About Chris Moody

With social media, new forms of marketing, and all the other exciting things on the horizon…it can be tough to wrap our arms around the overall goals of marketing. This blog exists to help shine a light on some of the newer trends and any notable reads or useful links about Marketing + Branding + Design.

Chris currently resides in Raleigh, NC. He is a Pragmatic Marketing Certified Senior Marketing Manager at Red Hat and often guest lectures at NC universities. In his spare time, he loves college basketball and playing basketball, golf and softball. He is also happily married with an extremely handsome son.

Why follow Chris?*

-He’s the 15th of 14 Social Media Pros in the Triangle to Watch in 2010, which is equally impossible and impressive.
-At SoFresh Tampa, he had the honors of making up a statistic and helping bring “that’s what she said” to a panel.
-His article, Real World Twitter Usage for Product Managers was published by Pragmatic Marketing.
-He was featured in Personal Branding Magazine with Chamillionaire, Brian Solis and the Chocolate Rain guy.
-He helped launch a sweet product called Phonebooth that you can read about here.
-He guided the social media strategy for Phonebooth to get real results, which has been covered by Mashable.
-His work with Phonebooth’s social media strategy is featured in the book “The Executive’s Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy.”
-He had the honor of being selected to present at Ignite Raleigh 2 to over 700 people and teach them why “Everyone Needs a Dumb Guy.”
-He was featured on MarketingProfs.com thanks to a post on customer service and word of mouth.
-He tells funny stories and is pretty sarcastic.
-He’s tall enough for you to wear 3″ plus heels around.
-He may not be a social media rockstar, but he’s at least a groupie.
-He does most video interviews in one take or less, like this one.
-He can fit in almost any speaking panel and most overhead compartments.
-He’s so self-deprecating, you’ll feel better about yourself by hanging out with him.
-An interesting fact about Chris – he has “That’s What She Said” engraved on his wedding band.

Associations

-Triangle AMA VP of Marketing, Board of Directors and Leadership Committee

Speaking Events

A few speaking gigs highlighted to show that I’ve actually tricked a few people into letting me get up on stage to talk.

-Social Fresh (Charlotte ’10, Tampa ’10)
-Internet Summit ’10
-Ignite Raleigh
-Triangle Social Media Boot Camp
-North Carolina State University
-Meredith College
-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill