In recent years we’ve seen a rise in government on YouTube, from the United States to the UK, Israel and beyond.  More and more politicians are making their way onto YouTube, to open up a new channel of conversation with their constituents, and the latest to jump on this bandwagon is Germany.  Yesterday, the German federal government launched their new YouTube channel, Bundesregierung, and announced that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be answering citizens’ questions via YouTube next month [...]

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A lot of startups today work on basically the same principle; you have a Web service and maybe a mobile application that is somehow connected to that core service and...

Read More: POS Sector shows how important it is to carve a clear niche for your startup [Interview]

I recently met with Jason Falls, the founder of Social Media Explorer and co-author of the hot new book, No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing (Jason co-authored this great new book with Erik Deckers). Jason also has a past with Social Media Examiner. He was one of our founding [...]

Read More: Attacking the Myths of Social Media: An Interview With Jason Falls

The next episode of (R)evolution features a very special guest and someone whose work I've followed longer than I care to count. Among many things, John Battelle is the co-founder of Wired, Founder of Federated Media and Executive Producer of the Web 2.0 Summit. He's also the author of an upcoming book, What We Hath [...]

Read More: Our Digital Society in the Next 30 Years: An Interview with John Battelle

The size of online video is growing at a rapid pace—it has tripled in size since 2003, more people are watching online video every day and people are craving longer and more professional content on the web.  I had the opportunity to ask Dan Goodman and Bill Masterson, co-founders of digital entertainment company Believe Entertainment, about their take on the appeal web video and what they think is in store for the future of web series.  Read on to find out more.


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Emma Gannon is currently a global  community manager of Dove Facebook. Emma has experience of community managing blogs, Twitter and Facebook pages for international brands. Emma has a strong interest in writing, whether it be for her personal blog, reviews for online magazines, or contributing articles about social media to the Edelman digital blog. You can follow Emma [...]

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Rapper Denny Blaze, aka The Average Homeboy, is one of the most recognizable YouTube memes.  He rose to viral fame back in 2006 thanks to a demo tape that he recorded back in the late 1980s.  The tape features the song ‘Average Homeboy’, and Denny Blazin Hazen explaining what he’s trying to market.  "In mainstream music right now, there’s not a middle-class, average guy telling his point of view that’s white."  His mission was to fill this gap.


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Our friend Seth Mazow, who attended our first Social Media Club meeting in San Francisco on August 16, 2006, joined us a few weeks ago to celebrate our 5th anniversary.  In this video interview, Seth shares what have been the most surprising and disappointing impacts of social media. Sorry Seth, no jetpacks or robots. 

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Dan Schawbel, recognized as a "personal branding guru" by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the author of the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future. Dan is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog, the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine, the youngest columnist at BusinessWeek, and [...]

Read More: Interview with Social Media Influencer: Dan Schawbel

Nathaniel Perez is the Head of Social Experience at SapientNitro, a global, integrated marketing services company. Over the past 14 years, Nathaniel has tackled marketing and technology for clients such as ADT, Air Canada, AT&T, Burger King, Carnival Cruises, Citi, Coca-Cola, Condé Nast, H&R Block, JCPenney, Kraft and Mercedes AMG.As in-real-life marketing blurs with in real-time-online marketing Nathaniel is in a unique position
to elucidate how brands connect with consumers across [...]

Read More: Interview with SapientNitro: Identifying real-time opportunities in social media

I recently spent some time talking to Sarah Morales of Vertical Measures to discuss the new Engage and we wound up having a fun and in-depth conversation that I felts was also worth sharing with you here. Sarah: This is the updated version of the book that championed, "Engage or Die!" What are the main [...]

Read More: Reading Between the Lines: An interview about Engage and what’s next

In celebration of our 5th anniversary, Pierre Platini, founder and leader of SMC France joined us via Skype to tell us a little about the evolution of the community in France and the impacts social media has had on him personally and professionally. Thanks to dedicated leaders like Pierre, we've reached this incredible milestone and we are toasting this five year anniversary with all our chapter leaders across the globe!  

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Our friend Tom Abate was among the attendees at our first ever Social Media Club meeting in San Francisco on August 16, 2006.  Tom joined us in San Francisco last week for our 5th anniversary dinner and was joined by others from the first meeting including, Chris Heuer, Kristie Wells, Seth Mazow, Sally Falkow, Tom Froemski and many more.  Tom goes on to share in his video interview about how social media has impacted him personally but also what he has been most surprised by in the las [...]

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"Wow!  That’s like…a video!"  If you’ve spent any time watching viral videos on YouTube in the last two weeks then you may have happened across a video of someone saying these five words.  YouTuber itsaninterimweb has been tacking these words, in the form of video responses, onto virtually every YouTube video to go viral over the past couple of weeks.  His channel consists of 179 videos so far, all of them proclaiming this same message.  "Wow!  That’s like…a video!"


Read More: How Five Words Made One YouTuber A Legend [Interview]

Social Media Club Founder, Chris Heuer shares his thoughts on where SMC has come from, where our organization is going and thoughts on the evolution of social media. A few of the folks who attended our first SMC meeting in San Francisco on August 16, 2006 attended a dinner last week to celebrate our 5th anniversary, and also took part in a short video interviews. We will be sharing these over the coming weeks.  

Read More: 5th Anniversary Interview with Founder, Chris Heuer

As a continuation of our 5th anniversary yesterday, we interviewed a handful of our most valuable international chapter leaders, who truly "get" Social Media Club and have been involved for the last few years, and some even since 2006.  Here's is our interview with Erno Hannink, Founder of SMC Amsterdam.  We always appreciate that we can count on Erno to offer feedback on activities we're going on a global level, and his committment to guiding newly forming chapters throughout the Netherlands is [...]

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In celebration of our 5th anniversary today, we're bringing you a few interviews from a few of our most valuable International chapter leaders who have been with us since the beginning and continue to support Social Media Club missions in their local communities. This morning, I had the pleasure of speaking with Anders Abrahamsson, who founded the first Social Media Club chapter in Sweden and is heavily involved in SMC, by contributing to our Editorial Team along with acting as first point [...]

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This guest post is by Kevin Muldoon of KevinMuldoon.com. Recently, I interviewed Benny Lewis, the man behind the successful blog Fluent In 3 Months. Over the last month or so I have been organising everything for my move to South America. Since reading The Motorcycle Diaries at University in my late teens I had thought [...]

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ABC News’ Diane Sawyer used her big scoop — the first televised interview with Jaycee Dugard — to break in her Twitter account.

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Guest post by Elizabeth Sosnow, Managing Director of BlissPR, a New York City based public relations firm. She develops and supervises strategic communications programs for major companies in professional and financial services, with a particular emphasis on the legal, consulting and insurance industries. He was an intelligent, well qualified senior candidate. Over the course of

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