Posted in blogging, marketing, social media, social networks, socialmedia on Jul 15th, 2008
Joe Marchese of Media Post writes up a panel we were on last week at MWM. I enjoyed meeting him and getting his perspective, as well as that of Doug Atkins at Meetup.com, and David Birnbaum, CEO of Takkle.com.
Online Spin » Blog Archive » A Different Perspective On Social Media Marketing
Last week I was invited [...]
Posted in LinkedIn, blogging, facebook, marketing, social media, social networks, socialmedia on Jul 7th, 2008
July’s issue of NY Enterprise Report features an article I wrote, entitled Networking 2.0. In this piece, I describe how several firms are using LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to reach customers, save time, and close sales.
Cut from the piece was my interview with Kevin Lee, Executive Chairman and co-Founder of DidIt.com, an online marketing firm. [...]
Posted in Entreprenurship, events, social media, social networks, socialmedia on Jun 27th, 2008
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), [...]
Posted in politics, social media, social networks, socialmedia on Jun 22nd, 2008
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.
Posted in facebook, social media, social networks, socialmedia, supernova2008 on Jun 22nd, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in social media, social networks, socialmedia on May 25th, 2008
You may have noticed a new widget on the left column of my blog - representing a map of my usage in the E.Factor, a niche social network for Entrepreneurs. I’m excited to show my support for E.Factor, as I know the principals involved, and respect them as successful entrepreneurs and investors. They’ve asked me [...]
Posted in facebook, marketing, social media, social networks, socialmedia on May 1st, 2008
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.
Posted in blogging, meetings, politics, social media, social networks, socialmedia, web2.0 on Apr 13th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Business, NextNY, facebook, fun, howardgr, social media, social networks, socialmedia on Apr 7th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in facebook, social networks, supernova on Apr 2nd, 2008
My post today at the Conversation Hub »
Forward this…and see what happens. Familiar title, no? How many times in the recent past have you received something like this on a social network service? “Forward this and see who looks at your profile the most!” “Forward this and a cute dog will wink at [...]
