilot [...]
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What seems to have come to a head over the last few days is the concept of Bloggers “blacklisting” PR firms that pitch them in a way they don’t want to be pitched. Gina Trapani of LifeHacker published a wiki listing PR firms that have spammed her with pitches. Suddenly, everyone’s taking sides over how [...]
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In this post on using “Live Connections to Leverage Virtual Connections to get new, important Live Connections” I wrote last month, I interviewed Chuck Hester of iContact.
Today, the NYTimes had the same idea. Congrats to Chuck on the great publicity - he does a great job on LinkedIn Live, and all his activities.
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In what has become something of a trend after my UN meeting last month, another friend invited me to meet with a world leader to discuss Social Media. (That actually sounds more formal than the dinner last night actually was.)
My US friend Tom Watson of Changing our World and On Philanthropy invited Pamela and I [...]
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Seems I’m endorsing Union Square Ventures on Facebook**. Tip of the hat to Michael Pinto, who was served this wonderful ad.
Fred, Brad, call me. Let’s do lunch. Who knows how big this can get…
(**Of course I knew this could happen when I became a “fan.” That’s why I’m only fans of products I [...]
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Sharon Jaffe reviews FB and decides she’s getting a bit fatigued.
Jaffe Blend: Hot or Not (interested)?
On hearing about Facebook fatigue, I admit to being somewhat less interested in Facebook thesedays. My primary annoyance being the Superwall posts which are a (futile?) attempt to see who accesses your profile by forwarding a useless picture of something [...]
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If you haven’t read the latest installment in the life of “Queen of
Spain” it is a wake up call for anyone who thinks they can fake being
part of a community and ‘influence’ it. Required reading.
So You Want To Talk To Mommybloggers…
So You Want To Talk To Mommybloggers… So basically there are these [...]
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Paul Gillin has a great summary of what many geeks have been discussing all week, and which mainstream media has not really commented on - the shift of power at conferences and events continues to move to the audience. Paul writes about the keynote at the South By South West (SXSW) conference last week, in [...]
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