Reaching young people through music and listening: Interview with Derrick Ashong

May 19, 2010

I recently had the great pleasure of sitting down with Derrick Ashong — extraordinary musician, radio host and thought leader in the social change space. He shared his insights into how to reach younger audiences and what they want to hear.
Derrick Ashong & Harpo Productions:
SM: Derrick’s been doing some fantastic work with Oprah’s network, Harpo [...]

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Social media and your place in it: ‘Connection Generation’ by Iggy Pintado review and giveaway

May 18, 2010

This week I’m giving away a copy of Iggy Pintado’s Connection Generation. Inside Iggy reveals how the world’s new obsession with connectivity directly affects the success or failure of how we function in society, both in business and as individuals.
With ever increasing links between all facets of society, he stresses it’s important to understand how to [...]

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The future of shopping: What happens when walls start talking

May 16, 2010

If only these walls could talk, the saying goes. In the case of the N building near Tachikawa station in Japan they do. In fact the whole building facade has been transformed into a real time dialogue between smart phones and what’s going on inside the store. All you do is hold your phone up to [...]

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#140conf LA meet-up: Social media inspiring social change

May 12, 2010

This week I had the pleasure of speaking at Jeff Pulver’s #140conf meet-up in LA. It was held in the Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd (which is why I start by kissing the stage floor to honor the Comedy Gods).
The event was remarkable because of the great information that was shared but even more so [...]

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Is Facebook really to blame for your privacy issue?

May 9, 2010

Jeff Jarvis wrote a great post yesterday about Facebook, privacy and the theme of his upcoming book – publicness. I can’t wait to read it – seriously, Jeff, write fast – as it provides much-needed clarity around the web’s hottest issue: privacy.
Critical to his post was the distinction between the ‘private’ public (that’s the one we [...]

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wecanendthis.com A living community ideation lab to end hunger

May 4, 2010

One of the remarkable ideas at SXSW this year was the cause lab organized by wecanendthis.com This is a model for idea generation whether you’re a for-profit brand, a non-profit or a foundation. Here’s how it worked.
A whole bunch of people who didn’t know each other got in a room and literally brain stormed about [...]

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Gucci Group: How luxury brands fast track their way to social media, community and new customers

May 2, 2010

This week I had the great pleasure of speaking at the Gucci Group Conference in Miami. Not only were they the best dressed group of attendees I have ever seen — no surprises there – which was thoroughly intimidating – still no surprises — but their conference was a wonderful example of how a brand [...]

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Gary Vee’s ‘Crush It’: Facebook, Twitter and social media marketing that makes money

April 29, 2010

I was speaking at the Connect Now conference with Gary Vaynerchuk a couple of weeks ago and he kindly gave me a signed copy of ‘Crush It!’ to pass on to someone. That’s him signing it below. It’s a truly inspirational read which exhorts you to “cash in on your passion.”
‘Crush It!’ is written with all [...]

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