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Social Media Hour: Peace & Gratitude During Thanksgiving Week

While commercial interest started tapping us on the shoulder and giving a “psssst, it’s holiday time” many weeks ago, traditionally it’s the week of Thanksgiving when folks not only start thinking about Christmas (Hanukah, Kwanzaa) but also about gratitude. Thing is, with technology and the way in which it’s been leveraged so well in the…

Social Media Hour: Election Day and Uber Cease and Desist

This week’s show is all about disruption and changing paradigms in two very different spaces. It may not be a “major” election year, but this year’s cycle is getting plenty of attention – and that is due in very large part to the way in which candidates are leveraging new media technologies to engage voters….

Social Media Hour: Gearing Up For BlogWorld Expo 2010

Freshly back from a stint in LA, Cathy is back in her San Francisco studio for this week’s episode. On this week’s docket – the upcoming BlogWorld Expo and a deep discussion about ethics and integrity in the social media community. This year’s BlogWorld Expo, like previous years, has several themed tracks. This year the…

Social Media Hour: TechCrunch Disrupt SF

This week Cathy is joined by two entrepreneurs who are launching their new businesses at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this week. Both are serial entrepreneurs (it ain’t their first rodeo). Guests include: Kris Duggan, the CEO of Badgeville who launched this week at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Badgeville is a white label Social Rewards and…

Social Media Hour: Flipboard CEO Mike McCue

You’ve heard about it throughout the blogosphere. You’ve seen the coverage in major media. You may even have seen its cameo in one of the most recent iPad commercials. It’s Flipboard (which we covered previously at launch) – what’s being called the game changer for curating and consuming your social stream. On this episode, Cathy’s…

Social Media Hour: The Breast Cancer Fund Takes A Hike and TECH Cocktail Comes to the Valley

Using technology to do good means many things and this week, Social Media Hour looks at several angles. First, Jeanne Rizzo the President and CEO of the Breast Cancer Fund will join the program to talk about the way in which their organization leverages social media to fundraise, expand awareness and publicize events (like the…

Social Media Hour: Online Reputation Discussed with Unvarnished

Trust. Integrity. Reputation. Three powerful words that we’ve tackled before on Social Media Hour, and this week we take them on again. This time around it’s through two different lenses – the impact on making news from the realm of crowd sourcing it, and the idea of utterly anonymous professional business reviews and the impact…

Social Media Hour: Future of Hollywood Casting

Tales of Lana Turner being discovered at Schwab’s, and any number of other seeming sheer luck stories have brought legions of aspiring young actors and actresses to Hollywood – each one hoping for being the next person found by some talent agent. Truth is, these stories are more rare than the Dodo, and in fact…

Social Media Hour: Profiling Two Israeli Companies

This week we kick off with Natalie Fonseca, one of the brains behind some of the great activities happening in Seattle for Geek Week (including the pii conference on privacy). Then in our second half of the show we’ll dig a bit more deeply into some specific technologies – looking at two Israeli companies and…

Social Media Hour: Is Facebook A Business Tool?

This week Mari Smith, social media “impresario” and marketing consultant joins the show. Yes, she’s the leader in the Fast Company Influence Project, but as we’ve pretty much beaten that horse dead by now the plan is to merely touch on that topic and then delve into Facebook – how has it evolved as a…

Social Media Hour: Viral Campaigns & The Evolution of PR

This week Social Media Hour extends the discussion from last week’s episode and tackling the topic virality online. More specifically the show will explore how viral campaigns can impact your digital influence. Joining the discussion again will be, Michael Brito from Edelman Digital, Jason Falls the Social Media Explorer, Leyla Farah, Cause + Effect, Sam…

Social Media Hour: Tale of Two Influencer Projects

Reputation. Integrity. Loyalty. These three words all lead up to the big one that’s gotten quite a bit of attention in the on-line realm in the last week – Influence. Two separate and unrelated Influencer Projects are the focus of this week’s Social Media Hour. First up, what was billed as the “shortest marketing conference…

Social Media Hour: Do’s & Don’ts of Social Media

This week Social Media Hour returns a bit to its roots, doing a deep dive with social media marketing expert, Clay Hebert. (And yes, he’s someone who actually deserves the title.) A wide ranging discussion about do’s and don’ts of social media use, including case studies of what NOT to do. In addition, this week’s…

Social Media Hour: Filmmaking and Technology

This week Cathy delves into a a few perspectives on the movies with two talented filmmakers. First up, JD Disalvatore of The Smoking Cocktail (not to be confused with TECH cocktail) whose initial interview two weeks ago hit some technical snags. JD returns to the program talking about two films she’s just launched and the…

Social Media Hour: DCWEEK & Frameline Fests

Festivals of myriad sort snare much of this week’s episode with two segments exploring the infiltration and impact of social technologies in two very different places – the Beltway and LGBT film. Entrepreneurs and event organizers Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber of Shiny Heart Ventures talk about Digital Capital Week – ten days of digital…

Social Media Hour: Delivering Happiness

For the 60th episode of Social Media Hour the program dips into some of Cathy’s audio archives for an interview with technology and media visionary and analyst, Esther Dyson. In this discussion ranging from privacy and information sharing to relationships and how they’re changing, shows just how forward thinking Esther is. The interview, held over…