Jessica Northey is a Blogger, National Speaker, Multi-Media Personality.
Tucson native, Jessica Northey is a Music industry innovator, and created the largest Twitter and Google Plus community known as Country Music Chat which has generate over 2 Billion impressions since its beginning in May 2011, according to Hashtracking.com. #CMchat “Where Country Music Meets (and tweets) You” is the first, largest and only registered LIVE “Country Music Chat” on Twitter.
Northey is a Social Media, Broadcasting, Country and Music Blogger/Journalist as well as a National Speaker, Spokesperson and On Air host. Her column “SocialMediology 101″ on AllAccess offers tips, advice and general Jessisms. She is also a contributor to TheCountrySite.com Network, Nashville Music Guide and KrisCountry.com. She is CEO/Owner of Digital Marketing Strategy boutique firm Finger Candy Media.
Having a personal online network of over 1 million followers, she is consistently ranked as one of the Most Influential People, and "Most Powerful Women on Twitter" according to TwitterGrader.com. Ranked #3 on Forbes Top 50 Social Media Influencers and #2 Top 20 Female Social Media Influencers she has also been recognized by Huffington Post as a TwitterPowerhouse, and by Tech News Guide Bit Rebels as one of Twitters 75 Most Powerful Women on Twitter, Northey is making her mark on not just Digital History but the way that the music industry uses Social Media.
A speaker at Radio’s Conclave, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, 140 Character Twitter Conference, Jeff Pulvers Brands Conference, Arbitron Client Conference/Jacobs Media Summit 2010, Social Media 301 at Microsoft in Seattle, American Marketing Association, Texas Music Seminar, Worldwide Radio Summit, Billboard Summit, Brand Camp, California Women's Conference, NAB Show, Radio Ink’s Convergence Conference, NAWBO, Social Media Masterminds of America, Finalist for the Trailblazer Award from SMAZ, contributor to Albright and O’Malley, Entercom Radio, Clear Channel conference calls and a guest blogger on Social Media Today and many others.
Northey is the Host of Country Music Chat, #CMchat, Twitter's largest weekly and 24-7 online community and Entertainment industry chat. Every Monday, Northey offers different topics to followers from getting your music played on the radio, to Social Media strategy and of course the inside scoop from Country Music Artists, Broadcasting Personalities, Radio & Label Executives and Fans alike! The #CMchat community is an open-forum.
Past guests have included National charting and recording artists The Oak Ridge Boys, Charlie Daniels, Ronnie Milsap, Jamie O’Neal, Barbara Mandrell, Edens Edge, Sunny Sweeney, The Farm, David Nail, Jaida Dreyer, Gwen Sebastian, Steve Azar, Danny Gokey, Rhonda Vincent, Darryl Worley, Shy Blakeman, Bigg Vinny Mack from Trailer Choir, David Bradley, Whitney Duncan, Dailey and Vincent, The Moonshine Bandits, Aaron Watson, Rachele Lynae, Craig Wayne Boyd, Cowboy Troy, Shooter Jennings, Colt Ford, Jason Crabb, Deborah Allen, Bridgette Tatum, Danny Myrick, Stealing Angels, Rick Monroe, Ray Scott, Charlotte Autry, Trent Tomlinson, DJ Miller, Darren Warren; Nine North Record’s Larry Pareigis; On-Air Personalities Big D and Bubba Morning Show, Andie Lynne, Radio Lia, Tony Thomas, Heather Froglear, Kaptian Jack and Buck Stevens; Online blogs/music industry communities Billboard, All Access, Country Music Is Love, Roughstock and The Country Site; TV Stars, Melissa Peterman from CMT’s Singing Bee, Curtis Grimes from NBC’s The Voice, Paige Duke from CMT’s Sweet Home Alabama, Susan Hartman & Ali Dee from CMT’s Texas Women, Country Comedian Tom Mabe (Mabe in America on CMT), Tom McMillan from Toms Wild Life on GAC; Internet sensations Payton Rae, CJaye LeRose, Josh Charles and Mary Sarah. #CMchat goes live every Monday at 6pm PST/9pm EST. The chat runs for one hour. Jessica poops at parties. Wis dah doorah open.