Pink Slips Suck- Austin Social Media Jobs
22 March 2009Marketing, Tech & Social Media Jobs Oh yes, pink slips suck! If you’re looking to change jobs or you’re on the hunt thanks to the stupid pink slips floating around Austin, we’ll be combing the interwebs for opportunities around town and posting them here each Friday… you might land your next gig or at least learn of new job sites while you’re poking around here. Freelance writer for web copy at Wired Consulting The company provides Project Management consultancy for IT & T projects based in Australia. The work will entail editing / copywriting for Marketing / Website / ...
Connie Reece Dubbed the “Mother Nature of Twitter”
20 March 2009Our very own Connie Reece was honored today in a Marcus Brown "Twitter Reading." If you like British accents, satire, @conniereece, you should watch Sir Marcus Brown's reading. As Mr. Brown astutely notes, by following Connie, it just might save your life.
Awesomely Creative Social Media Marketing
19 March 2009Alpo is Awesome The Alpo brand recently launched a new marketing campaign called "Operation: Quick, get that dog some ALPO!" Take a minute to watch the video below and while you're watching, note how Alpo chooses to set themselves apart, is authentic to their brand, is a little silly and especially note how they are breaking stereotypes of Alpo alternatives that some see as superior: Are YOU Awesome? The answer is yes. By using social media in your marketing, be it blogging, video uploads or audio podcasting, you have a unique opportunity to let ...
Social Media Blog Carnival II
17 March 2009SXSWi Anyone that's in Austin knows that South by Southwest has invaded our town, our minds and our time so I owe everyone an apology for posting the carnival results. I owe you a hug or a piece of candy or something. And the winner is... Now that the geeks are in single file line at the airport and only the fittest survived, you just have to visit Chris Bailey's site Gravit8 to see who won- check out the best of the best writing, vlogging or podcasting about social media (and don't forget to congratulate the winners!). Next week's judge is ...
New Media Lab Acquires Every Dot Connects
12 March 2009Huge, huge news! We just finalized our first acquisition, communications consultancy Every Dot Connects. What this means is that one of our nation's top social media voices, Connie Reece will be joining us as a consultant and trainer and brings with her an amazing portfolio of expertise. Read the full press release here. Connie is the co-founder of
Social Media Blog Carnival Winners Announced
09 March 2009Hooray! Host Jack Leblond not only posted the winner of the first week of the revitalized Social Media Blog Carnival, he gave future submitters some awesome advice. Go check it out and see if you or someone you know won, there are a *lot* of great submissions! If you want to host a blog carnival or just want to know what the heck a carnival is, click here to learn more or become a host judge but for now, head on over to see this week's results and comment with your thoughts.
Putting Twitter in a Headlock
09 March 2009Big boy pants FAIL If I had giant muscles and was on a high protein diet and weighed at least three digits, I would so be tempted to put microblogging site Twitter in a headlock for their latest move. Twitter got a buncha money and bought some big boy pants by hiring a full time business development manager (an incredible hire, by the way) but that's not the move I'm headlocking them for. Get this, when new users sign up for Twitter, they can see a list of "suggested users" ranging ...
Austin Social Media Event: New Media Collaborative
05 March 2009The Big Lab is Here We are excited to announce that beginning next week, we will be accepting sign-ups for our May New Media Collaborative (NMC). The NMC Experience is a curriculum based lab designed especially for the professional new to social media. It's a full day of interactive learning where professionals bring their laptops and open minds, and we bring the rest. Today's economy is leading companies of all sizes to cut back marketing budgets, so we've developed courses that help professionals learn about and implement their own social media strategy with high impact and low cost. Our mission is to educate companies on how to ...
Social Media Blog Carnival Judges & Badges
02 March 2009Now Accepting Submissions So last week, we announced that we are the new home to the Social Media Blog Carnival where people nominate blogs, vlogs and podcasts about social and new media to be judged with one winner crowned every Monday. If you want your social media article, vlog or podcast considered, pick your best work from the last 2 weeks, submit it here & check back Monday for the winner! Get to know the judges Last week, we publicly called for volunteers and the roster filled up very quickly but we need more help, so ...
Austin Social Media Jobs (Marketing & Tech Jobs Too)
27 February 2009Oh yes, pink slips suck! If you’re looking to change jobs or you’re on the hunt thanks to the stupid pink slips floating around Austin, we’ll be combing the interwebs for opportunities around town and posting them here each Friday... you might land your next gig or at least learn of new job sites while you're poking around here. There’s a good chance that some of the jobs from last week are still available, so check those out and check out the following 10 Austin jobs ranging from technical to marketing and we wish you all luck in applying! Austin Social ...
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