The Official Blog of AREA203 Digital

Listen up, digital know-it-alls! Just when you thought the announcement of timeline for Facebook business pages was going to cause marketers to change their content [...]

I love to read, write, curate, tweet, publish, bookmark, archive, post, pin, plus, and stream content online. I consume anything from news to personal interest [...]

Nothing caps off the end to a stellar year than a good ol’ fashioned flash mob, right? AREA203 was holding our 2011 recap meeting, when the [...]

Here at AREA203 Digital, we are committed to the highest standards of honesty and integrity for our company as well as our employees, partners and [...]

Each year the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce hosts an annual event called the Chattanooga Business Expo. The idea is to bring together businesses to [...]

Social media ROI is one of the most talked about topics in digital marketing. MDG did a fantastic job of pulling together key stats to [...]

  I recently had the privilege of interviewing Mitch Thrower, CEO and Founder of BUMP.com. Thrower wears many hats—as an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and triathlete—just [...]

  AREA203 Digital (that’s us) will host a free online broadcast next Thursday, July 21 with Mitch Thrower, founder of the intriguing new social platform—BUMP.com [...]

Check out this awesome infographic I stumbled across today. It’s definitely worth sharing with your teams, industry peers, clients, tweeps, peeps and posse. PS- This [...]

There are several business benefits to incorporating vendors, sponsors and other industry-related businesses into a social media marketing strategy. For the purpose of this blog, [...]

I was recently asked to join the board of advisors for the Social Media Alliance of Chattanooga (smac). I am totally stoked about this new [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHATTANOOGA, TN (May 6, 2011) – AREA203 Digital is proud to welcome Senior Social Media Strategist Matt Honkonen to the digital media [...]

Late last night, the death of Osama bin Laden broke across Twitter, TV, SMS, Facebook—basically every possible way of communicating. In fact, CNN recently reported [...]

The Radian6 User Conference took place last week in Boston, MA. As a digital marketing professional, it was refreshing to be in a room with [...]

Earth Hour took place yesterday, March 26, at 8:30pm. I produced a quick screencast of the #EarthHour news stream search on Twitter to demonstrate the [...]

So, I was working on my computer and catching up on TV shows the other night and really got into my work. All of a [...]

I think all American Idol voters can agree with me when I say…. FINALLY!!! After ten seasons of being on air, American Idol FINALLY adds online [...]

Today is a BIG day for Apple fans, techies and geeks all across the globe—Apple is holding a LIVE media event. Will they officially announce [...]

Last Thursday, during ExactTarget’s #NexusCafe Twitter chat session, the participants began buzzing about the phrase “dirty post.” Watch my screencast tutorial on how to publish [...]

As I scanned headlines on my favorite aggregate sites this morning, I came across an especially interesting headline from Good.is: “A massive, crowdsourced get-well card to [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AREA203 Boosts Guatemala Tourism Through Successful Digital Awareness Campaign Website traffic and social media interactions surge shortly after launching a U.S.-targeted awareness [...]

Organized Twitter chats seem to be getting more and more popular. I don’t have any statistics to justify this statement, but I have noticed my [...]

Casey Knox, Social Media Manager for AREA203, shares insights on the 2010 infographic statistics recently shared by Foursquare.

Email etiquette can mean a lot of different things and cover several topics. These email etiquette rules are basic enough to apply to internal business [...]

Here’s a great way to start off the new year: Get better acquainted with social media! It was, after all, one of the most talked [...]

Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to launch a “revamped messaging product.” The focus of the announcement was on the optimization of personal, one-to-one [...]

If you are managing a Facebook Business Page, tagging is an easy and enormously effective way to interact with other businesses within the Facebook community. [...]

Until coming onboard with AREA203, all of my professional experience involved well-known or established brands, i.e., SunTrust Banks, Texas Roadhouse, and Marriott. Also before AREA203, [...]

My first childhood memories pretty much ran parallel to the birth of Music Television (MTV). I remember the Apollo 11 montage launch of MTV… I [...]

When it comes to social etiquette in today’s world, some of you might be unconsciously stooping to subterfuge. Whether you are an old hand or [...]

Last week, our agency partnered with the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce to create a social media presence at the Chattanooga Business Expo. The Chamber sent out an [...]

I was flipping through my husband’s Men’s Health magazine the other day (by the way: I highly recommend this magazine to men and women for [...]

I’ll start by saying that I am fairly new to Twitter. I have only been Tweeting for a few months. According to the social media [...]