This is the second episode of The Buzz and it's the first of a three-part series on the social media bubble. Our panel discusses both meanings of the term "social media bubble" -- the overinflation of value and the tunnel-vision of some early adopters. It makes for an interesting conversation. The episode features Brian Morrissey, Digitial Editor of Adweek, Noah Brier, Head of Planning & Strategy at The Barbarian Group, Ian Schafer, Founder & CEO of Deep Focus and Alan Wolk, Blogger, Creative Strategist and Executive Director of the Hive Awards.
After months of hard work, scrambling and late nights, we are finally live today.
Thanks to everyone who has helped with this: our Advisory Board, particularly Chad Stoller, Josh Klein, Tom Ajello, Christina "CK" Kerley, Tac Anderson, Whitney Hess and Tim Nolan who served as sounding boards, idea generators and then some.
The people at International Awards Group in New York who spent weeks testing and retesting: Hal, Donovan, George, Gus, Matt, Rich, Allie, Joha Jany. Ali Matlock, IAG's tech wizard, who worked nights and weekends to pull this together. Jim Smyth and Michael O'Rourke who helped make the vision a reality, and Austin Roesberg, who designed the logo and the site (with a much-appreciated assist from Aeryn Daboin and Tom Ajello of Poke) and Sarji and the team at TCTI who did most of the heavy lifting on building the site.
My wife and kids for listening to me ramble on about this for months.
We're hoping to create something special here, something that will help our audience by giving them recognition, standards, and a place to connect.
This is all brand new. So please, if you have suggestions of what we could be doing differently, better, more of-- of if you just want to say hi, please leave us a comment.
Alan Wolk
Executive Director
PS: Check out the first in a series of videos we'll be doing on the changing state of our digital universe. The first installment can be watched via the post below.




















