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April 14th, 2011

Conversations with Community Managers 23: Shannon Paul. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan

Our podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers (a co-production with The Community Roundtable), continues with episode 23, featuring Shannon Paul, Social Media Manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Podcast highlights include: Dealing with “Protected Health information” (PHI) due to regulations such as HIPAA, including the names of members, and how to balance the need [...]

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April 7th, 2011

Conversations with Community Managers 22: Thomas Meyer, Sonos

Our podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers (a co-production with The Community Roundtable), continues with episode 22, featuring Thomas Meyer, Senior Manager of Global Public Relations at Sonos Inc., maker of a premium multi-room music systems (disclosure: both podcast hosts are Sonos users). Podcast highlights include: Online community as an “earned media” strategy Does a premium [...]

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March 31st, 2011

Conversations with Community Managers 21: Leigh Mutert

Our podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers (a co-production with The Community Roundtable), continues with episode 21, featuring Leigh Mutert, Community Manger for H&R Block (just in time for tax season). Find H&R Block’s online community at http://getitright.hrblock.com. Podcast highlights include: Merging offline community with online- in particular, harnessing the experts at brick-and-mortar H&R Block franchises [...]

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March 28th, 2011

Social Media Snapshot from Boston: Sports Marketing and Social Tools Chaos

Boston is a very active social media city, so it was not unusual to have two events (at least) in one week to attend and learn about how people and companies are using social media. First up from last week, a Millennial Branding Event featuring Peter Stringer, who runs social media for the Boston Celtics. [...]

Filed in Events

March 18th, 2011

Navigating SXSW From the Agency Perspective

There is an image, not entirely unearned, of the social media conference – in particular, but not limited to, the just-concluded South-by-Southwest (SXSW) Interactive – as a boondoggle for the social media marketer, a place of endless parties, meeting and greeting the same people we talk to about the same things all the time, and [...]

Filed in Events, Voce Clients

February 8th, 2011

What Made Me Your Audience?

One of the things that frustrates me most about being in the social media bubble is the fact that we all (social media marketing, PR and other folks) seem to be each other’s audience; reading each other’s blogs, books, Tweets and newsletters and commenting on them in some great big circle of life (note: a [...]

Filed in Pitching, Programming, Rants

January 20th, 2011

Conversations with Community Managers 20: Jeff Esposito, Vistaprint

Our podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers (a co-production with The Community Roundtable), continues with episode 20, featuring Jeff Esposito, PR Manager for Vistaprint (Twitter) (Facebook). Podcast highlights include: Birth of a program– getting hit (literally) with a magazine and being asked to “figure this Twitter thing out” Getting the community to help shape social media [...]

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January 13th, 2011

Conversations with Community Managers 19: University of New Mexico

Our podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers (a co-production with The Community Roundtable), continues with episode 19, featuring, from the University of New Mexico, Benson Hendrix, PR Specialist, and Nora Heineman-Fleck, Social Network Liaison. Podcast highlights include: The importance of Flickr and photos to the UNM online community When both staff (Benson) and students (like Nora) manage [...]

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January 6th, 2011

Conversations with Community Managers 18: Janet Aronica, oneforty

Our podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers (a co-production with The Community Roundtable), continues with episode 18, featuring Janet Aronica, Community Manager for oneforty. Podcast highlights include: Letting community members create and use “toolkits” as a way to encourage interaction Managing community identity when its image is attached naturally to a larger existing community (in [...]

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December 16th, 2010

Conversations with Community Managers 17: Jeff Rubenstein, Sony PlayStation

Our podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers (a co-production with The Community Roundtable), continues with episode 17, featuring Jeff Rubenstein, Social Media Manager for Sony PlayStation (a Voce client). Podcast highlights include: Working with a community that is not only passionate, but extremely knowledgeable about the company, its products and its industry Idea generation from the community– [...]

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