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Lon was awarded another patent for his concept of “Virtual Electronic Retailing” and “Three Dimensional Internet Advertising” by the Uuited States Patent and Trademark Office.  [...]

Lon was recently appointed as it’s first Ambassador to the government agency SCORE whose charter is Counselors To Americas Businesses.  The Ambassador position is something [...]

Lon Safko has been selected to join the CEO Panel of USA Today, Washington, D.C. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2009 – Based on Lon’s [...]

Lon is honored to become a member of the cast of The John Adam Show heard Fridays from 9:00 to 10:00 AM on KFNN Financial [...]

Lon has created a series of podcasts for his new book “The Social Media Bible“, published by John Wiley & Sons; which can be found [...]

Lon spoke to the Society of American Archivists at their 71st Annual Convention held in Chicago. Lon Safko had been chosen to represent the “American [...]

More than 30,000 corporate records, video tapes, newspaper articles, design drawings, & photograph have been archived into the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention [...]

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. has added eighteen of Lon Safko’s early inventions and over 30,000 corporate documents into its permanent collection. Read more…

Paper Models Inc, announced today that it opened its first virtual store in a virtual world, selling its real world products in a virtual format [...]

The Computer History Museum In Mountain View, CA has requested some of Lon’s other inventions and the SenSei System Software for its permanent collection. The [...]

After five years and $30,000 in fees, Lon Safko was awarded a patent for his unique marketing concept, Paper Models, Inc. This concept, which has [...]

The Social Media Bible published by John Wiley & Sons was released on May 4th.  The book has been received with overwhlming enthusiasm.  The Social [...]

That’s right, the famous Microsoft blogger, Robert Scoble has “Scobleized” Lon in his recently PodTech interview “The Killer Business”. Lon and Robert met to discuss [...]

“Gratuitous Serendipity” (Non-Fiction), is an intriguing compilation of seven actual accounts of events in my life that both changed my life and changed the world [...]

“Life Is But A Dream” (Fiction), is an intriguing compilation of insights learned during my life as I rowed down my stream on my first [...]

Here is my recent article on the “Three C’s Of Innovative Thinking” written for InformIt.com and provided courtesy of Financial Times Prentice Hall. This article [...]

The Arizona Republic Newspaper Reports in the Business Section about The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. accepting 18 inventions and over 30,000 corporate documents into [...]

The Smithsonian Institution’s Winter 2006 “Prototype” Magazine, features insights into great innovators such as Darwin, Weyth, and Edison. Also featured next to theses astounding individuals [...]

Lon Safko has been selected to join the CEO Panel of USA Today, Washington, D.C. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2009 – Based on Lon’s [...]

Lon was the guest on the John Adam Radio Talk Show discussing Lon’s process for “Innovative Thinking” and how to think more creatively. John Adam [...]

Lon signed an agreement with Wiley & Sons to write and publish the most comprehensive book in history on Social Media. Lon will be coauthoring [...]

Lon was interviewed for the podcast series, “Ask The Expert” by Paul Schmidt of Five Star Speakers in Kansas City on the subject of Social [...]

I was proud to speak at the 2nd Annual Entrepreneurship Conference held in Phoenix Arizona on November 8. The conference was amazing! Pat Sullivan (Act [...]

Wow! We’ve launched the survey site that is the first design step in the creation of The World’s First Book On Social Media Using Social [...]

Social Media… Lon speaks in this 4 minute podcast about the importance of Social Media and the impact it will have on your business. Social [...]