Editor’s note: This is part 6 & 7 in the series of Lessons Learned:  Easy tips on how to create and grow a social media program. This series includes a discussion on the following topics: Create a Social Media Policy. Grow your social media program and overall web presence. Research your business. Set goals. Create content. MORE >>

PubCon Las Vegas Keynote, Nov 12, 2009. Tags: Pubcon Media Economics Only 1 in about 5,000 attempts at building websites results in a successful business (more on these stats in following posts). At our PubCon keynote I outlined the five primary factors that determine the winners: 1. Focus 2. Uniqueness 3. Monetizability 4. Content 5. MORE >>

He wanted to know how to get started and “Could I intro him to a couple of local angels?&#   One night after a DealMaker Media event we got 20 minutes together after the event ended.  This is part of my Startup Advice series. had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI.  Not you. MORE >>

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. We launched it with KNX on March 21st, 2009. So, I jumped in and created a social media radio monster that is starting to show some results. Why not? MORE >>

I think there’s a big opportunity out there to normalize, aggregate and structure all the conversation around specific digital media. However, there’s definitely a need for the unification of digital media-centric dialogues.  Tags: Q&A Thought Pieces aggregation comments conversation dialogue social media MORE >>