Featured Doer: Chloe Sladden

Perhaps more than any other social network, Twitter is the land of influencers. You are your own channel. And media companies-- from newspapers to TV channels -- are scrambling to figure out how best to use the micro-blogging site to connect with their audiences and create new approaches to content curation (and creation).

Enter Sladden, Twitter's director of media partnerships. A veteran of Current TV, where she produced the Webby Award-winning program "Hack the Debate," in addition to "Current Twitters the Inauguration," which was described as "perhaps the most radical attempt to merge television with the Internet," Sladden works closely with MTV, CNN, HuffPost and NYTimes.com, among others, to better integrate Twitter across media platforms.

She is one of 15 candidates for a video interview in our HuffPost Spotlight Series, presented by HP. The top five question-getters will be interviewed using your questions.

Question submissions for the Spotlight Series are now closed. Thank you for your questions and stay tuned for our interviews with the top five question-getters!

Comments

[bc 001]

01:46 PM on 06/04/2010

Twitter is becoming the biggest unreliable, unofficial news source in the world since Roger Ailes' Fox News Channel. How does it feel to be contributing to the (further) dumbing down of journalism?

[TekBoss]

05:35 PM on 06/02/2010

I don't get it. What is so amazing about what she is doing? I've created corporate apps to do the same thing and you never heard of me!

[Sheryl Harnas]

05:02 AM on 05/23/2010

I think of Twitter as a voice of consciousness - a way to express ideas in a world powered by the dollar. Nothing turns me off faster than an infomercial. We are already bombarded by marketing - I'm looking for a way to connect without being a large corporation. Am I wasting my time?

[SteveS]

11:44 AM on 05/20/2010

I use Twitter and Facebook irregularly, to connect with friends. Any business using either to connect with me is simply spam. While I know business wants to use social media to tap into customers, how do other people besides myself feel about that? Are many people eager to get tweets about products?

[Peta51]

03:06 AM on 05/20/2010

How can Twitter, along with other Social Media, create a critical mass of Liberated Consciousness than can transform the present world into a sane humane one for the benefit of all? Am I dreaming in what seems like a global nightmare? ~Che Peta ~ http://twitter.com/Peta_de_Aztlan

[DonDavis4]

09:32 AM on 05/19/2010

I am a media consumer who's tastes run outside the mainstream. I follow web serials like "The Return of Montego" and "Mr. Lurker," and I think they offer very valuable social commentary, particularly regarding the two-party political system we have in America. What do you, or Twitter, recommend regarding ways to bring this kind of content into the mainstream fold?

[windows]

10:17 PM on 05/18/2010

How can companies know how well they are doing on social media? Are there any reports on this or studies that you recommend?

[TannersDad]

03:11 PM on 05/18/2010

What Ideas do you have for expansion of Non Profit platforms like @Causecast? Also How do Non Profits gain meaningful space in between the massive noise of Politics & Tragedy? ( Sometimes one and the same) TannersDad Tim Welsh Advocate for Humanity, Autism, & Environment

[andywiedlin]

03:10 PM on 05/18/2010

Chloe,

I use Twitter, but I am admittedly spastic and only use for following and retweeting. Are there any efforts to make Twitter more user friendly for tweeting, or is it simply a user error on my part?

[jshank1221]

11:00 AM on 05/18/2010

What's your personal favorite Twitter integration/execution in partnership with a media company that existed before the year 2000?

[Morgan Holland]

11:17 AM on 05/17/2010

What are the coolest/most innovative partnerships you have worked on to date?

[vhuff]

11:13 AM on 05/17/2010

Do you think people are spending longer amounts of time on the internet with this new era of social news? As the future progresses, can you see the internet overpowering cable networks?

[lwarren]

10:44 AM on 05/17/2010

You must be in high demand. How do you decide which media properties are right for partnership with Twitter?