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Helen Klein Ross & Michael Bissell Interview at Adweek's Social Media Strategies Conference

2010-01-25 16:00:00

The sound track gets off a little from the video, but it's a nice little interview with me and Helen KleinRoss when we spoke at the Adweek Social Media Strategies Conference in September of '09.

The topic is how we managed to tweet in character for Roger Sterling and Betty Draper

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