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Social media conferences in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This was a big week for social media conferences in San Francisco. Lots of emphasis on social engagement, and lots on mobile. Presenting at this week’s Social Loco Conference, one company showed us how more people are using mobile devices to share their experiences with friends and families. And this means a lot to the […]
Lots of exciting trends and technologies were revealed at last month’s ad:tech conference in San Francisco. The conference included a total of seven keynotes and 35+ breakout sessions covering topics, including things like display advertising, mobile, social, video, media and more. The Local Corporation conducted a random sampling of 115 survey respondents to determine what was particularly hot […]
Article first written for, and published as Proximity-Based Mobile Advertising – Interview with iSign CEO, Alex Romanov on Technorati. iSign Media is a company based out of Toronto specializing in location-based content delivery. The company has developed a patent-pending “proximity-based” advertising solution that prompts smartphone users to nearby content like picture coupons, videos, music, maps and schedules. […]
Article first written for, and published as Mobile Marketing’s 3 Major Challenges – Interview with TRUSTe CEO, Chris Babel on Technorati. According to Chris Babel, CEO of TRUSTe, the mobile marketing industry faces three core challenges that until now, no one’s entirely solved. Speaking with Technorati at ad:tech San Francisco, we got first-hand insight into Chris’ take on each, […]
As published on SocialMediaToday.com Gamification Strategy I’ve written a lot before about gamification, admittedly, one of my favorite topics. A lot of people think the strategy is all about games for consumers, but the application goes deeper than that. Developed correctly, a gamification platform deployed internally across an organization can deliver exceptional performance results. At the […]
As published on Business2Community.com When most of us think of Hitachi Data Systems, we don’t necessarily think “social media.” I mean, at first pass, I wouldn’t associate the image of a towering black Hitachi server as something I’d particularly want to Facebook “like.” But perceptions like that can change, and at a conference this week in […]
Packed into a half day, with two simultaneous tracks running, SocialMedia.org’s BlogWell conference was chock full of great social media stories. Cross industry leaders, many from enterprise companies you wouldn’t think embrace social media, gathered to share eight case studies on their lessons with the new social channels. BlogWell features near-live transcripts for each of the presentations, […]
I go a lot of conferences. I attend some, present at others, and take away something from each. With Signal San Francisco, the team at Federated Media does a whole lot right. The conference format makes Signal SF an incredibly efficient way to soak up a whole lot of knowledge in a short period of […]