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Kim serves Marketing Leaders. Her analysis on social trends, challenges, and best practices helps marketers create social strategies and tactics that deliver value to their prospects and customers. Her research covers B2B and B2C marketing, with a specific emphasis on the use of social marketing platforms and online communities to shape exploration and buying behaviors.
With over 15 years of marketing experience, Kim is an award-winning social media thought leader. She held various senior management roles throughout her career, including partner marketing, developer marketing, product marketing, event marketing, and marketing communications. She was a driving force behind Sun Microsystem's use of social media and listening platforms to drive awareness and product adoption. After Sun, Kim spent a year at Oracle as a senior global campaigns manager.
Kim holds a B.A. in marketing from Rider University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
I am honored to be at InsideView's Insider Summit on Monday, March 12 at 9:15am PT to host a keynote and tweet jam. Join me and my fellow analysts, @ZacharyRD, @loriwizdo, @JRSilber,...
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Join me for an interactive webinar on Tuesday, March 27 at 10am PT/1pm ET on a new Forrester framework for building an online community called "CLICK." CLICK is a new approach tech marketers can use...
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