Social Media

Are You Rock n’ Roll?

May 14, 2010 · 4 comments

C’mon, you’ve heard about them before. The social media rock stars. Who are they? What do they do? How rock n’ roll are they? What does it mean to be rock n’ roll? Let’s go back to the early days of rock n’ roll. Back then, it was a new sound that came out of [...]

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Tribe, Trusted, and True

February 3, 2010 · 2 comments

The annual Edelman Trust Barometer is out, and tech journalist Tom Foreski did some digging into the findings. As Tom points out, the news isn’t good for PR agencies, “social media experts,” citizen journalists, or media companies of any kind: Trust in information from friends and peers, “people like me,” dropped by 20 points, from [...]

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Community Space

January 12, 2010 · 1 comment

Let me tell you a story: Recently, a friend of mine told me how he needed help moving a sofa. There was someone who he knew online, and their relationship had spilled over into the real world because they lived nearby one another. But he couldn’t muster the nerve to ask for a hand because [...]

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@oggy on Analytics and Social Media

October 6, 2009 · 0 comments

Meet Agustin Vazquez-Levi. I work with him at NVI. We’re both down at SMX East 2009 in NYC this week, and he’s on a panel called Analytics for Social Media. I thought I’d ask him what he thinks about quantifying social media. iPhone Version

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Sex, Trust, & Transparency

September 16, 2009 · 5 comments

I need your help. I pitched a session for Podcamp Montreal 2009, and now I have speakers’ block. With only a few days ago, I’m really short on time to make a creative comeback. So if you have any suggestions, I’d really appreciated some feedback. Let me explain further… iPhone Version

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Cloudvertising at Third Tuesday

July 22, 2009 · 1 comment

Last night was a special summer edition of Third Tuesday Montreal. There were three presentations, in the style of Pecha Kucha (20 slides, 20 second each, for a total of 6min 40sec) and I had the pleasure of opening for Julien Smith and Sylvain Grand’Maison. The title of my presentation was Cloudvertising: Social Media and [...]

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How to Save a Local Newspaper

March 19, 2009 · 2 comments

When Tom Foremski (a former Financial Times journalist) had some ideas on how newspapers can reinvent themselves, he was trying to address both falling subscriptions and declining ad revenues. He suggested that newspapers needed original content worth paying subscription fees for, and should develop a hyper-local focus to get that content: Newspapers should own their [...]

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Six Months Later

March 12, 2009 · 5 comments

So Mike Maddaloni tells me that it’s been six whole months since Nokia brough a rag-tag bunch of geeks (including me) in Helsinki by Nokia for Nokia Open Lab 2008. Toward the end, I remember someone saying that if only we had had another couple days, we could’ve mapped-out Nokia’s entire strategy for the next [...]

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