Introductions and Morgan Reed - Social Media Week 2013 @ MoDevDC

Social Media Week @ MoDevDC: App discovery & more with social integrations

App discovery is one of the biggest challenge areas for app publishers. One way to improve this is through smart use of social integration using either third party tools or simply great code and design. This month we'll look at some of the best uses of social for apps and mobile web. We'll hear how they were done and learn what impact they are having success.

Featured Presenters:

Jeremy Pennycook, NPR

Jeremy will talk about how NPR uses the flow of traffic from social sources as a key driver to responsive design. As a news producer, traffic from social sources like twitter and FB are big growth areas. NPR has made the experience of entering the NPR site from social a primary use-case in their work.

Camellia George, Wapo Labs

Camellia will join our panel discussion and share insights into Washington Posts very successful social media reader and more.

Todd Walderman, Ryo Games

Todd will demonstrate his social media plugins for interactive books released for itunes and soon kindle. Todd has also refined a suite of tools and workflows to reduce production costs and time to market.

Morgan Reed, The Association for Competitive Technologies and ACT 4 Apps

Morgan will give us a quick technology & policy update - information critical to all developers regarding the latest legislation and potential challenges specific to the developer community.

Adrian Mikeliunas, MoDevAcademy Android Instructor

Adrian will give a brief overview of the Android Academy courses for next week