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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011Few phenomena have ever spread as far and grown as rapidly as social media; obviously, this has tapped into something essential to our nature. What is it? The answer may come from the email marketing field. According to a recent study by email service provider Aweber, four simple words virtually guaranteed to get an email opened are: “You are not alone.”
That is what has driven social media adoption. From freedom seekers living under oppressive regimes connecting with each other and with people around the world who support them, to individuals with uncommon viewpoints or highly specialized professional interests connected with the like-minded anywhere on the globe, social media is about not being alone. It’s a way to find and form relationships with others who share our particular interests and passions, whether down the street or on other continents; interesting people with whom there has been no practical way to engage before.
Talking recently with Cheryl Burgess (@ckburgess)—partner and CMO at Blue Focus Marketing, a B2B social branding consultancy firm in Bridgewater, New Jersey; 2011 & 2010 winner of the Twitter Shorty Awards in Marketing; and author of the Blue Focus Marketing Blog—we were both struck by how many of the same people we know through social media (and we both learned about some interesting new people to follow as well). Many of these were other B2B marketers, but others were social media experts, journalists, PR professionals, or just plain fascinating personalities.
Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. We decided to recognize and share the names of some of these noteworthy individuals with our respective readers and followers, starting today with 50 remarkable women (just in time for Mother’s Day, as we’re pretty certain that every woman on this list either is a mom, has a mom, knows someone who’s a mom, or some combination thereof).
One source of inspiration was Twitter’s Top 75 Badass Women by Diana Adams (@adamsconsulting) and Amy D. Howell (@HowellMarketing), a list on which Cheryl was honored. Though it’s a remarkable list, to keep ours distinct we haven’t duplicated any of Diana and Amy’s picks.
Next month, we are following up with our list of 50 men, just in time for Father’s Day. This list will be posted on Cheryl Burgess’ Blue Focus Marketing Blog. Whatever your role in social media, we hope you find this list valuable in expanding your knowledge and your network.
Jennifer Aaker
@aaker
Jennifer is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School or Business, and author of The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change
Diana Adams
@adamsconsulting
Diana is a USC grad now based in Atlanta. She heads up Adams Consulting Group, a technical services firm specializing in Apple Macintosh desktops, servers and laptops. Diana writes for BitRebels.com and InkRebels.com, and as noted above, her post on Twitter’s Top 75 Badass Women was one source of inspiration for this #Nifty50 list. She’s smart, personable, sometimes controversial and never dull.
Alicia Arenas
@AliciaSanera
Hailing from San Antonio, Alicia is founder and CEO of Sanera, a professional development and training firm for sales and business leaders. She describes herself as a “small business coach, speaker, corporate trainer, blogger, singer, lover of life, dreams, family and God.” Alicia is a warm and outgoing social media pro and creator of March Marketing Madness.
Allison Mooney
@allimooney
Allison lives in the New York City area and works with the Marketing team at Google to explore the changing face of media, mobile and consumer behavior, drive new thinking internally, and communicate Google’s visionary concepts to wider audiences.
Ambal Balakrishnan
@Ambal
Ambal is co-founder of ClickDocuments, based in Silicon Valley. She’s an entrepreneur, marketer, blogger, and alum of Wharton and Purdue. Her Connect the Docs blog—frequently featured on the B2B Marketing Zone—is a platform for her own thought leadership content as well as frequently solicited insights from other B2B bloggers.
Amber Buhl
@amberbuhl
Director of Sales for @klout. Though fairly new to Twitter, Amber is active and highly engaging, and her following is likely to grow quickly. A USC grad, Amber’s past includes stints at Hulu, Yahoo!, and the E! Entertainment Network.
Amy Nelson
@AmyPioneerPress
Amy serves as social media editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press as well as the Features/Travel editor for the newspaper. She’s an informative and prolific Twitterer, and active in Twin Cities social media.
Ardath Albee
@ardath421
A B2B marketer, strategist, writer and Author of eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale. Friend, mentor, and source of inspiration. Also an expatriate Minnesotan now living in southern California (we miss her, but can’t blame her).
Angie Schottmuller
@aschottmuller
Interactive Minnesotan skilled in web strategy, conversion rate optimization (CRO), e-commerce, SEO, social media, QR codes (she knows a lot about QR codes), design, UX, analytics and inbound marketing. Angie is also a Search Engine Watch columnist and speaks at national events including SMX, SES, and OMS.
Becky Denniston
@Becalynd
Expert Community Manager with the Focus Expert Network, a network of thousands of leading business and technology experts who answer questions and post thought leadership content. Becky is also an MBA Candidate at San Francisco State University with a strong appetite for Social Media and Marketing.
Jenara Nerenberg
@bopsource
Jenara is an Asia-based filmmaker, organic farmer, and freelance journalist for Fast Company magazine and CNNGo, as well as a Harvard and Berkeley grad. She’s interviewed the famous and not-so-famous from high fashion superstars to up-and-coming designers to UN leaders, literary giants, cashmere producers, and royal mistresses, and her work has also appeared in TIME, BlackBook Magazine, and NextBillion.
Maria Popova
@brainpicker
Brooklyn-based Maria calls herself an “interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with design, storytelling and TED.” She’s also the editor of Brain Pickings and writes regularly for Wired UK magazine, The Atlantic and Design Observer.
Connie Bensen
@cbensen
Connie is the Community Strategist for the Alterian (formerly Techrigy) SM2 social media monitoring platform. She’s been named by Forbes.com as one of 20 top Women Social Media & Marketing Bloggers. Connie recently migrated from the frozen tundra of northern Minnesota to much balmier climate of Minneapolis.
Deirdre Breakenridge
@dbreakenridge
Diedre is the president of Mango! Marketing, author of PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences
Deborah Weinstein
@DebWeinstein
Deb is a journalist-turned-PR pro. She’s president of Strategic Objectives, an award-winning PR agency in Toronto. And she’s energetic and inspirational on Twitter.
Eileen O’Brien
@EileenOBrien
Eileen has more than 14 years of digital healthcare marketing experience. She is an opinion leader on social media, and has been invited to speak at industry conferences and quoted in publications. As @eileenobrien she moderates the #SocPharm tweetchat on Wednesdays at 8 pm EST which discusses pharma marketing and social media.
Ekaterina Walter
@Ekaterina
Oregon-based Ekaterina is a corporate social media strategist as well as a “speaker, connector (and) passionate marketer.” She’s also a frequent guest-poster who’s written bookmarkable pieces like 9 Ways to Sell Social Media to the Boss.
Ellen Hoenig Carlson
@Ellenhoenig
Based in New Jersey, Ellen is focused on simplifying consumer and healthcare marketing for “elegant solutions in a complex world.” Though she writes mainly on pharma-related subjects, her blog topics also include branding, family, fundraising, innovation, leadership, and Twitter.
Ellen McGirt
@ellmcgirt
Ellen writes for Fast Company magazine and helps run the 30 Second MBA site.
Elise Segar
@Esegar
Connecticut-based Elise is active in social media, an enterprise technology sales and business development pro who is passionate about inside sales and sales strategy. She’s a fellow member of the #Lebronians team “drafted” by Robert Rose in FollowFriday & Who’s The Lebron In Your Strategy – Maybe It’s You.
Gail Nelson
@gail_nelson
CMO with Siegel + Gale, a brand strategy, customer experience and design consulting agency in New York.
Gini Dietrich
@ginidietrich
CEO of Chicago PR agency Arment Dietrich, author of spinsucks.com, Vistage member, author, speaker, communicator and writer of amazingly entertaining and insightful rants like Get Rich Quick! Lose Weight Tomorrow!.
Gretchen Rubin
@gretchenrubin
Based in New York City, Gretchen is the best-selling author of The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Heidi Cohen
@heidicohen
Heidi is a fascinating marketer who shares practical advice about marketing and life from New York, NY.
Jill Konrath
@jillkonrath
Minnesota-based keynote speaker, sales trainer, motivator, creator of fresh strategies for selling to crazy-busy people; author of SNAP Selling (#1 Amazon sales book) and Selling to Big Companies
Judy Grundstrom
@JudyGrundstrom
Minnesota social media rock star, Business Development Director at Pixel Farm Digital, founder of the annual Twin Cities Top 10 Titans in Social Media awards, talk show regular on myTalk 107.1, and never boring.
Karen Emanuelson
@KarenEman
Karen heads Reciprocate LLC, a small business marketing consultancy in Minneapolis. She’s an expert in social media marketing (particularly LinkedIn optimization), a small business advocate, trainer, speaker and coach. She’s active in local community and business organizations as well as social media.
Katie Rosman
@katierosman
Katie reports on technology and pop-culture for one of the world’s greatest newspapers—the Wall Street Journal—and is the author of If You Knew Suzy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Reporter’s Notebook
Eve Mayer Orsburn
@LinkedInQueen
Eve is the author of Social Media for the CEO: The Why and ROI of Social Media for the CEO of Today and Tomorrow
Lisa Petrilli
@LisaPetrilli
Based in Chicago, Lisa is CEO of C-Level Strategies Inc, CEO Connection Co-Chair, Leadership & Executive Marketing Consultant, and #LeadershipChat co-Founder. Like Elise Segar and Cheryl Burgess, Lisa is a star of the #Lebronians team.
Liz Strauss
@LizStrauss
Liz is the founder of SOBCon, a brand strategist and leadership trainer based in Chicago. She’s also an insightful, prolific and generous social media presence.
Lorna Li
@lornali
Officially, an expert in inbound marketing, online visibility and personal branding, via social media, SEO and SEM. Also big on green business marketing. Unofficially – friendly, smart, and writer of many highly bookmarkable blog posts.
Lucretia M. Pruitt
@LucretiaPruitt
Living in and tweeting from beautiful Denver, Lucretia refers to herself as a “random muse, speaker, ex-CIS Professor, social media devotee, geek, mom, wife, & insomniac.” Lucretia is a highly engaging and sophisticated observer of technology developments.
Lisa Grimm
@lulugrimm
Digital PR Specialist for the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, Lisa describes herself as “a gal constantly awed by the intricacies of human behavior. Love my family, peeps, dogs, film, food and learning.”
Mari Smith
@MariSmith
Mari (like Ferrari) describes herself as a “passionate leader of social media, relationship marketing and Facebook mastery,” but most of us know her as the ultimate guru-ess of Facebook marketing and co-author of Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day
Missy Berggren
@MarketingMama
A phenomenally busy yet amazingly prolific blogger, Missy is a marketing pro at healthcare network Allina, co-founder of the Minnesota Blogger Conference, and is also active social media as the MarketingMama.
Martine Hunter
@martinehunter
Idea generator, b2b marketing professional, creative director, process engineer and writer at MLT Creative in Atlanta, as well as a mother, friend, sister, daughter, diabetic, crocheter and jazz fan. She’s also really nice.
Sally Church
@MaverickNY
Sally is a scientist with Icarus Consultants in New Jersey, a pharmaceutical / biotechnology-focused marketing strategy firm. She blogs about marketing strategy, market research, science, oncology, hematology and immunology.
Michelle Tripp
@michelletripp
Working and tweeting from New York, Michelle is a creative director, brand strategist, and author of The BrandForward Blog. She spends her time exploring the future of advertising, social media, and emerging technologies and just being pretty cool.
Jennifer Preston
@NYT_JenPreston
A staff writer for the New York Times, Jennifer writes about the use of technology and social media in politics, government, and real life.
Susan Kang Nam
@PinkOliveFamily
Splitting her time between New York, Andover (MA) and elsewhere, the dynamic Susan Kang Nam is founder of Cebisu Research Inc., a member of Andover’s Harvard Club, founder of Boston-based career club Salty Legs, “an entrepreneur, former recruiter and non-profit advocate who grew up in Asia (Korea, Japan) and US (Hawaii, California, New Jersey, NYC) and since 1994…using the world wide web exploring different platforms to engage in various of conversations”—and a classical pianist.
Laura Fitton
@Pistachio
Prolific Twitterer, Bostonite, CEO and founder of the oneforty social business software hub, as well as co-author of Twitter For Dummies
Rebel Brown
@rebelbrown
Rebel has been a marketing and business consulting for more than 20 years, is a popular speaker and author of Defy Gravity. She’s also a self-described “spiritual seeker, horse crazy, ski freak, and animal lovin’ nature gal.”
Rebecca Corliss
@repcor
Based in Boston, Rebecca is a singing Inbound Marketer with all-in-one marketing software platform developer HubSpot. She’s also a founder of a cappella group Common Sound. And yes, she is a rock star.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
@RosabethKanter
Harvard Business School Professor, author of SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good
Stacey Acevero
@sacevero
A social media communications manager for PR/social media monitoring provider Vocus in Washington DC, Stacey runs the popular monthly #prwebchat on Twitter. She is a former model, auxiliary member in the U.S. Air Force, and a self-proclaimed “SEO nerd” who loves NASCAR, steak and rock n’ roll. Definitely one of the most awesome and unique bios in social media.
Anita Campbell
@smallbiztrends
CEO of Small Business Trends, an online small biz community reaching over 250,000 each month. Anita tweets from Cleveland, Ohio, the hometown of rock n’ roll.
Liana ‘Li’ Evans
@storyspinner
Liana describes herself as “an online marketing geek girl who loves all things social media.” She’s a top expert in social media and SEO, and the author of Social Media Marketing.
Wendy Blackburn
@WendyBlackburn
Wendy is a blogger and digital marketer focused on the pharmaceutical industry. She’s an executive vice president at at Intouch Solutions, a marketing agency serving the pharmaceutical, animal health, medical device, and similarly regulated industries.
Wendy Marx
@wendymarx
Based in Trumbull, CT, Wendy is an award-winning PR and marketing communications executive who helps B2B companies become well-known brands, and a truly engaging social media personality.
There you have it, the Nifty 50 Women of Twitter for this year. To keep it to 50, we had to leave off some deserving names—it was a tough call. Maybe next year…
Watch next month (close to Father’s Day) for the Nifty 50 Men of Twitter for 2011.
List of Brand-Side Corporate Social Strategists: Twitter Edition
Monday, February 28th, 2011Jeremiah Owyang recently published a fantastic List of Corporate Social Strategists for 2011 (Buyer/Brand Side), an impressive compilation of individuals either holding the title or performing the role of corporate social strategist, defined by Jeremiah as “the business decision maker for social media programs – who provides leadership, roadmap definition, and governance; and directly influences the spending on technology vendors and service agencies.”
It’s an outstanding list, categorized by industry including Automotive, Chemicals, Electronics, Telecommunications, and a dozen other sectors, but all of the names were linked to the individuals’ LinkedIn profiles—no Twitter links! You can follow Marshall Kirkpatrick’s entire Social Strategists list, based on Jeremiah’s list, here, but what if you want to get a bit more granular and be a bit more selective in your following?
Here you go. This list is a tad shorter than Jeremiah’s original as some of these strategists appeared not to have Twitter accounts (an odd omission for a “Corporate Social Strategist,” or possibly just inadequate searching on my part) and includes only the Twitter accounts I could fairly confidently match up with these names, that tweeted in English, and that did not use “protected tweets.” (If your title includes “social media,” why on earth would you have a Twitter account but protect your tweets? Serious disconnect there.)
Followers range from less than 10 (no, that’s not a typo) to more than 10,000. It is somewhat surprising how many have only a few hundred followers, despite being social media managers, practitioners and strategists at large corporations. Not that number of followers means everything, of course, and those few hundred followers may be really highly engaged. It’s also possible there may be errors in my list; please let me know in the comments or through my Twitter if you find any, and I will correct them. Anyway, on to the list!
List of Corporate Social Strategists for 2011
Airline
• Morgan Johnston – Manager Corporate Communication at JetBlue Airways
• Bowen Payson – Manager of Online and Digital Marketing at Virgin America
Automotive
• Kim Snedaker – Social Media Manager at AAA Mid-Atlantic
• Christopher Barger – Director, Global Social Media at General Motors
• Scott Monty – Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager at Ford Motor Company
Business Services
• Matt Anchin – Senior Vice President, Digital Communications at The Nielsen Company
• Collin Douma – Vice President Social Media at Proximity Worldwide (CAN)
• Debbie Curtis-Magley – Public Relations Manager at UPS
• Aneta Hall – Social Media Marketer at Pitney Bowes
• Jaimee Clements – Senior Online Product Manager, eBusiness at AAA NCNU
• Kenny Lauer – Vice President, Digital Experience at George P Johnson
• Rick Mans – Social Media Strategist, Capgemini
• Jodi Gersh – Manager, Social Media, Gannett
• Stephanie Gaspary – Director, Social Strategy and Creative Services, CareerBuilder.com
• Niall Cook – Worldwide Director of Marketing Technology at Hill & Knowlton
• Yianni Garcia – Digital Marketing & Community Manager, The McGraw-Hill Companies
Chemicals
• Kristina Bobrowski – Social Media Manager, Dow Corning
• Alison Buckley – Social Media Manager, Dow Corning
Consumer Product Goods
• Matt Ceniceros – Director, Global Media Relations at Applied Materials
• Philippe Borremans – Chief Social Media Officer at Van Marcke Group
• Jordan Williams – Manager of Digital Engagement at REI
• Bonin Bough – Global Director of Digital and Social Media at PepsiCo
• Michael Donnelly – Group Director, Worldwide Interactive Marketing at The Coca-Cola Company
• Jennifer Cisney – Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Eastman Kodak
• Jim Deitzel Sr. eMarketing Manager at Newell Rubbermaid
• Bert DuMars – Vice President E-Business & Interactive Marketing at Newell Rubbermaid
• Marisa Thalberg – VP, Global Digital Marketing at The Estee Lauder
• Gareth Hornberger, Digital Marketing Manager at Levi Strauss & Co.
• Brian Snyder – Senior Manager, Interactive Communications and Knowledge Management at Whirlpool Corporation
• Andrew D. Nystrom – Digital Marketing Manager – Social Media, Red Bull
• Debbie Weinstein – Senior Director, Global Media, Unilever
Educational Services
• Mike Rivera -New Media Strategist, University of Denver
Electronics, Devices, Mobile
• Jussi-Pekka Erkkola – Digital Marketing Manager at Nokia
• Marcy Cohen – Sr. Manager at Sony Electronics
• Ray Haddow – Senior Manager at Nokia
• Ian Kennedy – Head of Service Innovation at Nokia
• Esteban Contreras – Social Media Manager at Samsung
• Dan Anderson – Emerging Media Manager at T-Mobile
• Christopher Baccus – Executive Director of Digital and Social Media at AT&T
• Michelle Kostya – Social Media Support Program Manager, Research in Motion
• Baldev Solanki – Manager, Self Service, Research in Motion
• Angela Losasso – Director, Social Media, Research in Motion
• Felix Leander – Senior Social Media Marketing Manager, Research In Motion
• John Pope – Senior Communications Manager, Nokia
Energy
• Maria Amezaga, Global Social Media Advisor, Shell
• Lanie James – Social Media Specialist, Chesapeake Energy
Financial Services
• Ken Hittel – Vice President, Corporate Internet Dept. at New York Life Insurance Co.
• Allan Schoenberg – Director, Corporate Communications at CME Group
• Ed Terpening – VP Social Network Marketing at Wells Fargo
• Betsy Flanagan, Social Media Strategist, Wells Fargo Bank
• Christine Morrison Roszak – Social Media Marketing Manager at Intuit
• Annalie Killian – Director Innovation, Communication, & Collaboration at AMP Ltd
• Shawn Morton – Director of Mobile, Social and Emerging Media at Nationwide Insurance
• Zena Weist – Director of Social Media at H&R Block
• Stacy Gratz – Social Media Marketing Manager at American Express
• Steve Furman – Director, Design, Customer Experience and Social Media at Discover Financial Services
• David Meiselman, Director of Digital/Web Strategy, The Hanover Insurance Group
• Jennefer Meyer – VP Social Media Strategies at BBVA Compass
• Suzanne Stull – Social Media & Brand Manager, E-Business at Discover Financial Services
• Michael Rubin – Social Media Strategist at Fifth Third Bank
• Kimberly Mahan – Director of Emerging Technologies, Genworth Financial
• Ryon Harms – Director of Social Media, Farmers Insurance
• Jim Rosenberg- Head of Social Media, The World Bank
• April Hammons – Social Media Manager at Bank of Oklahoma
• Jason Diperstein – Online Channel Coordinator at Aetna
Health and Life Sciences
• Jessica Soulliere – Social Media Communications Coordinator at University of Michigan Health System
• Ryan Squire – Social Media Program Director at The Ohio State University Medical Center
• Bob Stanke – Community Manager, Interactive Community Manager | Social Marketing Strategist at Life Time Fitness
• Shwen Gwee, Lead New Media Communications, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
• Charlie Schick, Sr Media Producer, Children’s Hospital Boston
• Lee Aase – Syndication and Social Media Manager at Mayo Clinic
• Holly Potter – VP Public Relations at Kaiser Permanente
• Vince Golla – Director, Digital Media and Syndication at Kaiser Permanente
• Erin Macartney – Public Affairs Specialist/Social Media at Palo Alto Medical Foundation
• Nick Dawson – Director of Communications & Community Engagement at Bon Secours Health System
• Jamey Shiels – Director Social Media and Digital Communications at Aurora Health Care
Hospitality, Food Service
• Vanessa Sain-Dieguez – Social Media Strategists at Hilton
• Virginia Suliman -Vice President – Websites at Hilton
• Kara Imai – Senior Director, Online Marketing at Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau
• Shannon McDowell – Director, Website Management & Communication at Hilton Worldwide
• Diana Plazas – Director, Doubletree Online Marketing at Hilton Hotels Corporation
• Scott Gulbransen, Director of Social Media & Digital Marketing at Applebee’s
• Nick Ayres – Social Marketing Manager at IHG
• Rick Wion – Director of Social Media, McDonald’s Corporation
• Eric Schechter – Social Media Manager, Carnival Cruise Lines
• Joe Curry, Social Media Manager, Global Web Communications at McDonald’s Corporation
Government, Armed Services, Education
• Christina Whitlock – Social Media Management, Supervisor at Marine Corps Recruiting
• Kevin Jones – Social Media Manager at NASA / SAIC
• Scott McIlnay – Director, Emerging Media Integration, Dept. of the Navy, Office of Information at U.S. Navy
• Paul Bove – Social Media Strategist/Web Developer at Air Force Public Affairs Agency
• Mike Boehmer – Senior Public Relations Specialist at Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services
• Sonny Gill – Online Marketing and Social Media Strategist at DeVry University
Media and Entertainment
• Brett Rudy – Director, Strategic Consulting at Epsilon
• Charles Miller Director – Digital Care/Social Media Strategy at DIRECTV, Inc.
• Michael Hall – Director of NESN.com at New England Sports Network
• Amy Worley – Vice President of Marketing at Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Robert Michael Murray – Vice President, Social Media at National Geographic Society
• Kelly Owen – Social Media Manager and Strategist at SPEED Channel, Inc., Fox Entertainment Group
• Tom Fishman – Manager, Social Media & Community at MTV Networks
• Kate Farber Gold – Social Media Director at Scripps Networks
• Ryan Osborn – Director of Social Media at NBC News
• Matthew Milner – VP, Social Media, Hearst Magazines Digital Media
• Gayle Weiswasser -Vice President, Social Media Communications, Discovery
Retail
• Winnie Hsia – Social Media Specialist at Whole Foods Market
• Tracy Benson – Digital / Interactive & Emerging Technologies at Best Buy
• Gary Koelling – Director Emerging Media Technology at Best Buy
• Vanina Delobelle – Manager, eCommerce Product Management at Sears Holdings Corporation
• Alexandra Wheeler – Digital Strategy at Starbucks Coffee Company
• Sarah Molinari – Senior Manager, Social Media, The Home Depot
• Dan Beranek – Social Business Strategy Leader, Target
• Daniel B. Honigman – Social Media Manager at Sears Holdings Corporation
Technology: Hardware, Networking, Component, Computer, Devices
• Bill Johnston, Head of Global Community at Dell
• Todd Shimizu – Director of Communities at Juniper Networks
• Len Devanna – Director Web Strategy & Operations at EMC
• Gunjan Rawal – Developer Marketing Manager, Intel AppUp dev program at Intel Corporation
• John Earnhardt – Senior Manager, Global Media Operations at Cisco Systems
• LaSandra Brill – Senior Manager, Global Social Media Marketing
• Richard Binhammer – Senior Manager at Dell
• Bill Pearson – Manager, Intel Software Network at Intel Corp
• Aaron Tersteeg – Communities Team Manager at Intel Corporation
• Bryan Rhoads – Sr. Digital Marketing Strategist at Intel Corporation
• Amy Barton – New Media Communications Manager at Intel Corporation
• Bob Duffy – Social Media Strategist at Intel Corporation
• Ken Kaplan – Broadcast and New Media Manager, Global Communications at Intel Corporation
• Adam Christensen – Social Media – IBM Corporate Headquarters at IBM
• Jeanette Gibson – Director, New Media at Cisco Systems
• Deirdre Walsh – Community and Social Media Manager at National Instruments
• Annie Rodkins, Program Manager at Intel Corporation
• Kelly Ripley Feller – Social Media Strategist, Sales & Marketing Group at Intel Corporation
• Adam Gartenberg – Program Director, Information Management Marketing and Strategy at IBM
• Todd Watson – Social Media and Search Marketing Manager, IBM Software Group at IBM
• Jamie Pappas – Manager, Social Media Strategy at EMC Corporation
• Colleen Swanger – Director, Graphics and Digital Marketing at NCR
• Tony “Frosty” Welch – Lead Social Media Strategist and Community Manager : Personal Systems Group at HP
• Amy Paquette – Sr. Manager, New Media Communications at Cisco
• Zoya Fallah – Social Media Expert, Consumer Marketing at Cisco
• Frank Days – Director, New and Social Media at Novell
• Stephanie Marx – Social Media Marketing at Cisco Systems
• Steven Lazarus, Lead Strategist, Social Media & Interactive Marketing for SOA and WebSphere Software at IBM
• Carolina Velis – Social Media Strategist at Intel
• Ekaterina Walter, Social Media Strategist at Intel
• Petra Neiger – Senior Manager, Global Social Media at Cisco
• Becky Brown – Director, Social Media Strategy at Intel Corporation
• Deanna Govoni – Social Media Marketing Manager, Cisco
• Allison Johnson, Social Media Manager, Cisco Systems
• Sharon Crost – Global Online Marketing/ Social Media Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
• Shanee Ben-Zur, Social Media Manager, NVIDIA
• Kerry Bridge Social Media Communications Manager, EMEA
• Chris Byrd – Social Media Strategist – Dell Corporate Reputation & Relations, Dell
• Cory Edwards – Director, Social Media & Corporate Reputation at Dell
Technology: Software, Internet
• Diane Davidson – Sr. Manager of Customer Success and Community Program at Cisco WebEx Technology group
• Steven Tedjamulia – Head of Social Commerce Innovation at Dell
• Alison Bolen – Editor, blogs and social content at SAS Institute
• Marty Collins – Director of Emerging Media at Microsoft
• Mark Yolton – Senior Vice President – SAP Community Network at SAP
• Brian Ellefritz – Sr. Director, Social Media Marketing at SAP
• Maria Poveromo – Director, Social Media at Adobe Systems
• Shashi Bellamkonda – Director Social Media, Network Solution
• Natalie Hanson – Senior Director, Strategic Programs & User Experience Consulting at SAP
• Lorna Li – SEO & Social Media Marketing Manager at Salesforce.com
• David Kim – Group Manager, Consumer Content Strategy at Symantec Corporation
• Fred “Fritz” Alberti – Director of Social Media at Salem Web Network
• Vishal Ganeriwala – Sr. Manager Citrix Ready Program at Citrix Systems
• Peter Parkes – Social Media Communications Lead at Skype
• Betsy Aoki – Sr. Program/Product Manager, Social Media at Microsoft Bing
• Marcus Nelson – Director of Social Media, Corporate Communications Salesforce.com
• Michael Procopio – Social Media Strategist at HP Software
• Karen Wickre – Senior Manager, Global Communications & Public Affairs at Google
• Gurmeet Dhaliwal – VP, Internet Marketing at CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates)
• Justin Kistner – Sr. Manager Social Media Marketing at Webtrends
• Winton “Sonny” Adcock – Program Manager, Social Media & Customer Channel for Technical Support at Intel Corp
• Jamie Grenney – Sr. Director of Social Media at Salesforce.com
• Brian Kling – Social Media Manager, eService at Autodesk
• Kirsten Watson – Director, Marketing at Kinaxis
• Gail Lyon – Global Internet & Social Media Manager at Siemens Enterprise Communications (UK)
• Venson Kuchipudi – Senior Director of Social Computing Strategy, Infor
• Benjamin Gauthey – Digital Marketing Manager/Marketing Technopologist at Microsoft
• Chip Rodgers, Vice President and COO, SAP Community Network
• Diane Beaudet – Vice President, Marketing Programs and Communications, Webroot Software
• Kris Kozamchak, Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications, NEC Corporation of America
• Doug Kern – Director, Corporate Communications at GXS
• Rawn Shah – Social Software Practices and Business Transformation Consultant at IBM
• Laurie G Buczek – Social Media Strategist & Platform Vision Team Manager at Intel
• Kirsten Hamstra – Social Media Manager at SAS Institute
• Rob La Gesse – Director of Customer Development, Rackspace
• Mario Sundar, Social Media Manager, LinkedIn
• Alan Belniak – Director of Social Media Marketing at PTC
• Dora Smith – Director of Global Social Media, Industry Automation, Siemens
• Robert Dell’Immagine – Director of Community at Qualys
• Adam Kranitz – Social Strategy, Segment & Product Marketing, Avid, Inc.
• Atom McCree- Digital Marketing Manager, ASG Software Solutions
• Charl Pearce -Sr. Marketing Manager, Emerging Media, US Integrated Marketing Programs, Microsoft Corp.
• Jacob Mullins – Sr. Marketing Manager, @BizSpark & Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Corp
• Claire Flanagan -Director, Social Collaboration Strategy, CSC
• Justin Levy – Senior Social Communications Manager, Citrix Online
• Tony Dunn – Social Media, Community & Web Marketing Manager, VMWare
• Nicholas Polt, Manager of Online Marketing and Social Media, MicroStrategy
Telecommunications
• Sherri Maxson – Director Interactive at US Cellular
• Keith McArthur – Senior Director of Social Media and Digital Communications at Rogers
• Bill Strawderman – Digital Marketing Lead, AT&T Business Marketing
• Trish Nettleship – Social Media Lead, AT&T Business Marketing
• Heather Thoms – Senior Communications Specialist, Tellabs
• Ronan Keane – Social Media Marketing Manager, XO Communications
Best Twitter Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010
Monday, January 31st, 2011Twitter came of age in 2010, growing at a scorching pace—from 75 million users at the beginning of the year to more than 190 million by the end of December. Twitter is used (officially) in 65 of the Fortune 100 companies, 63% of small to midsized businesses, and nearly half of all B2B enterprises.
As adoption skyrockets, marketers are striving to optimize their use of the world’s most popular microblogging platform. And that leads to questions, like: What are the best ways to attract more (relevant) followers? What types of information are worth sharing, beyond blog posts? Which companies are really succeeding on Twitter, and how are they doing it? How can I get more retweets? What’s a Twitter chat, and how do I participate in one? Which are the most helpful third-party tools for Twitter?
Get the answers to these questions and more here in some of the best Twitter guides, tips and tools of the past year.
How to Get More Followers on Twitter
How to grow your Twitter following by iMedia Connection
***** 5 Stars
Based on research, Courtney Wiley reveals what type of content to tweet, when to tweet it, and the ideal frequency of tweeting to use in order to grow a Twitter following.
47 Twitter Power Users’ Secrets To Getting Many Followers by JobMob
A selection of the Twitterati share their advice—ranging from short snippets to fairly detailed guidelines—on how to grow your Twitter following. Robert Scobel, Dan Schawbel, Peter Shankman and many of the others are legit no doubt, though a few of the “power users” here are questionable. Still, lots of good advice.
Get More Twitter Followers by Treating Your Profile Like a Landing Page by Social Times
Darko Johnson shows how to apply the principles of effective landing page design to your Twitter profile in order to increase the likelihood that people who see your profile will choose to follow you.
20 ways to increase the number of your followers on Twitter by Web SEO Analytics
Wisely warning against the use of automated programs or techniques, Vasilis Vryniotis offers 20 “white hat” best practices for increasing your Twitter following naturally, such as promoting your Twitter handle in online and offline locations (your blog, website, email signature and business cards), adding yourself to Twitter directories, and perhaps most important: mentioning and thanking the people who help you.
Why 150 Followers Is All You Really Need by TwiTip
Then again, do you really need more followers? Srinivas Rao uses the theory of Dunbar’s Number to argue that 150 followers is all one needs on Twitter. The author makes an intriguing case, but I’m not sure I buy it (particularly given that he follows over 1,300 people on Twitter).
How to Do Lots of Other Things on Twitter
16 bitchin’ commands and shortcuts for Twitter by eConsultancy
Want to quickly see the last tweet from a particular Twitterer? Or the most recent tweets mentioning that person? How about performing advanced searches on Twitter, like exact match, either/or, hyper-local (with x miles of…), or find questions you can answer? Chris Lake shows you how to do all of this and much more with these helpful Twitter shortcuts.
40 useful things you can share on Twitter besides blog posts by Social Media Today
Frequent best-of contributor Adam Vincenzini contends that “the more unusual and varied your stream is, the better—both for you and your followers.” And with that in mind, he lists more than three dozen types of items you can share on Twitter other that stuff from your RSS stream, such as a new app or tool (with a quick tweet review), an interesting hashtag or discussion, an interesting/relevant YouTube video or a link to a Twitter list you think is worth following.
7 Really Cool Things About the New Twitter by Social Media Today
Tia Peterson praises seven features of the new Twitter interface (such as the “Recently Listed” box, easy DM replies, and ability to send a tweet from any page) but also cites three areas that still need improvement.
How Many Times Do You Tweet Your Blog Post? by Ask Aaron Lee
Most bloggers tweet each of their posts only once. How many times should a post be tweeted? In this post, Aaron Lee and Guy Kawasaki recommend an ideal frequency, backed up with some highly logical reasoning. Spock would approve.
How Twitter increased my blog’s traffic by 300% in one week by MackCollier.com
Ever wonder exactly what impact Twitter can have on blog traffic? Mack Collier details an experiment he ran and shares the nitty gritty numbers and percentages, as well as the process he used, concluding “even if you only have 100 followers, you can still leverage Twitter as a tool to build your blog IF you are active on Twitter. Active interacting with others, engaging in conversations, and linking to valuable content.”
13 Twitter Tips for Increasing Engagement by Sazbean
Sarah Worsham lists helpful tips for increasing engagement and growing your following on Twitter, such as sharing and retweeting, asking questions, attending tweetups and using Twitter directories to find people in your industry.
Twitter success stories: Explaining the ROI of Twitter by {grow}
As Mark Schaefer explains, “There are MANY benefits to Twitter besides direct sales. You might gain information, competitive intelligence, insight, a new supplier or partner, publicity, brand awareness, an idea, customer insights, and yes, even a potential customer. And while all of these are great, most are intangible and difficult to display in an Excel spreadsheet! So why keep trying to do it?…When benefits are difficult to quantify, the best way to explain the value is through a story.”
8 Ways to Not Get ReTweeted by HubSpot Blog
Dan Zarrella uses extensive HubSpot research to show that practices like talking about yourself, dumbing down the readability of your tweets, eschewing links, and repeating the same things everyone else is saying are great ways to avoid being retweeted.
26 Twitter Tips for Enhancing Your Tweets by Social Media Examiner
***** 5 Stars
Debbie Hemley provides a highly creative A-Z list of practical tips for maximizing the business impact of your tweets, from Answers and Behind-the-Scenes info to utilizing YouTube and a Zippy Writing Style.
4 Rules for Marketing on Twitter by Practical eCommerce
Paul Chaney reveals the “unwritten” rules for earning influence on Twitter, for example: “Don’t Follow Just to Pitch. A distasteful trend has developed among newer Twitter users. For example, people are following me and when I respond in kind, their first tweets are frequently to pitch me on a website they want me to visit or a service they provide…If you want a formula for how marketing via Twitter and other social networks should work, it’s this: Connect > Converse > Convert.”
Calculating and Improving Your Twitter Click-through-Rate by SEOmoz
The brilliant but oblivious Rand Fishkin illustrates how to calculate your Twitter click-through rate (CTR) and notes some findings from his own experience: shorter tweets and those that are on-topic (whatever your primary topic is) tend to get retweeted more frequently. Somewhat surprisingly, Klout scores appear to have little correlation with retweet rates.
Twitter Dictionary | 35 Twitter Abbreviations by Bit Rebels
Primarily for Twitter newbies, Diana Adams defines nearly three dozen common Twitter / texting abbreviations such as DM (direct message), IRL (in real life) and Gr8 (self-explanatory).
Typecasting Twitter: 7 Top Uses by iMedia Connection
Noting that “Twenty nine percent, one in every three tweets yields some kind of reaction—comments, re-tweets or clicks. Ten percent prompt a reply to the original tweet. These are direct marketing nirvana numbers,” Daniel Flamberg dissects research to isolate the seven most common uses of Twitter.
How to Participate in a Twitter Chat Session like #BlogChat or #AgChat by ag – a colorful adventure
For those who haven’t participated in a Twitter chat session before, Janice Person provides clear, step-by-step instructions for getting setup, using controls, and keeping up with the stream of conversation.
3 Absolutely Cool Twitter Search Tricks to Help You Save Money! by Sexy Social Media
In this helpful but brief post, Annie Wallace shares three clever Twitter search tricks you may not be aware of.
Best of 2010: 14 Ways Every Business Should Be Using Twitter by Inkling Media
Ken Mueller lists 14 practices businesses can adopt to optimize their benefit from Twitter, such as providing customer service, promoting events and monitoring competitors.
Twitter Tools
20 Top Twitter Monitoring and Analytics Tools by Pamorama
Pam Dyer serves up brief reviews of more useful Twitter tools including Twitscoop (trend-monitoring), TweetBuzzer (identifies popular brands on Twitter), Twitter Analyzer (kind of like Google Analytics for Twitter) and Tweeps (get stats that help you decide who to follow—or not—and find people you’d like to have following you).
How to Add a Tweet Button Anywhere by SitePoint
While there are several easy avenues to placing a Tweet button on a blog, Alyssa Gregory supplies simple instructions for adding Tweet buttons in other venues like emails, PDFs and Facebook pages.
11 Websites to Schedule Your Tweets Online for Free by TwiTip
Young Yang reviews free tools for scheduling tweets, like FutureTweets, HootSuite and SocialOomph. It’s important to remember that Twitter is a social platform, so your followers will expect interaction; if you’re busted relying too heavily on automated or pre-scheduled tweets, you will lose followers. However, these tools can be very helpful if used strategically and sparingly.
Type in any three words or phrases and compare how often each is tweeted about.
5 Best Twitter Tools For Smarter Blogging by Smedio
Sridhar Ramunajam provides quick reviews of five helpful Twitter tools including dlvr.it for auto-publishing blog content to Twitter and TweetStats, which provides stats about your account (e.g., tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet timeline) in graphical format.
Six Benefits to Using Twitter.com Instead of an App by TwiTip
Shannon Albert makes the case for using Twitter itself rather than a third-party app (e.g., HootSuite or TweetDeck) for interacting on Twitter: it’s faster, has no limits on Tweets per hour and lets you see other users’ custom backgrounds among other advantages.
Twitter Stats
All You Need to Know About Twitter in 2010 [Infographic] by Mediabistro
Lauren Dugan presents an infographic from Flowtown that reviews Twitter highlights of 2010, from Bill Gates setting up a Twitter account in January through celebrity digital death at year end.
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Vote for Your Favorites in the B2B Twitterer of the Year Awards
Monday, November 8th, 2010Nominations and voting are now open for the B2B Twitterer of the Year (B2BTOTY) awards. Here’s your chance to recognize your favorite B2B organization or individual for their exceptional Twitter skills. Now in its second year, the B2BTOTY award recognizes examples of the outstanding use of Twitter by B2B personalities, vendors, publishers, organizations and institutions.
Nominations can be submitted in 10 categories:
- • National / International B2B Manufacturer (includes software developers)
- • National / International B2B Services
- • B2B Small to Mid-Sized Businesses (B2B SMB)
- • B2B Organizations
- • Business Schools
- • B2B Trade Associations
- • B2B Publications
- • B2B Business Journalists
- • B2B “Boss Tweet” Personality
- • B2B Twitter App
Nominating and voting couldn’t be easier; from any page on the B2BTOTY website, in the voting box near the top-right of the page, simply enter the Twitter handle of the company/person you’d like to vote for, select a category, and describe why you’re voting for that Twitterer (in 70 characters or less, so your vote fits as a tweet).
The steering committee for the awards includes some of the heaviest hitters in the B2B social media space, such as Ardath Albee, author of eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale
For an excellent in-depth look at the people behind the award, check out The Oscar of B2BTOTY Awards Needs Your Vote by Cheryl Burgess of Blue Focus Marketing.
Winners will be determined based on numerous criteria by the B2BTOTY judges, but voting plays an important role—and it’s the only way to submit nominations. So if you know of a deserving individual or organization (or several), submit your nominations and vote now!
5 Great Reasons to Retweet Others on Twitter
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010One of the key characteristics I (and many other Twitter users) use when determining whether I should follow someone back on Twitter is the level of interaction in their tweet stream. Do they ask questions? Answer them? And most importantly, do they ever retweet others’ content?
Now virtually every blogger and business user on Twitter tweets their own content, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that—it’s one of the strengths of the platform. But Twitter is a social tool, not a broadcasting medium. Tweeting only their own stuff makes a person look like one of those cocktail party boors who only want to talk about themselves. More often than not, they end up talking only to themselves.
Retweeting is a key part of the social interaction on Twitter. Here are five great reasons to share content posted by others.
1. It helps those you retweet. Retweeting provides others with both social (“nice work!”) benefits as well as the practical benefit of driving more traffic to their content. It’s a nice thing to do, and (usually) appreciated.
2. It helps your followers. Tweeting and retweeting interesting and valuable content helps those who follow you. When you help your follows discover new knowledge and information, you become a valued information source and build trust.
3. It generates more retweets for you. Others are more likely to retweet your content when they view you as someone trying to share helpful content with the community rather than just broadcasting your own material.
4. It makes others more likely to follow you. People want to be retweeted. Having retweets and other interaction in your tweetstream makes you a much more attractive person/entity to follow than someone whose tweets are one-way and obviously done on auto pilot.
5. It gets you more #FollowFriday recommendations. For all of the reasons above, retweeting makes others more likely to recommend you to their followers, which in turn grows your following.
It all comes down to the “social” in social media; people value tools like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for the interaction with like-minded individuals they provide. Those who focus on “broadcasting” only their own content through these media tend to be shunned or ignored. Conversely, those who interact and add value grow their networks, influence and trust over time. Sometimes the best way to advance in social media is to retweet.
