Technology ruled the ramp at the recent IBM Cloud ( NYSE: IBM) and 360FashionNetwork (www.360fashion.net) "Startup Runway & Innovation Awards" 2015, on Nov 3rd at the City View at Metreon in San Francisco. The event was a visionary display of technology infused clothing & accessories. Anina Net, founder and CEO of 360Fashion Network and Sandy Carter, General Manager, IBM Ecosystems and Social Business Evangelism at IBM were the main event hosts for "Building a Bridge Between Fashion & Technology". The layout. Mannequins decked in futuristic clothing, with flashing … [Read more...]
Social Media meets India’s Prime Minister Modi
NewzSocial was selected as the Social Media Marketing partner for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Silicon Valley in September 2015. For me as the founder/CEO, this event was a milestone in my personal journey. When I came to the United States many decades ago, India was regarded as a third world country and the term du jour was ‘brain drain’ to describe the exodus of bright minds that sought their career and fortune in other lands. PM Modi refers to this now as the ‘brain deposit’ to describe how the Indian diaspora has bridged the economic disparity between the two … [Read more...]
The Power of Social Media Ambassadors for Events
Peter Drucker once said "the purpose of business is to create and keep a customer". For someone organizing an event, you could apply the same logic and say that "the purpose of an event is to create and engage an audience". Social media is an extremely effective tool for this purpose, yet many businesses are only in the earliest stages of learning to leverage. At NewzSocial, we are working with a set of customers who are blazing a new trail of ways to "create and engage" audiences using social media on a much wider scale around their events. One example is the South Asian Heart Center, … [Read more...]
