Pity the marketing execs at Motrin whose attempt to be cool and funny is turning into this week’s object lesson in how quickly a misjudged engagement with a key audience demographic can snowball into a …

The future of political conversation…..that would be by bypassing the media.

Much interest in the social media scene today around young Lucas Cruikshank, whose alter ego Fred, the squeaky-voiced 6-year old with anger management issues, is hot stuff among teen and tween YouTube viewers. Reporting from the …

As if the world needed another Facebook, Microsoft has announced the next generation of Windows Live, which integrates almost every social media service you can think of and its dog in an orgy of APIs …

Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider is sitting on a pile of unconfirmed information regarding Facebook’s current common stock valuation, the upshot of which is: “… it is inaccurate to say that Facebook’s valuation has …

The New York Times carries a fascinating look at the social media campaign that began with a conversation between the President-elect and Marc Andreessen and ended as the unstoppable force that carried Barack Obama to …

Four years after we launched our first social media-themed conference we have arrived at a point where social media is living up to its hype and is transforming the very nature of media and communication.
This …

It used to be that companies could count on a “bad news day” a few times a year. Ah, the good old days. Today, activists, critics and watchdogs are using the latest social media tools …