Jeff Esposito

MARCH 25, 2012

Anyone who reads this blog with any kind of regularity knows that there are two things that I am very passionate about – sports and social media. At this year’s South by Southwest conference, Samsung caused one of these moments for me with their US Olympic Genome Project.

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Jeff Esposito

JANUARY 12, 2011

While there are still meaningful conversations and thoughts to be had, it is more difficult to see them in streams of information flooded with retweets, blog posts and event and other hashtags merely rehashing the verbatim of the speaker de jour. If a conference speaker gives a great sound bite or two, take a second to digest it.

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Jeff Esposito

MARCH 4, 2013

If you have a blog and want to produce some interesting content, consider packing your video equipment because social media folks are always willing and ready to chat on camera. Work stuff – my work laptop is pretty cumbersome, but will still need to check in during the conference. Camera swag – you meet some awesome people in Austin.

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Jeff Esposito

JANUARY 11, 2012

If you have tuned into this blog over the past 18 weeks , you probably know that for this NFL season, I decided to use social media metrics to predict the winners of each week’s NFL games. One thing that played a factor into these picks was the bye weeks of the top two seeds in each conference and their lack of buzz in the Wild Card round.

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Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 1, 2011

Anyone who reads this blog regularly can attest to my passion for social media and for exploring ways companies can leverage these technologies to better interact with their customers. On July 28, I arrived at the discreet offices near Yawkey Way and was shuttled into a conference room with 10 other members of the Sox Twitter community.

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Jeff Esposito

JULY 22, 2011

This week was an interesting one as I sat looking at my friends being berated by fans of another blog and by a well-respected conference because they had the audacity to have their own opinion on Google+ and experts. Chances are if you live anywhere within the continental US, it is pretty darned hot today. How was your week?

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Jeff Esposito

MARCH 4, 2011

If you are headed to Austin shoot me a message so we can have an IRL meeting and possibly an interview for this blog. Is there a void of advanced social media content on the conference scene? – It is what I’ve been thinking for a while with conferences seeing the same tracts. But how do we change this?

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Jeff Esposito

MAY 6, 2011

Authenticity, Transparency, & Hypocrisy: An Observation – One of the things that bugs me about many social media circles, pundits, blogs and conferences is that everyone is attracted to the shiny object. If you only read one post in this list, peep out the Miami-based filmmaker’s blog. Hopefully that changes.

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