Finding a job, sourcing a deal, selling a client, creating new business relationships – all these money making activities are essentially the same. One needs the same resources – the data, the social network and the business credibility – to manifest these opportunities. The social media has created a sea change in how relationships develop [...]
Mark Cuban proposes his contribution to the Stimulus Plan by allowing entrepreneurs to post “business plans” as comments to his article Open Source Funding. His criteria in a nutshell – business plans are posted for all to see, comment, and steal if they want. Mark sends a non-negotiable contract for funding. I’m glad Mark is [...]
Tonight on CNN, David Gergen mentions that public perception turned against the Big Three auto bailout when “bloggers” feasted on the Big Three’s executives arriving to the November 19 Senate hearings in corporate jets (“going to the soup kitchen in tuxedoes“). Now they’re driving their hybrids to tomorrow’s hearings, but the gesture smacks of an [...]
The media buzz on Election 2008 is all about how the internet provides real time updates and commentary much faster than TV and other broadcast media: Passing of the Torch: TV to Internet – Screenwerk I’m Ready to Declare the Winner in the 2008 Race – Arianna Huffington (it’s the Internet) Media groups turn on [...]
Government transparency has always been oxymoron. Sordid details of profligate spending get outed and become legend – everybody knows about the $600 toilet seat or the half-billion dollar travel system that isn’t used. Now we have citizen journalists watching over the bailout with BailoutSleuth.com: BailoutSleuth believes that transparency is vital to the success of the [...]
Patrick Kitano is founding Principal of Brand into Media, a unique strategy group working with corporations and organizations to develop social and media-based strategies that engage hyperlocal communities.
I'm the author of Media Transparent, and contributor to Street Fight, Social Media Today, Daily Deal Media, The Customer Collective, and Quora.
I speak on the future of social commerce at conferences associated with social media, local advertising and real estate.
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