Employees Are Social Media Marketers

From Social Media Charlotte, this presentation by Gia Lyons is a great look at social media integration company wide. From internal guidelines to working well with others to what software can help organize it all. Gia explores a few gaffes along the way, some success stories, and takes some questions and stories from the audience.
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9 New Speakers for Tampa

As Social Fresh Tampa gets closer, we are happy to announce our next round of speakers and release the event schedule.

It is an exciting lineup. Some highlights from the new additions:

Cassandra Jeyaram of the Intercontinental Hotel Group, the largest hotel company in the world. IHG has been quietly investing in strong private social networks [...]

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Nashville Technology with Dave Delaney of Griffin

Dave Delaney of Griffin Technology talked with us about the Nashville Technology and Social Media communities, his role at Griffin Technology as Social Media Coordinator, and gave us some details about a Griffin organized VW Bus cross country road trip to the Consumer Electronics Show. Find out more at CESbound.com.
Griffin is a sponsor of Social [...]

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The State of Social Media in Country Music

Ben Bennett of the Country Music Association and speaker at Social Fresh Nashville discusses the state of social media use within Country Music as a whole. Some standouts include Taylor Swift, the Zac Brown Band, and Rascal Flatts.

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Social Media is Not Necessary, by @SoFresh Nashville Speaker DJ Waldow

DJ Waldow will be joining us in Nashville to talk about community building. He recently had a unique experience with a collision repair shop that uses no traditional marketing, much less any social media. Below is the video he got at the shop of the owner. Read the full post here. A great little case [...]

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Social Media Ego Threat, by @SoFresh Nashville Speaker Amber Naslund

Great post here by Amber Naslund, of Radian6, about why so many people feel threatens by where social media is taking us.
“To many professionals in arenas like communications, customer service, even sales or management, social media represents a threat to their domain. Being obsolete is a scary thing. Decades of career knowledge feel feeble when [...]

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14 Essential Social Media Event Planning Tools

Free tools make planning events easier than ever. From the first stages of planning through post event followup, there are tools for every detail. The following list offers a taste of some of the best resources out there. You can think of it as a toolkit for planning events of all shapes and sizes. Let [...]

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Ruby Tuesday Interview by Jason Falls

Two Social Fresh Nashville speakers, one video. Excellent interview by Jason Falls of Gavin Baker, Director of Social Media at Ruby Tuesday. Gavin is helping build a “fresher” Ruby Tuesday by building their Social Media presence while the brand transitions through some company wide changes. Amongst the challenges Gaven and Ruby Tuesday face in developing [...]

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What is PitchEngine?

At our Social Fresh Nashville event we will be giving away a free PitchEngine.com Newsroom. What does that mean? Well it is one of the top tools they offer to do social media releases (as opposed to traditional press releases). They are a very cool company and can help take your press release to the [...]

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Southwest Social Media from SoFresh Nashville Speaker Paula Berg

Southwest Airlines has been an early adopter of Social Media with a great corporate blog, Nuts About Southwest, and investment in the voice of the customer. They have actually listened to customers through their blog, Twitter, Facebook and other communities online and improved their service because of it.
We are very psyched to have Paula [...]

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