That’s A Wrap!

Oh behalf of The Nevada Interactive Media Board of Directors, I hope everyone enjoyed their experience at this year’s summit. Our thoughts have already started turning toward next year. I know I enjoyed seeing the event grow in numbers and into a new venue, as well as the opportunity to meet even more people offline, or “live and in person” as I like to say. For me, relationships are the most valuable take away of the Nevada Interactive Media Summit–new relationships and existing relationships that change as a result of our shared experience.

We’ve collected a series of reactions to the summit written by attendees and presenters. Please enjoy them and drop the authors a few comments. Blogging is hard work–don’t let anyone tell you anything different.

Oh, and look for a survey we will be sending out to gather your feedback in order to help us improve future events.

• Annie Vranzian wrote about the presentation she did with Colin Loretz: 50 Apps to Fuel Your Business. Her blog post includes a breakdown off the apps covered in their presentation.
• Becca at The Loud Girl didn’t write a recap of the summit, but did write a recap of the summit.
• Presenter Mike Henderson posted his presentation about content marketing on the One To One Travel blog and discusses Annie Flanzraich’s great presentation: “Building, Engaging and Managing Online Communities. Oh, also, someone stole his post?
• The Reynolds School of Journalism wrote a fabulous blog post about Nevada Interactive Media Summit Keynote Speaker, Erin Kotecki Vest. You can watch the video of her presentation to journalism students on Friday night which includes footage of yours truly doing my best Phil Donahue routine.
• Jessica Estepa covered the Nevada Interactive Media Summit for the jschool and wrote a nice piece focusing on the community aspect of NIM: “Media summit brings community together.”

If you’ve written a post and I’ve missed it, please include it in the comments. I apologize in advance

Here are all the presentations in our SlideShare group so far. We hope to get them all posted there soon.
Thanks for all of your support!

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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Call for Proposals, 2010 Nevada Interactive Summit

At Nevada Interactive Media, we believe in the expertise of our local talent. Has your non-profit successfully used social media to increase your donor base? Has your small business found a way to use video to engage with the public? Are you part of a media organization experimenting with interactive media? Share what you have learned with your local community by submitting a proposal to the 2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit.

Call for Proposals

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. Presenters will receive a special registration code so that they can attend the event for free. Those who have submitted a proposal should not register for the event until they here on the status of their proposal.

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

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

The Nevada Interactive Media Summit will take place on March 6th, 2010 at the Joe Crowley Student Union at the University of Nevada, Reno .

We encourage proposals that address the NevadaInteract Summit theme “Listening, Building, Engaging” and fit into the three tracks:

* Tools & Techniques
* Best Practices
* Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Submission Guidelines

We encourage proposals in all areas and are always open to good ideas. The more complete and fleshed out a proposal, the more likely it will be accepted. Although we are still planning the exact schedule, deciding to take our cue from the submissions we get, we do want your submissions to meet the following requirements:

Panels: 50 minutes
Workshops (how-to focused): 50 minutes
Presentations: 50 minutes

The deadlines for submissions is February 8, 2010. Read more details about submitting a proposal here: http://www.nevadanewmedia.org/nevada-new-media-summit/submissions/

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?