Next Friday, I’m going to be presenting at Newcomm Forum on how the newsphere has evolved from being primarily text-based into one that is multimedia.
Over the next week I’ll be sharing various pieces of the presentation.
The first piece is a brief deck that shows how CNN.com feature story has evolved over the years and in [...]

Every year there is one conference that I will go to regardless of whether or not I’m speaking or presenting there and that is the Newcomm Forum.
Simply put, the event draws in some of the most forward-thinking professionals and academics in communications for several days of presentations, discussions and social events.
It’s sort of like my [...]

This past week, Brandy and I chatted with Jason Kintzler, founder of PitchEngine.   The interview can be downloaded or heard online at WebmasterRadio.fm.

There are a variety of perspectives on how best to analyze influence in Twitter and it is not the goal of this post to present another approach.  Rather, I want to take take account of the existing ones, spend a few minutes presenting a perspective and hopefully get a few subsequent subsequent perspectives on this.
Let [...]

This past week I had a great chat with Stuart Foster, social strategist at Mullen.  We got into a number of topics including the role of creativity in public relations, the incredible (and sometimes forgotten) potential within social bookmark communities and more.

I toyed around with OnlyWire for a while today and wanted to share some initial observations but first a little bit of foreplay.
Bookmarking is a vestige of the Mosaic browser (circa 1993) and has subsequently emerged into a persistent feature of Web browsers.  Bookmarks aren’t rocket science:

There are a lot of pages on the Internet.
Some [...]

I get frequently asked about good social media resources so wanted to take a moment and post what I think are some of the top resources out there:
Books

Putting the Public back in Public Relations, Brian Solis & Deirdre Breakenridge (March 1, 2009)
The New Rules of Marketing and PR, David M. Scott (November 3, 2008)
The New [...]

I recently did an e-mail based Q&A with Social Media Portal, which focused primarily on my experiences working in product management to drive PRWeb.  Here is an excerpt:
Social Media Portal (SMP): What is your full job title and role at PRWeb.com?
Jiyan Wei (JW): I’m the Director of Product Management – I drive product platform strategy [...]

I’ve recently fielded several questions stemming from the article on social networking in the New York Times that came out last week. One in particular caught my attention and I’d like to address it a bit more comprehensively.
The question was from a guy about to launch a Bed & Breakfast in Colorado and was [...]

Brian Solis has authored an op/ed aimed at redefining “how startups (not solely tech companies) view and define early adopters and the ‘echo chamber’ in order to gain momentum in order to ‘cross the chasm’ to the next tier of evolution, adoption, and monetization.”
Reading through the article I couldn’t help but reflect on the value [...]