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. Bloomberg Television is continuing to boost its coverage of the technology sector, following up Tuesday’s announcement of the addition of Cory Johnson and last month’s hiring of former CNN China correspondent Emily Chang with a profile of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs on this week’s installment of Bloomberg Game Changers.
Airing Thursday at 9 p.m. ET, the Jobs episode of Bloomberg Game Changers will feature interviews with fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple CEO John Scully, journalist turned venture capitalist Michael Moritz, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Apple “Mac Evangelist” and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki, and technology journalist and former Apple employee Robert X. Cringely.
Bloomberg Game Changers will profile Jobs from Apple’s start in his garage through the success of the iPad, touching on his departure from Apple, the failure of NeXT, his bounce-back at Pixar, and his return to Apple.
As for its recent hires, Bloomberg TV said Johnson and Chang will work on a yet-to-be-announced new show based in San Francisco. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Johnson had been a hedge fund manager and private investor, with media roots as a founding reporter for TheStreet.com, a writer-reporter at Time, a senior editor at Vibe, and CNBC’s first Silicon Valley reporter back in 2001.
Well, this was bound to happen. The first event to focus on Twitter as a business platform is set for next month in San Francisco.
TWTRCON SF 09 speakers include rapper/actor MC Hammer, Twitter angel investor Guy Kawasaki, Edelman Digital’s Steve Rubel and futurist Paul Saffo.
The conference is being put on by Modern Media, in partnership with Technologizer and First30 Services. It will be co-hosted by Modern Media’s Tonia Ries and bestselling author Gina Smith.
Organizers say the one-day event, which will be held May 31 at Hotel Nikko, will focus how companies can leverage Twitter and associated applications for their businesses.
More in the press release, after the jump…
The Personal News Network, or PNN.com, has just launched “Ask The Bloggess,” a spoof of traditional advice columns, authored by Houston-based blogger Jennifer Lawson.
Lawson is setting a lofty goal for “Ask the Bloggess:” “I am so excited about working with PNN to fix America. Then if we still have time we’ll move on to Canada, which my mother always refers to as ‘America’s hat’.”
“We are absolutely delighted to have Jenny on PNN,” says Leigh Behrens, president of PNN, “Her combination of wit and sarcasm is absolutely unique and absolutely irresistible.”
PNN.com bills itself as “The Global Water Cooler for Women” and the premier authority on what’s on women’s minds. San Francisco-based pnn.com was founded by software entrepreneur Lauren Elliott and counts Alltop.com‘s Guy Kawasaki among its advisers.
Tom Dunlap of the Internet.com blog Datamation attended this morning’s keynote at the UGCX with Guy Kawasaki, a founding partner of Garage Technology Ventures and the author of eight books.
Kawasaki, who boasts 62,000 followers (including us) declared, “Twitter is the best marketing tool ever.”
And he has some advice for those who use Twitter: “Whoever follows you, you follow them…It’s an act of courtesy.”
He said there are only two kinds of people on Twitter: those who are obsessed with how many followers they have. And those who lie about not caring how many followers they have.
