Over 170 of the city's best best marketers and marketing technology companies came out last night for a glorious evening at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Roof Top Pavilion. With the sparkling city of Atlanta serving as a backdrop I had the honor of serving as the master of ceremonies at the first ever Tech Marketing Awards. I will have a bit more to say about the growing Atlanta marketing technology cluster in the future but for the moment want to recognize the winners.
Small Company Corporate Marketer of the Year: Rod Witmond, Cardlytics
Big Company Corporate Marketer of the Year: Lincoln Barrett, Intercontinental Hotels Group.
Email Marketer of the Year: Simms Jenkins, Brightwave Marketing.
Mobile Marketer of the Year: Michael Tavani, ScoutMob.
Search Engine Marketer of the Year: Rick Batchelor, Qiigo.
Social Media Marketer of the Year: Jamie Turner, BKV.
Small Company CMO of the Year: Michael Trader, M2SYS.
Large Company CMO of the Year: Chris Thornton, Definition 6.
Up and Coming Marketer of the Year: Mariya Babaskina, MealpayPlus.
The Life Time Achievement Award: Dave Williams, BLiNQ Media.
Great group. Fun time.
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On November 18 I will be playing master of ceremonies to the first ever, and hopefully annual, Tech Marketing Awards.
I am quite sure that the highlight of the evening will not be anything that I have to say about the chief marketing technologist meme in my opening comments. Nor will it be the spectacular views of downtown Atlanta and the lights of Centennial Olympic Park from the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Roof Top Pavilion. The really good stuff will happen when some of the best and brightest marketers in Atlanta get together with a fine list of finalists to mingle and discuss the latest in marketing technology (easily confused by the non initiated with the marketing of technology.)
This will be fun. More details and tickets here.
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So Dave Williams of BLiNQ went out to the f8 show in San Francisco and realized that Atlanta needs a group to share best practices related to anything Facebook. So, he pinged me about ATDC sponsoring such a group and low and behold it is so. Should be a great group for developers working on the Facebook platform and companies looking toward Facebook for marketing purposes. Meetings will be held held the 1st Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm. Free pizza and beverages, will be served compliments of BLiNQ. You can join the meetup group here.
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So I came into the offfice today and was greeted with this:
The Scoutmob link led to a 50% off deal at Cypress Street Pint & Plate, a place I go to often for lunch and after work to meet with people about startup related activities. Like the place a lot. Even pointed the JungleDisk folks there for their recent Startup Tweetup Atlanta. So I replied:
Which led to the question:
To which I messaged:
So go grab that Scoutmob Cypress Street deal and let's get together on April 1 to welcome in spring. It should be a great night for good food, good friends, and good beer on the patio by the fire.
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