Hi all - thanks for the invite. Some of you remember me from WmW - if not, check out my LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/tedster - but you may not know that I've got a corporate position as "senior search analyst" for a Manhattan-based agency, Converseon.
We're quite the full service agency, with a 9 year background in social media -- yeah, there's a whole lot more to it than most people are seeing. For example, we are one of only two agencies with access to the full "firehose" of Twitter data - 100 million messages a day. We had to build a new data center just to mine that flood.
Exploring the interface between SEO and SMM is an absolute blast - and I especially enjoy bringing technical precision into the social media mix - something Converseon already does really well anyway.
We're SOOOOO corporate it's scary sometimes, but it's a good stretch for me. The folks in the agency are great to work with and very happy in their work, too. In fact, it's boom time for us. We tripled revenue last year and only doubled our staff size.
What this means for my life is commuting between Boston and New York about 3 times a month, sometimes more. I know the Amtrak staff pretty well by now.
We're quite the full service agency, with a 9 year background in social media -- yeah, there's a whole lot more to it than most people are seeing. For example, we are one of only two agencies with access to the full "firehose" of Twitter data - 100 million messages a day. We had to build a new data center just to mine that flood.
Exploring the interface between SEO and SMM is an absolute blast - and I especially enjoy bringing technical precision into the social media mix - something Converseon already does really well anyway.
We're SOOOOO corporate it's scary sometimes, but it's a good stretch for me. The folks in the agency are great to work with and very happy in their work, too. In fact, it's boom time for us. We tripled revenue last year and only doubled our staff size.
What this means for my life is commuting between Boston and New York about 3 times a month, sometimes more. I know the Amtrak staff pretty well by now.