How To Become A Social Media Marketer According To Industry Experts

Last week I officially launched the first significant program through New Media School, a project I’ve been working on over the past few months. Back in January when I wrote about The Curse of the Shiny Object I mentioned that “I’ll be exploring how to leverage social media for success”. That’s essentially what the new social media marketing program is about.

I’ve put together some of the top experts in the industry that will provide guest lectures on a wide range of topics. We’re also going to be announcing some more speakers in the coming days. I’ve also been working out a deal to provide participants with Facebook ad credits and a soon to be released book by one of our guest lectures. All in all I’m expecting this to be an amazing learning experience for all participants as well as myself.

We’ll be spending this week discussing general social media strategy and then hopping in to Facebook Pages soon after. I’ve spent the past few months determining the best program for the course and think that I’ve come up with something that will be an amazing opportunity for all participants. We’ve already sold half of the spots for our course since the Techcrunch article first came out last Thursday and I’d imagine that all spots will be filled by the end of the week.

If you are looking to learn more about becoming a social media marketing master, you should most definitely join our course. Below are some of the speakers that will be participating over the coming months:

• Brad Feld – Co-Founder of Foundry Group and author of widely read venture capital blog
• Chris Bucchere – Founder of Social Collective
• Clara Shih – Author of “The Facebook Era”
• Craig Stoltz – Author of “Web 2.Oh…Really?”, one of Time.com’s Top 25 Blogs
• Dan Schawbel – Author of “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success”
• Dave Kerpen – Chief Buzz Officer at theKBuzz
• David Berkowitz – Director of Emerging Media & Client Strategy for 360i, author of the blog Inside the Marketer’s Studio
• Debbie Weil – Author of “The Corporate Blogging Book”
• Don Steele – Vice President of Digital Marketing, MTV Networks
• Frank Gruber – AOL Product Strategist & Evangelist
• Harper Reed – CTO at skinnyCorp, Co-Founder of Threadless
• Hiten Shah – Co-Founder of KISSmetrics
• Jake Brewer – Engagement Director of Sunlight Foundation
• Jesse Thomas – Founder of JESS3
• Jared Goralnick – Founder of AwayFind.com, author of Technotheory.com
• Joe Suh – Founder and CEO of myChurch
• John Bell – Managing Director of Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence and President of WOMMA (Word of Mouth Marketing Association)
• Leslie Bradshaw – Director of Engagement, New Media Strategies
• Micah Baldwin – VP of Business Development and Chief Evangelist, Lijit
• Mike Lazerow – CEO and Founder, Buddy Media
• Mike Volpe – VP of Inbound Marketing, HubSpot
• Neil Patel – Co-Founder of KISSmetrics
• Shashi Bellamkonda – Head of Social Media Strategy, Network Solutions
• Tamar Weinberg – Author of “The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web”
• Ted Leonsis – Owner, Washington Capitals, Chairman of Revolution Money, and Vice Chairman Emritus of AOL
• Tim O’Shaughnessy – Co-Founder & CEO, LivingSocial
• Victoria Ransom – Founder, Wildfire Interactive

If you are interested in learning more, you can join the course now!

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.