SAS is hosting the second annual SAS Financial Services Executive Summit today at SAS global headquarters with executive leaders from the banking, insurance and capital markets industries. The theme of the show is "Ignite," which references coming together, sparking innovation and inspiring change. The keynote speaker is a very well known change agent
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Once upon a time, almost three years ago, before most of us ever heard of Twitter, I was just signing up for the service and starting to follow anyone that I found who might be there talking about SAS. I used Twitter Search and I didn't find a lot. Some
With the advent of social media, there has been a lot of chatter about its usefulness as well as many raised eyebrows regarding its benefits. A lot of people are still left wondering, how and why social media is even important and relevant to what they do. Most people who
This past spring I attended a Social Media Masterclass at the Event Marketing Summit, delivered by Erik Qualman, the author of Socialnomics. Erik is also the creator of this video called Social Media Revolution that you’ve probably seen on YouTube (it has also been featured on this blog). Here’s what
Last night The Mrs looked over my shoulder at Tweetdeck and said, “Everybody’s talking about Old Spice.” It’s the hottest topic in social media, marketing and advertising right now. Built on the success of the video embedded above, which now has more than 13 million views on YouTube, the
Seems like there are a lot of great folks writing social media books right now. Last week I learned that Amber Naslund and Jay Baer are writing a book aimed at small and medium-sized business, organizations and non-profits. I just heard on the Six Pixels of Separation podcast this morning
My notes from the MarketingProfs B2B panel “Driving and Measuring B2B Conversations, Leads and Sales with Social Media.” Presented by Kipp Bodnar, Inbound Marketing Manager, HubSpot; Kyle Flaherty, Director, Marketing, BreakingPoint Systems Kyle started out by promising that, since this session had the longest title, it would be the best.
My notes from the MarketingProfs B2B panel "Getting Strategic with Your Brand." Presented by Lois Brayfield, President, J Schmid & Associates; Susan Doctoroff Landay, President, Trainers Warehouse Lois asked us to accept three ideas: Your brand defined is the perception of your customers. Forget B2B, you’re selling to people with
One of the most valuable features of the MarketingProfs B2B forum are the One-on-One Therapy sessions, where attendees get to sit down with experts in different fields and get specific advice relevant to the challenges they’re facing. Jennifer Altimore and Joe Hirshka from Kennametal Inc. came to Boston from Latrobe,
My notes from the MarketingProfs panel "It’s Not Your Mother’s PR: New Opportunities to Influence Your Constituents" Panelists include Deirdre Breakenridge, President, PFS Marketwyse; Terri D. Andrews, Public Relations Manager, RSM McGladrey; and Donna Tocci, Director, Web/New Media, Ingersoll Rand. The moderator was Beth Harte, Senior Subject Matter Expert, Digital