Social media and public relations activities are converging at different paces and in different ways for companies. Cheryl Snapp Conner, partner & executive PR director at Salt Lake City-based Snapp Norris Group talks about this evolution and the impact of [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, 2007 (PodTech News) — It’s been a quiet week compared to the double whammy earlier this month that saw dueling trade shows — Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco. MacWorld, which [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…]

Mary Hodder, CEO of Dabble.com, gives Maryam Scoble pointers on how to prepare for a meeting with VCs, and talks about the challenges of being a female CEO. Mary also tells us how best to search for videos online, and [See the full post…]

Alfred Thompson and Don Dodge, who blog for Microsoft, meet up with me at the John Edwards’ campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and we talk a little bit about social media and how that’ll intersect with politics. New Hampshire [See the full post…]

Last week, I was invited to ride on Senator John Edwards’s plane as he visited four states (Louisiana, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada) following his announcement that he is running for President in the 2008 election. Here I sat down [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…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — Robert Scoble was invited by Senator John Edwards’s campaign team to join the Senator, his staff, other “social media” representatives and the more traditional press corps for the first few days of [See the full post…]

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom [See the full post…]

Bradley Silver, CEO of BrandIntel, the leader in analyzing consumer published content to advance decision making for brands, talks with Jennifer Jones about the ways corporations can determine the content of social media conversations. Looking back at what was said [See the full post…]

IBM’s mainframe team recently did an experiment on YouTube with branded entertainment. IBM podcasting really hit the mark with the developerworks group. The group goes into detail about their corporate blogging and podcasting guidelines.

Alan Kelly, CEO and founder of The Playmaker’s Standard, LLC and newly minted author of the book called the Elements of Influence suggests to MV host Jennifer Jones that what social media lacks is a coherent vocabulary/lexicon and ultimately playmaking [See the full post…]

Steve Rubel, Edelman Public Relations (www.edelman.com) Senior Vice President and blogger: Micro Persuasion www.micropersuasion.com discusses the impact of social media on the practice of public relations. Rubel states that some of the practices of public relations are becoming obsolete and [See the full post…]