Social Media Marketing Event on March 25, 2010
By Neil L.
Social Media Marketing event to be held Thursday, March 25th at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas benefiting scholarships for the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University, for the enrichment of young professionals and established business owners alike.
Keynote Speaker Brett Tabke – CEO/Founder of Webmasterworld.com and the famous Pubcon internet marketing conferences.
Nick Bombersbach, Director of Digital Marketing and Customer Experience for JCPenney, is responsible for developing and executing JCPenney’s digital and eCommerce strategy. Hear how JCPenney has found a way to effectively incorporate Social Media and Digital Marketing in their marketing strategy.
Christi Day and Alice Wilson – Social Media specialists for Southwest Airlines who are in charge of the daily social media strategy for the airline.
Tony Wright, with more than ten years of hands-on and strategic experience in interactive marketing and a background in traditional and interactive public relations and journalism, has spent his career building search engine marketing teams. Wright is a sought after speaker at industry events designed to create or enhance interactive advertising and search engine marketing.
- Sam Bradley, Ph.D., assistant professor of advertising is a front runner in Social Media Analysis whose research focuses on current trends in social media.
- Tom Johnson, Ph.D., is the Formby Regents Professor in Convergent Media. Both professors will discuss the importance of integrating social media trends into classroom instruction and conducting analytical research of the effects of social media.
Event Costs (proceeds benefit scholarships for the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University)
$1,000 table sponsorships available for a table of 8
$100 per person or $75 for young professionals (under 30)
Get more details and order a ticket here.
March 8th, 2010
84 Tweets from Social Business Boot Camp 8:15 - 10:15 - Social Media Seminar Reviews
By Neil L.
- CouchSurfingOri Now watching Cynthia Smoot lecture. #socialbbc a)she’s hot b)her info’s scary. Americans only stay at gigs for 4 years 12 year avg in greece
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Easysale @CouchSurfingOri: Just finished my presentation at #socialbbc - so much fun. So much value. (==> And so much humility! 
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unified360 ready for @ohsocynthia to take the stage at Social Business BootCamp! #SocialBBC
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davidswinney LIstening to @ohsocynthia speak about personal branding at #SocialBBC.
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Easysale #socialBBC @ohsocynthia speaking on personal branding. Important b/c Americans stay at a job an average of 4 yrs.
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interstatebatts You’re very welcome! This should be fun. RT @unified360: Thx for the Swag Bag! #SocialBBC
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ElaineLiner RT @Easysale: How to be remembered on social media: Care, have opinion, provide value, connect, help people. #socialbbc
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Easysale RT @Blydawg: @ohsocynthia is taking the stage at #SocialBBC! (I’m raising the roof)
Dallas Social Media Workshop to be Held Benefiting National Breast Cancer Foundation
By Neil L.
Urban Interact, Inc. announced today the launch of the first annual Social Business Boot Camp, to help companies and individuals shape up their social media efforts to better support their business objectives, to be held Thursday, March 4, 2010 at the Aloft Hotel in Downtown Dallas, TX. The camp’s pre-registration has been a big success. There are a limited number of seats remaining at www.SocialBusinessBootCamp.com/NBCF .
The headline social media speakers at the first annual Social Business Boot Camp include Ori Bengal, a.k.a. “Couch Surfing Ori,” the event M.C. , speaking on Getting Out There, From a Guy Who Is Really Out There. Ori is an Interactive Adventurist who has consulted with a virtual who’s who of social media rock stars and business elite. Rick Burnes, Inbound Marketing Manager at HubSpot, will present Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs, an Amazon Best Seller, and Shama Kabani, President of The Marketing Zen Group, will discuss her book, The Zen of Social Media Marketing, available in stores April 2010. Both books will be provided to workshop attendees. Event sponsors include LinkedIn, Food Beyond the Box, Million Vodka, SticViews, Support Big D, and Urban Interact, which is also producing the event. You meet Ori and Shama along with the whole day workshop by registering here: www.SocialBusinessBootCamp.com/NBCF.
“It isn’t a question of if companies will begin to use social media marketing, but when,” said Shama Kabani. “The Social
Business Boot Camp will set a high benchmark for other social media events,” continued Kabani.
Additional segments include: Personal Branding, Developing an Effective Social Media Policy for Your Company, and an open forum discussion lead by an all-star Social Media Business Panel. The panel will feature leading-edge companies who will share how they are leveraging social media to support their initiatives and will answer audience questions for real-time advice from some of the most knowledgeable marketing and social media experts in Dallas. For a full list of speakers, topics, and day’s agenda go here. The social media workshops will be followed by a Social Networking Happy Hour where attendees can mingle with other like-minded professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, HR, recruiters, sales professionals, marketers, journalists, bloggers, PR professionals and other social media enthusiasts.
“We’re so proud to be a part of this event. A portion of every ticket sold will be donated to National Breast Cancer Foundation, which helps a very deserving charity while benefiting our local business community,” said Beverly K. Garvin, CEO of Urban Interact, Inc.
The event is expected to sell out, but General Admission, VIP, and Happy Hour Only tickets can be purchased here, and package deals on sets of five and ten tickets are available.
About Urban Interact:
Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Urban Interact develops unique online marketing strategies that intrigue, inform and inspire website visitors to engage with brands to deliver profitable, long-term results through interactive web presence, inbound marketing strategies, social media solutions, loyalty programs, and branding. The company’s tagline, Attract * Engage * Convert * Repeat!™, is not only how they market the company, it’s the “secret sauce,” and is the driving force behind the success of each client project. For more information, visit http://www.UrbanInteract.com
Six Upcoming Dallas Social Media Events
By Neil L.
Today, I received an email from Mike Merill announcing several upcoming social media events in Dallas. He is the president of the Dallas Social Media Club Chapter and he has done an excellent job at growing the group and keeping everyone informed.
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15 Tactics from Tonight’s Social Media Tips & Tricks Lecture Notes
By Neil L.
Tonight A.J. Wood spoke at the DFW SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Meetup event, organized by Stephanie Inge (@stephinge) & Sandy Norton (@Slennie). A.J. Wood has been ranked the #1 Adobe Instructor WORLDWIDE more than once. In 2009, he was selected to join the ranks of recognized Adobe Community Experts. He is the founder of Media Cats, Inc., an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in Dallas, TX, since 2003. Follow him on Twitter @AJ_Wood and befriend him on his Facebook page. These are notes from his lecture.
Brian Cuban Hosts “So You Think You’re A Social Media Expert?”
By Neil L.
Cuban, Mark Cuban’s brother, attorney, and social media manager is holding a panel on Wedsnesday, September 23rd, 2009, titled So You Think You’re A Social Media Expert?. Get more of the details and sign up to attend on this Facebook event page. Mark Cuban is quite active on his Facebook page and has been a prolific writer on his blog since 2004. He give inspirational advice for entrepreneurs and those seeking venture capital. Cuban is a serial entrepreneur, but was successful in his own right when he sold digital asset Broadcast.com to Yahoo.
“The Internet is full of those claiming to be social media experts and gurus. They often claim to be able to help you translate their expertise to your social media wealth, often charging significant amount of money for their input. This has been an especially new phenomenon in the legal field with attorneys leaving the practice of law to enter the social media arena. What does all this mean if anything? Are their any true objective criteria for someone to legitimately claim social media expertise?”
An entertaining panel discussion will try to flesh out the fact and the fiction with regards to self-proclaimed social media experts. The panel consists of:
Lewis Howes. (@LewisHowes)
Attorney Brian Tannebaum( @BTannebaum)
Reggie Saddler(@zaibatsu)
Get the panelists’ bios and the rest of the details here.