Senior executives looking to gain an understanding of social media from a strategic level should attend Social Media for Executives, presented by Filtrbox, Oct. 14 at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas (www.executivesocialmediabriefing.com).
The event will be co-hosted by Metzger’s Dave Taylor, who manages three blogs, including the popular Ask Dave Taylor [...]
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Posted by Lisa Greim
Trying to manage an online forum, as my colleague Nate Warren noted earlier this month, is like herding cats. It’s no wonder some marketers still hesitate to recommend social media to clients. Under the cover of anonymity, some people will say unbelievable things.
Years of hosting conversations at the two-decade-old online community The [...]
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Posted by Elaine Ellis
I attended the first Chicks Who Click in January in Boulder having no idea what to expect. I wanted to support Denise, our event planner at Metzger. I ended up being blown away by the women who attended.
I finally got to meet Aimee Greeblemonkey, a business women and Mommy blogger extraordinaire. Now [...]
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Metzger Associates CEO, John Metzger, will be moderating the Rockies Venture Club dinner: Space 2.0 The Entrepreneurial Frontier from 5-8pm tonight at the Denver Athletic Club.
If space is your forte, you don’t want to miss this! Experts will be discussing how space technology translates to entrepreneurial ventures.
The panel lineup includes: Burke Fort, director of the [...]
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Posted by Lisa Greim
My kids do homework and forget to hand it in. This, to me, is inexcusable. In my day, when we blew schoolwork off, we blew it off properly, flagged down a pal with a car, turned the radio all the way up and went to Dairy Queen for a Hot Fudge Brownie [...]
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posted by Doyle
Dave Taylor and I are doing a session called “Social Media for Skeptics: The Care and Feeding of Bloggers” May 19 in Broomfield. TechCrunch, one of the nation’s leading technology blogs, has taken notice and you can read their post here.
For information on how to join the session, click here.
Hope to see you [...]
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Posted by Bevo Beaven
Coming up in January, our agency is co-sponsoring a special new media workshop, but this one is aimed at a purely female audience. On January 9, “Chicks Who Click” http://www.chickswhoclick.com/ is bringing together women from all over who have their own businesses selling products and services for a day of skiing (and [...]
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posted by Doyle
I’ll be sitting in on a panel at this year’s BlogWorld, to be held this weekend in Las Vegas. I’m looking forward to meeting many people that I “know” through Twitter or blogs, but have never meet in person (or IRL, as we often say).
The panel I’ll be on, which takes place Friday [...]
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posted by Elaine
Dean Rizzuto of Metzger Associates and Zena Weist of EMBARQ did a great job of outlining an underutilized application by marketers – the mobile phone.
The most salient point of the presentation to me was that sometimes simple marketing using SMS is the most poignant way to reach people. After two separate unsuccessful trips [...]
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posted by Elaine
Monika Maeckle, Business Wire’s vice president of new media, gave a great presentation for beginners. Below are sites that came up in the presentation.
Twitter.com – A microblogging service that lets you blog in 140-characters or less. You can follow the panelists on Twitter: Brian Morrissey, Daisy Whitney and Doyle Albee. You can follow [...]
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