Business Development Institute (BDI), founded in 2001 in New York City by Steve Etzler and managed by Maria Feola, is a leading conference and webinar producer for communicators. Our programs educate while providing valuable networking opportunities to our attendees. Over 8,000 leaders have attended our programs on the latest trends, issues and opportunities that impact communicators. The quality of our speakers, program topics, format, nework, and value are what differentiates BDI from its competitors. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bdionline.
PR Newswire is a global membership organization that provides professional communicators with a broad range of services that connect companies' and organizations' messages with their target audiences worldwide. The global PRN network allows organizations to expertly connect with the media, investors, consumers and clients. Services offered include SEO distribution, targeting and measurement, as well as strategic media placement services, allowing communication and marketing professionals to connect with the right audience - wherever and whenever. PRN's credibility and deep relationships with the media and blogging communities facilitates a greater connection than any other provider, allowing your messages to go farther, faster. Founding the industry in 1954, PR Newswire has grown into a global organization with offices in 14 countries. Our members' news reaches 170 countries in 40 languages. PR Newswire services include Search Engine Optimization with all premium distributions, MultiVu Multimedia News Release for social media and strategic media placement services, ProfNet experts database, MEDIAtlas, MediaRoom, MediaSense, Public Interest Services, Vintage Filings for all your investor relations needs, and for Multicultural communications and marketing - Hispanic PR Wire, LatinClips, HDN: Hispanic Digital Network. "Connecting your organization with target audiences worldwide."
Definition 6 is an integrated interactive agency that creates immersive brand experiences that drive business results. Definition 6 collaborates with clients to help them create innovative and measurable customer experiences across all media channels, leading strategy and creativity with insight and imagination. From eCommerce and website design, to rich media and interactive marketing applications, Definition 6 helps clients such as VeriFone, Cox, The Coca-Cola Company, La Quinta Inn & Suites, National Vision and Wendy’s/Arby’s Group to bridge the gap between marketing and technology. For more information, visit: http://www.definition6.com.
Pandemic Labs is the original dedicated social media marketing agency in the US and is based in Boston, MA. Co-founded in 2007 by young visionaries Brennan White and Matt Peters, Pandemic Labs works with a diverse client base, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. They have worked with high profile brands such as Dunkin Donuts, Puma, Canon, Courtyard by Marriott, ViaCord and The Wild Foundation. Pandemic Labs focuses all of their attention on social networks, strategy, management, viral media, and blogs. Social profiles, websites, advertising, digital public relations, and online branding are measured and tracked with proven results via their own custom brand tracking software. Pandemic Labs is driven by the belief that, in our increasingly on-demand world, effective marketing strategies must fully incorporate emerging technologies. The Pandemic Team maintains expert level fluency with these technologies while constantly pushing the boundaries of the more experimental technologies to find untapped opportunities for their clients.
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide (WE) is a global, integrated communications agency. For more than 25 years, the independently owned firm has developed strategic communications programs for innovative and world-changing clients, working to influence markets, inspire people and improve lives. In 2009, WE was named one of Oregon Business’ 100 Best Companies to Work For. WE was also named European Technology Agency of the Year in 2008 and Best Large Agency to Work For by the Holmes Report in 2006. WE has earned numerous honors for its outstanding work on behalf of clients, for its exceptional people and for its innovation in communications. The agency has more than 800 employees in 16 offices around the world, and its 17 Global Alliance partners expand the agency’s reach to 30 additional international markets. WE has six global practices: Consumer Marketing, Corporate Communications, Healthcare, Public Affairs, Technology and WE Social Innovation, along with its digital strategies group, WE Studio DTM. More information can be found at http://www.WaggenerEdstrom.com.
Digital Brand Expressions (DBE) is internationally recognized as a top-tier, best-practices driver in the search and social media marketing arenas. The company is known for creating game-changing competitive advantage for its clientsthrough interwoven marketing solutions. DBE’s creative and analytic work ensures its clients are found on the Web faster than their competitors and better prepared to engage in social conversations with all of their key stakeholders in the social space. DBE’s clients are able to quantitatively improve sales, leads, and every other measurable action that demonstrates profitability and success. Organizations turn to DBE when they have a critical need to reach, connect with and generate an action from key audiences who are using search and social environments to find information, products and services.
KIT digital (NASDAQ: KITD) is a leading, global provider of on-demand Internet Protocol (IP)-based video asset management solutions. Through its end-to-end software platform, “KIT VX,” KIT digital enables enterprise clients to acquire, manage and distribute their video assets across the three screens of the computer Internet browser, mobile device and television via an IPTV set-top box. KIT digital clients’ use of the VX platform ranges from end-consumer focused video distribution to internal corporate deployments, including corporate communications, human resources, training, security and surveillance. The KIT digital client base includes over 470 enterprise customers across 30+ countries, including The Associated Press, Disney-ABC, Google, IMG Worldwide, Kmart, NASDAQ, News Corp, RCS, Sensis, Telefonica, and Verizon. KIT digital has principal offices in Prague, Melbourne (Australia), New York, Boston, Seattle, Toronto, London and Dubai. For additional information, please visit www.kitd.com.
PerkettPR, Inc. is an award-winning public relations, social marketing and interactive digital services firm for business and consumer companies worldwide. PerkettPR’s team combines decades of traditional marketing, branding and PR experience with today’s need for creative social media strategies - all under one roof - delivering stronger, more engaging and integrated communications across all aspects of our clients’ businesses: PR, marketing, branding, sales, product strategy and customer service. Since 1998, PerkettPR’s exclusively senior-level team has delivered strategic counsel and execution of creative and effective communications campaigns that clearly and consistently deliver return on investment. In addition to traditional PR and marketing, PerkettPR creates digital content and social marketing campaigns - including video and podcast scripting and production, online community building, website design, presence management, direct-to-user campaigns and more. With the foresight and flexibility to rapidly adapt and stay ahead of an ever-evolving market, we help clients achieve their business goals. Headquartered in Boston with executives in San Francisco, Detroit and Raleigh, NC, PerkettPR has been nationally recognized for exceptional client results, business leadership and innovative human resources initiatives.
BlogTalkRadio is a platform that gives anyone, anywhere the ability to broadcast live; hosting millions of conversations and aggregating like minded individuals into diverse communities. From Static Solution To Interactive Conversation BlogTalkRadio’s solutions allow for live interactive conversations that cannot take place in traditional podcasts: Two-way conversations, Live streaming capabilities, Multiple call-in and messaging options, Public platform or private distribution, Benefits of custom programming without the need for studios or special equipment, Breakthrough in Social Media and Conversational Marketing.
Our mixers are free of charge (usually a sponsor will pick up a few rounds of drinks or supply alcohol) but most panels would have a fee associated to keep out the riff-raff ($30 - $50) and to offset costs of open bar and/or food. So far, there have been eight Digital Somethings over the last five months. Responsible for producing the official Social Media Week opening party in New York City as well as events at SXSW, all Digital Somethings have sold out or reached capacity, bringing 100 - 300 influencers together. This month, Digital Somethings will be producing the 140 Conference Closing Party in New York, the Live Earth event on April 18th in Brooklyn, and a mixer on approximately 4/29. The last Digital Somethings in New York event included contacts from CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, MTV, Huffington Post, Apple, Microsoft, Google, McKinsey, Edelman, MTV, Hunter PR, CooperKatz, Cohn and Wolfe, Edelman, Weber Shandwick, VaynerMedia, Saatchi and Saatchi, UnderCurrent, LaunchSquad, Mr. Youth, Carrot Creative, Cake, PSFK and others. This isn't the crowd that attends PRSA, PR Week, BDI, or NIRI events. These Digital Somethings are influencers, decision-makers, future leaders of agencies and corporate clients, and the developers of social and traditional media strategy. These aren't people looking to understand what twitter or facebook is and how it should be used. These are not the novices who need to be convinced why social media and/or multimedia is important; They know digital is vital and obligatory. Digital Somethings are plugged in, engaged, and engage.
IABC NJ is the New Jersey chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). IABC provides opportunities for networking, learning and recognition as well as job search assistance and affinity programs for business communicators around the world. Founded in 1970, IABC provides a professional network of more than 13,000 business communication professionals in over 60 countries. For more information about our chapter, programs and networking events, visit our website at http://nj.iabc.com.
The New York chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (NY/IABC) serves about 400 corporate communication and public relations professionals who live and work in New York City and the surrounding areas. Some members hold dual memberships in NY/IABC as well as in the New Jersey, Long Island, or WestFair (Conn.) chapters.One of the largest chapters in IABC, the 16,000-member parent organization, NY/IABC was founded in 1972. Its membership has evolved and changed to reflect the New York City communication market. While most chapter members are employed in corporate communication, many members represent public relations and marketing communication agencies or are independent consultants.
LatinVision Media Inc. is a New York based Company that operates business portals targeting US Hispanic and Latin American professionals, entrepreneurs, executives and business owners in a small and medium-sized companies. See all our sites here: http://tinyurl.com/LatinVision and follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/latinvision.
With more than 5.5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused on social networks and web 2.0 news. Mashable's readers include the most tech-savvy early adopters, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, influencers, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology journalists.
The New York American Marketing Association is the principal community for marketing professionals across all industries and marketing disciplines in the New York area. Through programs, events, and interaction with the chapter we look to provide marketers with an opportunity to increase their knowledge and reach in the marketing community.
Founded in 1831, New York University (NYU) is now one of the largest private universities in the United States. The University, which is composed of 14 schools, colleges, and divisions, occupies five major centers in Manhattan and branch campuses and research programs in other parts of the US and study abroad programs in more than 25 countries. NYU is also one of the largest employers in NYC, with over 16,000 employees and has grown enrollment from a student body of 158 to 50,000-plus. Of the more than 3,000 colleges and universities in America, New York University is one of only 60 member institutions of the distinguished Association of American Universities.The School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) has for 70-plus years provided professional and continuing education programs to three generations of working adult students in the New York City region. The hallmark of these programs is to provide learning that is immediately relevant to student’s jobs and career growth. These programs span more than 125 fields, 14 industry-focused Master’s degrees, nine-Bachelor degrees, and six Associate degree programs specifically designed for working adults. Today, students come from every state in the union and from 133 foreign countries. The faculty, which initially consisted of fourteen professors and lecturers (among them artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse), now totals over 3,100 full-time members and 2,500-plus adjunct faculty. For more information please go to the NYU of SCPS websites www.nyu.edu or www.scps.nyu.edu.
Joe Ciarallo is Editor of PRNewser and Manager of PR Initiatives for mediabistro.com, where he oversees the popular PRNewser blog and programs PR related events, classes and Webcasts for the site. PRNewser has quickly become a "must read" in the industry, and has been quoted and mentioned in media outlets from Gawker to New York magazine, Reuters to Newsweek.
21st century organizations are operating in the lowest trust environment in a century and business performance is suffering as a result. The Reputation Garage was founded in 2002 as a “garage band” to innovate ways for improving this important dimension of organizational performance. The collaborative has brought together a rich mix of experts, including leading CMOs; advertising, branding, social media and public relations executives; PhDs in analytics; and professionals in media, performance management, sales, human resources and training. Today the Reputation Garage operates as a POV consultancy. We provide clients with an integrated set of services that enable them to identify, manage, measure and improve trust and reputation levels among their customers, employees and other stakeholders.
Bill Sobel, the Chief Connections Officer of SobelMedia has been described as a media powerhouse and a master connector. Sobel uses his massive network as a tool to both build his popular events, which draw 150-200 per month and to connect others in the media and technology space. Most people and companies that Bill consults with have a great product or service but rarely have the access he has to execute meetings with the correct players. In this way, Bill Sobel is a business matchmaker. Some of the connections that Sobel Media has driven include major broadcast and cable networks, Hollywood Studios, Multi-National media companies and film and video producers.
Social2B is an advisory association of top industry marketing, media, and information technology professionals, dedicated to helping clients (B2C and B2B brands) leverage the explosive growth of Social Media Marketing (SMM). The objective for this group is to demystify the unknown, and not easily understood aspects of Social Media Marketing, and to advise clients on the latest strategies and marketing tactics in content development or re-purposing, content monetization, reputation management, application of tools and metrics, and ‘Social Media’ analytics. Social2B's Four Phase "Get Social" Approach has helped clients leverage social media space, while identifying metrics, measuring outcomes, and building communities of clients and partners.
Social Media and The Big W is the place where news, talent, testing, resources, and love for the social media, and web community in general intersect to provide meaningful information for the global social media market. We utilize guest authors and agency talent to produce insightful content that connects the latest social media news and changes to the real-life applications of these changes and developments. We also cover additional topics related to web development such as: applications for web development, SEO, and more.
SMAC – the Social Media Advertising Consortium fosters collaboration throughout the entire social media ecosystem, diving deep into critical issues and staying ahead of this constantly evolving industry. By bringing together buy side, sell side, and research professionals to develop relevant standards, comprehensive research and definitive measurement tools, our goal is to grow revenues and increase engagement. SMAC members are groundbreakers. Entrepreneurs. Thought leaders. Together, we form a community that feeds off each other’s creativity, creating an environment for learning and discovery.
Social Media Club is the world’s largest organization of Social Media Professionals, with
local chapters in 230 cities around the world. Our purpose is to promote media literacy, share lessons learned, promote ethical behavior and advance industry standards. We organize
SMCEDU in order to improve Social Media education in universities by connecting students with professional opportunities through our local chapters. Social Media Club’s first annual conference,
Social Media University, takes place in Orlando from November 10-13th, 2010
where we’ll bring the best of different learning and collaboration styles together to enrich your ability to apply deep insights from real industry masters.
theONswitch(R) (www.theonswitch.com) is a boutique marketing company that combines social media with "traditional" marketing to deliver growth for small and mid-sized businesses, including real estate, health and wellness, education and kids, service companies, and others. Prior to launching theONswitch, CEO Nancy A. Shenker, worked for major brands including Citibank, MasterCard International, and Reed Exhibitions. theONswitch has worked with national companies, start-ups, and small- and mid-sized businesses. They recently launched www.mysocialmediainabox.com, a fully integrated offer. They also publish a monthly e-newsletter, the 10volts marketing tip series (www.10volts.com) and two blogs.
