Archive for the ‘contributor’ Category
5 Trends Affecting How We Connect Through Social Media
Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC. She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and tech at YuliZiv.com. Follow her on Twitter @yuliz.No matter how much we open up on the web, creating ...Read More
Why Location-Based Social Media Needs to Get “Passive” Aggressive
Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3, a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike, Facebook, MySpace, C-SPAN, Microsoft and NASA.Ten years ago, Seth Godin predicted the demise of "interruption marketing" and the rise of "permission marketing." His idea was that intrusive ...Read More
7 Steps to Measuring Your Brand’s Social Media Health
Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @attensity360, or find her musings on her personal blog and her company's ...Read More
5 Tips for Dealing with Complaints on Twitter
Megan Berry is Marketing Manager for Klout, the standard for online influence. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and Brazen Careerist. You can follow her on Twitter at @meganberry.Every business, blogger, and the rest of us on social media have experienced it: someone just called you out on TwitterTwitter ...Read More
HOW TO: Get Tweetable Moments from Your Presentations
Dan Zarrella is a social media and viral marketing scientist. You can read his blog and follow him on Twitter. Be sure to attend Dan's free webinar, The Science of Presentations on August 19th, and download the accompanying eBook.TwitterTwitter is here to stay but there is some science to creating ...Read More
5 Social Fundraising Alternatives to Facebook Causes
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.When it comes to social fundraising tools, Facebook Causes often comes to mind first. In reality, it is just one of many tools available to non-profits that want ...Read More
Why WikiLeaks and the Mainstream Media Still Need Each Other
Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington.The July 25th release of 92,000 military documents by the site WikiLeaks dominated the news cycle, but ...Read More
How Social Media Can Make Us More Productive
T.A. McCann serves as founder and CEO of Gist. His past experience includes Vulcan Capital, Polaris Venture Partners, where he was an entrepreneur-in-residence. Prior to Polaris, he held senior positions at Microsoft.To quote Eric Clapton: “It’s in the way that you use it!”In the constant back-and-forth arguments about Millennials joining ...Read More
How CrisisCommons Is Helping the Tech Community Help Others
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.The CrisisCongress took place last week in Washington, DC. The event, a convening of more than 80 tech-savvy leaders from five countries, aimed to create social media-based solutions to ...Read More
For Women, Social Media is More Than “Girl Talk”
Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.A few months ago, I wrote about how social media presents women with increased opportunities for influence and professional development. In the comments, I ...Read More