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Elizabeth serves Interactive Marketing Professionals. Her research focus is on emerging media including gamification, tablets, mobile, youth marketing, and interactive and social TV. She helps leading brands assess how and when to test emerging technologies and how to integrate emerging channels into the overall marketing mix. In addition, Elizabeth is proficient in social media and word-of-mouth marketing.
For more than ten years, Elizabeth's diverse interactive marketing experience has spanned agencies and midsize companies and has included work as an independent consultant. Most recently, Elizabeth was a consultant for Cisco Systems, assisting its corporate affairs marketing team with developing, implementing, and managing integrated social strategies. Prior to Cisco, Elizabeth was a senior associate at Zocalo Group, Omnicom's first sister agency to focus on social media and word-of-mouth marketing. Previously, she was the national marketing director for Aquent, the world's largest creative staffing firm. Elizabeth began her career in public relations at Ketchum, a leading global communications firm. She has been quoted in such media outlets as The New York Times, Businessweek, and The San Francisco Chronicle and speaks at leading industry events. Throughout her profession, she has been active in the Business Marketing Association, American Marketing Association, and Word Of Mouth Marketing Association.
Elizabeth holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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