Arianna Huffington @ ThinkLA Trends Breakfast

It was a great pleasure seeing Arianna Huffington present at last week's ThinkLA trends breakfast. She really enchanted the audience bringing them into her fold and view of social media.

Arianna is really well grounded, and discussed some of the key advantages and disadvantages of always being connected. Her view is to allow social media to connect people, but never to allow social media to replace personal interactions. Rather, social media should only be an extension of those natural interactions.

In addition, she warned us of "good and evil" uses of social media, and really asked the audience to help promote and advocate positive uses.

Regarding a potential run for public office in the future, Arianna plainly stated, "that a person would have to be a masochist in today's media landscape to engage is such a dysfunctional system". Unfortunately she's absolutely correct. Who would want to get punished in the press, have their family and reputation criticized to such an extreme.

Really enjoyed the show, and had a chance to shake her hand following the presentation. I was very delighted to see Arianna present. On behalf of BuzzLogic, we were very proud to sponsor and participate in the event!

Thank you Sara Morton and ThinkLA for inviting us to sponsor and participate...