Living Room Theaters

This event is FREE but please be sure to RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your ticket: http://ta3m-pdx-15.eventbrite.com

Join Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Monday for a movie night!

What movie? Citizenfour: https://citizenfourfilm.com - the documentary thriller about government surveillance and Edward Snowden.

When? Monday November 17th. Meet at Living Room Theater at 6:30pm and look for the TA3M group. Movie starts at 6:40pm.

How much? FREE for the first 20 people to RSVP. 20 tickets have been generously donated to make this event possible. If you are not one of the first 20 people to RSVP, you can purchase tickets at the Living Room Theater box office at their regular rate.

After the movie, we'll go to a nearby location (TBA) for some no-host drinks & food to discuss what we thought about the movie.

Host: Portland Techno-Activism Third Mondays

Twitter: Event hashtag: #ta3m ; @Privly @TechnoActivism

Have you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email? Slept with your laptop? Or become so overwhelmed that you just unplugged from it all? In this funny, eye-opening, and inspiring film, Director Tiffany Shlain takes audiences on an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century. From founding The Webby Awards to being a passionate advocate for The National Day of Unplugging, Shlain’s love/hate relationship with technology serves as the springboard for a thrilling exploration of modern life…and our interconnected future. Equal parts documentary and memoir, the film unfolds during a year in which technology and science literally become a matter of life and death for the director. As Shlain’s father battles brain cancer and she confronts a high-risk pregnancy, her very understanding of connection is challenged. Using a brilliant mix of animation, archival footage, and home movies, Shlain reveals the surprising ties that link us not only to the people we love but also to the world at large. A personal film with universal relevance, Connected explores how, after centuries of declaring our independence, it may be time for us to declare our interdependence instead.

Come join us for the unveiling of the TechTown Portland video! This short video highlights 11 of the region's firms. We know Portland is a great place to live, but it’s become a Mecca for Tech and we think others outside Portland should know too. Our firms are growing with the best and brightest in Portland and they are doing quite well. But more talent is needed to support our companies that have developed technologies used the world over. Our artisanal culture extends from arts & crafts, breweries & food to creating what’s next in tech.

This video came together because the video sponsors understand a collective effort to attract more talent to the region benefits everyone.

Appetizers and drinks begin in the lobby at 5:30 and will continue until 8:00 courtesy of Jive Software. All attendees will receive one complementary drink ticket. So arrive early and stay after your showing concludes to mingle with co-workers and others in the industry.

A more detailed schedule is below: 5:30: Lobby opens for food and drink 5:45 – 6:05 First showing of film (Only chance for children to view per theater policy) 6:10 – 6:30 Second showing of film (Press and C-Level Execs ONLY) 6:30 – 7:15 Press Q&A in auditorium with participating companies and agencies 7:20 – 7:40 Third and final showing of the film

Thank you to the firms (Viewpoint Construction, Jama, Simple, Thetus, Urban Airship, Acquia, Elemental Technologies, Act-On, Puppet Labs, The Clymb, and Jive) and agencies (Portland Development Commission, Technology Association of Oregon, Business Oregon, and Greater Portland Inc) that made this video possible.

Introducing SwellPath Presents, a Free Event

Responsive Design, Mobile SEO, and the Future of Search Marketing.

The modern web is multi-platform. Brands interested in providing site experiences that delight customers need to have sites that display flawlessly and are highly useful on desktops, phones, and tablets; experienced digital marketers know this, savvy users know this, and the web's leading search engines know this. As we blaze through 2013, your mobile experience plays more and more into how your website performs in mobile search. Don't be left behind and relegated to the bottom of the search results for your valuable keywords. Make sure that search engines rank your site where it belongs so your mobile audience can find you at the important stages of their journeys. In the first ever SwellPath Presents, our Senior SEO Analyst, Mike Arnesen, will teach why mobile SEO is more important than ever, dive into the different takes on mobile SEO, and outline how you can build a mobile experience that is nothing less than SEO perfection.

When: Wednesday, May 8 | 5:15 PM for refreshments, 5:30 presentation begins

Where: Living Room Theater | 341 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97205

Your digital marketing efforts can quickly become a juggling act that you wish would run more smoothly. Join Imelda Khoo, Global e-Marketing Manager of Tektronix as she teaches how PPC, SEO and social media can complement one another and how you can use the different platforms as a cohesive unit to get the greatest return from your digital marketing efforts.

Key Takeaways:

-The basics of PPC, SEO, and social media and their strengths and weaknesses as independent platforms.

-How PPC, SEO and social media can co-exist and be leveraged as a cohesive unit in an effective digital marketing strategy no matter your company’s size or budget.

-How to effectively use social media for demand generation.

The true test of an IT organization is its ability to sustain operations through any business disruption — whether from a major disaster or leaky plumbing — or to recover operations quickly and effectively.

Join EasyStreet, Arista, Coherence Advisors, CommVault, IVOXY and V1 Data for an informative and insightful seminar that examines BC/DR from many perspectives. Topics include:

• 6 basic steps on the path to effective BC/DR planning
• The anatomy of a disaster and the underlying root causes
• The importance of effective IT governance in BC/DR planning
Focusing on IT services (not just on IT technology)
• Assessing organizational capability and maturity
• Effective risk mitigation (brand, operational, financial, technological, contractual)

We will have a drawing to give away 3 iPad minis!

At some point in your professional career you’ll almost definitely have to give a PowerPoint presentation. Remember how awful the last presentation was that you had to sit through? It doesn’t have to be like that.

PowerPoint is designed as a support tool, not the only tool of your presentation, and should be used in a way that strengthens your storytelling, message and delivery—not the point of all the information in your presentation.

Dave Yewman of DASH Consulting will show attendees how to use PowerPoint the right way, without putting your audience to sleep. The presentation will feature examples of PowerPoint pitfalls to avoid and helpful tips and tricks to crafting excellent presentations.

Key Takeaways:

Craft your presentation with the words first (the story), then put it in PowerPoint Basic tips & tricks to get the most out of PowerPoint How to tell good stories in your presentation

This web marketing bootcamp, presented by Rachel Freeman, Director of Strategy at Anvil Media, will provide a brief overview of the many aspects of digital marketing strategy, platforms and tools. Attendees will leave with a knowledge of the following key elements of digital marketing:

A baseline understanding of basic elements of digital strategy An understanding of ways to find your audience online How to keep an online audience engaged with you Rachel will discuss, at a high-level, best practices for developing an effective integrated digital marketing strategy, covering topics like search (examples: Google, Yahoo, Bing), social (examples: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and LinkedIn) and web development.

Register for the event at the following webpage: http://www.ama-pdx.org/event/professional-development-web-marketing-boot-camp/

Social media is here to stay. Ask anyone in marketing — it’s becoming a bigger part of everyone’s department. No matter where any company is in their adoption timeline, they are all asking basic questions about metrics, ROI and long-term strategy.

Chris Murphy, Director of Brand Communications and Digital Marketing for adidas, has learned some valuable lessons about measurements and ROI through initiatives both successful, and less so. He will be discussing those lessons and how they’re informing future adidas efforts in the social space.

Plan now to attend this exciting Professional Development event! Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by the presentation from 6-7 p.m.

Chris Murphy, Head of Digital Marketing, adidas US

Chris has been with adidas for five years, starting in the eCommerce group as a consultant, moving into Digital Marketing where he led that team for three years, and now as the Director of Brand Communications and Digital Marketing. He has held both global and regional management positions while at adidas. Chris began his career in Digital Marketing in 1998 with a small .com start-up in Hood River, OR. In 2001, he began consulting online retailers and agencies on website development and online selling tools. In 2003, he returned to school at the University of Oregon to receive his MBA in Sports Business. Chris currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Hilary, daughter, Lydia, Labrador Retriever, Lily, and his bicycles.

Chris and his teams have received a number of industry awards, including being named a viral video finalist at the 2006 Cannes Festival, the 2007 Best Use of Mobile Marketing Cross-Media Integration award from the Mobile Marketing Association, the 2008 Overall Excellence Award from the Mobile Marketing Association, and a top 100 ranking by Vitrue as a most social brand in 2009 and 2010. During his time at the Head of Digital Marketing, adidas received more Facebook Case Studies than any other brand. Additionally, Chris has been a speaker at iMedia Brand Summit, ad:tech, the Mobile Marketing Association Forum, Mobile Future Forward, and is a founding co-chair of the Digital Collective.

Heard a lot about LinkedIn but don’t know where to start? A panel discussion of the best ways to promote businesses, find job opportunities, and connect with others is a great place to start! Nick Footer and Dan Payne will be moderating a panel of experts answering questions not only about opportunities, but tips and tricks to get the most out of this professional networking site.

Join us at Living Room Theaters on Oct. 25, 2011, for a lively panel discussion including FILTER Director Matt LeBlanc, Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies author Joshua Waldman, and Bonfire Social Media President Ryan Lewis.

When: Thursday, July 28th, 6:30pm to 10:00pm

Where: Living Room Theaters, 314 SW Tenth Avenue, Portland

Tickets: $50 per person, purchase tickets at the 3D Center, 1928 NW Lovejoy Or Call 503.227.6667 to purchase tickets by phone/credit card Thursday - Saturday, 11am to 5pm

LAIKA will give a ‘behind the scenes’ of Coraline talk before the screening AND every ticket purchase includes a chance to win one of two Coraline gift packages that includes the making of Coraline book, and other movie memorabilia.

LAIKA’s film Coraline (2009) is the first stop-motion feature to be conceived and photographed in 3D and was written and directed by Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach).

Coraline had its World Premiere on February 5, 2009 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland. Among other awards in 2009, Coraline was nominated for an Academy Award®, and also captured the prestigious Cristal at the Annecy International Animation Festival in France.

Proceeds from this event benefit the education fund for the 3D Center of Art & Photography – providing free admission for youth 14 years and younger, hands-on 3D fun, the world’s best 3D movie shorts and gallery exhibitions featuring 3D artists from around the world.

Dinner Served at 5:30 PM Program Begins at 6:00 PM

It's no surprise that Facebook is a big deal - but exactly how big is it and what do you do with it? Justin Kistner of Webtrends will discuss how dominate Facebook's place really is in the digital marketplace. He will share tips and tactics that organizations can use to make Facebook work as a "loyalty program" to engage customers in meaningful conversations. He'll cover the basics of using the three core Facebook marketing tools: ads, apps, and analytics. Join us to learn how Facebook can become a key piece of your strategic marketing planning.

Presenter Justin Kistner: Justin is the Sr. Manager of Social Product Marketing at Webtrends. During his time at Webtrends, Justin led the development of Webtrends' Facebook Analytics as well as their end to end Facebook campaign solutions. Kistner joined Webtrends from Voce Communications, where he helped architect social strategy for clients such as Intel and Oracle. He previously spent time as a Social Engagement Coordinator at Jive Software, and was the owner of Metafluence, Inc. - an independent web presence consultancy. In addition to his role at Webtrends, Kistner founded Beer and Blog - a blogging meet up hosted in 18 cities from Portland to Tokyo. Kistner also holds a bachelor degree in advertising from the University of Oregon.

A second showing of the locally filmed/produced James VS Reality, with commentary and insight provided by its makers regarding the process of live-action and CG elements.

Alex Williams from Trendline Interactive has written thousands of email subject lines over the past nine years for both B2B and B2C audiences. In this session, he will teach you methods to repeatedly write email subject lines that not only get your email opened, but also clicked on. The session will also cover the email client landscape (Outlook, Gmail, etc…), mobile devices, how to leverage insights from social media, and testing scenarios that will guarantee improvement in your open rates. Remember, you can't get them to click if they don't open the email.

February 23 | 5:30pm Living Room Theaters 341 SW 10th Ave Portland, OR 97205

Dinner Served at 5:30 PM Program Begins at 6:00 PM

November 30 | 5:30pm Living Room Theaters 341 SW 10th Ave Portland, OR 97205 Dinner Included

Crush 'creativity block' and get inspired by a panel of Portland's creative Mar/Com leaders. You'll head back to the office Wednesday morning ready to put that inspiration into action.

Creative block, we all get it. We hit walls, slip into ruts and take refuge in comfortable old habits. However, creative leaders break through stale ideas to tease out fresh and fabulous ones. And they make it look effortless.

Wanna know how they do it? So do we.

Join moderator Jerry Ketel, Creative Entrepreneur & Champion of Innovation, and a panel of Portland's creative community superstars as they get to the meat of how they make magic happen, even when they're running on nothing but four espressos and a dinner of stale Pop Tarts from the vending machine.

Learn real world solutions to your real world creative problems:

• Where do you find inspiration on demand to meet a hard deadline?
• What do you think makes for an effective brainstorm process?
• Who plays your "devil's advocate" and how do you know it's time to bring her/him into the process?
• How do you choose which creative software to use for a project?
• When you don't know where to start, where do you start?

Speaker: Mike Rosenberg, Vice President, EngineWorks Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 5:30-6:00pm networking and dinner 6:00-7:00pm program

Trying to justify ROI for online marketing strategies? Looking to develop a plan for your web-based communication initiatives? The next AMA Professional Development offers an actionable plan for success.

Gain direct insight into how to leverage data-driven, ROI-focused online strategies to profitably thrive in today's economy. This session promises to provide a professional game plan that can be implemented by business of all sizes to dramatically enhance their online presence, increase conversion rates, and directly connect with target audiences through search engines, emerging social networks and online communities.

From research, to strategy and execution this informative and actionable presentation will provide a roadmap for success with specific case studies along the way.

5:30pm-6:00pm dinner and networking 6:00pm-7:00pm Living Room Theaters 341 SW 10th Ave Portland, OR 97205

Are you looking to make a career transition as the economy rebounds? Have you acquired the skills demanded by your target companies? Hear insight from local recruiters and hiring managers on the qualifications and abilities that will set you apart from the rest. Learn about new trends in the job market and find out what jobs may become available over the next year.

Take Aways: -Learn the traits, characteristics and skills needed for marketing/communications positions, as told by area recruiters -Find out what the hottest jobs are in the “new economy” -Create an inventory of your key skills and abilities to better position yourself for a new career

Featured panelists: Matt LeBlanc, Director Filter Lauren Ranke, Creative Recruiter, Wieden & Kennedy Jen Jacobs, Talent Scout, Global Brand Marketing Department at Nike

With moderator, Beth Ursin, Director of Career Management, Willamette University, SHRM Chapter President

The Do's and Don'ts of Networking

Do you know how to work a room? Is your LinkedIn contacts list larger than the local telephone book? Are people begging to follow you on Twitter?

It's now more important than ever to effectively manage your network and your reputation online and in-person. Join the American Marketing Association for a special professional development session on how to (and how not to) network like a super star in real-time and online. Learn to avoid networking faux pas, make the most out of referrals and contacts and take your online (and personal presence) to a new and successful level. A panel of networking experts will provide, tips, strategies and tactics you can use in marketing your business and yourself. Sign up today!

Panel Moderator

Brian Thomas Wright As co-chair of the American Marketing Association's Networking events, Brian has grown attendance from a small gathering of AMA members to a super event representing eight professional associations and over 150 attendees.

After a successful design and marketing career working for an ad agency and University of Oregon Bookstore, Brian now owns a four person branding agency. He has provided creative services for a wide range of clients but he mostly enjoys working with professional speakers and trainers who are masters of networking.

Panelists

Dawn Foster Dawn Foster currently provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities through various social media technologies including discussion forums, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and more. Consulting services also include community events, online community building, blogging strategy, RSS-based information monitoring, custom employee training sessions, and more.

Community building, blogging, podcasting, web 2.0, open source, and other open technologies are Dawn's current passions, and she spends quite a bit of her free time playing with online technologies and blogging on related topics. Dawn was one of the five original Intel.com bloggers with the Intel Trends in Web 2.0 blog. Dawn currently blogs on Fast Wonder

Dawn also focuses on activities that help support and grow the local Portland technology community. As one of the founders and chair of Legion of Tech (an Oregon non profit organization formed to help grow and nurture the local Portland technology community through educational, not-for-profit, community-run events), she helps organize a number of community events including BarCamp Portland, Ignite Portland, and the Legion of Tech Happy Hour.

Jodi Blackwood Jodi Blackwood is a Certified Business Etiquette & Protocol Specialist, Customer Service Professional and Speaker & Seminar Leader who believes that etiquette is about polishing your approach, not changing who you are!

She works with individuals and businesses to help them stand out among their competition through customized training on a variety of topics, including: Making a Positive First & Lasting Impression, Closing the Loop in Business Communication, Networking With Distinction and The Art of the Business Meal. Visit her web site to see what she can do for you.

Art Spark

Every third Thursday, we gather at Living Room Theaters' Lounge to meet, discuss, blather, applaud & plot the growth of the arts in Portland.

Here's what we promise:

* Food & drink specials
* Fantastic, rotating, monthly hosts from the arts community
* Six@Six where our hosts have six minutes at six p.m. for a performance, a question, or a talk of their choosing
* Freewheeling conversation for the rest of the 114 minutes

Art Spark

Every third Thursday, we gather at Living Room Theaters' Lounge to meet, discuss, blather, applaud & plot the growth of the arts in Portland.

Here's what we promise:

* Food & drink specials
* Fantastic, rotating, monthly hosts from the arts community
* Six@Six where our hosts have six minutes at six p.m. for a performance, a question, or a talk of their choosing
* Freewheeling conversation for the rest of the 114 minutes