How to Build Engaged Online Community (JD Lasica Gives it Away for Free).

ByNalts September 16, 2009December 12, 2009

Kudos to JD Lasica for sharing his intellectual capital. He’s offering handouts, tactics, and his presentation.

When I was in the training field, Elliott Masie used to say, “give away knowledge, charge for consulting.”

Internet Superstar RIP, Microsoft goes CGA, Celebrities are DUM

ByNalts October 30, 2008December 12, 2009

News roundup. I just savd you visiting 10 websites. AdAge today reports that “Internet Superstar” (by Revision3) is R.I.P. A moment of silence please for Internet’s Martin Sargent and friends. The show’s recent McCain spoof has a slow build, but some comic moments as McCain discovers a phone without a cord.. Microsoft is asking consumers…

book | Online Video

Tribe Behavior in Online Video

ByNalts October 25, 2008December 12, 2009

I’ve always had a brain crush on Seth Godin, and used to preach his gospel when I worked at an interactive agency pre-bubble burst. But I had lost touch with the author since his Purple Cow book, and was glad to get a dose of his new “tribal marketing” insights last week in NYC. Here’s…

The Problem With Predicting the Future of Online Video (and the magic of marketers)

ByNalts August 7, 2010

Ladies in gentleman, in this seminal post, I shall speak to you not as a video entertainer but as a student of psychology, a practicioner of marketing, and a former magician (age 10). Watch in awe as I explain why our human species has trouble predicting the future, why some of my online-video foresight has…

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Stupidest Article on Social Media Ever Written

ByNalts September 23, 2009December 12, 2009

I just wrote the stupidest article about social media. It’s stupid and proud, and if you don’t read it… “you don’t get it.”

Online Video

YouTube Text Ads Hurt My Feelings

ByNalts August 20, 2009August 20, 2009

Online Video

First Online-Video Star Receives Medal of Honor by NYC National Arts Club

ByNalts December 12, 2008December 12, 2008

Caitlin Hill, known online as TheHill88, received NYC’s National Arts Club’s prestigious “Medal of Honor” this week (see press release which I just finished toiling over because I’m consulting with Hitviews. The 20-year-old Australian video creator joins former medal recipients Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Leonard Bernstein, Salvador Dali, and Martin Scorcese. Three US Presidents have…