I'm a public affairs consultant specializing in social media. By night I spend my time cooking, symphony going, espresso drinking, and rock climbing with my wife, a talented musician and fellow rock-climber.
The Future Journalist: The Future Public Affairs Professional
Last night we joined another 200 social media enthusiasts for Mashable’s session on the Future Journalist at Social Media Week New York. Panelists Sree Sreenivasan, the Columbia Journalism School Dean of Students, and Vladim Lavrusik, a student of Sree’s and a Mashable correspondent argued that journalism is evolving and journalists need to use social media [...]
Bloomberg campaign: social media case study
By far, the highlight of the week (so far) has been Jonah Seiger’s review of Michael Bloomberg’s successful social media campaign of 2009. Jonah, founder of Connections Media, was generous in his presentation, sharing loads of insights most folks in his shoes would keep close to their chest.
6 Tools to Optimize your WordPress Blog
At Social Media Week NYC, we attended a session which explored some handy blogging tools. I’ll let you decide if they’re right for you, but here’s the list we were given:
Lijit
A search tool for your website, it connects your readers to all of your social media content, including your Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and Twitter [...]
Social Media Week, Day One: “Post Traumatic Twitter”
To kick off Social Media Week in New York City, we hit up a cool loft space under the Brooklyn Bridge to discuss the future of APIs and cloud computing. Admittedly, this was the session I was least looking forward to, so I was glad we got it over with early in the week.
As you [...]
In NYC for Social Media Week
My colleague Lanny Cardow and I are in New York City for Social Media Week. We’re pretty excited to hear some of the best folks in the business share their experiences in social media. It’s a jam-packed agenda and I plan to take copious notes and will share some of my findings here, so if [...]
Anti-prorogation rally: the left has a party and social media gets the win
Today was the big day, a test to see how intense the anti-prorogation sentiment in this country really is and to see whether or not a “grassroots fury” actually greeted a “shuttered Parliament” as the Star exclaimed when it discovered a 25,000 person Facebook group earlier this month. I wrote last week that while the [...]
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