IABC St. Louis is Having a Social Media Seminar [events]

by Greg Bussmann on March 10, 2010

the St. Louis Chapter of IABC“The Integrated Conversation: A Day of Discussion on Social Media Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Communicators

Is your boss telling you it’s time to get into social media but you don’t know where to start? Are you already using social media to reach key audiences but want to learn what others are doing?

Are you an individual practitioner who needs to learn more about how to market your services to draw in more business?

Whether you’re a newbie or you’ve been using social media for awhile, you won’t want to miss this exciting seminar. The day includes nine sessions addressing social media for communicators. Beginner track offered!

Topics include:

  • Opening address by Mark Schumann, ABC, IABC international chairman and former principal of Towers Perrin, speaking on “No Turning Back: How Social Media Changes How People Connect”
  • Keynote luncheon address by Sarah Gronberg Kolell and Deidre Mize from Hallmark Cards Inc., who will speak on “Going Online to Connect in Real Life”
  • Getting the most out of your company blog: HOK’s case study
  • Engaging your employees via Web 2.0
  • Social media for nonprofits
  • How-to session on setting up your own LinkedIn profile

Meeting fees
All day seminar (including nine sessions, breakfast, lunch and snacks)
Member $125 when paying online
Nonmember: $175 when paying online
Student: $100 when paying online
Registering but paying at the door: $25 additional fee

Opening address only with Mark Schumann, ABC
Member: $35 when paying online
Nonmember: $50 when paying online
Student: $30 when paying online
Registering but paying at the door: $5 additional fee

Meeting Details

Thursday, March 25, 2010

8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Meeting Location
Hilton St. Louis Frontenac
1335 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
St. Louis, Mo 63131

Register for this event. And/or download a brochure with more details here.

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St Louis Start-Up Connection Open House [events]

by Greg Bussmann on March 8, 2010

The St. Louis innovation community invites you to the next Start-Up Connection

Mark your calendars now (we have) for the next Start-Up Connection event on April 29th

Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind open house where:
– Start-up CEOs will meet talented people searching for a place to land.
– Job-seekers can scope out new possibilities.
– People with great ideas will share them.
– Entrepreneurs will learn what it takes to create a “buzz” for their company
– Everyone will learn about what’s happening in St. Louis and who is making it happen

Who should attend? Entrepreneurs, tech professionals, CEOs, CIOs, students, talent in transition, scientists, investors, policy-makers – anyone who wants to connect with the innovation marketplace in St. Louis.

Please go to the Start-Up Connection website for more information.

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The St. Louis Social Media Week In Review – Last Minute Happy Hour Edition

by Greg Bussmann on March 5, 2010

St. Louis Social Media Week In ReviewEach week we take a look back at what us and others around the web had to say about the previous week in social media:

- This is your last reminder, Monday is the deadline for early bird registration, (saving a ton of money, in other words) for the Microsoft Sharepoint Conference. Follow this link to get the info you need.

- Happy Hour option #1 tonight: the first-ever RFT blogger happy hour at 5 p.m. at Blueberry Hill on Delmar.

- Happy Hour option #2 tonight: Spoke Friday. Check out our post on this event for more information.

- The Yelp Census Party is coming up.

- We told you about a great, exclusive offer only available here for the upcoming MarketStl Internet Marketing Conference.

- Take a minute and go take Mayor Slay’s poll to get Google to pick St. Louis as a test city for their new ultrafast internet project.

Don’t forget to check out what else is on our calendar of upcoming events. Want to get on the list? Contact us with the details.

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Need to Learn SEO & Social Networking for Your Business? We Have a Deal For You

March 4, 2010

Regular readers of this blog know that I have been recommending that you make plans to attend the MarketSTL Internet Marketing Conference on April 1. If you have yet to take me up on that advice, the organizers are letting me bring you an incredible offer, but only today through Sunday.
First, if you are not [...]

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Count Yourself In For The Yelp Census Party [events]

March 3, 2010

Who ever said doing your civic duty couldn’t be a good time?
Every ten years, Americans are given the challenge of completing their Census forms. And guess what? Young people are usually under counted! So let’s get together and learn more about why the 2010 Census count is important to St. Louis… and have a few [...]

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Learn To Protect Your Intellectual Property [events]

March 3, 2010

LinkedIn is a service that I have neglected, frankly, and I am trying to change that. I am starting to take it a little more seriously and pay more attention to it. And might I suggest that if you are marketing yourself or your business, you should do the same. Why? Partly because there are [...]

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Teen Gets 15 Year Sentence for Blackmail via Facebook

March 1, 2010

He posed as a female to entice classmates to sent him nude photos.

19-year old Anthony Stancl of New Berlin, Wisconsin last week was sentenced to 15 years in prison for blackmailing classmates to have sex with him via Facebook, according to news sources.
In December Stancl had pleaded no contest to two felonies including sexual assault [...]

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Time For Another Spoke Friday [events]

March 1, 2010

SpokeFriday is a monthly happy hour to gather friends of the Spoke Marketing Agency and to make new ones. As a virtual agency, the majority of their creatives work off-site so they use these happy hours as an opportunity to gather their creative teams, clients, friends of the agency and anyone else who is in [...]

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Whip Your Website Into Shape With Russ Henneberry

March 1, 2010

Some time St. Louis Social Media & Tech Report contributor and full-time marketing whiz Russ Henneberry is hosting another Tiny Business, Mighty Profits seminar/meetup on March 11. These monthly meetups are great opportunities for small business owners to network and learn about marketing their small businesses on a small budget.
The format of this particular meeting is something [...]

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Twitter Wants You To Update Your Personal Information

February 28, 2010

Social networking giant Twitter is slowly rolling out a request to all users asking them to update their personal information in order to be “found on Twitter”. When this occurs, the next time you long into the site, a box will pop up, asking you to confirm your information, including your email address and mobile [...]

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