2010 Nevada Interactive Summit SOLD OUT

We are sorry but the Nevada Interactive Media Summit is sold out. Thanks so much for your interest–we wish we could everyone in. We will definitely take this into account while planning next year’s event.

You can follow the conference online on out Twazzup site: http://www.twazzup.com/nevadainteract

2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit Program and Schedule

Download a copy of the 2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit program to get the full schedule below.

2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit program and schedule:

http://www.nevadanewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/finalProgram_nim10.pdf

Meet Keynote Speaker Erin Kotecki Vest, @QueenofSpain

Don’t wait to register. This event sold out last year.

Keynote Speaker Erin Kotecki Vest

We are delighted and very lucky this year to have Erin Kotecki Vest as the Nevada Interactive Media Summit’s keynote speaker. Also known across the social web as @QueenofSpain , Erin is Political Director and Producer of Special Projects for BlogHer, Inc., the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online that reaches more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub (http://www.blogher.com), and an publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates. Like BlogHer, Erin is a social media trendsetter–combining her experience in journalism and interactive media to produce influential content and programming. She is known far and wide for her wit, sharp criticism, her prolific use of the #suckit hashtag, and her willingness to engage with her fans and followers on a daily basis (as her more than 17,000 followers on Twitter will attest).

Erin spearheads BlogHer’s initiative to connect community members directly to legislators and policy-makers. Recent successes have included landing an in-person briefing on women online with Senior Advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett, an exclusive on-camera interview with then-candidate Obama, a series of live, interactive conference calls about health care between Congresspeople from both sides of the aisle and BlogHer’s omni-partisan community members, and an exclusive webcast with Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about health care reform.

Prior to joining BlogHer, Erin spent ten years as a broadcast journalist in Los Angeles, Orlando and Detroit winning six Golden Mic Awards with LA news institution KFWB. She continues to blog on her personal site Queen of Spain Blog, and can be found tweeting both for @BlogHer and as @queenofspain .

Erin will use her legendary humor and her experience as a journalist, blogger, and online provocateur to discuss with us why social media is too important for anyone to ignore–in just a few years–social media has seeped into almost every facet of our daily lives including our government and politics, our personal relationships, the media, business, education, and more. In her own words:

“Social media has a role in everything from politics to journalism to simply updating family on your life and it’s now mainstream. To ignore it, is to turn a blind eye to the world around them. And to ignore it is also misses the huge opportunity it provides. For promoting one’s work. For elevating one’s voice. For supporting one’s causes. For authentically connecting to other people and enriching one’s life.”

Don’t wait to register for this year’s Nevada Interactive Media Summit. The event sold out last year.

Register Now for 2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit

We sold out last year, don’t wait to register!

Listening, Building, Engaging

Nevada Interact will bring together business owners, non-profit advocates, publishers, newsmakers, bloggers, podcasters, filmmakers, media, PR and advertising professionals and anyone else interested in interactive media from every corner of Nevada  together for hands-on learning, rich discussions, opportunities to meet with local companies working in interactive media and plentiful networking opportunities.

When: Saturday, March 6th, 9:00am to 5:00pm

Where: Joe Crowley Student Unon building, University of Nevada, Reno (campus map)

Registration Now! Eventbrite registration site

>>> Erin Kotecki Vest is Political Director and Producer of Special Projects for BlogHer, Inc. In that capacity, Erin spearheads BlogHer’s initiative to connect community members directly to legislators and policy-makers. Recent successes have included landing an in-person briefing on women online with Senior Advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett, an exclusive on-camera interview with then-candidate Obama, a series of live, interactive conference calls about health care between Congresspeople from both sides of the aisle and BlogHer’s omni-partisan community members, and an exclusive webcast with Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about health care reform. Prior to joining BlogHer, Erin spent ten years as a broadcast journalist in Los Angeles, Orlando and Detroit winning six Golden Mic Awards with LA news institution KFWB. She Continues to blog on her personal site Queen of Spain Blog, and can be found tweeting both for @BlogHer and as @queenofspain

Nevada Interactive Media Summit Is Sponsored by

Where will the Nevada Interactive Media Summit take place?
NevadaInteract ‘10 will be at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Joe Crowley Student Union building on March 6th, 2010.  We do not have an event hotel but there are several reasonable options located withing a free five minute bus ride to the UNR campus:

Where can I find the Nevada Interactive Media Summit ‘10 Agenda?
The Nevada Interact Summit will take place all day Saturday, March 6th and will include a keynote session and break-out sessions across multiple tracks:

Get Ready for Nevada Interactive Media Summit 2010

It’s been very quiet around here, but you should know that the planning for the Nevada Interactive Media Summit 2010 has begun!  The Summit will take place on Saturday, March 6th at the Joe Crowley Student Union on the UNR campus at the conclusion of Journalism Week.  The facilities as well as the conference will be bigger and better this year, and we promise that the cost will remain low.

Please check back soon for information about becoming a presenter and registering for the event.

Nevada Interactive Summit Presenters Get in Free

In case you have not submitted a proposal for Nevada Interactive Summit ‘09 yet, we’ve got another reason you should submit. If you’re proposal is selected for the event, we will waive your registration fee. So submit a proposal by February 8th and wait to hear from us. If your proposal is selected, we will give you a special registration code so you don’t have to pay the $25.00 registration fee.

If you submit a proposal, please wait to hear back from us about whether or not your proposal was accepted before you register.

We wish we could let everyone in for free, but, well, we have to feed you something don’t we? But in all seriousness, we do feel that Nevada Interactive Media Summit will be a valuable experience–worth well more than the $25.00 we unfortunately have to charge people.

So? What are you waiting for? Get to that proposal–time is running out!

What Is Interactive Media Anyway?

Different industries use the terms “Interactive Media” and “New Media” in different ways. So what do we mean when we talk about interactive or new media? That’s one of the first questions we have to try and answer as a group so that Nevada Interactive Media can develop a set of goals on which to focus. Let’s start the conversation right here, right now.

For me, “Interactive Media” is about much more than new technologies–it’s about using new technologies in new ways to have new conversations. For instance, look at how Plodt is using the Twitter API to allow people and groups to plot anything from what they eat and where they are to their political anxiety during the election. The UpTake uses live footage from amateur videographers to provide compelling local news coverage every day.

As a result, to add local blogs to the NIM blog roll is a task for Solomon. Should we add companies who work in the interactive media field (after we all decide what that is)? If so, what companies and why? Sponsors only? How do we guard against compromising relationships? Do we add websites/blogs because the people behind them believe in the ideas of interactive and new media and perhaps even work in the field? Or should the blog strictly be about interactive media? Just because someone calls themselves a new media strategist (full disclosure: I do), does that mean NIM should link to their blog? The future membership directory seems to be the most appropriate place for website links. What do you think?

Welcome to the Nevada Interactive Media Website

Welcome to the brand new site of the brand new, work-in-progress Nevada Interactive Media. We help you’ll be patient with us as we continue to add information to the site. We felt it was more important to start communicating with our audience, than it was to make sure that all of our information was perfect.

We are very excited to announce the first annual NIM Summit on March 7th, 2009 at the University of Nevada, Reno. The detailed schedule and registration information will be posted here after the new year. However, we are calling for proposals now. Please consider submitting one.

Thanks so much, and please let us know if you would like to contribute posts to this website or if you are interested in sponsorship opportunities. Sponsorship opportunities are now available! Please see our sponsorship page.

Thanks for you interest and your patience. We look forward to talking more with all of you over the next few months.