BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20091101T020000 RDATE:20091101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T175947Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100311T203000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100311T173000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T175947Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T175947Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458388 DESCRIPTION: \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n Thursday\, March 11th\, 2010 \;\n 5:30pm - 8:30pm \;\n Location: Ren aissance on the Riverfront \;\n 136 SW Washington Ave. \;\n Corv allis\, Oregon 97333 \;\n Google Map \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\ n \;\n RSVP TO: SAO by emailing sao-coordinator [AT] corvallis.sao.or .us or on the Willamette Innovators Network \;\n \;\n $5 for SAO members or students\, and $15 for non-members \;\n \;\n Inclu des finger food and no-host bar \;\n AGENDA: \;\n \;\n 5: 30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food\, no host bar \; \n 6:15 - 6:25: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elev ator pitch!!) \;\n 6:45 Program: PANEL - Increasing Your Business Through Social Media: What's Important and Why You Should Care \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\ n \;\n PROGRAM: \;\n \;\n Social Media Panel -- Increasing Yo ur Business Through Social Media: What's Important and Why You Should Ca re \;\n \;\n Social Media is here. Facebook has 300 million memb ers. Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world. Twitter is approaching 50 million tweets a day. \;\n \;\n Companies larg e and small are embracing social media to help get the word out\, connec t with customers\, and provide another way to reach customer service. C omcast is turning its image around largely due to its Twitter account fo r customer support (@ComcastCares). This year Pepsi decided not to air any Super Bowl ads in favor of their Social Media campaigns. A Portland food-cart\, Whiffies\, does nearly all of its marketing on Twitter and is expanding to Seattle. \;\n \;\n Are your Social Media efforts floundering? Don't know where to start? Feeling overwhelmed with all o f the information? Come learn about how you can do things better\, smar ter\, or just get started. \;\n \;\n Join us for a night of netwo rking and to get your social media questions answered. \;\n \;\n \;\n PANEL: \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nLoyan Roylance\, ProWorks \;\nLoyan is a 9 year web professional. As the Director of Marketing at ProWorks Corporation\, Loyan helps businesses match marketing\, sal es and service objectives with useful technologies and web tools to crea te new opportunities. He is an user and evangelist of the social web\, s ocial networks and social media from a personal and business perspective . Aside from various business client projects\, a few social-web project s that Loyan is associated with include the Willamette Innovators Networ k (www.willametteinnovators.com)\, Social Media for Business (http://www .proworks.com/blog/social-media-for-business) and the emerging Corvallis Social Media Brigade (http://www.welovecorvallis.com/corvallis-social-m edia-brigade). Loyan is a regular user of many established social media tools and networks and enjoys exploring new and emerging ones. \;\n&# 13\;\n \;\nTony Jones\, Intel \;\nTony Jones currently lead s consumer product research for Intel\, his work guides the company on f uture product development and informs on current customer trends. Previo us to this Tony lead social media analytics for Intel\, working with a t eam of social media marketing professionals he provided customer insight s through the monitoring of social media conversations that were use to provide feedback on current products\, programs and marketing efforts. P revious to his work at Intel Tony spent 5 years at HP leading consumer m arket research for inkjet printing supplies. \;\n \;\n \;\nRy an Lewis\, Bonfire Marketing \;\nBonfire Marketing LLC is a consultin g firm dedicated to developing unique connections between companies and customers. Our system allows businesses to easily tune into social media for marketing opportunities and communication crucial for customer loya lty. Bonfire also consults businesses on the proper methods and social n orms associated with a quickly developing delicate form of marketing. 3\;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n SAO CORVALL IS: \;\n Tech Brew Pubs are a monthly event organized by the Softw are Association of Oregon\, Corvallis Chapter (www.sao.corvallis.or.us). To join our Email Announcement List: TO ADD or REMOVE yourself from the sao-corvallis@googlegroups.com mailing list\, please go to http://group s.google.com/group/sao-corvallis. This list is used to send chapter anno uncements and NON-commercial items of general chapter interest to local SAO members and others interested in the chapter. \;\n \;\n We encourage you to join and support the Software Association of Oregon (w ww.sao.org). The state SAO office sends out a newsletter and a monthly c alendar. If you are interested in receiving these please sign up here ht tp://www.sao.org/Resource_Center/email_list_signup.php \;\n \; \n SAO EUGENE: \;\n \;\n The Eugen e SAO Chapter also has an announcement email list (sao_announce@efn.org) which you can join at http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/sao_annou nce. \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: sao\, corv allis\, social media\, panel\, software association of oregon\n\nImporte d from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458388 URL:http://www.sao.corvallis.or.us/ SUMMARY:March SAO Corvallis Tech Pub: Increasing Your Business Through So cial Media: What's Important and Why You Should Care LOCATION:Renaissance on the Riverfront: 136 SW Washington Ave.\, Corvalli s Oregon 97333 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR