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.
With the explosion of the Internet, today’s media job seekers have more choices available than ever before. But how do you know if an emerging company is poised to be the next Twitter or just another dot-com bust?
For Google’s VP of consumer products Marissa Mayer, making the decision to become the company’s 20th employee was so difficult that she ended up in tears.
“My friend Andre said to me, ‘You know, Marissa, you’re putting a lot of pressure on yourself to pick the right choice, and I’ve gotta be honest: That’s not what I see here. I see a bunch of good choices, and there’s the one that you pick and make great,’” Mayer recalled. “I think that’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten.”
In the end, she said she accepted Google’s offer for one reason: “I would learn more there failing than I would other places succeeding, and that’s what really drew me to the role.”
Part 1: Marissa Mayer on Google’s Failed Groupon Bid
Part 2: Marissa Mayer: ‘Google Hasn’t Gotten Social Right Yet’
Register for Digital Privacy Forum on January 20 in New York to learn about the business of online privacy and the future of information management.
When your local dry cleaner is asking you to follow them on Twitter, you know social media is big. Yet, in our latest @MediaBeat interview, Google consumer products VP Marissa Mayer admitted that her own company has lagged a bit behind in the space.
“One of the things that we’ve learned is that Google hasn’t gotten social right yet. That said, social is really important; it’s something that we’re working very hard on. I think that we will get it right,” Mayer said. “I think that if you look at some of the main platforms of the Web, it’s search, video, mobile and social. We’ve done really well in three out of those four, and we’re working very hard on the fourth.”
And, although Google is expanding at a rapid rate, Mayer said protecting user privacy is “the core” of its business. “We really think about privacy in all of our products. We focus on transparency, choice and control, making sure that users understand how data is used, giving them a choice as to whether or not to use the service,” she explained.
Watch the full video to find out why Google banned Facebook from grabbing Gmail data and for Mayer’s answer to @knowledgenotebk‘s question about education technology.
Part 1: Marissa Mayer on Google’s Failed Groupon Bid
Part 3: Google VP Marissa Mayer: Learn By Failing
Register for Digital Privacy Forum on January 20 in New York to learn about the business of online privacy and the future of information management.
After incessant buzz that Google was looking to buy Groupon, word finally came that the fast-growing “deal of the day” company had turned the tech giant down. So, does that mean Google might launch its own coupon-type service instead?
“When you look at our overall suite of services, especially around our advertising, we already have some things that are like [Groupon],” said Marissa Mayer, Google VP of consumer products, in our Media Beat interview. “We have things like coupons and offer-extension ads that allow merchants to basically make offers to our users. And, so we’re looking at how can we take that technology and put it to use especially in the location space.”
Mayer also rebutted claims that being acquired by Google might water down a start-up company’s cachet. “I think that we have both a good structure for companies that get integrated into Google… and we also have a new construct called an autonomous unit where we basically will buy a company and leave it very independent.”
Part 2: Marissa Mayer: ‘Google Hasn’t Gotten Social Right Yet’
Part 3: Google VP Marissa Mayer: Learn By Failing
Register for Digital Privacy Forum on January 20 in New York to learn about the business of online privacy and the future of information management.
We talked with Marissa Mayer Google’s VP of consumer products for our Media Beat series. The full interview will run next week (Jan. 3-5) on WebNewser, but we wanted to share this clip with you about Google jobs. Mayer tells our Donya Blaze what Google is looking for in an employee.
Google vice president, location and local services Marissa Mayer will take part in the next Digg Dialogg, Digg community manager Jen Burton announced on the Digg Blog.
The newest member of Google’s operating committee will address her new role, the launch of Google TV, and other questions submitted here.
Burton posted:
We’re excited to announce that our next Digg Dialogg is here. This time around, we’re bringing back one of our favorite Dialogg guests, technology luminary Marissa Mayer, for an insightful look into the past, present, and future of Google. Considering her recent change in role to vice president, location and local services of Google and the launch of Sony Internet TV powered by Google TV, we think you’ll agree that this will be a great discussion.
From now until Monday, Oct. 25th at noon PT, submit your questions as a comment on this blog post and then Digg those you’d like to see answered by Marissa. The interview will be conducted from a Sony Internet TV-outfitted room, so look forward to seeing a few live action demos of how this product actually works.
In case you’re new to Digg Dialogg, here’s how it works: You have the opportunity to submit and Digg questions that we then pose to influential leaders and luminaries. Submit and vote on your favorite questions on this post from now until Monday, Oct. 25 at noon PT; we’ll be posting the full interview Monday, Nov. 1 at noon PT.
Fortune released its 2010 40 Under 40 rankings Thursday, and technology and media are well-represented, with Andreessen Horowitz co-founder and Netscape Communications founder Marc Andreessen occupying the top spot, followed by Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a third-place tie between Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone.
Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tied for fifth; News Corp. chairman and CEO, Europe and Asia James Murdoch was No. 8; Univision Networks president César Conde No. 12; Aol chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong No. 18; there was a three-way tie at No. 27 between Facebook vice president of product Chris Cox, VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer, and chief technology officer Bret Taylor; foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley was at No. 29; Slide founder Max Levchin and Vevo president and CEO Rio Caraeff tied at No. 31; Google head of location and mobile services Marissa Mayer at No. 34; Hulu CEO Jason Kilar at No. 37; and Microsoft global head of advertising Carolyn Everson at No. 39.
The 2010 40 Under 40 rankings will appear in the Nov. 1 issue of Fortune, which will be on newsstands Monday. The full list appears after the jump:
