Hello, my name is David Murray, and I am the Social Web Communications Director for re:group, a fully integrated marketing and communications firm in an Ann Arbor, MI. I’ve been with re:group for over a year, and we’ve created fully integrated digital and social media campaigns in the health care, franchise, nonprofit, and both B2B and B2C sectors. You can connect with re:group on Twitter and Facebook.

 

I’ve spoken at #unGeeked, SocialBiz World, TEDx, #140conf events, and Blog World. I’ve also also been featured in Wall Street Journal Online, and David Meerman Scott’s book, The New Rules of PR and Marketing. In my spare time I blog and eat food with the Detroit based food blog team, The Hungry Dudes. I currently live in Troy, MI with my wife, Jenni and our two cats, Bree and Boo.

I look forward to meeting all of you at @midwest 2011!

How do you walk the talk re: social media?

By doing my best to remember the 1st lesson in social media – listen.

What one practical tip can you recommend regarding the use of social media?

Help. Want to “rock” in social media? Then help your customers and each other.

What do you think is the perfect age?

The age you feel ready to try something new.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?

Doing nothing but laying on the couch playing video games.

What are you really good at?

Communicating with others.

Name one thing you will never understand.

How some people can be so unhappy that they will do nothing but sabotage someone’s happiness.

Share something on your mind lately.

Kind of noticing a lot of noise on the social channels. This is to be expected as it is easy to immediately want to use these tools as mini megaphones. Lately, however, I’ve been feeling that there has to be something more to this. Tweeting is all well and good, and having your own blog is fantastic, but shouldn’t social media be used more for social good than just announcing you had a bagel for breakfast?