South by South West or SXSW Interactive Conference this year was an amazing set of events. The picture above shows the luck in which I was able to score a Delivering Happiness Book VIP pass. This allowed me to ride a bus around Austin, Texas during events from March 13th to March 17th.
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March 10th saw a Tweetup, a meeting of friends that use Twitter, Facebook or other social media networking sites, inside of the Lavo Las Vegas Restaurant at the Palazzo Las Vegas hotel. Over 40 people showed up to talk about social media, to help friends with questions and meet IRL, in real life. Lavo provided the Tweetup attendees with drinks and excellent appetizers.
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Listen to internet radio with Warren Whitlock on BlogTalkRadio
Author, speaker and engagement enthusiast Warren Whitlock, asked me to be a guest of his BlockTalkRadio podcast about localization. Thanks to Warren for asking me to be on the show so that I could share insights about social media marketing and online local business opportunities.
In How Location Based Services Will Change Your Business, I shared nearly an hours worth of my top insights and tips about location based services like Foursquare, reviews about businesses online and how a business might engage new customers. As a super early adopter to location based services like Foursquare, I relayed observations about it, ways it could be utilized by businesses and options for customer service.
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Thanks to the Academy for approving my application to the 82nd Academy Awards pre-Oscar’s events. I will be using many forms of social media to cover the events live and after in Hollywood, California. Above are some of the videos created during the red carpet coverage.
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FourSquare, the social networking location based game has updated its service in Las Vegas, NV to include new checkin badges. Some of these badges are for the International Consumer Electronics Show here this week in Las Vegas, NV. One earns badges by using the service to check into venues they visit on a daily basis. Why is it exciting that FourSquare has done this? Well, up until now, the service has been limited to a certain amount of cities and badges to earn in these cities. With the advent of all of these newer badges to earn, the service might get another boost in two critical ways.
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Back in November of 2009, I was chatting with friends, followers and brands over my Twitter account @24k. Then I received a direct message. There is nothing new about that, but fortunately for me, it was from a recent acquaintance at BlogWorld 2009. The persons name is Jeff Pulver and he runs a series of events known at the 140 Characters Conference. Jeff decided to take a chance, as he likes to say over his Twitter account @JeffPulver, and asked me to prepare a few ideas for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, Social Media Jungle 2010 event at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Continue reading Speaking About Brand Engagement via Social Media at CES 2010