Banafsheh Ghassemi’s passion for using technology to promote empathy can be traced to a turbulent childhood. Ghassemi is the winner of the first annual Robin Carey Connector Award, named after the late Robin Carey, the founder of The Social Shake-Up Show, which will be held May 22-24 in Atlanta. Ghassemi will be given the award—which […]
“Saturday Night Live” cast member Cecily Strong has joined the speaker roster for the Social Shake-Up, a three-day digital communications conference that will be held May 22-24 in Atlanta, and presented by PR News in partnership with Social Media Today. Strong will be joined onstage by Rob Gregory, president of content and influencer marketing company WhoSay, with whom she’ll discuss how social media conversations have influenced her character choices, impacted her performances and helped build her audience.
In just a few weeks, hundreds of social media-savvy professionals will descend upon the W Atlanta-Midtown hotel for The Social Shake-Up Show. Three years ago, I road-tripped to the Shake-Up, and although I recall that each session I attended was valuable, it was my direct interaction—or lack thereof—with three attendees that altered the course of […]
