After leaving her native East Bay to go to college in New York City, Meredith Terry worked as an actor. You may recognize her as extra #359 in the Target Fall ‘08 Commercial. She moved to San Francisco in the fall of ‘07 to be closer to her family. Prior to working at FM, Meredith worked in HR at Red Bricks Media, a San Francisco-based digital marketing company. Outside of work, Meredith still keeps up with the acting bug, occasionally taking classes here in SF. She lives for live music, cooks anything with potatoes and helps write an indie music site, www.strangerdance.com. Meredith joins FM as my EA, so a special welcome to FM!!

Greg Hay comes to Federated Media via Nielsen Online where he was a social media analyst. At Nielsen, Greg performed custom research projects, looking at the way consumers interact with brands, each other and issues online. Previous to Nielsen, Greg worked for a PR video company doing digital marketing and website creation. He has also done digital marketing for an Enterprise software company and a white box computer manufacturer.

Greg is from Syracuse, NY and an expert in driving in the snow. He spent his summers sailing on the St. Lawrence River, briefly worked on a dairy farm, took 8th out of 65 in a Rental Car Road Rally, maintains GregHay.com and started a small fake mustache club in Manhattan. Welcome to FM, Greg!

MarchTweetness is the place to find and follow all the March Madness Twitter chatter. Are you a Duke fan? North Carolina fan? Have a stunning upset prediction? MarchTweetness brings it all into one place.
If you’re new to Twitter, see here for an intro. Now get over there and join the conversation.

There are over 100,000 C-level executives on Twitter today but it’s difficult to know how to find them, which to follow, and where the most important conversations are happening. Not anymore. Now Federated Media, Twitter and Microsoft have created ExecTweets, a real-time tool that helps you to find, follow and engage with the world’s most prolific and successful business executives on Twitter. See Twitter’s blog post about ExecTweets here.
ExecTweets cuts through the clutter and provides only the most relevant and insightful business-focused conversations – all curated and aggregated into industry verticals like Healthcare, Retail, Finance and more. You can now easily find the best, most important conversations happening between influencers in your industry. You can also nominate executives to be included in ExecTweets (your boss will be flattered).
If you’re new to Twitter, see here for a great introduction. Then get over to ExecTweets and join the conversation.

Congrats to Ree Drummond on taking the top prize at this year’s Weblog Awards. Via Wired:

The web’s best blogs are honored here every year at the Weblog Awards, aka “The Bloggies,” now in their ninth year. The top prize for 2009’s edition were handed out to blogger and photographer Ree Drummond for her site, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman.
“I’m shocked,” she said after the awards were over. There were 30 categories in total, and Drummond actually won in three of them — Best Photography, Best-Designed Weblog and Weblog of the Year. “I can’t mathematically believe it’s possible, it’s so great,” she said.

This is awesome. Here’s the teaser for the first in a new animated series called SuperNews from Current.
Via Boing Boing:

Brent of Current told me that SuperNews, (an “animated series about the news, technology, pop culture,” is premiering on Current on Friday. Each half-hour episode “is going to include very timely/topical brand new piece of animation that the team produces each week.” Here’s a teaser, called “Twouble with Twitters.”