Buddy Media solidified its presence as thought leaders in the burgeoning field of social media with a pervasive presence at Graphing Social Patterns East this week.

Buddy Media made its presence known from the opening moments of the conference with a crowd-pleasing tutorial moderated by Jeff Ragovin (Vice President of Sales and Business Development). Jeff led an interactive session in which he had participants develop social media marketing strategies for an imaginary product called “Apple Window.” The audience was tasked with coming up with ideas for an Apple-branded Facebook application that would serve to market the product while engaging users in a fun and addictive “casual gaming” experience.

Buddies Patrick Stokes, Dan Seldow, and Abby Lauterbach chatted up the masses while distributing popcorn and spreading the good word about our success in marketing branded applications for big brands.

Mike Lazerow had the prescience to see what was coming down the social media pike and turned that hunch into a thriving business that’s way ahead of the competition. That forethought was on display Tuesday as Mike participated in two panels on the emerging power of social media advertising – highlights from his presentation are included in the slideshow below.