Mentors
Janet Fouts is a social media coach. She helps companies and individuals understand social media, create and implement a strategy and keeps us all up to date on the latest tools, networks and strategies. She is the founder of the Social Media Coaching Center with the idea that a central place where people could learn how to use the tools and understand how this whole thing works would make it a whole lot easier for people to reach their goals. You can contact Janet through her blog JanetFouts.com or browse the work of her web development company Tatu Digital Media. Janet is also author of Social Media Success!
Anna Billstrom is a CRM Consultant and author of Adventures in Email Marketing, a blog on ethical, effective email marketing. She started focusing on email in ‘99, and has helped clients such as Microsoft, Disney, and more recently KodakGallery, enhance marketing campaigns with data-rich lifecycle strategies. She has a background in OLAP datamart design, software development, integrated systems development, customer datamart modeling, and application integration. She has a diverse client list of small to large, retail to online, and first to 5th generation CRM systems.
Sarah Browne – the Guru of New – is an award-winning writer, market researcher and often-quoted expert on social media, new products and innovation. A digital pioneer since her days in AOL’s Greenhouse, she’s brought her creative and consumer insights expertise to companies from global giants (Microsoft, Yahoo!, Gillette, Pepsi,) to small business. Sarah has been described as “funny, smart, cutting edge … a Social Media Research Revolution leader, a captivating story-teller and a fearless explorer.”
Currently ranked as the #1 Business columnist for San Francisco Examiner.com, she’s a popular speaker and volunteer advisor for a variety of non-profits. In another life, Sarah enjoyed a Mad Men-ish career as Creative Director/Writer at Ogilvy in Chicago and New York. The author of the upcoming book for small business: How Not To Be An E-Hole: Playing Smart in the Social Media Sandbox, Sarah has been honored by the Smithsonian, received Ogilvy’s International Creative Fellowship Award and a Seth Godin Purple Cow for Innovation.View her blog- the Guru of New.
Kimberly LeRiche- JK Virtual Office Resources provides Social Media and Internet Marketing Virtual Assistance to small business owners and solo entrepreneurs to help them establish and increase their online visibility for their business and their brand. She enjoys collaborating with her clients to identify their desired goals and outcomes for using social media and to help craft an overall action plan. Her other services include setting up new social networking profiles, social media management and providing tips and recommendations for how to effectively use social media. When not scouring the internet for the latest social media buzz, she spends time with her family and their dog in a suburb just outside Portland, OR.
Massimo Paolini is the owner of MP Three Consulting, a web analytics business based in Silicon Valley. He speaks at various organizations on the power of social media and works with several businesses around the country to increase their web presence, understand their site traffic, and improve profitability. When not working, he is lecturing his 7-year-old son on the value of tetherball twitter. Massimo can be reached at massimo@mpaolini.com.
Robyn Tippins is a community advocate with 10+ years in the social media space. She oversees the community aspect of the external developers on the Yahoo! Developer Network. Robyn has blogged for blog networks and corporations, podcasted for small and large businesses, worked closely with social networking sites, and advised Fortune 500 companies on social media and community. Her book, co-authored with Miranda Marquit, “Building Communities” will be released in September 2009.
