Quickly after Social Media Day San Diego, Brian Fanzo and I had a great chat about Twitter, Snapchat, Mailing Lists, and everything else relevant to social media in 2016!

 

Mike and Brian Discuss:

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5:03 Discovering the girl next door

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9:43 Twitter changed my life

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13:43 What is a twitter chat?

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18:44 Deciding what platform to invest in

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21:20 FOMO

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25:39 Early Brian and Steelers memories

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42:52

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51:44 Snapchat changes

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55:34 Audience Building

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64:19

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68:49 The expectation of free and utilizing the email list

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76:42

 

 

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Brian Fanzo is the voice of millennialism. He holds the position of the Chief Social Media Officer and Digital Media Storyteller for MyChannel Inc. He is an enthusiastic Periscope and Blab user. Brian uses the name @iSocialFanzo for video blabbing.

 

 

Brian Fanzo is an ardent follower and believer of live streaming. He has hosted live streaming of 25 hours at Superbowl City. He has also hosted the #SummitLive which witnessed the teams of Periscope and Twitter together for an accumulated agenda to improve the social world. Brian has been recently named as one of the Top 25 Social Business Leaders of 2014 by The Economist Intelligence Unit. He has also been nominated for the #ShortyAwards Periscoper of the Year 2016.

 

Brian Fanzo was born in Pittsburgh, which happens to be a city in western Pennsylvania. He had a keen interest in sports and played hockey in school and university level. Brian studied at Kellam High School, a public high school in Virginia Beach, Virginia from 1995 – 1999. As a child, Brian is known to be a keen observer, talented and expressive kid. He was fond of storytelling and participated in storytelling competition at school. Brian Fanzo studied Information Systems at Radford University from 1999 – 2003. Currently, Brian lives in Queen Creek, Arizona.

 

Brian Fanzo started his career as Secure System Technician in BAE Systems Information Technology in January 2005 and worked there for one year five months. He then joined BAE Systems Information Technology as the Secure Systems Technical Engineer-Lead. He was promoted as the Information Assurance Technical Trainer. He was further promoted as the Training Manager Cyber Defence Software – DISA and he served BAE Systems Information Technology until September 2012. Thereafter, Brian joined IO as the Senior eLearning Designer and was later promoted to the position of Director, IO.OS® Technology Training, and finally Technology Evangelist. Brian left IO in June 2014. After a small gap of 2 months, Brian joined BroadSuite as the Chief Digital Strategist and Partner and worked until September 2015.

 

Brian Fanzo founded iSocialFanzo LLC in 2011 with the following objectives:

* Social Media Marketing

* Employee Advocacy

* Influencer Marketing

 

He believes in Collaboration, which is the future of Innovation according to him. He spread the utility of Digital Engagement to Leverage Social Media for Brand Empowerment. Brian Fanzo founded Backlamp LLC in January 2016, which happens to be the Parent Organization of Summit.Live, situated in Greater Los Angeles Area. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of iSocialFanzo LLC (Virginia) and is holding this position from April 2014.

 

Brian has served as the Chief Social Media Officer for MyChannel Inc for a short span of time.