social media

Join thousands of fellow marketers (including Susan) for five days of marketing education and conversation! ClickZ Connected Marketing Week, August 16-20, in San Francisco!

1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living.

As the CEO of Personal Life Media, Inc., I am a publisher of eBooks focused on your personal and professional growth. We call them “eBooks with Benefits” because our downloadable books and membership sites typically consist of pdf’s in the form of books and workbooks, plus audio and video companion files.

The SoMe Awards — one of the country’s premiere social media award events is celebrating the year’s social innovators in technology, marketing and design throughout the region. Want to nominate your client or company work? You better hurry! The deadline for nominations is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 23 visit www.someawards.com.

I thought that Tuesday’s Social Media SixPack presentation went pretty well, and someone e-mailed me asking me for my slides, so I decided to post a dry run of my presentation here.

I went a bit long here. at about 10 minutes, but it might be worth watching if you want to be more efficient.

SEMpdx has partnered with CMD, Oregon’s largest multi-disciplined marketing agency, and specifically with the agency’s earned media group, to help further promote and raise SEMpdx’s profile.

CMD has been a front runner in developing best practices for how to incorporate social media and search within PR efforts for its clients, such as Cisco Systems, NW Natural, Intel and JELD-WEN, inc. In fact, the agency’s PR group recently changed its name to CMD’s earned media group, which better reflects CMD’s philosophy that generating exposure and building a reputation in today’s increasingly digital world requires seamlessly incorporating creative PR, search and social media solutions.

SEMpdx is proud to partner with Portland State University’s Professional Development Center to provide 2 annual scholarships for the SEM Workshop, which is part of the Digital Marketing Strategy Certificate series.

The 3-day SEM Workshop is taught by SEMpdx board members Kent Lewis & Hallie Janssen. SEMpdx and PSU are offering the $635 scholarship twice each year, one for each class. The next workshop starts October 23rd, 2009.

Thanks to the quick work of the organizations below, we are all excited to announce the introduction of the region’s first Social Media Awards, The SoMe Awards (so – mee). This year’s award is on a tight time table, but your help with tweeting, blogging and spreading the word is appreciated. Most details are available at www.someawards.com. Don’t be shy – nominate yourself or a client close to you.

I’ve had terrible luck getting and keeping good and reliable handyman for my house. I have a great plumber and a great painter that I work with and but with handymen, I’ve encountered either incompetence or unreliability with several different people. So, after I realized that this social media trend is probably here to stay, I decided to tweet my need to my network to see if I could get any leads on a reliable Portland / Beaverton Handyman.

Okay, not really – but it could happen. Here we go – my very own social marketing test in action…

It’s strange to have been in search marketing and professional business consulting for 10 years, and currently work in a market (search) that is practically untouchable – yet be laid off.

Several months ago, around the time that Mixx launched, I remember reading an article floating around on Sphinn entitled “The Importance of Being an Early Adopter.” The article focused on Twitter, describing the tangible benefits for social media marketers of building their brand in a smaller community, a brand that will gain significant importance as the sphere of that particular site grows larger and larger.

A few weeks ago, I was connected to Anna Song, an investigative reporter and anchorperson at KATU. She was looking for an expert in the dark arts of online reputation management.

With a decade or more of related experience, I fit the bill and we scheduled a visit to Anvil Media, Inc. Anna and her cameraman spent an hour or two with the Anvil team, asking questions and getting a better idea of what goes into the online reputation management process.