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.

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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

March 3 Is The Last Day to Register for $25

March 3rd is the last day to register for the Nevada Interactive Media Summit at $25. If we don’t sell out, you can still register on Saturday but the registration fee increases to $40 and does not include lunch. Don’t wait any longer. You can see our great presentation line up here.

http://nevadainteractsummit2010.eventbrite.com/

2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit Program

The schedule is not ready but we wanted to publish the list of panels and presentations for this year’s summit.  We have four tracks including Media, Journalism & Government, Tools & Techniques, Best Practices and Innovation & Entrepreneurship.  If you’ve been waiting to see the program to purchase your ticket, you might not want to wait any longer.  There are only 97 tickets left and time is running out.  Trust me, you won’t want to miss our keynote speaker, Erin Kotecki Vest, or these great panels and presentations.

Media, Journalism & Government

“The New Look of Interactive Government with Kristi Fifelski

“Why This Is Reno: Community News Building from The Ground Up with Bob Conrad and Ryan Jerz

“Twits and Tweets: Covering Nevada Government and Politics in the Social Media Age” with David Bobzien, Anjeanette Damon and David McGrath Schwartz

“The Future of Journalism:  How Interactive Media Is Changing the Future” with Tracy Viselli, Beryl Love, Brian Burghart and Kirk Caraway

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

“21st Century Classrooms – Engaging, Networking, Publishing, Collaborating To Build Understanding” with Brian Crosby

“Towards a New Entrepreneurship – A Backwards Approach” with Eric Jennings and Ashley Jennings

“Building a Winning Personal Brand” with Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.

“Social Media Patterns for Social Media Applications” with Joe Chavez

“Beyond LOL:  Rebuilding a Business Using Social Media” with Ron Bell

Best Practices

“Searching for Strategy: There’s More to SEO than Code” with Mike McDowell

“Keeping it Legal: Learning to Protect Yourself in the Interactive Media Space” with Christina Gagnier

“Smart From the Start, or Dumb from the Get-go? The Nevada Wilderness Project’s One-year Anniversary with SMedia” with Charlotte Overby and John Wallin

“Building, Engaging and Managing Online Communities” with Annie Flanzraich

“Building Brands and Interactions through Content Marketing” with Mike Henderson

Tools & Techniques

“New Media 101: What Is It, Why Use It?” with Mike McDowell

“Everything you need to know about using as an EFFECTIVE business tool” with Camilla Downs

“Maximizing the Potential of Your Audience with Current Social Networking Trends” with Peter Blue

“50 Apps to Fuel Your Business” with Colin Loretz and Annie Vranizan

“Using Your Head (and Some Cool Tools) to Build Your Edge” with Charlotte-Anne Lucas

Special Opportunities

“Not Your YouTube Video: TriCaster Brings TV-Quality Live Streaming to the Masses” with Steve Halliwell and Susan Breidenbach

Tours of the @One area of the Matthewson-IGT Knowledge Center including the Dynamic Media Lab, the DataWorks Lab and the Multimedia Center

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! Don’t Wait Until We Sell Out Again!

We sold out last year and many people were not able to attend who planned on it. Do not wait until the last minute to register or you may miss out like they did. The last day to register is March 3rd.

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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.

2009 Nevada Interactive Media Summit Schedule Summary

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Keynote – 9:30 a.m.
Jesse Stay, CEO of SocialToo, discusses the importance of social media today.

Birds of a Feather
Brainstorm with others during these impromptu birds of a feather sessions. Rooms available after lunch.
Speak to a staffer to schedule time.

Sessions and Workshops

10:30 – 11:15
50 Terrific Twitter Tools and Tips in 50 Minutes with Guy Johnson  (Cool Tools)    RM 101

Unconventional PR Strategies: How Social Media Has Changed Communications    RM 202
with Ronele Klingensmith and Bob Conrad. (Best Practices)

Small Change: Opening the Nevada Legislative Process through Technology with    RM 304
David Bobzien (Innovation and the Future)

11:30 – 12:15
New Media 101: what is it, why use it with Mike McDowell. (Cool Tools)   RM 101

Introduction to Social Bookmarking and Annotation with Maggie Tsai. (Best Practices)    RM 202

Twitter: Building Engaged Communities that ACT (and how to deal with bad    RM 304
behavior) with Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus. (Innovation and the Future)

12:30 – 1:45 LUNCH

2:00 – 2:45
Create your own widgets in Adobe Flex with Colin Loretz. (Cool Tools)     RM 101

A journalists’ toolbox of essential social media applications and attitudes with    RM 202
Charlotte-Anne Lucas. (Best Practices)

Mobilize GenWise: New Communication for Conservation and Outdoor Recreation    RM 304
with Jaimie Fields. (Innovation and the Future)

2:45 – 3:10 COFFEE

3:15 – 4:00
Data-driven web publishing without a programmer with Marcel Levy. (Cool Tools)     RM 101

Last Conductor Standing: Engaging an Audience in the Search with Francine    RM 202
Burge. (Best Practices)

Lessons Learned: A State Government Agency Using New Media with Bob    RM 304
Conrad. (Innovation and the Future)

4:15 – 5:00
Intro to Podcasting with Mike Henderson (Cool Tools)   RM 101

How to Engage Your Classroom Community Using Interactive Media with Michelle    RM 202
Montoya. (Best Practices)

The Future of Local News: Community Brainstorm with Donica Mensing and    RM 304
Andrew Pridgen. (Innovation and the Future)

5:00 – 5:45 Nevada IM Membership Meeting

*Subject to change. Program changes in red.

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!

Meet 2009 NIM Summit Keynote Speaker, Jesse Stay

We are excited to announce that Jesse Stay will be the keynote speaker at the Nevada Interactive Media Summit ‘09.  If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed Jesse since he has close to 8,000 followers. He takes the social part of social media very seriously and looks for innovate ways to integrate technology and social interaction in a way that improves relationships. ”We’re Related” a Facebook application Stay helped design, helps families connect through Facebook.  It’s also  one of Facebook’s top 10 applications with almost 12,000,000 active monthly users.

His newest venture, SocialToo, gives people the ability to manage their interactions on social networks better, as well as providing a way to conduct live opinion polls.

From his official bio:

Jesse Stay, the self-proclaimed “Social” Geek, is a well-reputed speaker, author, blogger, and entrepreneur, who writes and consults on the topics of social media and new media. Jesse wrote two books, his first book, “I’m on Facebook–Now What???“, discusses the possibilities of improving your career, family, business, and life through Facebook.  His unique technology background has enabled him to help others understand the new mesh of technology, marketing, PR, and customer service, which social media has come to be.  Through his expertise, Jesse has consulted for top 10 Facebook applications, large corporations, social media applications with hundreds of thousands of users, and has helped many people become successful through their social media efforts to merge technology with marketing.  Jesse is currently CEO, Founder, and Chief Architect of another successful social media venture called SocialToo, which makes it easier to manage and stay in touch with the people you or your business follow on the social networks you belong to.  Jesse also writes regularly for the popular tech blog, LouisGray, along with his own blog, StayNAlive, and occasionally on the top two Facebook blogs, InsideFacebook and AllFacebook.  You can find him there, or on Twitter under his screen name, @Jesse.

I think we’re very lucky to get Jesse Stay as our keynote speaker, but I’m biased.  He also happens to be my cousin.  He’ll be able to speak to our theme “Community Engagement,” in the context of his work as well as discuss the direction he sees interactive media moving to in the future. We are also hoping to have a local social media innovator join Jesse in opening The Summit on March 7th in style.  We’ll keep you updated on any developments as they occur.

Don’t forget to submit your proposal. We know there are many experts out there and we want to hear and learn from all of them. The deadline is February 8th.

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