Ninety-three percent of all teens are online today, and 55 percent of all teens online use social networking sites. Girls use social media more than boys. Pew Senior Research Specialist Mary Madden knows all about teens and how they are [See the full post…]

Lisa Stone, co-founder of BlogHer, knows tons about how to build a social media network. She’s launched many blog networks and interactive programming for national brands, including Hearst and Rodale magazines. Talking with Jennifer Jones at the New Communications Forum [See the full post…]

Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, invited Jeremiah Owyang (web-strategist.com) to capture an historic lunch with Jack Harker, one of the innovators of Data Storage, accompanied by his son John Harker. Claus Mikkelsen and Eric Tibbard also join in. [See the full post…]

David Weinberger is co-author of Cluetrain Manifesto. In this podcast, Weinberger discusses the ways in which business will work in the newly connected marketplace. Speaking at the New Communications Forum in Las Vegas, Weinberger believes that a generational shift has [See the full post…]

Shannon Clark gives Jeremiah Owyang time for a quick interview around mobile identity technology. Shannon helps to shed light on the multiple uses of the term “Identity” in the mobile space, and discusses how security validation will be critical.

Andy Beal is one of the leading search engine optimization experts. In this conversation, he discusses how best to implement an SEO program in marketing. Beal says that, for the all-important Google search engine to find it as quickly as [See the full post…]

In a world full of data that is quickly being accessed by mobile devices, ownership over that information — and over one’s own reputation and identity — rises in priority. Searls speaks with Jeremiah Owyang at the recent Mobile Identiy [See the full post…]

Scott K. Wilder, group manager of the small business division for Intuit tells how to make social media tools work for a large corporation. Intuit is viewed as a leading social media company — one that has created guideposts and [See the full post…]

David Hornik is a general partner at August Capital. As early-stage investors in companies like Microsoft, August knows what makes great companies, and Hornik serves as its social media expert. He sits on six boards including Six Apart. Hornik was [See the full post…]

Of China’s more than 120 million Internet users, 43 percent are using online message boards, 76 million are using online video sharing sites and 24 percent are using blogs. Social media is alive and well in China, says CIC CEO [See the full post…]

Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, is the recognized authority about what is happening on the Web at any one moment. He tells how Technorati is changing the news cycle. One way to think of it is this way: instead of [See the full post…]

Jeremiah Owyang interviews Matt Toll, director of segment marketing at Factiva, now a Dow Jones company, at Frost and Sullivan’s 2007 Sales and Marketing conference in Phoenix, Ariz.

Jeremiah Owyang interviews Ben Edwards at Frost and Sullivan’s Sales and Marketing 2007 West conference in Phoenix, Ariz. Learn more about the session on business blogging here.

The best company cultures that work for social media are just like people who embrace conversations and two-way interactions — they are open, trusting and talkative. Jennifer McClure, executive director of the Society for New Communications Research talks to Marketing [See the full post…]

Jeremiah Owyang interviews Angela Vargo, program manager of group blog Nuts about Southwest. Jeremiah’s captured notes and thoughts from their Business Blogging panel at Frost and Sullivan’s 2007 Sales and Marketing conference in Phoenix, Ariz.

Gear Live CEO Andru Edwards doesn’t just believe that tech trade magazines will move from the print medium to an entirely-online presence — he’s seeing it happen already. His magazine has more than 500,000 unique viwers each month, and along [See the full post…]

Guy Kawasaki, blogger, author of 8 books, venture capitalist and former Apple marketing executive, believes CMOs today should “just quit” if they are working with CEOs who don’t get social media. Talking from his home in Silicon Valley, Guy explains [See the full post…]

Just got back to the BlogHaus, and there are a few Dell folks here. I was telling them how the roundtable went with Michael Dell. Reaching out to the community is key, both as goodwill and strategically. Overall it was [See the full post…]

PodTech’s own Jeremiah Owyang, director of corporate media strategy, knows how to harness user needs, business goals and web technology to craft web programs. Talking with Jennifer Jones about his strategies for media implementation, Owyang explains how listening to the [See the full post…]

Marketers are still doing marketing like they were 15 years ago and it is time to adopt social media in a big way and learn the tools says renowned marketer Regis Mckenna. Access is replacing broadcast and people want to [See the full post…]

Thom Campbell, Intel’s senior media manager, sought pictures for the company’s multiply promotion, which ended on New Year’s Eve. This national promotion allowed users to upload their photos and then see their pictures on the NASDAQ OR Rueters Times Square [See the full post…]

You can’t buy attention. And if you want to be big, you first must think small. Those are some of the beliefs held by marketing guru Seth Godin. He helped to illuminate and define the power of the individual in [See the full post…]

Given the Marketing Voices community requests, metrics for consumer-generated media and listening centered marketing are the core of my conversation with CMO of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, Peter Blackshaw. Metrics is the key challenge for all PodTech client companies, and especially for [See the full post…]

Lots of provocative thoughts from a search engine guru in this conversation with Bob Heyman, also a well known speaker on Internet marketing and the chief search officer at Mediasmith. He’s also credited with pioneering the agency side of search [See the full post…]

Kevin Anderson is the blogging editor for Guardian Unlimited. He tells Jennifer Jones how “interactivity trumps celebrity” when trying to build a blog. It’s more important to write and build community, says Anderson, who calls the Guardian the most forward-thinking [See the full post…]