3. Speaker Bios David King is Director of Social Media for Gutenberg Communications. In his role at Gutenberg, he leads the development and execution of social media strategies for B2B brands. Previously he served as resident Wikipedia guru and account executive at The Hoffman Agency, where he helped clients create, write, and gain readership for their blogs and energize their brand on Wikipedia in addition to traditional PR work. Prior to The Hoffman Agency, David held PR positions at Lutchansky Communications and Edelman, working with clients such as TSMC, Synopsys, Samsung, and IBM (formerly ILOG). He is a regular speaker, writer, and commentator on social media marketing, and has written op-eds, and guest blogs for Fortune Magazine and T he San Jose Mercury News and has placed clients in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times , Channel 2 News, and Fortune, among others. Ari Newman is a passionate entrepreneur who excels in creating value in ideas and technology and thrives on the challenges and opportunities that define early stage companies. He is President and Founder of Filtrbox, a real-time social media monitoring service that helps companies listen to and engage in online conversations. In the year since launch, Filtrbox has grown to over 10,000 users and hundreds of customers. Previously Ari was Founder and Principal of Newman Venture Advisors, VP of Product Management at CreekPath Systems and Director of Operations at Volera. Ari’s expertise includes SaaS, consumer internet, enterprise application software, IP networks, enterprise storage, and social media marketing. He lives in Boulder, CO with his wife and two children, where his happiest moments are when his 5 year old daughter agrees to watch cycling races with him..
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5. Business use of Facebook is gaining speed 35-54 demo growing at 276% over 2B pieces of content per week source: iStrategyLabs, Facebook
6. There are over 400,000 tweets a day about brands and sources: socialmediatoday.com, eMarketer, QuantCast Twitter adoption grew 800% over the last 6 months
13. Content Marketing – Independent Brand Example DeveloperWorks (dw) is the brand IBM uses for branded communications with developers across the website, YouTube, Twitter, and more . Case studies Whitepapers Video Comments Responses Articles Retweets Events Personalities People Unique content
this demo is doubling every two months over 10M users become fans of pages each day, many of which are company or event pages transition - “what does all of this mean?”
companies and brands have woken up Twitter has proven to be a powerful tool for companies like Comcast, JetBlue, Starbucks and others Growth is expected to continue as more and more brands and customers get onto the platform