Social Media Crush: Marketing Over Coffee Podcast

WMT recently wrote an article dedicated to our Social Media Man Crushes of 2010.  Pete Cashmore, David Meerman Scott, Guy Kawasaki, and more were the top social media nominees.  My vote went to the hosts of the podcast, Marketing Over Coffee: John Wall and Christopher Penn.

I like John and Chris because they talk about marketing casually and they sound like people I would enjoy talking shop with over a nice cup of joe.

The crush did not start on the school playground – hello this is Web 2.0 land – the crush started in the iTunes store when I started to search for marketing podcasts.  My caffeinated mind, immediately gravitated towards the word “coffee” in “Marketing Over Coffee”, I clicked “subscribe” and it has been groupie fun since then.

Chris and John talk marketing at the local coffee shop

During the program, they offer traditional and new marketing tips, social media support, search engine marketing advice, AND they record the program in a local coffee shop every week!  You can download the shows FREE and listen to them whenever you want – in your office, while you exercise, on your commute, basically anywhere that is convenient for you.  Each show is short (about 20 minutes) and full of marketing tips and tricks that you don’t get at the office.  Plus, they inspire the boss lady and I to be better marketing podcast hosts for you!

Web Marketing Therapy’s Wild Web Women serve as a virtual community for women looking to communicate, collaborate and connect with other women who work the social web!

In February, Web Marketing Therapy’s Wild Web Women compiled a list of Top Marketing Man Crushes (e.g. Guy Kawasaki and David Meerman Scott) to pay a Valentine’s tribute to the men in marketing who provided inspiration and paved the way for Web marketers everywhere to find success. Overwhelmed with the responses from their Top Marketing Man Crushes poll, the Wild Web Women received feedback wanting to honor and acknowledge an elite group of Web professionals: WOMEN! After surveying the Wild Web Women LinkedIn Group, Web Marketing Therapy has complied a list of Top Women in Marketing and Social Media and are asking social media enthusiasts to vote for the smartest, most creative, insightful, charismatic, and innovative women on the Web today.

A recent study by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners found that 53% of the 79 million adult women in the United States who use the Internet participate in social media at least weekly. “With women being such a driving force on the social web, we want to recognize these leading women of the web, as they deserve their fair mention,” said Lorrie Thomas, founder of Web Marketing Therapy and the Wild Web Women team. “By supporting and empowering our fellow Wild Web Women, we thrive together!”

See below for the Wild Web Women’s Top Social Media and Marketing Girl Crushes and vote now at http://www.squidoo.com/Top_Marketing_Women_Social_Media.

• Arianna Huffington: Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post
• Miley Cyrus: The Twitter Quitter
• Lisa Stone: Writer, Blog Advocate and Co-Founder of Blogher.com
• Ann Handley: Blogger & Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs.com
• Susan Boyle: The Internet Sensation Who Dreamed a Dream
• Susan Bratton: Speaker, Media Guru, Co-Founder/CEO of Personal Life Media, Inc
• Mari Smith: Social Media Keynote Speaker, Relationship Marketing Specialist, The “Pied Piper of Facebook”
• Charlene Li: Author, Speaker & Founder of Altimeter Group
• Karen Rubin: Blogger, Co-Host of HubSpot TV & Project Owner at HubSpot
• Heather B. Armstrong: Writer, Photographer, Founder of Dooce, Favorite Stay at Home Mom (SAHM) in the Blogophere

Note: “Marketing Girl Crush” is a term that refers to that fervent infatuation that a web woman develops for another web woman who may seem impossibly sophisticated, gifted, beautiful or accomplished.

For more information, view our press release, Web Marketing Therapy’s Wild Web Women Honor the Top Women in Social Media For Their Marketing Leadership, Innovation and Inspiration.