How to Implement Blogs & Social Media Strategies for Big Business
Hear experiences and best practices from those leading blogging and new media communications at Fortune 500 companies.
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As part of Walmart's new Emerging Media Team, John Andrews is responsible for building deeper engagement with consumers. This includes leveraging technology to make shopping easier, faster, friendlier and a better overall experience. He brings to this position over 12 years of various CPG brand management roles and consumer marketing experience. Mr. Andrews lives in Fayetteville, AR with wife Mary Shannon and daughter Mary Catherine.
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Michael Brito is a Social Media Strategist for Intel Corporation focusing on the consumer segment. He blogs, communicates and builds relationships with other people. He uses Twitter actively. He believes that marketing is good; and if you love your customers they'll love you back and tell other people about it. He believes that business results are critical but should not be the driving force behind connecting with people. He believes in being real, authentic and human. He believes that consumers are real people with real passions; and that marketers should start treating them that way. He is a recovering direct marketer and has worked for companies such as Sony Electronics, Hewlett Packard and Yahoo! He is on the Interim Board of Directors for the Social Media Club; a member of the Blog Council and sometimes even blogs there. He is also the founder of Conversations Matter (yet another blog about social media).
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Michael works as the VP of Community for GasPedal, where he works as the community organizer for the Blog Council. This is a community specifically dedicated to the needs of blogging in a corporate environment.
Michael’s expertise lies in helping companies use social media to tap into the positive power of social media. His mantra: “It’s about the people, not the technology.”
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Hilary Weber is Kaiser Permanente’s Director of Internet Marketing Services (the national Center of Excellence for online marketing for the organization); Kaiser Permanente is the leading integrated health care organization in America, with nearly nine million members across the country. She directs web/digital marketing & promotional strategy for Kaiser Permanente, with particular emphasis on search marketing, email and e-marketing technologies such as social networking (e.g. Kaiser Permanente’s first external blog, kp.org/farmersmarketrecipes).
Prior to her foray into not-for-profit health care, Ms. Weber spent nearly a decade executing high ROI direct marketing, integrated online/offline, e-marketing and brand strategies to both B2C and B2B audiences in the information and publishing arena, working for corporations such as Thomson and IDG. Her last position before Kaiser Permanente was Director of Marketing for Macworld, promoting both the print magazine and multiple Web sites. She is a founding member of the Blog Council, a trustee for the Marketing Science Institute and a member of the Marketers Only Advisory Board for iMedia. She has presented at national conferences such as Search Engine Strategies and Marketing Sherpa. Also, being a former farm girl raised in rural Ohio, she has a long-standing passion for green living and sustainability.
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