Job Openings - Social Media / Community Leads

We're getting ready to roll out some job descriptions for a couple of Social Media / Community Leads. But before we put together a formal document, we want to get some referrals from the Seattle social media community.

There are a number of roles to fill, and they vary between placing people with clients, having folks join our team, and having some specialists help with some freelance project based work. So let us know if you know anyone who fits one or more of these skill sets:

• Video production and editing (Non broadcast quality)
• Bi-lingual (Spanish and English) writing skills
• Graphic Design and light Web coding
• Experience driving application downloads
• Mobile marketing campaign experience
• Sports Retail / CPG experience

Send inquiries to andy@social3i.com

New Favorite Social Media Tool - Flavors.me

Nothing revolutionary here, and I may be a little late to the ballgame on this one. But I'm having a lot of success working with Flavors.me as a super simple, 10 minute way to build out nice looking web properties.

There's nothing genius in the concept, but the execution is unbelievably quick and easy. In about 20 clicks, you can aggregate together all your social feeds, upload background pictures, change the font colors, and - if you choose too (I haven't yet) - grab a custom url. So if you publish for multiple blogs, in theory you could grab all the rss feeds from those blogs, and suck them into your single Flavors.me page.

There's real value in the system if you are struggling with clients who have multiple locations, and can't decide if they should have different url's, different Facebook pages, etc... This gives you a nice aggregation capability.

For personal branding, I can't think of anything much easier. Get your resume, photos, designs, feeds, reading lists, etc... all dragged into one place for an employer / client to look through, and save them the hassle of google.

Give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

2 Weeks With the iPad

I'm not necessarily a gadget guy. I like the toys, but I'm generally towards the tail end of the early adopters. For me to spend a lot of money on something, it needs to be good enough to justify replacing the time and energy I've already invested on something else.

I usually get pushed over the edge when I see that someone I respect has adopted the technology into their everyday life. So a few weeks ago, after I watched one of our clients taking notes on his slick little tablet, I went forth and joined the iPad nation.

Here are some notes now that I'm two weeks in:

- Super solid notetaking device. Easier and less intrusive than a laptop. Easy to share notes with everyone in the room.

- Love Keynote. Easy to make presentations on the fly. In fact, I was even able to build a quick soccer field in order to diagram some plays and show my youth team the starting lineup and subs.

- Love Flipbook. Super cool app for turning my Twitter and Facebook feeds into a mini-magazine.

- Haven't downloaded spreadsheet apps yet. This is a glaring hole so far, as I'd love to quickly run numbers.

- Netflix is fantastic. It's the easiest way I've ever seen for me to just quickly turn on a device and catch up on whatever series I happen to be watching all the way thru.

- Also, when I'm at my desk I find myself just using it for monitoring email and Pandora, so I don't have to bother with having it open on my desktop.

I haven't really gotten into games or anything yet. Also, I can't say I use the browser or email any differently that I'd use my iPhone, so that's not a real differentiator. And I'm just starting to get into the speech recognition stuff, but I haven't really nailed that yet.

Overall, it feels like there's a decent learning curve between making the device a really cool photo album and a fully functional work device. More to come.