Luke Brynley-Jones (@lbrynleyjones) – one of the UK‘s most experienced social media consultants – brings his A-game to San Francisco on May 23rd for Social Media Marketing and Monitoring 2011 (#SMM11). Get a preview full of tips and advice right here. From “Using Social Gaming Mechanics for Marketing” (aka Gamification) presented by Rajat Paharia, [...]
In December, Carmen Scheidel (@Scheidel), Director of Education, Events and Multimedia Content at mediabistro (@mediabistro), came to me with an idea – the hybrid between a conference and the kind of online courses I teach for them (@mediabistroedu). The concept would be 8 weeks long, with a conference keynote, question and answers as well as [...]
LeWeb’10 takes place in Paris December 8th and 9th 2010 at Les Docks. With more than 2,400 Participants from 54 countries, it’s the number one European event about the Internet. As you probably know, I covered the conference for BlogTalkRadio using Cinch last year and the information and interviews I gathered changed my world view [...]
Following the success of their events In London, Influence People is hosting a one-day Social Media Monitoring Conference in San Francisco on 21st October, followed by a half-day training bootcamp on 22nd October. Monitoring Social Media (#MSM10) will bring together leading brands, PR and marketing experts to discuss the latest ideas, trends and techniques in [...]
Nielsen and comScore tell us from their stats that advertisers look at all of us through a generational lens. Coming from more than a decade in the television industry – both on-air and digital – I have long been taught to use information we know about what appeals to members of each of the four [...]
We have a stellar group joining The A-List to talk about what you can expect to learn at this conference, coming up Friday on 17th September from 9:00am – 5:30 PM at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. We’ll have conference organizers Luke Brynley-Jones (@LBrynleyJones) and Murray Newlands(@MurrayNewlands) of Influence People (@InfluencePeeps) and London [...]
I had the good fortune to meet Marissa Louie of HeroEx as part of the process of becoming a panelist at next Thursday’s Social Media Marketing Conference in San Francisco (#SMMSF) and quickly came to like her smart, entrepreneurial spirit. If you don’t already know about HeroEx.com, check it out. It’s in alpha, but delivers almost any item [...]
This week on The A-List, I am excited to welcome Stowe Boyd, international authority on social tools and futurist. With the iPad hype this week, it seems like the perfect time to discuss the tools that run on our digital devices – new and old. In addition to his other accomplishments, Stowe is launching a series [...]
This is a guest post by Cassandra Phillipps, an event producer for the Bay Area startup community. She produces FailCon, co-produces Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, and production manages SF Beta, SF MusicTech Summit and Finance4Founders. She also keeps a blog on upcoming startup events and event advice at webwallflower.com You can follow her on [...]
This week we’re wrapping up the LeWeb conference, held December 9th and 10th in Paris, France. It might have been a bit dreary and wet, but when it’s Paris, who can complain? You might be asking yourself, ‘why this big deal around LeWeb?’ Well, it’s a huge deal, actually. When you consider the Internet is [...]
I’m really excited about failure this week! Failure, you ask? Well, I am delighted to have the organizer of FailCon, Cassie Phillipps, on this week’s edition of The A-List. What I love us is that Cassie’s creating an event around ‘failure’ (some might think the opposite of what leads to influence), when in fact, we [...]
[Editor's note: This post and podcast originally produced for Eastwick Communications here...] This week’s podcast brings us ‘double the pleasure, double the fun’ (sorry, guys, I keep thinking Wrigley’s Doublemint gum commercials from back in the day…). But, seriously, I could not be more pleased to welcome these two, distinguished professionals onto the program: Jennifer [...]
One of the things I love about gearing up to teach again at San Francisco State’s Social Media Marketing certificate program is that it makes me a student again, too. Yes, indee Buy Cheap Viagra d. Anyone who is using social media today can understand; this world moves fast. As the saying goes, you move [...]
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