About Nate
Nate Riggs is a communication and social web strategist with a true passion for connecting people with people, promoting genuine and transparent communication, and helping mid-sided to large companies adopt and use social web technology.
Nate has run the gamut of marketing and business development roles in the past 10 years, working with traditional brand marketing agencies, retail marketing and design firms, search engine marketing and web design agencies, as well as leading client-side marketing initiatives for technology companies.
Most recently, Nate partnered with the team at huber+co. interactive to help develop and launch a social media branding and awareness initiative, as well as working to build and execute marketing, on-boarding and sales strategies surrounding the launch of TweetMyTime, a social media application that allows endurance races (like marathons and triathlons) to seed and leverage social media to raise awareness and drive online interest to race events.
The application and his work has been recognized across the industry by publications like NBC’s Universal Sports, Columbus Business First, The Columbus Dispatch, and numerous other online and traditional media outlets. TweetMyTime and huber+co. have also been nominated for the 2009 TechColumbus Innovation Awards. In 2009, he named as a Mentor in Len Kendal’s Constructive Grumpiness blog Top 30 under 30 Tweeters. Len also blogs for MarketingProfs.
Nate blogs here at www.nateriggs.com, writing about communication strategy, personal branding, and social media adoption, the Human Business movement, engineering online content, the trials and wonders of being a dad, and life in Columbus Ohio.
He has reviewed dozens of new internet applications and start-ups, is often interviewed by business publications for his opinions on social web trends, and regularly speaks to local, regional and national audiences on a variety of business communication and social web topics.
Nate holds a degree in Organizational Communication and Media from Otterbein College, and brings nearly 10 years of experience in business development, brand marketing, public relations and interactive marketing to his work.
