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Feb 23, 2010: 3 Blocking & Tackling Tools To Monitor & Measure Social Media at Webtrends
Join us February 23, when Margaret Francis, Chase Reeves, and Justin Kistner present three different tools that simplify and streamline monitoring your social media program. Aaron Gray moderates the program, guiding us through his user perspective on measuring and monitoring social media. This will be a fast-paced hour and 20 minutes, definitely a "don't-miss" opportunity to understand the differences and comparisons in these tools. Aaron Gray moderates our panel as each panel member covers a specific tool: Margaret Francis presents the latest on Scout Labs; Chase Reeves presents the latest on Iterasi PositivePress; and Justin Kistner presents the latest on Webtrends and Radian 6. A Q&A session follows the three speakers, so get your questions in early in our comments section. PANEL BIOS Aaron Gray, Principal and Owner of Greater Returns, helps companies use web measurement and optimization tools and processes to drive measurable improvements in marketing and business performance. A veteran in the space, Aaron has held key roles at multiple analytics software companies, including Coremetrics and Webtrends, driving measurement and optimization efforts for organizations like AT&T, Bank of America, Alltel, Mastercard, Fujitsu, HSBC, Logitech, Orbitz, American Eagle Outfitters, ThomsonReuters, Internet Broadcasting, Kmart, SkyMall, and more. In 2000, Aaron founded Tweak Interactive, an interactive strategy and design business focused on great customer experiences. At Tweak, Aaron developed and tested site strategies and interaction models for both emerging and established brands. It was at Tweak where Aaron first discovered the power of data to drive site design optimizations, leading to better business performance of the site. Aaron has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Margaret Francis is VP Product at Scout Labs, leading development of the social media insight & collaboration platform. As former Director of Strategy at Razorfish, Ms. Francis developed marketing and technology strategies for Fortune 500 companies and led cross-functional teams to deliver cutting edge web sites and digital marketing programs. Her clients have included major brands such as Visa, Nike, JC Penney, Apple, Palm and BP. She is a graduate of Yale University and SFAI. Chase Reeves is the director of marketing at Iterasi, Inc., a provider of web page and web presence archiving products. Chase has been working online for six years and has experience in product management, web strategy, reputation management, web design and development, and email marketing. He currently lives in Portland, OR with his wife Mellisa and son Aiden. Justin Kistner has developed social media marketing programs for companies like HP, Intel, and Jive Software. Currently he is the Sr. Manager of Social Media Marketing at Webtrends. In his spare time, Justin has served on the Board of Directors for Artists for the Arts and Legion of Tech. He is also the founder of Beer & Blog.
February 12 2010, 2:54pm | Comments »
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Oct 4, 2009: End Bloglessness 3 at Webtrends
That's right, time to End Bloglessness, AGAIN! Whoo-Hoo! Gather up your friends, family, or any one else you can think of who has been looking to start a blog and come join us! Format Each session will be 1 hour: 15 minute presentation and 45 minutes of assisted help. During assisted help, attendees can raise their hands to get help from one of our assistants. Assistants are folks from the Portland tech scene that have done this process before who can help you with your questions. Agenda * Session 1 - Sign up for your blog 12:00-1:00pm; * Session 2 - Dial in the settings for your blog 1:00-2:00pm; * Session 3 - Intro to posting on your blog 2:00-3:00pm; * Session 4 - How to promote your blog 3:00-4:00pm; * 4:00-5:00pm will be an open help time to ask help with anything you'd like. What to expect We are focusing on WordPress blogs for this workshop. We chose WordPress so that if your blog is going well enough and you need to graduate to a hosted blog, you're data and experience will be compatible. By the time you leave the workshop, you'll have a blog that is ready to go and some direction on how to connect with other local bloggers. We are expecting people from all skill levels, including the technically challenged. Everyone will be treated with respect and will be encouraged. We'll be hosting the event at Webtrends. There are some computers available to use, but we highly recommend bringing your laptop if you have one as there likely won't be enough computers for everyone. Help us get the word out! Most of the people we're hoping to reach are either to far outside of our social circles or are offline completely. We could use your help in letting people know about this free workshop to get a blog up and running. We don't care if your motivation to blog is personal, professional, or political; we'll help you get one up and running. * Tweet the link to this page http://bit.ly/ufsYL * Email this page to a friend * RSVP on Upcoming and Calagator * Tell someone in real life using your voice. Crazy, huh? Why is this free? We're hoping to make new friends and be good citizens. We don't want to be an insular group, so we want to enable others to join. And, because we're Portlanders inspired by other Portlanders to DIY and that Yes We Can. :) Help out If you have experience with installing WordPress, we'd love to have you help answer people's questions. Please leave us a comment below if you're interested in helping!
October 1 2009, 1:16pm | Comments »
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Aug 1, 2009: Digital Journalism Camp Portland at The Oregonian
You can find out more about the conference at journopdx.wordpress.com, on Twitter, or on Facebook.
July 26 2009, 12:11pm | Comments »
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Jul 18, 2009: End Bloglessness 2 at Webtrends
It’s that time again! Time to End Bloglessness!! Yay!!!!!! If you or someone you know has been looking to start a blog, now is the time to get your hand held as we walk through the process. We’re going to try it a little differently this time. Last time it was a 4 hour workshop helping people install a blog. This time we’re going to help people start a hosted blog and use the time to train them on how to use it. Format Each session will be 1 hour: 15 minute presentation and 45 minutes of assisted help. During assisted help, attendees can raise their hands to get help from one of our assistants. Assistants are folks from the Portland tech scene that have done this process before who can help you with your questions. Agenda * Session 1 - Sign up for your blog 12:00-1:00pm; * Session 2 - Dial in the settings for your blog 1:00-2:00pm; * Session 3 - Intro to posting on your blog 2:00-3:00pm; * Session 4 - How to promote your blog 3:00-4:00pm; * 4:00-5:00pm will be an open help time to ask help with anything you’d like. What to expect We are focusing on WordPress blogs for this workshop. We chose WordPress so that if your blog is going well enough and you need to graduate to a hosted blog, you’re data and experience will be compatible. By the time you leave the workshop, you’ll have a blog that is ready to go and some direction on how to connect with other local bloggers. We are expecting people from all skill levels, including the technically challenged. Everyone will be treated with respect and will be encouraged. We’ll be hosting the event at Webtrends. There are some computers available to use, but we highly recommend bringing your laptop if you have one as there likely won’t be enough computers for everyone. Help us get the word out! Most of the people we’re hoping to reach are either to far outside of our social circles or are offline completely. We could use your help in letting people know about this free workshop to get a blog up and running. We don’t care if your motivation to blog is personal, professional, or political; we’ll help you get one up and running. * Tweet our link http://bit.ly/14OwQU * Email this page to a friend * RSVP on Upcoming and Calagator * Tell someone in real life using your voice. Crazy, huh? Why is this free? We’re hoping to make new friends and be good citizens. We don’t want to be an insular group, so we want to enable others to join. And, because we’re Portlanders inspired by other Portlanders to DIY and that Yes We Can. :) Help out If you have experience with installing WordPress, we’d love to have you help answer people’s questions. Please leave us a comment below if you’re interested in helping!
July 14 2009, 1:52pm | Comments »
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Jun 17, 2009: Open Source Bridge at Oregon Convention Center
Open Source Bridge is a three-day open source developers conference, focused on bringing people from a range of technology backgrounds together to share their knowledge and explore what it means to be an open source citizen. In order to create a conference that promotes cross-pollination as well as providing space for in-depth discussion, the tracks are divided into the following five areas: Cooking: Useful recipes for software development, systems administration, and working with open source. Chemistry: Understanding how our systems work, in order to improve and extend. Business: Building open source businesses that thrive. Culture: Exploring how open source extends through technology into our communities. Hacks: Tinkering, experimenting and bending the rules to make hardware and software do what we want. The final day of the conference will be structured in an unconference format, to allow participants to reflect and build on the previous days' discussions.
June 3 2009, 12:21pm | Comments »
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Join us for a special installment of Refresh Portland May with Jared Spool! We’re going to move the meeting a week back to May 21.
Experience design is no longer a nice-to-have luxury of a few organizations with tons of money and exceptional visionary management. It’s become commonplace for organizations that build products and web sites. Experience Design is a centerpiece of boardroom discussions and quickly becoming a key performance indicator for many businesses. However, you can’t just hire a couple of “experience designers” and tell them, “Go do that voodoo that you do so well.” Today’s business environment forces us to build multi-disciplinary teams, compiling a diverse group of skills and experiences to handle the many facets of the technical, business, and user requirements. In his usual entertaining and insightful manner, Jared will talk about what it takes to build a design team that meets today’s needs. He’ll demonstrate how successful Experience Design: * Must integrate the needs of the users with the requirements of the business * Is learned, but not available through introspection * Must be invisible to succeed * Is cultural * Is multi-discplinary * Thrives best in an “educate and administrate” environment You’ll see examples of designs from Apple’s iPod, Netflix, the Mayo Clinic, and Southwest Airlines, to name a few.
May 20 2009, 9:53am | Comments »
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May 22, 2009: Show & Tell PDX - May Edition at Substance World Headquarters
We had such a great time and a great crowd at our first Show and Tell PDX (http://findsubstance.com/2009/03/09/show-and-tell-pdx-the-videos/), we're going to do it again. On Friday, May 22nd, Substance and Pinch welcome you to Substance World Headquarters to meet and greet with other like-minded people. There will be plenty of activity in Portland around Web Visions (http://www.webvisionsevent.com/) and we wanted to be able to capture and contribute to that energy, so if you are still in town and want to start your weekend off with some inspiration, come join us. The format is simple: you have 10 minutes to share something that that explains "What are you working on?" We invite everyone to submit an idea and hope that everyone will. At our last event we had designers, coders, Choffy and bacon entrepreneurs. What will we uncover this time? If you’re interested in presenting, send us your idea by Monday, May 11 and we will sort through the ideas to curate an interesting evening. Send your ideas to: "showandtell findsubstance.com" and we will start the conversation. We plan on getting started around 6:00, with drinks and music, then begin the program at 7:00. The event will be held at Substance World Headquarters, 1551 SE Poplar Ave, Portland.
May 15 2009, 8:50am | Comments »
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Feb 23, 2009: Social Media Club PDX presents: Towards a More Social Organization at The Agency
Join Chris Heuer, co-founder of the Social Media Club, at the re-launch of Social Media Club PDX as he discusses how companies can transform their organization through the use of social media. Chris will discuss the elements and framework for creating a successful social media strategy and how to get your organization and clients behind it. He will also examine how companies need to re-think current advertising methods and their purpose in order to utilize the full potential of social marketing. Q&A session will follow. Learn more about this topic on Chris Heuer's blog. http://www.chrisheuer.com/ Time: Networking 6-6:30, Presentation: 6:30 Seating is first come first serve. Cost: Free Visit http://www.socialmediaclubpdx.com to learn more or follow @socialmediapdx on twitter. About Chris Heuer Chris Heuer has over 13 years of entrepreneurial Internet experience and 16+ years of marketing experience, having previously taught classes at Miami Ad School in Web design, multimedia and convergence marketing. He currently specializes in consulting on holistic business strategy and social media for big brands, non-profits and emerging technology companies, helping them leverage the power of Internet and Web 2.0 technologies. In early 2006, Chris formed BrainJams to organize resources and best practices in the emerging "Unconference" movement, striving to bring social media tools and Open Space gatherings to a wider audience. These efforts have no resulted in the launch of Social Media Club in order to better realize the vision he has for bringing diverse groups of people together to share their understanding of best practices in social media and "Real Marketing."
February 23 2009, 1:20pm | Comments »
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Jan 10, 2009: End Bloglessness - A Beer and Blog workshop to install your blog at CubeSpace
As part of our one year celebration, we want to offer the past year's worth of wisdom that we've built up to help you launch your blog. We're looking for all of those folks that have wanted their own hosted blog. End Bloglessness will be a 4 hour, 4 session workshop.
January 7 2009, 6:01pm | Comments »
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