Simon Mainwaring

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Today Mark Zuckerberg travels to D.C. for a Congressional Briefing on privacy. While this will probably bring the privacy debate to a boil, I wanted to return to a Zuckerberg statement revealed last week that was largely overlooked in the emotion of privacy pushback. The statement was extracted  from David Kirkpatrick’s upcoming book, The Facebook Effect by Michael Zimmer […]

Today Mark Zuckerberg travels to D.C. for a Congressional Briefing on privacy. While this will probably bring the privacy debate to a boil, I wanted to return to a Zuckerberg statement revealed last week that was largely overlooked in the emotion of privacy pushback. The statement was extracted  from David Kirkpatrick’s upcoming book, The Facebook Effect by Michael Zimmer …

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Oaj7ZXUxY 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 …

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvhzuSfhx4U 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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