Adobe Summit 2014 Recap

Summary & Key takeaways from Adobe Summit 2014 The Adobe Summit has exploded over the past 3 years as it moved away from the Grand/Little America, where it was still hyper focused on analytics & testing (~2,000 people attending 1-2 years post Omniture acquisition), to a large scale (6,000+ people) pan-digital marketing showcase hosted at the Salt Palace Convention Center. The growth and integration with other tools in their suite has allowed them to shift focus from solely an analytics/optimization product line to a ‘Marketing Cloud’ of tools marketed to the CMO and used across the digital/marketing organization. Here are my top high level takeaways from this year’s Summit: Key themes: Testing, Platform, & Personalization Takeaway #1: Over the past 2 years Adobe has pushed hard on integration & product
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Social Media Week Recap

Today kicks off Social Media Week 2012 aka #smw12. Thanks to my buddy @justinkistner, today also kicks off my new blog, self titled, BloggerChica (find me on Twitter – @bloggerchica). I attended a jam packed day of sessions by a great line up of speakers from Adobe, Altimeter, Cisco, eBay, Intel, and SAP. The day’s events were hosted at Adobe’s San Jose headquarters. First up, Jeremiah Owyang – Altimeter Jeremiah talked about “Social Data in a Crystal Ball” and the 7 elements of social data: 1 – Demographics: Business strategies towards demographics becomes more powerful when combined with 2 – Product: Using product info is tried and true, but will be more valuable combined w/ behavioral 3 – Psychographics: With this data, brands should focus on higher level topics to
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