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JD Lasica

JD Lasica
About: jdlasica.com/about/
Blog: Socialbrite
Twitter: @jdlasica
LinkedIn: /in/jdlasica
Facebook: JD Lasica
Principal focus
The Socialbrite team offers social media strategies and consulting services to nonprofits and social change organizations, including:
• Strategic planning to set goals for your organization
• Fundraising using Twitter and social networking tools
• Community outreach
• Social media and social marketing campaigns
• Training and bootcamps in social media tools for executive team and membership
• Package of services to set up blogs, widgets, wikis, collaborative tools
• Effective use of video in the organization
• Website and blog network development
Current/past clients
University of California Office of the President, Los Cenzontles, Intel, Schering-Plough, Lam Research, Oracle/PeopleSoft, Comcast, Rainforest Action Network, Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center
Profile
One of the earliest social media strategists, JD is a consultant to Fortune 500 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 firm 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. Socialmedia.biz was named the No. 1 social media site in a list of the Top 100 social media websites. He also has contributed to the community as co-founder of Ourmedia.org, the first video hosting site, which is partnered with the nonprofit Internet Archive. He is the author of the following books:

• Darknet (Wiley & Sons), which coined the term “personal media revolution" and explores the emerging media landscape.
• Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction (Aspen Institute, free download)
• Civic Engagement on the Move: How mobile media can serve the public good (Aspen Institute, free download)
• The Mobile Generation: Global Transformations at the Cellular Level (Aspen Institute, free download)

JD is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology and new media conferences.
Location
San Francisco/Silicon Valley
Contact
Email: jd@socialbrite.org
Phone: (925) 600-0639
Mobile: (925) 413-3870
Gtalk, Skype: jdlasica
AIM: jdlas
Sites: Socialbrite and Socialmedia.biz
Favorite quotes
“The Web is more a social creation than a technical one.”
— Sir Tim Berners-Lee

“Instead of one big-shot controlling all the media, now there’s a thousand freaks Xeroxing their worthless opinions.”
— Homer Simpson on bloggers
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