| Upcoming Event - Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
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50 Ideas on Using Twitter and LinkedIn for Business
Panellists
Kelly Rusk, Manager of Marketing and Communities, MediaMiser Ltd.
Scott Lake, Founder, ThinkSM and SWIX
Luc Levesque, Founder, TravelPod.com
Moderator
Andrew Milne, Founder and President, bv02 inc.
Keynote Summary:
Listen to and engage this panel of social media experts to determine how, when and if you should be adding some of the world's most influential social media networks to your marketing and communication mix. Benefit from their experience and research and discover how both local and international brands are succeeding, or failing, with the likes of LinkedIn and Twitter. Covering topics such as How to Build a Social Media Plan, Social Media ROI and Social Media Tools you'll leave the session armed with a checklist of things to do and investigate.
Panellists' Bios:
Kelly Rusk is Manager of Marketing and Communities at MediaMiser Ltd. She has worked in social media in one capacity or another since 2006. Prior to joining MediaMiser in May 2009, she was community manager for Montreal-based startup SmartHippo. Kelly was nominated for the 2008 Most Influential Woman in Social Media in Canada.
Kelly is a blogger at Web2dotWhat.com, co-organizes the Ottawa Social Media Book Club with Scott Lake and is currently working on launching Girl Geek Dinner in Ottawa. She also started and manages Ottawa Tweet Jobs -a twitter-based job board that helps people find word-of-mouth jobs. Tweet Jobs has since expanded to Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.
Scott Lake is a serial entrepreneur. Since getting into high tech, he has co-founded four start-ups and worked at a fifth. He is currently working on two companies squarely in the social media space. He is founder of ThinkSM a Social Media Consultancy, and SWIX a social media monitoring company. His most notable success to date has been as co-founder and former CEO of Shopify.com
These days he’s also very passionate about the Ottawa software start-up scene and runs a popular blog called StartupOttawa.com. In past lives, he’s been a bike messenger, a university lecturer and a professional driver at NATO in Belgium.
Luc Levesque is a web entrepreneur from Ottawa who founded the Web’s first travel blogging platform in 1997, TravelPod.com. TravelPod was acquired by Expedia in Dec 2006 and Luc now works for Expedia as the General Manager of TravelPod.
In 2008, Luc was a recipient of the Ottawa Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 award. Luc has lead the creation of several award winning products such as the Traveler IQ Challenge (Canadian New Media Award for Excellent in Social Media) and TravelPod (“Top 100 sites you can’t live without” - PC Magazine).
Luc stays involved with the start-up community by coaching young start-ups, presenting, hosting and attending start-up events and blogging on StartupOttawa.com.
When he’s not working Luc stays busy obsessing over new ideas, traveling (or dreaming about travel) and being a new dad.
Moderator's Bio:
Andrew Milne is the founder and president of bv02 inc. an award winning Digital Marketing boutique that specializes in E-business Strategy, Web Development and Social Media Marketing.
He is also the co-founder and CEO of AndyCamper inc., a new media company focused on reconnecting kids with nature. Prior to starting bv02 in 2001, Andrew focused on developing online media and marketing solutions for a range of companies. He was a Regional Vice President for nurun, Canada’s largest Internet solutions company, and served as the Marketing and Strategy Director for companies such MetLife, digIT Interactive and Kplus Solutions. His portfolio of clients at bv02 is also diverse, including organizations such as the National Gallery of Canada, Nortel Networks, MuchMusic, Canada Post, the Royal Canadian Mint and numerous government departments.
| Date: |
Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
| Time: |
11:30 a.m.– Registration/networking
lunch
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. – Presentation |
| Place: |
Council Chamber, Main Floor,
Ben Franklin Place
101 Centrepointe Drive, Nepean |
| Cost: |
Early Registration (received by OCRI no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday June 9, 2009)
$35.00 - OCRI Members (plus 5% GST)
$70.00 - Non-members (plus 5% GST)
$15.00 - Students (plus 5% GST)
Late and On-Site Registration (received by OCRI after 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday June 9, 2009)
$45.00 - OCRI Members (plus 5% GST)
$80.00 - Non-members (plus 5% GST)
$25.00 - Students (plus 5% GST)
Event pre-registration closes June 10th at 5:00 p.m.
On-site registrations are welcome.
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