John Cecil: President and Co-Founder, Innovate Media - appears on DishyMix John Cecil, is co-founder and President of Innovate Media Group. A media sales and marketing expert, John has over 15 years of media experience that includes strategy, sales, marketing, business development, advertising, branding, PR and affiliate marketing across every medium in the industry. His career has put him right in the middle of emerging media/technologies with his involvement in cable television in the early ‘90’s and his time in the beginning years of the Yahoo! organization which gave him extensive knowledge of the online advertising and promotion business. Since 2003, John as been the president of Innovate Media taking advantage of his overall media experience to create a media solutions company providing expertise and services to clients.
How to easily find your LinkedIn Connections on Twitter Last night I was asked a question regarding LinkedIn connections and Twitter, which I responded to (I hope you found it easy Mark?) via two tweets. I thought I would elaborate further in a post as I am sure there will be others looking to do the same. Caterina Fake: Participatory Media and Why I Love it (and Must Defend It) I love participatory media, collective knowledge systems, user-generated content and the like, and spent much of my life and career participating in them and making them. As I say in this post from 2005, the internet is built on a culture of generosity -- the first web page I built was when I noticed there was no page on Nabokov and realized I could just make one. Amazing! And it dawned on me that every other page on the web -- this was 1994 -- had come about for the same reason. Then the dotcom thing happened. And then Web 2.0 brought us back to the web's roots -- communication and contribution.
What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service Caterina Fake. Photo: Jill Greenberg Once a week, the staff at Hunch stops work a little early. They leave their computers and convene around sofas in the back of the office in New York’s Flatiron district. They crack some beers and crank up the music. Caterina Fake Early life and education[edit] Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,[4] to an American father, and a Filipina mother who is a naturalized citizen.[5][6] Fake graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and attended Smith College. In 1991 she graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. degree in English.[4][7] Career[edit]
blogs.imediaconnection We are so awash in data that we seek simple ways to find meaning in it all. But simplicity is not a virtue if it undermines your ability to derive a realistic understanding of your subject. To illustrate, let’s look at the way social media has been reported on during the presidential election. During the primaries earlier this year, it became apparent that the media was going to tell the social story quantitatively.
CBS Testing Social Viewing Room: Watch Stuff With Strangers And Talk During The Show CBS Labs, which has been testing new HD streaming products, has also rolled out a labs version of a new product called Social Viewing Room. The idea is that you show up to the site, pick a show that’s on right now, and watch it with your friends or whoever is there. You can comment, LOL or take quizzes for points. The link is live, but I’m not able to see any actual shows going on right now. Given how awesome on demand TV is, I don’t see this kind of thing being very popular.
8 Strategies That May be Harming Your Brand's Image With all of the posts going around containing tips on how to improve your marketing strategy, social media presence, etc., I want to make sure that your marketing strategy doesn’t contain tactics that may be harming your brand. By removing certain tactics, you may find that you save some time while the content that you create is more likable and thus drives more traffic. Here are some tactics that if you’re using I recommend ditching and make time for strategies that work. Content that sells
Skybox – Games, Reviews, iPhone Apps and Games – 148Apps – iPhone App and Game Reviews and News Our Review By Chris Hall on January 22nd, 2010 Rating: Share This: Much like the Japanese game show Human Tetris, Skybox pits you, a Tetris piece, against a wall with a Tetris cutout. Expect simple fun. Here at 148apps, we get a ton of apps submitted to us for review.
Tour - Frequently asked Questions Organize, share and discuss all your information. A powerful editor to design your own intranet pages. Write rich text documents. Add discussions, custom forms, images, check lists, social media and much more. Former MySpace Exec Teams With Yahoo Rock Star For New Startup MySpace’s former GM International Travis Katz left the company shortly after the big executive shakeout in the Spring of 2009. He spent a few months in Hawaii recharging, and then moved his family to Silicon Valley. Since January he’s been working on a new startup, he says, and he’s teamed up with Ori Zaltzman, the former Chief Architect of Yahoo Boss.
Slingshot Labs founders start fresh with BeachMint and new $5M Barely two months after leaving Slingshot Labs, News Corp’s incubator, the two men formerly running the show, Diego Berdakin and MySpace co-founder Josh Berman, have launched a shiny new venture: a social commerce site called BeachMint. Despite bare-bones information on what the Santa Monica, Calif. company will actually be doing, it just managed to raise $5 million from New Enterprise Associates and Anthem Venture Partners. According to the two well-known co-founders, BeachMint’s mission is to build an end-to-end e-commerce experience across multiple verticals. Each category would have its own recommendation engine, social media tie-ins to allow for sharing and viral marketing, and channels for big-time influencers like celebrities to air their opinions. Berman has said publicly that product recommendations will be generated authentically — leading us to believe that they may be linked to preferences of your “friends” online. Berman isn’t the only MySpace alum with funding news today.
Eric Marcoullier In March 2008 Eric Marcoullier founded Gnip. Prior to Gnip, Eric Marcoullier founded MyBlogLog with Todd Sampson in January of 2005. The service went live in March 2005 and was acquired by Yahoo for an estimated $10 million in January 2007.