360i Promotes Senior Executives as Agency Growth Accelerates
360i, an award-winning digital agency, has promoted Sarah Hofstetter to President and Jared Belsky to Executive Vice President. The agency has also appointed Dave Jacobs to General Manager of Strategy, Social Media and SEO.
The appointments come during a period of strong growth for the 425-person digital agency, which has seen its business double in size over the last two years as brands increasingly demand a strategic partner able to navigate where there are no roads and make real-time decisions in an evolving, consumer-centric environment.
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Join Nuffer, Smith, Tucker March 1, 2012 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at San Diego’s Hall of Champions, located in Balboa Park. Topics include creating compelling brand content, online reputation management, and online and offline word of mouth. Jason Falls, our keynote speaker, will also talk about social media ROI, and Gary Kim, a mobile marketing analyst and journalist, will highlight the trends in mobile marketing.
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Facebook Preferred Developer Consultant, Brand Networks today announced Beth Kribs-LaPierre has joined the company as Director, Social Intelligence and Analytics. In this position, Kribs-LaPierre will apply her extensive social media intelligence and analytics expertise to help Brand Networks‘ clients better understand, manage and optimize their social media marketing strategies, social campaigns and apps.
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Lithium is holding a webinar.
Date:
Wednesday, February 8th
10 am PT | 1 pm ET | 18:00 GMT
Companies like Autodesk are driving millions in ROI annually from social support because it delivers better service at a better value. Next generation Social Support is about dialing it up a notch—maximizing that value by making it a fundamental part of the support ecosystem, fully integrated with the systems and processes that make your company run.
What strategies and tactics will help you catch up with the current state of the art in social support? What will help you leap ahead? Join Lithium Chief Community Officer, Joe Cothrel, and Autodesk Community & Social Media Program Manager, Brian Kling, as they share their experiences with some of the world’s most successful social support efforts. You will learn:
- Four kinds of integration most critical to social support success
- Ten future trends for achieving social support leadership
- Key considerations and dimensions of CRM integration (case study)
Presenters:
Joe Cothrel, Chief Community Officer, Lithium
Brian Kling, Community & Social Media Program Manager, Autodesk
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Join Richard Edelman, CEO and David Armano, Digital Innovation for a Q & A and discussion of findings from Edelman’s 2012 Trust Barometer, a global survey which takes the pulse of trust in business, institutions and industries. The U.S. debt impasse, the Occupy protests and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima are among the major events of the last year that triggered a dramatic weakening of trust in government and business across the globe. Come and listen to the findings on the importance of trust in government, business and people like yourself.
Chicago Social Media Club Happy Hour
o WHEN: Monday, February 6, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
o WHERE: 200 Randolph St., 66th Floor, Edelman
o DETAILS: Drinks and light appetizers
There’s still room on the wait list.
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BAZAARVOICE AND BUDDY MEDIA PARTNER TO LINK CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT ACROSS THE WEB
Bazaarvoice, a market leader in bringing the voice of the customer to the center of business strategy for more than 700 global clients, and Buddy Media, the social enterprise software of choice for eight of the world’s top ten global advertisers, today announced a partnership to help brands integrate online customer conversations in their social media campaigns. Westin Hotels & Resorts is the first to use the joint offering on facebook.com/westin, which will be showcased at the upcoming Social Media Week on Feb. 13-17, 2012.
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Vincent Squillace 11:23 am on January 30, 2012 Permalink
The link for “Grown-up Thinking” is forwarding to another article, not Mr Youth’s blog!
Pat McCarthy 12:10 pm on January 30, 2012 Permalink
Hi Vincent - Thanks for letting me know! I just fixed it.
-Pat
Tobias Huber 2:13 am on January 31, 2012 Permalink
While curation is nice, it can’t exist without content…
Pat McCarthy 9:09 am on January 31, 2012 Permalink
Hi Tobias - The point I was trying to make is that simply having content is no longer enough. Pinterest has created a display system that makes curation and personalization simple. That’s what has driven its popularity.
Would like to hear your thoughts! Thanks for commenting!
-Pat
Media News and Strategies 3:02 pm on February 1, 2012 Permalink
[...] to Oct. 2011 has grown from 40,000 to 3.2 million unique users- a whopping 8,000%! An article by Womma describes that it may mean that “content is no longer king. There is simply too much of it [...]