Archive for May, 2009
Rod Brooks: VP & CMO of PEMCO Insurance
“We’re a lot like you. A little different.” That’s the tagline for PEMCO Insurance’s marketing campaign where they celebrate our region by profiling the eclectic and sometimes quarky bunch of folks that make up our diverse community. From the “Goat Renter Guy” to the “Relentless Recycler,” PEMCO has done an incredible job of nailing the many Northwest [...]
Jeremy Bertrand: WSDOT’s Social Media Guy
Ah, traffic, the unavoidable part of our day that reminds us that we haven’t yet sprouted wings or invented teleporters. To almost all of us around the Seattle area, it’s just an accepted part of living in our beautiful city. Thankfully, though, there are some great people at the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) who [...]
Patrick Byers: CEO of Outsource Marketing & the Man Behind the Responsible Marketing Blog
Responsible marketing: two words that seem like unlikely partners in today’s modern marketing world. But if our next featured profiled member has anything to say about it, that will be changing.
Please meet Patrick Byers, the CEO of Outsource Marketing and the man behind the Responsible Marketing blog and an upcoming book by the same title. [...]
Jeris JC Miller: The Compassionate Action Network’s Social Media Person
Within Seattle, it seems more and more non-profits are adopting social media into their communications arsenal. One example of this is the Puget Sound Blood Center, who’s social media person, Sean DeButts, has been doing an excellent job of using the medium to raise awareness of issues surrounding blood donations, organizing it’s members, and communicating [...]
Ethan Yarbrough: President of Allyis & Enterprise 2.0 Guru
Within Seattle’s social media community, I am always amazed by all the truly gifted minds I am able to come across. It seems that at every SMC Seattle meeting or tweetup I go to, there is an abundance of folks who are absolutely brilliant. Most often, I find that these are those who have a firm [...]
Betsy Aoki: Microsoft’s Blog Queen
Meet Betsy Aoki, Program Manager on the Live Search team at Microsoft and all-around social media superstar. Recently, Veronica Sopher and I had the great opportunity to go talk with Betsy about social media and the upcoming “Will Code for Green” contest. We would like to thank Betsy again for letting us come out and chat [...]
Paolo Tosolini: Microsoft’s Podcast Guru
Passionate; it’s a word that could be used to describe practically everyone within Seattle’s social media scene and for good reason. Without passion, none of us would be attending events, conversing with one another, or doing what we’re doing to keep this social media thing here in Seattle growing. Simply put, without passion within everyone [...]
Ricardo Rabago: The PCC Social Media Guy
Ya know PCC? The co-op store with all that organic produce and all natural food? Chances are if you’re reading this, you do. I bet then that you also know that they’re on Twitter. What I don’t think you know is that there’s a guy named Ricardo Rabago doing all that PCC tweeting. Recently, I [...]
Leann Underwood: Microsoftie, SM Consultant
At Chris Pirillo’s last tweetup, I had the great pleasure of meeting Leann Underwood, the next featured member of our great social media community here in Seattle. Coming to us by way of Nebraska, Leann is a current Microsoftie who, in her free time, consults with non-profit organizations on how to integrate social media into [...]
Jean-Luc David: MS-er, Author, Great Guy
One of the amazing things about Seattle’s social media community is there are an abundance of incredibly intelligent and friendly people. It’s these people that I never get tired of talking with, and a perfect example of this is my friend Jean-Luc David.
A native Torontonian, Jean-Luc can be described as many things: a Microsoftie; an [...]
