Maryanne Conlin is a social media marketing consultant and founder of The Mcmilker Group, an agency focused on developing strategic social media marketing programs. She is a 2008 Shorty Award winner for Best Green Content on Twitter for her client, @greenmoms and was named one of the top in green to follow on Twitter by Mashable.com
Maryanne spent 20 years in corporate marketing, including stints in a variety of both start-up and Fortune 500 companies, most recently as Director of Marketing for a division of a several billion dollar multi-national, prior to entering the social media world. She brings this strategic background to her social media consulting work and includes among her clients top Hollywood publicity agency, Levine Communications, Goddard Schools and infomercial marketing giant, Product Partners.
She is also a popular author and speaker on green and socially responsible marketing. She has been writing for Green Options Media since 2007.
Ms. Conlin holds B.S. in Marketing and an MBA from The Thunderbird School of Global Management. She has taught marketing and public relations at The University of California, Berkeley, The University of California, Irvine and The University of Hong Kong.
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As the holiday season approaches we’re all looking for quality toys for our children. Readers of this blog, and increasingly the world at large are seeking toys that are eco friendly and inexpensive too.
That’s why Eco Childs Play agreed to team up with Goddard Systems, Inc, one of the largest child care providers in the country, to seek out the best green toys we could find for under $30.00.
I have a number of ideas for great eco toys this year since being involved with the Eco Toy Test sponsored by Eco Child’s Play and the Goddard Schools. We had over 50 entries from great green toys companies and because we’ve created a Facebook and Flickr, we have an excellent shopping guide if you’re looking for gift ideas.
We’ve made a special effort to encourage toymakers of all sizes to enter as we search for the greenest toys under $25.00. We’re all interested in maximizing our dollars these days and I’ve been surprised to find out just how many relatively inexpensive green toys there are!
How does a small company compete against the big guys in the toy industry? In particular as pointed out by Wendy Johnson, with Birchtree designs writing on the contest Facebook page:
But it’s Back-To-School Time so it’s time to take another look. My list focuses on easy things that you and most daycare centers can do to make life just a little greener.
I’ve heard this conversation a number of times at the small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) I work with:
Green Vendor: “So Mr. CEO, how many of my carbon neutral, biodegradable, BPA-free whoozamacallits would you like to purchase?”
How to Use Twitter to Engage Green Consumers Slide Show given at The Cool Twitter Conference
I spent this weekend at the biggest conference for bloggers in the world, Blogher or as we know it on Twitter #blogher09! Bloggers streamed into Chicago from all walks of life, including a few Eco Childs Play bloggers. I was able to attend the conference thanks to my sponsor, Goddard Child Development Centers.
This is another in our series of environmentally focused cartoons we are featuring from Seppo Leinonen a cartoonist from Finland. I met Seppo through Twitter @sepponet and loved his business oriented green cartoons - I think you will too!
This is another in our series of environmentally focused cartoons we are featuring from Seppo Leinonen a cartoonist from Finland. I met Seppo through Twitter @sepponet and loved his business oriented green cartoons - I think you will too!
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