It’s always an exciting time of year here at New Media Strategies with the holidays, year-end wrap up and a ton of NMS Yuletide traditions. This time of year always seems to be the best time for celebration and for reflection to take some measure of what you’ve accomplished and where you are heading next. In that spirit, over the past few weeks with the help of my wife Burson, I’ve been doing some serious reflecting and in the days ahead I hope to do some serious celebrating.
That is why I want to share with you that for me, twelve years after creating New Media Strategies, the world's first social media marketing agency, and five years after selling the company to Meredith Corporation, I've decided it's time to start the next chapter.
As much of the media and Twitter-verse remains focused on the horrific allegations coming out of Happy Valley, we in the @NMSosphere wanted to take a deeper dive into that discussion and see exactly how Penn State fans and Alums feel about the Sandusky scandal
Today, we're extremely excited to announce a partnership with iris Worldwide, one of the hottest international marketing firms in the world. Iris has over 800 employees with offices in London, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Mexico City, New York, Atlanta and Miami. We are thrilled about the capabilities and expertise that our new family members bring to New Media Strategies and the entire Meredith Xcelerated Marketing team.
I’m proud to announce that our tool for tracking social media buzz, the industry-leading NMS Buzzmark, correctly predicted the outcomes of 89% of United States Senate races in the 2010 midterm elections including Majority Leader Harry Reid’s victory over Sharron Angle in Nevada
I was psyched to see @jrick (social media consultant Jonathan Rick) @message the NMSosphere earlier this week and praise our practice of publishing and making both transparent and public all of our employees tweets (both personal and professional) on our NMS Twitter Directory.
Originally inspired by the Zappos Twitter site, we are proud to be the first social media agency — in the spirit of transparency – to not only have "team tweets" aggregated under one roof and spotlighting our thoughts, client projects and industry links, but also have great sorting features based on name, username, followers and listed (we even have a special page for our pics, too).
Our second decade of operations has started off with a pretty big bang. At NMS, we've had a slew of new business wins including being named the Social Media Agency of Record for Chrysler and all of their brands while also onboarding a ton of new talent and continuing to grow Our Team of rockstars. While we value the past ten years and have built a culture rich with traditions, we thought it would be fitting to begin a new year and our second decade with a bit of a fresh take and something equally as new. So, we're moving...urls that is.
There is so much more to do, so much more we can accomplish and I couldn't ask for a better team of innovators, experts and pioneers to help lead the way as New Media Strategies begins our next decade.