Live Podcast: Featured Guest Tara Hunt, Speaker, Author and One Of The Most Influential Women In Technology

Tara Hunt, aka @missrogue

She had us at ‘Whuffie.’

Actually, she had us even sooner than that!

Named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology in 2009, she is a top speaker, entrepreneur, mom, Canadian, karaoke addict, Flickr fan and Twitter-holic and much more.

She is speaking high-demand, speaking at conferences around the world and we’re delighted to have her on The A-List!

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Live Podcast: Monitoring Social Media Conference Preview #MSM10

Following the success of their events In London, Influence People is hosting a one-day Social Media Monitoring Conference in San Francisco on 21st October, followed by a half-day training bootcamp on 22nd October.

Monitoring Social Media (#MSM10) will bring together leading brands, PR and marketing experts to discuss the latest ideas, trends and techniques in social media monitoring and measurement. Though a series of presentations, panels and expert-led discussions, we will explore the critical issues that marketers and PR professionals are facing in their efforts to monitor their social media interactions.

Get a free preview of what to expect at the conference as well as insights you can use now! Catch the archive here:

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Live Podcast: Preview of Startup PR Summit 2010

Join me this weekend at the Startup PR Summit 2010 this Saturday, October 16 in San Francisco at Atelier. I’ll be joining a stellar group of PR professionals to speak about the ins and outs of pitching to the media for your startup.   This is an exclusive opportunity to learn from accredited members of the national, local and technology press.

Learn more about the conference and what you can expect to learn by joining our preview podcast:

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Remember that this show is by you, not just for you! Your questions are an essential part of the program and included in this show! Remember you are always welcome to tweet, Facebook or email in your questions before or during my shows.

Email For The Generations Presentation At #SMMSF

Nielsen and comScore tell us from their stats that advertisers look at all of us through a generational lens.

Coming from more than a decade in the television industry – both on-air and digital – I have long been taught to use information we know about what appeals to members of each of the four living generation in the US.

I have brought those learnings to my work as a consultant, despite a lack of dialogue about this approach in social media and general marketing circles.

That changed when I presented Email For The Generations: Social tactics to trigger responses from the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials effectively.

Take a look at my presentation, available for download on Slideshare, and let me know what you think!

Live Podcast: Integrating Email Marketing with Social Media Conference Preview #SMMSF

We have a stellar group joining The A-List to talk about what you can expect to learn at this conference, coming up Friday on 17th September from 9:00am – 5:30 PM at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.

We’ll have conference organizers Luke Brynley-Jones (@LBrynleyJones) and Murray Newlands(@MurrayNewlands) of Influence People (@InfluencePeeps) and London Blog Club, as well as keynote speaker Brian Solis (@BrianSolis) of FutureWorks and author of Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web, and are also pleased to be joined by another event speaker, Mark Schmulen (@mschmulen), General Manager of Social Media for Contact (@ConstantContact) (I’ll be speaking at the conference, too).

It’s an exciting and informational hour. Don’t miss it!

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Remember that this show is by you, not just for you! Your questions are an essential part of the program and included in this show! Remember you are always welcome to tweet, Facebook or email in your questions before or during my shows.

Live Podcast: Featured Guests Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells, Founders of Social Media Club

“If you get it, share it!”

That’s long been the tag line for Social Media Club.

As the number of club chapters has grown, so too has the organization, providing quite a journey for the club’s founders. The story of Social Media Club’s founding and growth was discussed earlier this year at Webcom Montreal 2010. Now, The A-List asks Chris Heuer (@ChrisHeuer) and Kristie Wells (@KristieWells) what they’ve learned in cultivating the global Social Media Club community and – perhaps more importantly – what’s next!

Could a book be on the horizon?

Don’t miss this archive of The A-List show here:

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Every Vote Counts: Let The Voice Of The SMB be Heard!

The majority of US-based businesses are small or medium-sized. In addition to the size of the SMB market, both the economy and incentives from the federal government to encourage individuals to create business has positioned the SMB market as perhaps the most important sector of growth we’ve seen in more than a decade.

Large enterprises know this and are keen to reach entrepreneurs and executive at SMBs to help them grow, using their products and services as they scale into larger businesses.

This gave myself and Karen O’Brien, a partner a Crimson Consulting, the idea to being together a panel to educate those at South by Southwest (SXSW) and Enterprise 2.0 conferences to talk about how large enterprises can reach the SMB market and the promise it holds for them in doing so, as well as educating SMBs about what incentives these companies are providing to engage with the SMB customer. At SXSW, the panel will include representatives from Microsoft, Cisco and Yelp.

But these panels will not happen unless you vote to bring them to life… and the competition is fierce. That’s where your help comes in…

Please take a moment to vote for the panel on the SXSW panelpicker and leave a comment on what you think the promise the panel holds, what you would like to get out of it if you were to attend the session or anything else you think is important for us to know.

The panelists could be different, but the message very similar at Enterprise 2.0 – you can cast your vote here. Again, would love to hear your comments!

Live Podcast: David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan, Authors of Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead

The book, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead

What marketing lessons can you learn from ‘the most iconic band in rock history’? We’ll find out from the authors of a new book that tackles that question head-on. David Meerman Scott (@DMScott) and Brian Halligan (@BHalligan) are our featured guests for the hour.

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UPDATED: Teaching Understanding Google Analytics

I am thrilled to be teaching Understanding Google Analytics, an online course, for mediabistro.

The first classes begin July 29th. That course is ending soon, but you can now sign up for the next session that will begin on Thursday evenings beginning October 7th. Sign up here.

Here’s the course description:

Business owners used to only be concerned with the number of hits to their website. Now businesses, bloggers, and online marketers need to know more than just how many people are coming to their site. They need data about their site’s performance, Internet marketing investments, lead or sales conversions, visitor behavior, and user interaction. Fortunately, the advancement of web technologies has made this comprehensive collection of data and analysis possible.

Live Podcast: Featured Guest Michael Tippett, Founder of NowPublic

Michael Tippett

So how does one create one of the world’s leading media companies?

Let’s ask one!

Michael Tippett founded NowPublic, one of the largest media organizations in the world. He’s accomplished a great deal, but  as international expert on emerging news models, he may have a very interesting take on what print media can do to save themselves.

I asked him about that and much more. Don’t miss this archive of The A-List:

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