Bubbly & Banter

Bubbly & Banter #3 with Jennifer Usher

Bubbly & Banter #3

Being on Bubbly & Banter has some amazing perks: you get to spend 20 minutes chatting with Julie Crabill and Mark Johnson, plus you get to drink a fabulous bottle of sparkling wine.  How much, you might ask, does this cost?  The surprising answer is that it's totally free.  Yes, you can be on B&B: just contact us at bubblyandbanter AWT gmale DAWT cawm with an interesting topic and we'll slot you in as soon as we can.

Today, Jennifer Usher, an Account Excutive at SHIFT Communications, is our guest.  The topic: the latest generation of PR people.  The bubbly: J Vintage Brut 2000. The toast: "To a thick skin." (a-men!)

Banter in this podcast range from how Jen got into PR (thanks to Chevy's), when enterprise software companies should and shouldn't worry about social media, the value of Oracle World and other large enterprise conferences, the worst AC (account coordinator) mistakes you can make, and the relationship between PR and product management.

We end with Mark finding the book, Dickless Marketing, on Julie's bookshelf.  Can I have another, "A-men"?

Bubbly & Banter #2 w/Jennifer Leggio

Bubbly & Banter #2

This week's edition of Bubbly & Banter features the beautiful, talented, and witty Jennifer Leggio (@mediaphyter and cohost of the Quick-n-Dirty podcast) with hosts Mark Johnson (@philosophygeek) and Julie Crabill (@julzie).  Listen in to find out the real reason behind the @mediaphyter moniker. . .

Our original topic was going to be centered around the real cost of social media but, as can be expected over a bottle of fine bubbly, we meandered to even more interesting topics.  We started talking about cost in terms of maintaining blogs, server space, and time, but then moved into talking about how each of us uses social media both for our "side" projects (blogs, twitter, etc.) and our actual jobs.  Three perspectives: Jennifer is the professional blogger with a day job, Julie is the PR queen, and I am the product guy who likes to write on the side.  We agree that we're all brand stewards and have to be careful what we say - though we also agree that social networks can be inherently self-regulating.

Note: the sound quality isn't perfect, but we'll work on that for the next show.

As always, we appreciate retweets, comments, and suggestions for topics/guests!

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Bubbly & Banter #1: Powerset & SHIFT

Bubbly & Banter is a new podcast from Julie Crabill (independent PR consultant) and Mark Johnson (program manager at Bing) focusing on PR, marketing, and product (an extension of our blog project).  The idea behind the podcast is that we'll invite a guest onto the show while we all share a bottle of bubbly, because we believe the best conversations happen while imbibing. 

This is our inaugural episode and therefore guestless.  Instead of grilling some poor soul, we talk about our (sordid) history together.  Mark was the product guy at Powerset and Julie was the VP at SHIFT, Powerset's PR firm.  We talk about how Powerset chose SHIFT from a long list of candidates and offer some advice about how other companies should choose a PR firm.

The champagne: this week, we consumed a bottle of N.V. Launois Pere et Fils Champagne Brut Œil de Perdrix carried from France by Julie herself.  Yum!

If you'd like to be a guest in the future or have any feedback about topics, just drop us a line on Twitter.  Enjoy!

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