The Social Media Valley, or Long Island can certainly claim some bragging rights with this professional. Jeff Pulver has not only been a contributor to the Digital Age, but a visionary leader in communications (or also the communication tools of Social Media) and specifically the power it has given to people. Jeff’s professional contributions would […]
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#Ignition2011: Sheryl Sandberg Shares Concerns for Facebook and Women
At the recent Ignition Conference Sheryl Sandberg shared that Mark Zuckerberg’s greatest fear is lack of innovation. She mentions that the two factors are fueling that fear. Google has as many job openings as Facebook has current employees. Facebook lacks the resources of many of its direct competitors. Sheryl understands that one of Facebook’s immediate […]
#SMWF: NASA’s ‘Out-Of-This-World’ Social Media Engagement Success
NASA has quite an impressive social media plan in place that has already created quite a social buzz. There innovative and interactive ideas has gained them a solid reputation for achieving success with social engagement. At the Social Media World Forum in New York, I had a chance to hear Stephanie L. Schierholz, Social Media […]
LinkedIn Groups: Analytics, Stats, the data
LinkedIn is by far the biggest professional social network and the second, after Facebook, in the total registered users in the social network world. 120 million register users as of August 2011 in about 200 countries and in 10 languages. What started as a place to connect those who are hiring with those who are […]
Google Music Goes Live in the Cloud
Google has dipped into musical endeavors with the launch of Google Music in mid-November. Originally, the service launched back in May in a beta version. Launched as a suite of music services, it is quite obvious that this is Google’s attempt to take on Amazon and iTunes in cloud and other music storage space. Introducing […]
Giving Thanks to Social Media
In the spirit of the holiday I want to give thanks to social media and in honor of brevity I will keep this short. Social Media has given a voice to anyone with the courage to use it. Now those with disabilities or handicaps like the deaf have a tool in social media and technology […]
IGNITION: Future of Media Conference
This two day conference is coming to New York City November 30th through December 1st, 2011. Exploring the future of media business, IGNITION brings together executives and key stakeholders to discuss what is happening in the here-and-now. We all understand that the definition of media has begun to expand to include games, local, social, and […]
Professional Spotlight: Robert Basso
On Tuesday, November 15th, a group of everyday entrepreneurs who have proven track records from building their own successes, came together to share how they had achieved those goals on their own terms. Some attendees included: Joe Corcoran, Founder of Joe Corcoran Productions Selena Cuffe, President of Heritage Link Brands Jeff Hoffman, Co-founder of Priceline.com […]
How Facebook became Pornbook [News]
Facebook tackled by its own value! Facebook users where so outraged over the content that they engaged with it! That’s right, Hardcore Porn created a massive engagement practice that spread the content like crazy! As users commented on the photo’s, mostly in outrage, the Facebook algorithm moved the content to the top of the news […]
Google+ Pages Open the Doors for Brands and Businesses
This past June, immediately after Google launched it’s highly anticipated Google+ social network, internet savvy businesses like Ford, Dell and Mashable.com rushed to create pages for their brands. Only to have them removed a few days later. Google’s announcement soon followed: “In the meantime, we ask you not to create a business profile using regular […]