Video: an inspirational 5-minute JOLT from Andrea Ross.

Michael Lazerow isn’t shy about sharing his views on Facebook’s potential. He says, in no uncertain terms, that the social network is “changing brand advertising forever.”
Michael is the CEO of Buddy Media and will be presenting at the free LiveBar event in New York City that I’ve organized organized for LiveWorld for Wednesday, March 24 [...]

* The second-annual Social Media Week is underway in five cities around the world.  If you’re reading this post from New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London, or Sao Palo, you still have time to register and attend one or several high-quality events between tonight and Friday.
* In making the case that Facebook could become the [...]

First, a disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer and don’t pretend to play one on this blog, or in any other venue of commentary.
With that out of the way … what if retweets are an infringement of US copyright law?
That fascinating prospect was raised by attorney Glenn Manishin (@GlennM) during the “Public Policy & Law” panel [...]

Starting at 8:00am Central Time tomorrow morning, we’ll be (fingers crossed) video live streaming, through UStream, a presentation from Tim Walker at Waco’s Social Media Breakfast 7.
We’ll also be testing out the Live Stream Box that Facebook released to publishers and developers last week.
I’ve wrangled together a page that will display the UStream feed and [...]

Can you imagine not having easy access to drinking water in the middle of a brutal summer heat wave?
I certainly can’t, and yet that’s the reality facing hundreds of people who live on the streets of Austin.
Enter Alan Graham and the Austin-based nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF), which has just kicked off a campaign [...]

What could be funnier than watching a couple of Grumpy Old (Business)Men get stuck in the mud in off-road vehicles on an Oregon beach? That’s for you to decide, but this video certainly had me in stitches.

(RSS and e-mail readers: You may need to click through to the original post to see the video.)
The vid [...]

It is with some apprehension that I enter into the world of online video production.
In the audio or video discussions that often pop up on blogs and podcasts, I’ve always felt aligned to the former. Whether it’s how my brain is wired–I am more of an auditory learner than a visual one–the memories of my [...]

Boston.com and the Boston Globe have started several Twitter feeds, including one each for sports columnists Tony Massarotti (@GlobeMazz) and Chad Finn (@GlobeChadFinn).
It’s a step in the right direction, certainly, but I think Chad and Mazz could be doing more with their individual Twitter accounts. Here’s my friendly advice for them.
(Cross-posted to my LiveWorld video [...]

Inspired by the efforts of Neville Hobson, I’ve put together a montage of family photos from 2008 as a way of recapping the last 12 months (with a helping hand from Animoto).
Here’s hoping 2009 will be as memorable as 2008 has been. Happy new year!
Part 1

Programming note: In spite of following Animoto’s estimates when choosing [...]