TAG Product Management

Grow Your Network - Grow Your Career

The old saying, "it's not what you know, it's who you know," still rings true for professionals looking to advance their career.

If product management or product marketing is your profession, there's no better place in Georgia to network than the TAG Product Management Society.

Our Mission

• To promote the value of Product Management within Georgia technology companies

• To foster the education and learning of Product Management professionals in the interest of career advancement

• To strengthen the Georgia Product Management community and become a premier network

Our Audience

The TAG Product Management Society is both broad and deep in its membership, ranging from SVP's to staff professionals and from product management and marketing to services, engineering and everything in between.

Interested? Join our mailing list - make sure to check off the Product Management affinity group.

    Join the TAG Product Managment LinkedIn Group!

2009 Calendar

Jan 14 - Tips for Hiring the Right Product Manager

Feb 11 - Product Usability and Its Impact on Product Success

Mar 11 - What Executives Want & Expect From Product Management

Apr 8 - Career Day for PM's

May 13 - 5 Ways Product Management Can Exert More Influence

Jun 10 - Building Differentiation into Your Product

Aug 12 - Happy Hour (6:00 - 7:30 p.m.)

Sep 9 - Changes in Product Management Following an Acquisition

Nov 11 - Product Management vs. Product Marketing

Past Presentations:

March 21, 2007: Product Management & Product Development Crossfire

April 25, 2007: David Rubini - Director, Product Usability, Digital Insight

May 9, 2007:  How Product Management Can Best Interface with Sales

November 14, 2007: The Product Management Challenge

The Atlanta Product Management Challenge featured a real world case study from PreVisor, a pre and post-hire assessment company.  Four groups of product managers and marketers signed up for the challenge to assist PreVisor with its international expansion plans. Each team created a plan outlining a packaging and positioning strategy for the UK and Australia and an organizational process for funneling requirements into the global product management team as well as a process for rolling out new products in both international markets. After a touch decision, a winning team was chosen.

Congratulations to the following individuals for creating the winning plan:

• Ron Surfield - Senior Director, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc
• Lawrence Guillory - Senior Product Manager, CheckFree Corporation
• Ahmed Kahn - Business Development, Accept Software
• Joel Alpert - President, Market Power

Gold Sponsor                                                                                                                               

Society Board Members                         

Chair
John Mansour
ZIGZAG Marketing
404-601-2866
jmansour@zigzagmarketing.com

Membership & Recruiting
Ash Hassib
Choicepoint
ash.hassib@choicepoint.com

Founder
Scott K. Johnson
IBM Internet Security Systems
sjohnso@us.ibm.com

Marketing & Web
Jason Schmitt
Steelbox Networks
jason@steelbox.com

Programs
Sherry Junker
Silverpop
sjunker@silverpop.com

Programs
Greg Smith
uMonitor
mbafsuno1@yahoo.com

Programs
Geoff Cummings
Cbeyond
geoffc@mindspring.com

Programs
John Balose
CheckFree
jbalose@checkfree.com

Programs
Jon Harmer
Cbeyond
jon.harmer@cbeyond.com