Big Brands Discuss Social Media Initiatives

Tonight is the September meeting of the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AIMA). I have been invited to attend and live-tweet the event, “Big Brands Discuss Social Media Initiatives,” being held at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center. The event is presented by AiMA and sponsored by BLiNQ Media and Google. DESCRIPTION: Social media has gone beyond [...]

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Free Classes : Hands On Small Business, Brought To You By Kirtsy And Microsoft Office Live

I’ve been up to a great deal which I will update you all on soon! One of the most exciting of these activities is an upcoming series of free classes I will be teaching in Atlanta called Hands On Small Business, sponsored by Kirtsy and Microsoft Office Live. Here is the schedule of Atlanta classes [...]

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TweetDeck Fail — Case-Specific Search

I searched for myself (@tessa) on TweetDeck in a column adjacent to my “Mentions” tab and noticed that the list of tweets generated by the search was inconsistent between columns. The search tab only showed tweets that mentioned @tessa (lowercase “t”) and not the tweets that mentioned @Tessa (uppercase “t”). Beware for those of you [...]

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Blog Formatting 101: Adjust Where Appropriate

This afternoon I clicked on a link from R.E.M.’s Twitter and it brought me to an article on The Huffington Post about some music exclusives, including R.E.M. (alas why I clicked on the link). Now there comes a time in every blogger’s life where you have to make a few decisions. Have I outgrown my [...]

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How To Identify A New Media Douchebag (And Save Yourself From Becoming One) – The Inaugural IgniteATL

Last night was the inaugural IgniteATL! About Ignite Started by Brady Forrest, Technology Evangelist for O’Reilly Media, and Bre Pettis of Etsy.com, formerly of MAKE Magazine, Ignite was inspired by Pecha Kucha Nights, where speakers are given 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds, giving each speaker 6 minutes and 40 seconds of fame. The [...]

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SXSW Panel Pitch: The State Of Music Blogs In 2010

One of the biggest conferences of every year (and my personal favorite) is SXSW, held every March in Austin, TX. The entire conference comprises of Music, Interactive and Film tracks over a two week period. Last year, I attended both Music and Interactive which was a great experience though quite exhausting! This year, I am [...]

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Gmail Fail Whale

Don’t question the speed of the internet. In response to Gmail going down about half an hour ago: (Found on Tumblr)

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Noteworthy Social Media Reads

Stumbled across this interesting blog post: The Hierarchy Of Tweets – Analyzing The Psychology Of Twitter Alex Bogusky, Chairman of advertising powerhouse CP+B (Crispin Porter + Bogusky), has officially entered the world of blogging. His first blog post is being hosted on a popular new blogging platform, Posterous, similar to competitor Tumblr. And while Crispin [...]

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