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Jeff Bates
VP, Platform, SourceForge, Inc

Jeff Bates brings many years of strategic management and editorial leadership to SourceForge. As Vice President of Editorial Operations and Executive Editor of Slashdot, Bates is responsible for driving new site and product development, and, manages strategic story editing and placement for the leading tech news site, Slashdot. While at Slashdot, Bates has been responsible for several industry awards including a Webby People’s Voice Award for Community, as well as Yahoo!’s “Top 100” Best of the Internet Award. Slashdot has also been cited by The Washington Post, TIME, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Business Week, and Forbes as one of the most innovative and important sites for the technical community.

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Marketing to Online Communities: Lessons from Early Adopters
Jeff Bates (SourceForge, Inc)
With growth of social media marketing spending in the triple digits, savvy marketers are asking how they can tap into the power of online communities to make, break, or create brands. While no one has all the answers, gatekeepers of online communities have insight into what makes a marketing campaign successful and how marketing and advertising opportunities can be created within communities.