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:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20100314T020000 RDATE:20100314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T183947Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100909T193000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100909T173000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T183947Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T195232Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459169 DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Software Association of Oregon's Marketing + Sales Forum &\; Social Media Club PDX\n\nYou are invited to join us for an exceptional keynote presentation followed by a Q&\;A session w ith a full panel of local collaboration and social media experts.\n\nAge nda\n5:30pm Registration opens\, networking\n6:15pm Program begins (welc ome)\n6:20pm Keynote with Richard Boly\n6:45pm Panel Q&\;A\n7:30pm Pr ogram ends\n\nKEYNOTE: Embracing Social Media at the U.S. State Departme nt: If the Oldest Federal Agency Can\, Why Can’t You?\nThe State Depar tment is the oldest executive agency in the United States. Cold war secr ecy created a need-to-know culture that impeded unofficial information s haring. State’s diplomatic corps is selected for risk aversion and tra ined to obtain many clearances and authorizations before officially tran smitting information internally. \n\nThen the end of the Cold War was fo llowed by the East Africa embassy bombings and 9/11. The paradigm shifte d. The lack of information sharing and collaboration meant that puzzle p ieces remain scattered and threats were unidentified. In this shift\, th e State Department’s office of eDiplomacy was born. \n\nCome find out how State Department has embraced lightweight social media tools behind the firewall to move from a need-to-know culture to need-to-share one.\ n\nMeet Richard Boly\, Director of eDiplomacy\, US Department of State\n Richard Boly is a career U.S. diplomat and currently the Director of the Office of eDiplomacy\, an applied technology think tank for the United States Department of State. Previously\, he was a National Security Affa irs Fellow the Hoover Institution at Stanford University\, where he laun ched the Global Entrepreneurship Program. He recently served in U.S. Emb assy\, Rome\, where he developed and ran a program to promote entreprene urship in Italy. Other embassy assignments include the Dominican Republi c\, Ecuador\, and Paraguay. Richard is the most junior diplomat to win t he Cobb Award for commercial diplomacy.\n\nIn a prior life\, Richard was the first Presidential Management Fellow with the Inter-American Founda tion\, was a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank\, and f ounded and ran a shrimp hatchery in coastal Ecuador. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD. \n\n\nQ&\;A Session Panelists\nDeb Bryan t\, GOSCON Director\, Oregon State University Open Source Lab\nRami Kass ab\, CEO\, Typethink\nSkip Newberry\, Economic Development Policy Adviso r\, Office of Mayor\, City of Portland\nStuart Cohen\, CEO\, Collaborati ve Software Institute\nRichard Boly\, Director\, Office of eDiplomacy at U.S. Department of State\n\nSponsors: Social Media Club of Portland\, t w telecom\, Webtrends\n\nTags: social media\, collaboration\, keynote\n\ nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250459169 URL:http://www.sao.org/events/event_details.asp?id=88438 SUMMARY:SAOpdx: Collaboration in Social Media featuring Richard Boly of t he US Department of State LOCATION:Multnomah Athletic Club (MAC): 1849 Sw Salmon St\, Portland OR 9 7205 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR