JD Lasica

About: jdlasica.com/about/
Blogs: Socialmedia.biz and Socialbrite
Twitter: @jdlasica
LinkedIn: /in/jdlasica
The Socialmedia.biz team offers social media strategies and consulting services to businesses, including:
• Strategic planning that results in a blueprint for driving new business
• Training and workshops for executives and staffs
• Website building, resulting in loyal online communities
• Brand campaigns using social marketing
• Outreach to key online influencers
• Storytelling to enhance your company's impact in the marketplace
• See a list of our services — and we'll do it for less than those other folks.
Charles Schwab, Scholastic, Commonwealth Club, UNESCO, DaleCarnegie.com, Blue Shield of California, Schering-Plough, Goodwill Industries, Knight foundation, Intel, Oracle, University of California. See our list of Clients.
One of the earliest social media strategists, JD is a consultant to Fortune 1000 companies as well as mid-size companies, startups and nonprofits. He is widely considered one of the world’s leading authorities on social media and the revolution in user-created media.
JD is chief executive of Socialmedia.biz, a consultancy offering social media solutions to businesses and organizations that want to use social media and social networks to build deep customer relationships, promote brands and deliver value.
His 2005 book “Darknet” (Wiley & Sons), which coined the term “personal media revolution,” explores the emerging media landscape. His blog Socialmedia.biz was named the No. 1 social media site in a list of the Top 100 social media websites. JD is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology and new media conferences.
San Francisco/Silicon Valley
Email: jd@socialmedia.biz
Phone: (925) 600-7641
Mobile: (925) 413-3870
Gtalk, Skype: jdlasica
AIM: jdlas
Company site: Socialmedia.biz
“The Web is more a social creation than a technical one.”
— Sir Tim Berners-Lee
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
— Lao Tse
"We are drowning in information, and starving for knowledge."
— John Naisbitt
- Content marketing: The secret to getting discovered in search
- Calendar of social media, tech & marketing events: June 2013
- Does your infographic tell a story?
- Little Bird: A game changer for tracking influencers
- News Pioneers: Media innovations from Europe
- Entrepreneurs: Here’s what investors care about!
- Demo Mobile: The revolution is at full throttle
- Calendar of social media, tech & marketing events: April 2013
- When does ad retargeting make sense for your business?
- SocialToaster: Super fans unite on behalf of brands
- Startup turns a smartphone into a smart toy
- Launch Festival: ‘We live in the future now’
- Social media, tech & marketing events: March 2013
- Location-based services are coming of age (and it’s way more than Foursquare)
- Photography and the growing mobile movement
- Social media, tech & marketing events: February 2013
- Are you ready for the place graph?
- 2013 conferences: Social media, tech, mobile & marketing
- Latest trends powering the Innovation Economy
- Lean content marketing: How to do it right
- Meograph: Multimedia storytelling made easy
- Snoox: Recommendations from friends, not strangers
- 3 steps to verify your website on Pinterest
- Why Google Authorship matters to your business
- How much traffic is your website really getting?
- How inbound marketing benefits businesses
- Social media, tech & marketing events: October 2012
- Up-close photos of TechCrunch Disrupt 2012
- Is TweetMeme missing half of your tweets?
- Is Google turning from a search engine into a publisher?
- Welcome to the new Socialmedia.biz
- ‘Intention Economy’ charts the rise of empowered customers
- Highlights of Tech4Engagement Summit
- Social media, tech & marketing events: June 2012
- Catalyzing action for Internet freedom
- UppSite: Turn your website into an app in minutes
- Social media, tech & marketing events: May 2012
- GroupMe: Connect with team members in the field
- Social media, tech & marketing events: April 2012
- O’Reilly Where: The art and business of location
- Social media, Gov 2.0 and government workers
- Social media, tech & marketing events: March
- Why Timeline is a colossal blunder for Facebook
- TaskRabbit: Crowdsourcing comes to your neighborhood
- Social media, tech & marketing events: February
- O’Reilly Strata: Why big data matters
- 2012 conferences: Social media, tech & marketing
- Everloop: The social network for tweens
- OnSwipe: Make your site ‘swipeable’ on the iPad
- Social media, tech & marketing events: November
- Welcome to the Social Revolution
- Social media, tech & marketing events: October
- 4 Israeli startups that made waves at TechCrunch Disrupt
- Photos of TechCrunch Disrupt 2011
- SOCAP 2011 in pictures
- Social media, tech & marketing events: September
- How WikiLeaks has changed the role of journalism
- Reimagining journalism in the age of social media
- Social media, tech & marketing events: July
- Journalism and the social media revolution
- MyMic: Leave an audio comment on Facebook
- Latinos, education & tech entrepreneurship
- 8 books for your 2011 Summer Reading List
- NCVS 2011, Animoto style
- Latino 2.0: Delivering on the promise
- First Weekend Club: Supporting independent film
- Social media, tech & marketing events: June
- Red Heart leads field of Apps for Change winners
- Highlights from Media That Matters 2011
- ‘Filter Bubble’: The consequences of being isolated in a Web of one
- Social media, tech & marketing events: May
- Scenes from the Where 2.0 mobile conference
- Should journalism offer calls to action?
- Metrics advice: Think KPIs not ROI
- Media reform & sustainability on tap in Miami
- Social media, tech & marketing events: April
- Live stream of Web 2.0 Expo
- ‘Curation Nation’ & ‘Mediactive’: A new era in media
- Six years ago today, a video revolution was born
- Review: ‘Social Marketing to the Business Customer’
- ICANN weighs the next wave of Web domains
- Free ebook: ‘New Trends in CRM’
- Customize the subject line of your Feedburner emails
- Social media, tech & marketing events: March
- 5 cool startups at the first Launch conference
- 4 reasons why your brand should create its own APIs
- 15 ways to increase your brand’s impact on Facebook
- 15 ways to increase your Facebook stature
- Demystifying how Facebook’s news feeds work
- Sizing up 15 top Web conferencing services
- Innovative e-Marketing coming to Barcelona
- Top 20 social media monitoring vendors for business
- The king of podcasting’s eye-popping numbers
- 2011 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing
- 10 ways to measure social media for business
- Does your workplace policy cover social media?
- Have you made your site mobile-ready?
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Arianna Huffington on politics and fear
- Web 2.0 Summit: Photos & more highlights
- Web 2.0 Summit: Privacy, innovation, games & ebooks
- Opening up tech opportunities for women
- 10 ways to create a social media dashboard
- Nurses, referral fees & a health apps giveaway
- Lessons for brands launching social media campaigns
- Social media, tech & marketing events: November
- Why isn’t law part of the social media conversation?
- 4 experts on how to turn social media into sales
- Highlights of BlogWorld Expo 2010
- Monitoring Social Media – San Francisco
- Moderating a session at BlogWorld Expo
- Outtakes from HealthCamp SF
- Are you ready for when the curtain goes up?
- Best practices for public presentations
- ‘The Social Network’ opens today – & Facebook will never be the same
- Social media, tech & marketing events: October
- Happy fall! Autumn begins today
- How Mother Jones is embracing social media
- PitchEngine: A social PR platform for the new era
- Flipboard: Get social news on your iPad
- Here comes Clay Shirky’s ‘Cognitive Surplus’
- Webinar on what’s new with social media releases
- Social media now firmly entrenched in our lives
- Social media, tech & marketing events: August
- ‘United Breaks Guitars’: Social media tips the scales
- Change the world with social networking
- dotSUB: Spread your message into other languages
- The story of Intelpedia: A model corporate wiki
- Social media, tech & marketing events: July
- Social Media Marketing 2010 comes to SF
- Highlights of Personal Democracy Forum 2010
- Social media, tech & marketing events: June
- Mark Zuckerberg makes the big time
- A workshop to help you advance your cause
- Biz360: Tracking business intelligence
- Review of ‘Open Leadership’: Winning by letting go
- Has Facebook gone too far this time?
- Blue Shield CA making strides in social media
- A small slice of Web 2.0 Expo
- Mobilize your cause: a bootcamp in NYC
- The untapped power of APIs
- OpenCalais: Serving up context on the fly
- Social media, tech & marketing events: May
- Tips on how women can attain ‘true power’ on stage
- Paths to the new journalism
- Pandora’s love-filled journey to dominance
- Social media: Increasing access to public meetings
- GroundReport: Citizen journalism gets richer
- PicApp: Free quality images for your blog
- PeopleBrowsr: Find and act on Twitter conversations
