Carri Bugbee

Current

Leader at Social Media Club Portland
Partner at Supporting Characters
Owner at Big Deal PR, Inc.

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Past

Marketing & Evangelism at Portland Creative Conference and Cre8Camp
Public Affairs at Hill & Knowlton, Asia-Pacific Region
Traffic Manager at Wieden + Kennedy

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Education

University of Oregon

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Industry

Public Relations and Communications

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Carri Bugbee’s Summary

I’m the proprietor of Big Deal PR (www.bigdealpr.com), a virtual agency that manages campaigns and projects in digital marketing, PR 2.0, community management, advertising, and special events (real or virtual). I have 20+ years in traditional public relations and advertising, but in recent years I’ve incorporated tools and tactics such as Twitter, Facebook, community building, SEM, blogging and YouTube to help businesses build better customer relationships and boost sales.

I recently won a Shorty Award for being an outstanding content producer on Twitter for tweeting as @PeggyOlson, a character from the AMC hit drama "Mad Men." In addition to tweeting for several Mad Men characters, I've launched and/or managed 30+ Twitter accounts for clients, non-profit organizations, community-building, special events, entertainment, personal and research purposes.

I’m speaking about social media methodologies at numerous conferences in 2009, including South by Southwest Interactive, The 140 Characters Conference, O’Reilly Twitter Bootcamp. OnHollywood, WebVisions, Innotech, Communicopia, American Marketing Association Roundtable, and the Cool Twitter Conference. I will also be teaching a class in social media at Portland State University fall term 2009.

As the leader of Social Media Club Portland, I co-produced the first annual SoMe Awards in April 2009 to honor outstanding social media projects.

In February 2009, I launched a social media consortium with other professionals called Supporting Characters (www.SupportingCharacters.com) to help provide social media training and support services to corporate marketers, PR firms and ad agencies.

Summer 2008, I helped produce and market CreateCamp (Cre8Camp.org), which was the first ever Bar Camp for creatives, along with the resuscitated Portland Creative Conference (Cre8Con.com). If you attended those events or are interested in future events, join our groups for those organizations here on LinkedIn (which I manage). 

Carri Bugbee’s Specialties:

Big Deal PR creates strategic marketing campaigns using social media, PR 2.0, advertising and SEM for businesses and organizations in hi-tech, entertainment, health/fitness, retail, education, travel/hospitality, pet products, electrical technologies and construction. Big Deal PR also partners with other creative firms to provide PR for them or their clients. These creative companies have included ad agencies, animation studios, graphic design firms, film/broadcast companies and Web developers.

Carri Bugbee’s Experience

Leader

Social Media Club Portland

(Public Relations and Communications industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

I'm leading the Portland Chapter of Social Media Club. Follow us on Twitter: @SocialMediaClubPDX or email us for info : SocialMediaPDX@gmail.com
Partner

Supporting Characters

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Supporting Characters is a coalition of social media pioneers who came together over the Mad Men on Twitter project. We're creating new ways for brands to connect, build community and track results via social media tools and platforms.
Owner

Big Deal PR, Inc.

(Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

November 1993 — Present (15 years 9 months)

Big Deal PR provides advertising, marketing and public relations services for businesses in hi-tech, retail, health/fitness, entertainment, electrical technologies and construction along with not-for-profit organizations and labor unions. Big Deal PR also partners with other creative firms (ad agencies, graphic design companies, Web development firms) to publicize them or their clients.

Carri Bugbee’s Education

University of Oregon

B.A. in Journalism , Emphases in Advertising & Public Relations , 1982 — 1987

Activities and Societies:

AAF Ad competition team, PRSSA

Additional Information

Carri Bugbee’s Websites:

Carri Bugbee’s Interests:

Marketing strategy and trends, social media & networks, copywriting, online community building, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), Web usability, Web 2.0-enabled tools and promotions.

Carri Bugbee’s Groups:

Portland Startup Weekend, Portland Creative Conference, Oregon Entrepreneurs Network, Portland Creative Conference, Software Association of Oregon (SAO), Search Engine Marketing Professionals (SEMPDX), Self-Employed Creative Professionals (SECP), MediaBistro