Carri Bugbee

Carri Bugbee is a social media marketing strategist, writer and PR pro. Her business, Big Deal PR, helps companies and organizations get ramped up in social media spaces, integrate social media with traditional marketing channels, and engage customers.

Bugbee teaches a class in social media marketing at Portland State University, she is a Social Media Masters teacher for Social Media Club, and she provides private training on social media platforms for marketing. She is also a contributing author to “The Big Book of Social Media Case Studies, Stories, Perspectives” and writes for “Social Media Monthly.”

In 2009, she won an international Shorty Award in the advertising category for tweeting as @PeggyOlson, a character from the AMC hit drama “Mad Men.” She has spoken at many conferences and events, including the AllFacebook Expo, O’Reilly Twitter BootCamp, the 140 Characters Conference, Cool Twitter Conferences (keynote), OMMA Global, South by Southwest Interactive, OnHollywood, Social Fresh, WebVisions and more.

Bugbee has also been featured or quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNET.com, ClickZ, BusinessWeek.com, AMCtv.com, The Oregonian, The Daily Beast, Boards and many other publications. She’s conducted video interviews with Advertising Age, BusinessWeek, Media Bistro, KGW News/The Square and the Twitter Road Trip.

You can connect with her on nearly every major social networking site through CarriBugbee.com.

Twitter: @CarriBugbee