Francine Hardaway has been blogging for nine years and was an early adopter of Twitter. You can also find her on Friendfeed, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, identi.ca, Seesmic, Kyte, UStream…you’ve got the picture.

As a partner in Stealthmode Partners, she has helped package and secure funding for many early-stage technology companies. She has created positioning and marketing strategies for dozens of companies growth companies (from startup to IPO to maturity).

Prior to co-founding Stealthmode Partners, Dr. Hardaway was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Innovative Environmental Products, and Manager of Worldwide Press Relations at Intel’s Computing Enhancement Group, where she planned the entrance of the intelligent I/O server chip into the OEM market and created the public relations plans for digital imaging, in-car computing, USB, and home networking. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Hardaway built the largest marketing/public relations firm in Phoenix, Arizona before leaving it to join Intel. Nine years ago she co-founded Stealthmode Partners with Ed Nusbaum.

Francine was an Entrepreneurial Fellow at the Berger Center of the Eller School of Business, University of Arizona and has taught entrepreneurship at several Arizona colleges. She makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona and Half Moon Bay, California. In Phoenix, she founded the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conferences and Social Media Club Phoenix. Stealthmode Partners runs the popular FastTrac progams in metropolitan Phoenix.

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The Strange and Wonderful Adventure of NewsGangLive

Fire Your PR Firm and Do Your Own Branding. Only a few PR firms do social media really well, and it’s not easy to do. You are probably better served by following a few principles and doing it yourself.