VerticalResponse Presenting 2 Workshops at Conference

July 26, 2010

Share San Francisco-based VerticalResponse will be presenting 2 workshops at SocialBizWorld in October, a Beginner and an Advanced session on “The A, B, C’s of Email Marketing and Social Media”. Stay tuned for more details in the next day or so…

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The Twitchhiker to receive 1st SocialBizWorld Award

July 26, 2010

Share Bored in the bread aisle of the supermarket one day, Paul Smith wondered how far he could get around the world in 30 days through the goodwill of users of social networking site Twitter. At the mercy of these rules, he set his sights on New Zealand – the opposite point on the planet [...]

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Parducci Wine Cellars and Paul Dolan Wines to be at SocialBizWorld

July 22, 2010

Share We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Parducci Wine Cellars will be the exclusive winery that will be pouring at the Evening Networking and Awards Reception at SocialBizWorld 2010 – Fall! Award-winning Parducci and Paul Dolan wines will be poured for attendees who are at the Awards Reception in the evening (not tastings!!), included in the cost of the [...]

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Patrick Schwerdtfeger to keynote at SocialBizWorld

July 22, 2010

Share We’re very proud to announce that Patrick Schwerdtfeger,  International Speaker and Author of “Webify Your Business – Internet Marketing Secrets for the Self-Employed” (2009) as well as “Make Yourself Useful – Marketing in the 21st Century” (2008), will be a Keynote Speaker at SocialBizWorld 2010 – Fall. Patrick has a gift for explaining complicated subjects in simple [...]

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Patrick Schwerdtfeger visits the Taj Mahal

July 22, 2010

Share Patrick Schwerdtfeger, Author of the famous “Webify Your Business” book, and a prolific author and international speaker, will be a keynote speaker at SocialBiz this October. He’s in India right now, speaking to a group of Travel Agents in Delhi and Jaipur about Marketing using Social Media. I spoke to him via email just a [...]

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On Mashable’s Conference List…

July 1, 2010

Share Hey folks – SocialBiz is on Mashable’s Guide to Upcoming Conferences, check it out… http://mashable.com/2010/06/29/25-social-media-tech-events-2/ Cool to be listed on the most popular Social Media conference guide out there…thanks for the sponsorship, Mashable!

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On Strength…

June 25, 2010

Share These days, it seems a lot of people are having difficulty with something or another. It might be around career  or money (can anyone say Dow Jones rollercoaster?), or family issues (anyone have kids, parents, pets???), or health (I just heard of a 46-year old man who’s been diagnosed with possible cirrhosis of the [...]

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Anyone notice anything different? Random thoughts…

June 22, 2010

Share Today, I found out about my 25th University Alumni Reunion (University of Arizona, in case you wanted to know) through Facebook. Am I the only one who doesn’t use Google so much anymore? If I want to find someone, now I look first on Facebook, LinkedIn and possibly Twitter. If I’m just looking for information, [...]

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“Petaluma Pete” (aka John Maher) and SocialBiz 2010

May 14, 2010

Share For those of you who attended the April 30th Conference, you may recall seeing a dapper man with his arm in a sling toting a video camera around. That was none other than our town’s special character “Petaluma Pete” (aka John Maher) who has a great weekly kid’s video program here in Petaluma. Check [...]

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Experts, Gurus, Evangelists oh my…The Top 5 Questions to Ask your “Social Media Guru”

April 26, 2010

Share While Social Media may be “new” to most people, the concept of conversing online has been around for a long time. But a new phenomenon is emerging of people claiming to be social media “gurus” and “evangelists” – but how do you decide if the person you’re talking to about creating your social media [...]

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