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WistiaFest

One of my goals this year was to “sharpen my saw”, by branching out to other conference/events to learn more from outside our industry. Mostly as it relates to improving my business and products. I attended a Email Marketing Summit hosted by MarketingSherpa, which was great. And last week I attended WistiaFest.

Many of you know that I bit of a photo/video geek. I always like to take pictures at events and lately incorporating more videos in to our marketing of Cloud CMA. Here’s one of our latest.

A great resource I found is this company called Wistia.

Haven’t heard of Wistia yet? It’s a great tool that lets you host video and also give you some analytics on watching behavior of those videos.

Wistia also has this great Learning Center where they post tons of videos, on making great videos (so meta!). They launched WistiaFest based on feedback from their customers. The one held last week was their inaugural event.

photo 2The event was held in Cambridge, MA. There was a reception held the fist night at there company headquarters, which was this refurbished building that was tres startup cool.

Ping Pong, Pinball, open kitchen great vibe. The first day was at Le Meriden which featured speakers from Wistia along with experts from SEO to storytelling. Capped off with another party at their offices.

photoThe next day workshops were held back at the Wistia offices. I had time to attend about 3 of these, but there were about 3 more I wish I could have attended as well.

They capped off the event with food trucks, BBQ, more great beer and wine, and a dunk tank.

I learned a helluva a lot, and had a great time. What I didn’t expect is how inspired I was by the company itself. I had a brief conversation with Wistia co-founder Chris Savage on what a great event and incredible team they have put together.

Having sat in on Wistia’s other co-founder and CTO Brendan Schwartz you can tell they both lead by example with passion and smarts.

Can’t wait till next year!

Glass and Starchild promoted at MOVE.

Move Promotes Glass To Lead Industry Platforms, Kane To Lead SaaS Business, And Starchild To Lead ListHub

“”Luke, Michael and Celeste have grown and improved Move’s business services with strong leadership, integrity, expertise and passion so we are delighted they will continue to lead and build our relationships with our partners and customers,” said Steve Berkowitz, Move’s chief executive officer and director. “Their promotions are examples of the depth of executive leadership within our company.”

Move Inc Luke GlassI couldn’t be more happier with these promotions. Luke is an excellent fit and will do a great job for MOVE and the industry. It’s also great to see MOVE recognize Celeste. Her promotion is well deserved. Both have a lot of work to do, but nothing worth while is ever easy.Move Inc Celeste Starchild

I’m not as familiar with Michael Kane. What did strike me is the number of products/companies MOVE has under its belt.

Realtor.com
Doorsteps®
HomeInsightSM
SocialBiosSM
Moving.com™
SeniorHousingNetSM
homefairSM
Relocation.com
ListHub™
TigerLead®,
Top Producer®
FiveStreetSM

Looks like Michael will be in charge of many of these, mostly on the agent/broker facing side. The list itself is pretty long. Seems like some branding thought should be put it to this menagerie.

My congrats to Luke and Celeste!

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