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Beyond the Facebook Status Update: SMBTV #5

by amy mengel on February 5, 2010

If you’re a brand trying to market to customers on Facebook, how do you cut through all the noise and reach your audience? What can you do to engage people through the medium, beyond just having them fan your page? Atlanta-based social media strategist Brad Ruffkess tackled these questions this morning at the fifth Social [...]

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Recap: Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley #4

by amy mengel on November 3, 2009

In just over four months, Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley has grown to be among the largest in the country. Last Friday about 150 people turned out to hear Aaron Newman of Techrigy talk about social media monitoring and measurement at SMBTV #3.
It was a much broader crowd this time, with a lot of fresh [...]

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Where I’ll be this month

by amy mengel on October 5, 2009

Wait, it’s October? How did that happen? I’ve got a lot going on this month and am looking forward to talking social media, meeting new people and seeing some familiar faces at these events:
Inbound Marketing Summit
I’m headed to Boston later this week (well, to Gillette Stadium anyway) for New Marketing Labs’ Inbound Marketing Summit. The [...]

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Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley #2 Recap

by amy mengel on August 28, 2009

Okay, so Albany may not be the first city that comes to mind when you think of innovation, digital marketing, a vibrant creative class or a social networking hotbed, but we have a budding community here that’s really becoming interested in all things social media. This morning was the region’s second Social Media Breakfast, and [...]

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Well, I had planned to do a “soft launch” of all the content for the inuagural Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley this week while Patrick Boegel and I scrambled to find a second sponsor. I set up the Facebook group, Twitter account, event registration page and a page on this site (see the SMB-TV link [...]

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