colab

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colab is a creative agency that helps clients create a conversation with their audience through public relations, social web, and creative events.  We optimize an interactive marketing approach, balancing new media tactics with traditional media strategies, to help create a unique formula that fits for each client’s goals.  Services include  public relations, communications, event design and coordination, graphic and web design, social media and technology consulting.

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monica danna is a Marketing & Public Relations Consultant who specializes in New Media strategies for small businesses. Monica has spent much of her career in the Energy industry as a software marketing specialist. Before beginning her consultantcy, colab, in 2009 she held the position of Social Media Manager for Halliburton and its various subsidiaries.  Focusing on Social Media consulting and Public Relations strategies for small businesses and non-profit organizations , Monica uses tools such as blogging, Facebook, and Twitter to add new media tactics to traditional marketing methods to achieve the optimal marketing mix for a client.  She enjoys playing an active role in the Houston arts community and is a freelance writer for various print and online publications. You can find her blogging at www.cosmopolitician.net or Twittering away as @cosmopolitician.

{clients: be the conversation}

Sew Crafty Houston
ArsLyrica Houston
Opera in the Heights
Houston Mayor Bill White
Andrea White
Jeff Downing for Houston
Alltop.com + Guy Kawasaki
Caroline Collective
Kirtsy
OpMom
Azur Salon
Bright Sky Press

{Workshops + Conferences}

Altitude Design Summit – January 2010 (Salt Lake City, UT)
Politicopia – January 2010 (Salt Lake City, UT)
Bright Sky Press Social Media for Business Series – Fall 2009 (Houston, TX)
Microsoft + Kirtsy Hands on Small Business Social Media Workshop (Nationwide)
SchipulCon – October 2009 (Houston, TX)
Internet Strategies – September 2009 (Houston, TX)
Clearpoint Creative Social Media Workshop – May 2009 (Houston, TX)

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