Live Podcast: Featured Guest Marcel LeBrun, CEO of Radian6

What does gourmet cooking have to do with social media measurement? More than you might think. On this edition of The A-List with Jennifer Lindsay, I speak with Radian6 CEO Marcel LeBrun. With ROI, engagement and influence at the center of questions (and answers)...

Facebook Buys FriendFeed: Why I Don’t Really Care

I’ve been watching with great interest at friends, luminaries and publications have commented with varying levels excitement and, dare I say –  passion! – about Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed. The headlines from articles and blog posts...

Live Podcast: Featured Guest Venkat Gopi, Founder and CEO, wissr

Sometimes you come across a new service that holds the promise of what social networking is supposed to be. That’s what happened when came across wissr and subsequently spoke with its founder and CEO, Venkat Gopi. Pronounced ‘wiser,’ wissr aims to be...

Pressure To Make An 'Under 40' List

I don’t know if  it’s the Ivy League over-achiever in me or if I’m simply more competitive by nature than I realize, but I feel strangely panicky about having not made a 40 under 40 as yet. It’s not as though I’ve achieved nothing; I...

Dr. Social Media

It struck me last night… I was giving a presentation to CoreNet Northern California young leaders and as the audience asked questions and became more engaged, it hit me. I was handing out (verbal) prescriptions. I wouldn’t call it advice – strategy...