Shira Lazar currently brings you the best in social trends and pop culture on her blog “On The Scene”, as well a contributes to The Tomorrow Show with Mo Rocca for Cbsnews.com. You can also catch her as the co-host of Mahalo’s This Week In YouTube. Previously, Shira hosted NBC’s 1st Look and Open House, DirecTV’s Havoc on the 101 and was a correspondent on Reelz Channel’s Dailies. She has developed and hosted online video content for Condenast’s travel blog Jaunted, Movies.com, Hollywood.com, Live Earth, Yahoo! TV, Verizon VCAST and more. She was recently featured on The Travel Channel’s Confessions of a Travel Writer, was the official video blogger of Internet Week, red carpet host for the 2009 Webby Awards and participated as a social media maven on Ashton Kutcher’s 24 Hours at Sundance. Shira has also appeared on Fox News Channel, CBS, and CNN. As a crossover personality and hybrid journalist, Shira Lazar continues to bridge the gap between old and new media and be a voice for the millennial movement.

Blog Entries by Shira Lazar

Movember: Grow a Moustache and Give Back

Posted November 18, 2009 | 02:40 PM (EST)


It's Mid-November, which means it's still not too late to support Movember.

Inspired by what women have done with breast cancer, the charity-dedicated month has guys growing moustaches to support, as well as raise money and awareness for, prostate and testicular cancer. What began as a joke between a...

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The Cause Conference Circuit

Posted November 2, 2009 | 01:21 PM (EST)


I recently had the opportunity to moderate a really great panel, Online Locally, Act Globally, at the Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas. I first posted some of my thoughts on my CBSNEWS.COM blog, and titled the piece, Philanthropy 1.0 and The Megaphone of the Internet.

Well, don't worry,...

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The Tweet That Keeps on Giving

Posted October 12, 2009 | 09:51 PM (EST)


Last week, I broke the news that comedian Drew Carey was going to donate 1 million dollars to Lance Armstrong's Live Strong foundation if he snagged 1 million followers on Twitter. The community responded twofold: Some people loved the idea and are still championing behind him, while others looked at...

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