Author Archives: Larissa Fair

All Your Profiles Are Belong To Us

Nick O’Neill at the Social Times wrote an interesting post last week stating that social networking sites would be "dead" in two years. Meaning that individual sites will soon be a thing of the past and integration is coming.
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However, the integration of social networks will mean that each individual brand is set [...]

SMC-DC: Now is Gone "2.0"

The DC chapter of Social Media Club will meet at 6:00 pm on Thursday, June 5 at Barnes & Noble in Clarendon to have a book discussion featuring the authors of Now is Gone, Geoff Livingston and Brian Solis. They will share their insights on this wonderful world of social media. If you missed [...]

Buzz Meter: Tumblr

I recently discovered Tumblr, with a tip from colleague and friend Qui Diaz. As she said, Tumblr is like having a digital scrapbook. It takes micro-blogging to a whole new level by allowing you to quickly post text, photos, video, quotes, links, chats, and more. With the ability to post on the web, through IM [...]

Jonny Goldstein: Keeps On Rolling

This is part two of two in an interview with DC’s Jonny Goldstein. Jonny is a social media consultant and host of Jonny’s Par-tay, an interactive online TV talk show.
Part one of the interview series can be found here.
BB: What are your thoughts on the whole Trapani blacklist controversy?
JG: Part of the problem is [...]

Jonny Goldstein: The Par-tay Starts Here

The Buzz Bin decided to turn the tables on interviewer-extraordinare Jonny Goldstein. Jonny is a well-known local social media expert, internet media personality, communicator, and teaching artist. He is also the executive producer and host of Jonny’s Par-tay with technical director Scott Stead.
Jonny’s Par-tay features people who do interesting work at the intersection of [...]

How to Be a Successful Blogger: Comment

Blogs are only as successful as the people who write, read, and comment on them. So, if you want your personal or corporate blog to be a success, then it only makes sense for you to take the time to read and comment on other people’s blogs.
Participating in the community, sharing insights, experiences, and [...]

Buzz Meter: Brightkite

Invites to Brightkite are flying like…kites. The location based social network has received a lot of buzz over the past weeks, and I was lucky enough to secure a beta invite to check it out.
Brightkite serves as a social network that allows users to share and find friends based on location updates. The stream [...]

Achieving Balance in a Social World

Everybody likes to talk about work-life balance. In a constantly connected and hyper-social, always on and always open world, it’s become increasingly hard to strike a balance. Whether you work in an office, at home, or on the road, there is a lot of pressure for high availability.
Always On
The fact that we have the [...]

How to be Successful in Social Media: Be Yourself

Social media marketers love words like conversation. Authenticity. Transparency. Interaction. Participation.
But what does that really mean?
It’s all about being yourself.
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As PR professionals we are constantly pitching media to fight for a our 15 minutes of fame. In a world where there are numerous ways to connect with reporters and media (Twitter, [...]

Buzz Meter: Xobni

Ever since I read this article in GigaOm about Xobni, I’ve been excited to try it. It’s finally available to the masses, and it’s a pretty cool little application.
Xobni is “inbox” spelled backwards, and that’s pretty much where your traditional inbox ends. Xobni creates profiles for each person that emails you. These profiles contain [...]