Live Podcast: Augie Ray, Former Senior Forrester Research Analyst and Future Executive Director of Community and Collaboration for USAA

Augie Ray (@augieray) first joined The A-List back in April 2009, before he became a Senior Forrester Research (@Forrester) Analyst, filling the shoes of Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang), who left to become a partner at the Altimeter Group.

Somewhat ironically, the very thing that urged me to ask Augie to join the program back in 2009, was became an object of scrutiny, when Forrester decided analysts could no longer maintain personally-branded research blogs.

Augie seemed to take it in stride, posting his own response to the decision.

When I received my first post since the decision from Augie’s blog, I was thrilled. In it, he explained his decision and his new role at USAA (@USAA). That’s one thing I love about Augie – he always tells you the way it is…

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Live Podcast: Dave McClure, Founding Partner 500 Startups and John Ramey, CEO iSocket

Dave McClure

This one is a must-listen for entrepreneurs and those that aspire to be.
Join us for a joint interview with Dave McClure, Founding Partner and CEO of 500 Startups and John Ramey, CEO of iSocket.

John Ramey

Dave McClure is a venture capitalist and founding partner at 500 Startups, an Internet startup seed fund and incubator program headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor and investor, blogger, and internet marketing nerd.
Dave’s passion is helping startups with product and marketing strategy, and he is a vocal and notable industry speaker on lean startup metrics. He has invested in over 70 startup companies including iSocket.com.
John Ramey, the Founder and CEO of iSocket.com has been a successful Web and marketing entrepreneur for over 10 years. He previously co-founded Maven Ventures and Lythargic Media. With iSocket.com, he is passionate about making advertising suck less.

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Live Podcast: Featured Guest Randy Paynter, Founder and CEO, Care2

Randy Paynter, Founder and CEO of Care2.com

Join us for an insightful interview with Randy Paynter, Founder and CEO of Care2.

With more than 14 million members, Care2 is the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare.

Care2 empowers individuals to “Make a Difference” with daily actions, healthy living advice, news and blogs on causes, petitions and much more.

Care2 works with more than 500 nonprofit organizations to recruit quality activists and donors. In addition, Care2 is a leader in online Cause Marketing, running advertising campaigns for companies moving toward a sustainable future.

Care2 is Green America’s 2009 People’s Choice Award Winner for Green Business of the Year.

Randy Paynter (@Paynter) is the Founder and CEO of Care2.com  He is an expert at creating and building a financially strong social enterprise.

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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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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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