Tag Archive | "developer relations"

Gaining Distribution: 2nd Developer Pitch Session Added to CTIA Agenda

March 9, 2010 by Lisa Whelan | Consulting, Developers, Events
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Following up on my earlier post about the Developer Pitch Sessions at CTIA in Las Vegas, CTIA just added a second panel on”Gaining Distribution” to the official agenda.  I’m looking forward to moderating this new panel, “Gaining Distribution- Panel B” on Wednesday, March 24, 3-4pm. So far, there is a great panel of experts confirmed for [...]

Developer Relations

January 14, 2010 by Lisa Whelan | Uncategorized
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Developer Relations Consulting As millions of consumers demonstrate their increasing thirst for mobile-application-based services, the demand for mobile developers and fresh content is growing.  Mobile OEMs, operators, platform vendors, development tool companies, marketing/pr agencies and others are all struggling to grab the attention of the world’s best mobile developers and establish their own loyal and productive [...]

Mobile Strategy

January 14, 2010 by Lisa Whelan | Uncategorized
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Mobile Strategy & App Development Consulting As consumers demonstrate a growing interest in mobile-application-based services, company’s marketing departments and their world leading PR, marketing, and communications agencies (“Agencies”) are struggling to find meaningful and cost effective ways to reach consumers through mobile devices. Most in-house marketing departments and Agencies lack the deep mobile applications, marketing, and [...]

Lisa Whelan’s Bio

November 1, 2009 by Lisa Whelan | Uncategorized
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Lisa Whelan is the Managing Consultant at Socialize Mobilize, which provides global strategy, business development, marketing, and developer relations expertise to clients including: Kodak, Motorola, Palm, Inc., ShoZu Inc., Offbeat Guides, Hands-On Mobile, SocialMedia Networks, and others. Previously, Lisa worked for PA Consulting Group in London, engaging European clients on strategy, business and technology integration [...]

Directory of the Top Mobile Developer Relations Pros on Twitter

July 21, 2009 by Lisa Whelan | Consulting, Developers, Mobile, Social Media
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UPDATED 7/31/09: Below, you’ll find a list I compiled of mobile developer relations professionals on Twitter.  It’s interesting to see how many mobile companies are starting to use Twitter to engage with their developer communities.  The most prolific developer relations tweeps seem to be from Windows Mobile (which lists Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as communications [...]

5 Big Lessons to Learn from Nokia’s Ovi Store Launch

May 26, 2009 by Lisa Whelan | Developers, Mobile, Monetization, Review
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Nokia’s new Ovi Store officially launched today.  It represents a step in the right direction for the diversification of the mobile content market in general, but there are substantial kinks to address.  There are enough blogs and tweets out there that rehash the high and low points (highlights for me include: Terence Eden’s post, All [...]

About

February 19, 2009 by Lisa Whelan | Uncategorized
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Founded in 2003 by Lisa Whelan, SocializeMobilize (formerly UKG Consulting) provides global business development, marketing, strategy and developer relations expertise to clients of all sizes and stages of growth.  Click here to read client testimonials.  Clients include: Click on the links below to learn about each client: Mobile: Motorola Palm, Inc. ShoZu Inc. Hands-On Mobile Internet Services: Kodak Gallery Offbeat Guides SocialMedia Networks Publishers High Speed [...]

Preparing to Swallow My Words as Verizon “Opens” its Network…

November 27, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Mobile
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Today, Verizon reported (gasp) that it is “opening” up its network to any device and any application…that can meet it’s “minimal technical standard”.  I’m prepared to swallow my words (see my previous post “Will Verizon Become a More Open Mobile Network for Developers?“), assuming Verizon’s standards (to be published in early 2008) are as reasonable [...]

I’m Now Writing SocialMedia Network’s Blog

November 6, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Advertising, Consulting, Developers, Social Media
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Yesterday, I started a 2 month, part-time consulting gig with SocialMedia Networks, a leading provider of social network services including a large and growing network of applications across Social Networking platforms.  SocialMedia’s flagship product, Appsaholic, currently available on Facebook and MySpace makes it easy for independent software vendors (ISVs) to manage, market, and monetize the [...]

Appsaholic Facebook Developer Conference Recap

August 22, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Advertising, Events, Social Media
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Tonight is the first chance I’ve had to write about the Facebook Developer/ Influencer conference that I went to last week.  The event was an invite-only afternoon of panel discussions hosted by Seth Goldstein of SocialMedia.  Attendees included about 50 developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and a couple of bloggers, and the discussions ranged from “When, if [...]