December 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
Content marketing institute just released a list of interesting predictions by 80 different social & digital media gurus with the focus on the relationship between brand and content, the evolution of blogging, the future of Google’s influence, content marketing and distribution. Read more of this post
December 27, 2011 Leave a Comment
Justin Bieber was in Washington D.C. for performance for the Christmas at the White House. During his stay, he also visited kids in need in the Children’s National Medical Center. Here are some photos… One of the photos shows he was really enjoying Selena Gomez 
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December 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
With the rapid emergence and adoption of social media as a marketing tool, today’s marketers have been spending a significant amount of their time leveraging social media channels with customer interaction, collaboration, and idea generation being the main incentives for them to jump on such the social media bandwagon.
Despite all that, search engines are still the king when it comes to online marketing for the following reasons: Read more of this post
December 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
Although the three recent studies/charts below shows our city as the richest, the best-educated, and fastest growing than any other U.S. state at three times the national average, but as I’ve always been bitching, this is due to a large number of government milking type of businesses in DC Metro.
Once, I see more innovators in DC area, then I truly feel proud of these charts! Till then, I hate to say it, but Washington DC is mainly the beneficiary of having more Federal employees and government contractors than any other city in the nation. Read more of this post
December 9, 2011 Leave a Comment
The pretty one is me, Jamey is the other one
A few month after Vincent Gray, our new mayor was elected last year, one of the most awesome Washingtonian entrepreneurs, Jamey Harvey, founder of the DC based startup, Sponto and Marullus Williams, President and CEO of Limbic Systems, the DC based IT solution provider led a group of civic minded, entrepreneurial technologists and investors in a conversation about what we could do to make DC more awesome for Startups. The group included Peter Corbett, Jonathan Aberman, Doug Humphrey, Susan Banta, Julie Silard Kantor, Adam Rubinson, Wolf Ruzicka, Dutch Dunham and me, the awesomizer.
The mayor has declared this to be the technology startup month and he’s hosting a group of tech CEO’s soon to continue this conversation face-to-face.
Thanks to Jamey who put this slide together, here is the summary of what we did. Feel free to share it with those in your network. Read more of this post
December 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
In today’s environment, the easiest question to ask and sometimes the hardest to answer is “What’s the ROI?” It is so commonplace that some people even use “ROI” as a metric in their personal lives! But I digress. What I am really trying to tell you is that almost any good marketer or media person knows that you need analytics to measure the effectiveness of your strategies and tactics. At a minimum, we all want to know who’s the coolest kid on the block or what is the new “it” thing. So without further adieu, I give you Awesome Analytics – our first business intelligence report.
Our preview version of Awesome Analytics easily shows you the most awesome folks in 5 market segments - people, company, product, service, and question categories searched and viewed on awesomize.me. Below is our November’s Awesome Analytics. You can click on each link to see the top people, companies, products, services, and questions awesomzied (rated) by the community for each category. Read more of this post
Elias Shams
Kamran Abdi
Leila Nouri
