Vid PRO Co: Kind of like quid pro quo, but not

Vid PRO Co

****Vid PRO Co officially launches January 22, 2009 at 8:00p.m. CST.****

Calling all public relations, communications and social media professionals! Yes, even those who play one on Twitter and Facebook. This is your opportunity to get answers to your burning questions in a new way.

 Some of the most knowledgeable peeps around are joining together for the common good of all. Vid PRO Co is based on a a very simple idea where people can submit questions and get answers via video.

The first video group of its kind, Vid PRO Co offers a NEW way to interact, via audio and visual, with your favorite industry leaders.

How does it work?

• Record your video* (State your name and/or your twitter ID and then ask your question).
• Share with the VidPROco identity on Seesmic (http://seesmic.com/vidproco).
• The member(s) of the PRO team best equipped to respond to your question will do so.
• UPDATE: There is NO set time to submit videos or for the responses.
• Yep. It’s that simple. Connect with the people you’ve tweeted with now via video.

I’m SO excited to announce the PRO team who will be part of this new conversation!

Your PRO TEAM:

Amber Naslund (@AmberCadabra)
Amber Naslund is a social media and marketing upstart, and the Director of Community for Radian6, where she’s responsible for client engagement, community building, and helping companies tap the potential of online reputation management, customer engagement, and social media monitoring. She’s spent the last decade or so raising funds, building brands for companies of all sizes, and messing with all things online.

Brian Solis (@BrianSolis)
Brian Solis is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning PR and New Media agency in Silicon Valley. Solis blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, and regularly contributes marketing & tech insight to industry publications. He’s a published author and an avid speaker on the topic of new marketing and engagement. Solis is among the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media. He’s a co-founder of the Social Media Club and a founding member of the Media 2.0 Workgroup.

Jason Falls (@JasonFalls)
Jason Falls is the director of social media for Doe-Anderson, a brand-building agency in Louisville, Ky., specializing in building brand enthusiasts. A public relations professional by trade and writer by craft, Falls is co-founder of the Social Media Club Louisville. Falls’s aggressive approach to social media produced innovative programs such as the Jim Beam Baja Twitter Tracker, a micro-blogging effort following Robby Gordon’s progress in the 2007 Baja 1000 in Mexico and Jim Beam’s Here’s To The Stuff Inside campaign (www.stuffinside.com) which has been noted as the first major social media-based effort of any spirits company.

Jason Kintzler (@Pitchengine)
Jason Kintzler is the Founder of PitchEngine, a web tool enabling PR professionals to package and share press content via the social web. He’s a former print and broadcast journalist turned PR pro and now, enterprenuer. He blogs on the PitchEngine Network, a social community he created to cultivate ideas and help “PR meet social media.” In creating PitchEngine, Jason is helping to evolve public relations as a whole, bringing authenticity and engagement to PR through the integration of social media content. By utilizing the PitchEngine Social Media Release, brands are not only engaging media contacts the traditional way, but also consumers. He’s fostering a new approach to a century-old craft.

Katja Presnal (@KatjaPresnal)
Katja has built her reputation offering a turn-key Marketing Solution for mompreneurs in the children’s fashion industry. She offered all-in-one marketing solution for small businesses in the children’s fashion market including Online Store Skimbaco.com, Lifestyle Blog SkimbacoLifestyle.com and PR service LadybugLandings.com. The products she has represented have received national and international press, including a product endorsed by Tom Cruise on Oprah Show. Now Katja offers PR consulting and focuses on social media marketing, especially in the “mom” target market. Katja is one of Walmart’s Eleven Moms, and was named as one of the 50 most powerful and in?uential women in social media.

Sarah Evans (@PRsarahevans)
Sarah throwing herself in the ring by default since this is her blog! She is the director of communications at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois. She brings a comprehensive background in the knowledge of non-for-profit and health care management. Sarah’s personal mission to engage and employ the use of emerging technologies in all communication makes her effective in reaching a dynamic audience. She runs two blogs, PRsarahevans.com and moderates the weekly Twitter chat between PR, journalists and bloggers called #journchat.

****Vid PRO Co officially launches January 22, 2009 at 8:00p.m. CST.****

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