Yearly Archives: 2009

Beware of the Phone-Wielding Consumer

via Rob Cottingham. Oh, I’ve totally done this. Don’t be surprised if this is the next trend everyone can’t stop talking about. Have you started thinking about your mobile strategy yet?

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Slides from 'Social Media 101' presentation

This morning I gave a talk on the basics of social media which was co-presented by Nashville Technology Council and Digital Nashville. You can see the slides from that presentation here: Social Media 101 View more presentations from Kate O’Neill. You can also access the handout I gave attendees to help them plan their social [...]

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And the award goes to…

You know how you always hear famous people dismissing the importance of actually winning an award by saying “it’s an honor just to be nominated”? I found myself saying that a lot since learning I was a finalist for “Social Media/Blogger of the Year” in the Nashville Technology Council‘s Feel the Beat Awards and what [...]

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Will Google's New Music Service Affect Your Business? Surprise: It Might.

When I first moved to Nashville in February of 2003, I was in pursuit of a dream: I wanted to develop my songwriting and write hits. It did not escape my notice that the industry was changing, even then, and that the distribution models that had ensured songwriter royalties were being disrupted, so that I [...]

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Optimizing, Networking, Venn Diagrams, and Other Observations from BarCamp Nashville 2009

The third BarCamp Nashville took place this past Saturday, and I’m proud to say [meta]marketer was intimately involved in many aspects of making it happen. Both Matthew Freeman and I were on the planning crew; [meta]marketer was a “Worthy” sponsor of the event; and Freeman and I were both speakers (as were several other folks [...]

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