Archive for the ‘Social Media Events’ Category
Social Media Marketing: Real Analytics, Real Results! Webinar Presented by SCG Principals
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Be sure to join tomorrow’s WOMMA webinar, Social Media Marketing: Real Analytics, Real Results! Spring Creek Group Principals Clay McDaniel and Xavier Jiminez will discuss how social media marketing has moved beyond measuring buzz to actually engaging consumers to buy. While social media marketing in 2009 centered on experimental campaigns to build brand engagement, amass fans and followers, and increase brand recognition, Clay and Xav will explain why 2010 will be the year of analytics and conversion measurement in social media marketing.
To read more visit: http://womma.org/events/january-20-webinar-social-media-marketing-real-analytics-real-results/
Register for the event here: http://www.certain.com/system/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x8643113df7
SCG Out on the Town – TechFlash LIVE: Women in Tech
Monday, October 26th, 2009
A few SCG team members will be attending the first of its kind TechFlash LIVE: Women in Tech event this Wednesday evening at the W Hotel in Seattle. We’re looking forward to hearing a great line-up of panelists coming from a variety of technology fields, as well as meeting other women and leaders in the tech community.
We also can’t wait to see some of our friends and partners, including panel presenter Trish Dziko, executive director of the Technology Access Foundation – one of our key not-for-profit partners here at SCG, and several more women with whom we have worked closely in our marketing programs.
The Women in Tech initiative is something we strongly support, and we always enjoy attending local industry-related events. We hope to see you there!
For additional details visit http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/event/9691.
Spring Creek Group Sponsors Upcoming Twestival
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Spring Creek Group is extremely pleased to announce our sponsorship of the upcoming Twestival to benefit YouthCare, a local leader in providing services to homeless and underserved youth. The Twestival will be held at Spitfire Grill on September 12, at 7 p.m. We hope that you can all attend and contribute to this extremely worthy cause.
For more information on the Twestival, or to see how you can take part, please visit the Twestival homepage or follow @TwestivalSEA.
All Things (somewhat) Social Media- Upcoming Events
Monday, August 31st, 2009We’re mixing it up a little this week, with a couple of events that aren’t focused entirely on social media, but are near and dear to our Seattle-loving hearts.
dorkbot – People Doing Strange Things With Electricity
When: Wed, September 2, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Where: 911 Media, 402 9th Ave N. (map)
Description: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/
We saw this crew when we were at SXSi, and they rocked the house. It’s a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.)
The purpose of dorkbot is to give artists/programmers/engineers an opportunity for informal peer review, establish a forum for the presentation of new artworks/technology/software/hardware, help build relationships and foster collaboration between people with various backgrounds and interests, and to give us all a chance to see the cool things that our neighbors are working on. Definitely worth your time.
Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music and Arts Festival
When: Labor Day Weekend, September 5th-7th, 2009
Where: Seattle Center
Description: http://www.bumbershoot.org
North America’s largest urban arts festival and Spring Creek Group partner Bumbershoot is now in its 39th year. Since 1971, Bumbershoot has drawn artists representing the best in music, film, comedy, spoken word, dance, theatre, performance, and visual arts to the Seattle Center over Labor Day weekend. Over 150,000 visitors from near and far spend the weekend reveling in the world of Seattle’s Music and Arts Festival, experiencing everything from regional favorites to international superstars across all arts disciplines.
We never miss a Bumbershoot, so Spring Creek Group will definitely be there. If you’re planning on going, let us know via one of our social media channels – Twitter, Facebook, or our blog. You can check out the Bumbershoot schedule and buy tickets here. To stay up to date on all the latest Bumbershoot news while you’re at the festival (and for some sweet giveaways all this week), make sure you stay tuned to their Twitter feed.
As usual, for the entire list of all upcoming events check out the SCG All Things Social Media Calendar. And feel free to tell us about a social media event that’s not on the list. Drop us a line (or just post it in the comments) and we will be sure to add it to our calendar.
All Gnomedex, All the Time: Part One
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
You know you’ve got something going when porn bots on Twitter start using your hashtag to hock their fleshy wares. That’s exactly what happened as #gnomedex, the end-all of Northwest-based tech/geek conferences took place here in Seattle over the weekend.
The Northwest-based nod was simply that, as attendees came from all over the map to Chris Pirillo’s 9th Gnomedex conference – many of them being first-time attendees (where did all the vets go?). The following is a quick rundown of the presentations that caught our interest:
Warren Etheredge – Art of the Interview
Founder of The Warren Report, Warren Etheredge kicked off the conference with a look at how he attacks his interviews – completely unscripted. His talk focused more on journalists and bloggers, but he had a few moments that made me lean forward; the first being when he went on a rant about James Lipton and the second being these:
On pulling in readers…
- Get their attention
- Earn their trust
- Gain their respect
His thoughts, while not groundbreaking, are a good plan of attack for any type of blogging, whether it’s on a corporate blog, your little neighborhood e-zine, or a widely read online publication.
Chris Brogan/Julien Smith – Attention Wars and the Rise of the Trust Agent
I’m not going to spoil the book for anyone, except to say that if you’ve been reading, well, pretty much everyone’s blogs who have been talking about social media and word of mouth marketing, you’ve heard these ideas (although they may have been packaged differently).
Essentially, Brogan and Smith broke their talk down into five areas that pretty much speak for themselves (my explanations follow each area):
- Make Your Own Game – Essentially, stand out. Get noticed.
- One of Us – Online communities, while easily-accessed, are known to shun those who are different. Don’t be left out of the valuable conversations about your brand.
- Archimedes Effect – Leverage your previous success and position for the future.
- Agent Zero – Be the starter. Be the connector. Be that guy who knows that guy who everyone wants to know.
- Human Artist – Etiquette isn’t dead. Just because the Web might not have the same etiquette as the real world, doesn’t mean a code doesn’t exist. Learn it, live it, love it.
- Build Armies – Two people screaming can perk up some ears, but 2,000 people talking about you and your brand is much more valuable.
That’s it for now, but more to come. Stay tuned for skepticism online, personal manufacturing, cancer gone social, the nerdiest knitting you’ve ever seen, and how the guy who came up with #FollowFriday ended up as one of the most hated people on Twitter.
All Things Social Media – Upcoming Events
Monday, August 24th, 2009There’s quite a few opportunities out there to get out on the town this week, so make sure you’ve got some open spaces on your calendar. Here’s a couple of get-togethers you shouldn’t miss:
Seattle Net Tuesday August: Volunteer Outreach via Social Media
When: Tuesday, August 25, 6pm – 9pm
Where: 1001 E Pike Ave, Seattle WA 98122 (map)
Description: Net Tuesday is a monthly event that features organizations using technology for social good. The August 2009 event brings speakers from Seattle Works and the Puget Sound Blood Center to talk about how to grow a volunteer base using social media. More info: http://seattlenettuesday.ning.com/profiles/blogs/august-2009-net-tuesday-event
NWEN Open House
When: Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 5pm – 7pm
Where: 2333 3rd Avenue (3rd and Battery) (map)
Description: Party people! NWEN is excited about its new world headquarters in Belltown, and is combining a housewarming with an open-house to bring you a “House Party” on Thursday, August 27. Enjoy a casual tour of our loft space in the SkB Architects offices, and take a stroll down memory lane with some vintage NWEN swag. . .door prizes for the first 50 guests to arrive! Connect and conversate, and throw your name in the hopper for drawings every half hour. Supporting sponsors: Atlas Networks, Venture Capital (wine, cheese and salumi). Also sponsored by Stanislaw Ashbaugh. Space is limited to 150 so don’t miss out! More info: http://www.nwen.org/
For the entire list of all upcoming events check out the SCG All Things Social Media Calendar. And feel free to tell us about a social media event that’s not on the list. Drop us a line (or just post it in the comments) and we will be sure to add it to our calendar.
Gnomedex 9.0 Opening Night and Morning Session
Friday, August 21st, 2009Most parties consist of all the attendees bunched around the punch bowl, jostling for a drink – but Gnomedex’s opening party isn’t most parties. While the drink tickets were flying around like ticker tape at another city’s championship parade (seriously, Seattle – are we allergic to championship rings?), the real action was on the other side of the event hall where attendees were busy looking at tables.
Granted, calling the Microsoft Surface a table is like calling an F-16′s ejection seat a chair, but the fact that these interactive pieces of furniture were the center of attention was pretty interesting. Even Robert Scoble took some time to play around with the event function that allowed users to put their conference card down on the Surface and trade contact info, store media and interact with other eventgoers.
Chris Brogan set up shop in the back of the room to sell copies of his new book “Trust Agents,” which hasn’t even hit shelves yet.
The most astounding thing wasn’t the fact that these “stars” of social media were in the same room, but the fact that they were just normal people. Yes, Scoble might have a bazillion followers and can make or break a company with a flick of the mousewheel, but you wouldn’t have known it.
At the morning session, Chris Brogan asked the audience members who were attending Gnomedex for the first time to raise their hands and about half the room had their hands up. That, in itself, shows the shift in thinking for communications professionals and industry minds – this isn’t a fad.
We’ll be tweeting, blogging and TwitPic-ing our way through the rest of the conference, so stay tuned and get any questions you want us to ask anyone here at the conference to us via e-mail, blog comment, or Twitter.
Here we go. . .
#Voluntweetup!
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
In conjunction with this year’s Gnomedex conference, Comcast is hosting a Social Media Conference for executives of non-profit organizations. Designed to help those who may be unfamiliar with the ever-expanding world of social media, It’s a half-day event that will feature an hour long presentation on the basics of social media sites for any and all interested. Following this, there’ll be smaller group breakout sessions on basic to advanced social media topics.
Social media experts from around the area are going to be moderating (including some of the SCG crew) these breakout sessions. If you didn’t get signed up for the actual event, you can either follow the #voluntweetup hashtag on Twitter, or just check out the live stream – it’s up and running right now.
All Things Social Media – Upcoming Events
Monday, August 17th, 2009As usual, there’s a lot of social media things going on in Seattle this week. Be sure to look for the folks from Spring Creek Group at these events…
SMC Seattle Monthly Event – #SMCSea
When: Tue, August 18, 6pm – 9pm
Where: 3542 First Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104 (map)
Description: Panelists: @Starbucks, @AlaskaAir and @ComastCares, Sponsor: HL2, Info and Registration: http://bit.ly/8iPTp
Gnomedex 9.0
When: Aug 20 – 22, 2009
Where: Bell Harbor Conference Center, Seattle, WA (map)
Description: Hundreds of the world’s leading bloggers, podcasters, videobloggers, and tech-savvy enthusiasts will once again descend upon the city of Seattle, Washington. http://www.gnomedex.com/
For the entire list of all upcoming events check out the SCG All Things Social Media calendar. And feel free to tell us about a social media event that’s not on the list. Drop us a line (or just post it in the comments) and we will be sure to add it to our calendar.
All Things Social Media – Upcoming Events
Monday, August 3rd, 2009It’s a new week, and thankfully a little cooler than the last. There’s a lot going on around town in the next few days, and some really great events tonight – so you may have some social media scene-hopping in store for yourself.
For the entire list of all upcoming events check out the SCG All Things Social Media calendar.
Tweetup – Fairmont Olympic + 5th Ave Theatre
When: Mon, August 3, 5pm – 7pm
Where: Terrace Lounge, 411 University St, Seattle, WA (map)
Description: http://twtvite.com/2ylpc7 #fairmont5th
Ignite Seattle 7
When: Mon, August 3, 6pm – 10pm
Where: The King Cat Theater, 2130 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (map)
Description: http://www.igniteseattle.com/
Ignite is a series of geek nights in Seattle. It is hosted by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make. The nights combine a Make contest (like a popsicle bridge-building contest) and a series of fast-paced, short-form tech talks.
ProLango Career Mixer – August
When: Mon, August 3, 6pm – 9pm
Where: Parlor Billiards & Spirits – 700 Bellevue Way NE, STE 300 – Bellevue, WA 98004 (map)
Description: http://prolango-career-mixer-august.eventbrite.com
SP – StartPad Countdown Series
When: Tue, August 4, 6pm – 9pm
Where: StartPad – 811 First Ave, Suite 480, Seattle, 98104 (map)
Description: http://startpad.org/countdown StartPad Countdown is a series of monthly technology and business talks focused on helping early-stage software developers and entrepreneurs get their projects and companies off the ground.
Let us know if you’re hosting/attending a social media event that’s not on the list. Drop us a line (or just post it in the comments) and we will be sure to add it to our calendar.
