Do you have to sell to the C-suite?  Can you frame your conversations to the way an executive team can understand?  Do you know how marketing executives are adapting to Online Marketing Tools?  This infographic from Marketo can help frame your discussions:  

I really enjoyed SXSW this year and there is a lot to talk and enough content generated from Friday through the following Sunday that can be shared all year.  Rather than go into too many details .. I'll let this Infographic describe the Austin experience at SXSW.   I'm still smiling from all the conversations that I had and ability to share ideas with peers and mentors.  Here is an infographic describing the SXSW buzz about the Interactive portion .. as you can see there were over 1 million tweets generated in this 5 day conference.

We all go to several lunches, meetings, networking events, and conferences.  However, there are sometimes where you get a great deal of insight from one speaker.  Sure, we all know what he is presenting but something about his presentation style, examples, and simple message .. makes the message stick in our brain and that is what we all want as marketers.

Here are my tweets (notes) of the @austinAMA luncheon of @gerardodada's presentation in chronological order (edited to be sure to properly attribute in a blog post):

Today is MLK Day .. while some of us had the day off and others went to work ..

We all should take a moment and honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Hello to all who read this blog ..

I just wanted to take a moment to say "Thank You!" to everyone who made 2011 a great year!

Here are some highlights of 2011 that I thought were worth sharing:

EQ had 25+ speaking engagements 

Received an award as part of EGBI's Biz Steps Program as a trainer.