Speaker Update: Kipp Bodnar, Social Media Marketing Manager, Howard Merrell & Partners

Kipp Bodnar
Social Media Marketing Manager, Howard Merrell & Partners

Kipp Bodnar is Social Media Marketing Manager at Howard Merrell & Partners, a full service marketing and advertising firm in Raleigh, NC. During his career Kipp has successfully developed and implemented social media campaigns and plans for clients in business-to-business and business-to-consumer industries.

In addition to his work at the agency, he is the publisher of SocialMediaB2B.com, a multi-author blog dedicated to providing examples and thought leadership for B2B companies planning to incorporate social media into their marketing strategy. Kipp also blogs on technology and social media at his personal blog DigitalCapitalism.com. He also co-hosts TalkSocialNews.com a daily video podcast on social media with Wayne Sutton.

An active event organizer in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area Kipp helps organize local events including Triangle Social Media Club, Social Media Breakfast Raleigh, Tweetups, Barcamps, Ignite Raleigh, and other events that focus on technology and social media. He has spoken at these events as well as the Blog Carolinas conference, Product Camp RTP, TIE Carolinas, as well as client events.

His social media experience includes the development of strategy and tactics utilizing corporate blogs, podcasts, online reputation management, blogger relations, social bookmarking, microblogging platforms, RSS, social media optimization, social networks, online video sharing and other web-based forms of communication.

Kipp obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, with an emphasis in public relations, from Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va.