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Spreading the Word
News by, about, and for WOMMA members:
* Congratulations to WOMMA Board member Virginia Miracle of Brains on Fire, who welcomed a baby boy on Aug. 23. Cheers, Virginia, to your new addition!
* Rob Key of WOMMA member company Converseon and Jonathan Ashton of WOMMA member company Agency.com spoke on a panel, titled "Buzz Monitoring," at the Search Engine Strategies 2007 Conference and Expo, which took place Aug. 20-23 in San Jose, Calif.
* Andrew Field of WOMMA member company PrintingForLess.com was recently featured in an article on the Pronet Small Business Resource Center. You can read the article here.
* This Thursday, Aug. 30, the Bulldog Reporter's PR University series will host a teleconference on word of mouth marketing. WOMMA Board member Paul Rand of the Zocalo Group, Board member John Bell of Ogilvy PR, Paull Young of WOMMA member company Converseon, and Andy Sernovitz of WOMMA member company GasPedal will be speaking. Find out more about the teleconference here.
* WOMMA Board member Gary Spangler of DuPont and Board member Pete Blackshaw of Nielsen BuzzMetrics were both recently quoted in a MidwestBusiness.com article, titled "Message From ad:tech Chicago: Ignore Consumer Voice at Your Peril." You can read the article here.
Are you speaking at an event or receiving an award? Were you quoted in the press? Are you making a change at work or at home, or otherwise just doing something really cool? Tell us about it and we'll spread the word! Email editor@womma.org.