The subject of the next Digg Dialogg will be author, “evangelist,” and strategist, Guy Kawasaki, who is in the process of promoting Enchantment, book No. 10 for him, in which he discusses how to influence people without compromising ethics.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
The latest installment of Digg Dialogg will feature someone quite familiar around Digg headquarters: CEO Matt Williams.
Questions can be submitted to Williams as comments on his post on the Digg Blog through Thursday at 9 a.m. PT, and the full interview will be posted Tuesday, Feb. 1, at noon. Williams wrote:
Over the past four months since I’ve joined Digg, our team has been committed to staying connected with our community. From San Francisco to Serbia, we’ve received tens of thousands of comments and suggestions. I’ve also had the chance to meet in person with many longtime users of Digg, through lunch gatherings and focus groups in a few different cities.
We’ve been listening closely to your feedback, and the result is a number of changes to Digg.com — such as reinstating buries, bringing back the Upcoming section, adding filters to browse images and videos more easily, and launching an improved mobile site. We’re hard at work on other features and site design changes you’ve requested, so stay tuned.
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts on how to make Digg.com great. Please keep it coming.
Digital news, opinion and media publication The Fiscal Times relaunched a newly designed Web site Monday while concurrently launching its first annual print magazine edition.
The magazine features a preview of the 2011 fiscal agenda, including analysis of the economic and political upheaval driving this year’s major policy decisions and reports on the 2011 Congress, the core drivers of federal spending, the new economic growth opportunities, and a special essay on global interdependence from former President Bill Clinton.
TFT launched last March, and its roster of columnists, analysts, and bloggers includes: Bruce Bartlett, economics blogger and former senior policy analyst under President Ronald Reagan; John Berry, former Federal Reserve reporter for The Washington Post; James Cooper, former Business Week columnist; Ann Dowd, former Washington bureau chief for Fortune and Money; Liz Peek, financial columnist for Fox News; Tom Herman, former tax policy writer for The Wall Street Journal; Eric Schurenberg, editor-in-chief of CBS BNET; and Mark Thoma, professor of economics at the University of Oregon.
theGrio, NBC News’ African American-targeted news and opinion site, is marking the anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti with news package Buried in Crisis: Haiti One Year Later, which features contributions from Mara Schiavocampo, Jeff Johnson, Todd Johnson, and Garry Pierre-Pierre.
Among the features, Schiavocampo and Johnson each produced original reports about life in Port-au-Prince since the tragedy struck, with Schiavocampo accompanying former U.S. President Bill Clinton on his visit to the island nation.
Wednesday is the actual one-year anniversary of the earthquake.
What we have here is failure to communicate: Attendees at salesforce.com‘s annual Dreamforce cloud-computing convention who attend the keynote address by former President Bill Clinton are not actually barred from Tweeting, live-blogging, Facebook posting, and other social-media use, as reported Wednesday.
A spokesperson for Clinton told Yahoo! News’ The Cutline the confusion resulted from the fact that the event is closed to “traditional media,” and the event host and public-relations company misinterpreted that to mean that the use of mobile devices and social media was banned.
It looks like bloggers are still not considered part of “traditional media.”
Dreamforce will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Dec. 6-8.
No Tweeting. No live-blogging. No Facebook posting. No social-media use. No reporting at all. North Korea? No: Former President Bill Clinton‘s keynote address at salesforce.com‘s annual Dreamforce cloud-computing convention, being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Dec. 6-8.
ReadWriteWeb reported that it received the following notice from The Outcast Agency, the public-relations firm for salesforce.com:
PLEASE NOTE: President Clinton’s representatives have mandated that there be absolutely no reporting during his session. That includes live blogging, Tweeting, Facebook posting, or use of any other social media. We understand the inconvenience this may present, but greatly appreciate your compliance. Thank you.
The real question is: How will this be enforced?
Political commentators Cenk Uyger and Lee Doran — who host YouTube channels as The Young Turks and How the World Works, respectively — will appear on a special Reuters.com forum on fixing the global economy Tuesday, which is slated to be available on YouTube News around midday.
Reuters editor at large Chrystia Freeland will host “Conflicting Visions: Fixing the Global Economy,” which will also feature a debate between Laura Tyson, former chairman of President Bill Clinton‘s Council of Economic Advisers, and her counterpart under President George W. Bush, Glenn Hubbard. After that, the progressive Uyger and the conservative Doran will go at it.
Two top executives from public-relations and communications firm Burson-Marsteller will deliver a keynote presentation on digital communications in politics at BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2010 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, joining the previously announced list of keynotes and speakers.
Burson-Marsteller CEO worldwide and Penn Schoen Berland CEO Mark Penn and worldwide vice chairman Karen Hughes will discuss results from a study of social-media use during the midterm-election races, analyzing how candidates used Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and texting, and how they integrated their messages on other sites and social-media outlets. The keynote is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 15 at noon PT.
Penn has served as a senior adviser to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Bill Ford, President Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair. He is the author of best-selling book Microtrends, a regular guest on cable television, and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
Hughes served as under secretary of state for public diplomacy from August 2005-December 2007 and as counselor to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002, where advising the president on policy and communications.
Go USA Bid brought out the big guns in its efforts to rally support for the United States as the host country for FIFA World Cup 2018 or 2022, releasing a video narrated by Morgan Freeman and featuring Spike Lee, Bill Clinton, and Mia Hamm.
The video is aimed at bolstering support for the USA Bid Committee, as winning locations will be announced Dec. 2. The celebrities are joined by “a celebration of fans and players from across the country expressing and displaying their passion for the game,” according to Go USA Bid.
Freeman wrote in an email to supporters:
I am proud to lend my voice to this remarkable effort to bring the FIFA World Cup to the United States. Soccer is the world’s game, its beauty and simplicity embraced by people in every corner of the globe. I have seen the game’s power to bring people together, to stoke their passion, to realize their dreams. Together, we are living the power of soccer.
Monday, September 20, Bill Clinton will be taking part in an exclusive YouTube interview, straight from the Clinton Global Initiative’s 2010 Annual Meeting in New York. Heads of State, CEOs, non-profit and religious leaders and other philanthropists will come together in New York City for the annual meeting, to take action on some of the most pressing challenges that our world is currently facing. Clinton and YouTube want to give you the chance to take part in the discussion.
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