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Esteban Contreras is the founder of www.socialnerdia.com, a blog about the convergence of technology + marketing + social media, and the people / sub-cultures that make it possible. You can find him on twitter @socialnerdia

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Gord Weisflock talks Kodak, B2B, China and Social Networking

Gord Weisflock is a Marketing and Business Development Manager for Kodak in Asia Pacific. Working on the B2B side of Kodak, Gord focuses on demand generation and building relationships in the largest market on Earth. I was able to speak with him on The Social Nerdia Show! and you can listen to it below, on ...

Radian6’s David Alston on Unmasking the Brand

David Alston is the VP of Marketing and Community at Radian6, a software firm that helps remove the barriers to effective social media monitoring and analysis. I had a great time chatting with David on the 15th episode of The Social Nerdia Show! and you can listen to the conversation in its entirety on the ...

Mr. Murdoch, You Might as Well Charge Me to Hang Out at a Bookstore

Oh, what scary times these are for old media. The Internet has forced them to change or die or both. The media decline is obvious in newspapers. The New York Times is not yet “a print newsletter for the elite and the elderly,” as the EPIC 2014 video put it in 2004, but it is ...

Chris Kahle on the Twitter “Request For Employment” that got him hired by CP+B

Chris Kahle is a recently hired copywriter for Crispin Porter + Bogusky, one of the hottest ad agencies in the world. While I cannot pronounce “Bogusky” very well, I’m quite aware of the agencies widely known work for Hulu, Microsoft, Guitar Hero and Burger King. “Boulder’s great. For a town out of about ninety thousand, ...

Yahoo! Searches Itself and Finds Nothing

By now most people know that Microsoft has finally scored the deal it’s been wanting for quite a while. I’m guessing CEO Steve Ballmer still gets a little annoyed when thinking about all the trouble and time he wasted trying to get Yahoo! to give in. Then again, maybe things would’ve gone horribly wrong if ...

Interview: Jackson Fall talks Business and Living Digitally, Applies to Revision3 [#wcdfw09]

I recently met 13-year-old Jackson Fall at WordCamp Dallas. Jackson might be young, but he doesn’t think like a kid when it comes to technology, business, and social media. He not only has a video blog / podcast (at LivingDigitally.tv), but he’s also a freelance graphic and web designer. When I asked if he was ...

Cali Lewis Offers Secrets on Her Success [#wcdfw09]

Cali Lewis is the producer, writer and host of GeekBrief.TV, a video podcast about tech, consumer electronics, and web 2.0. An influential person in the tech community, Cali is also quite down to earth and recently did an awesome job as an organizer of WordCamp Dallas 2009, where I was able to ask her some ...