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!

2010 Nevada Interactive Media Presenations

Thanks again to our great presenters and to all of those who attended the 2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit. We couldn’t have done it without you! Please continue to spread the word about the summit and follow us on Twitter and Facebook so you know when planning for next year’s event begins.

We have been busy collecting this year’s presentations, and while we don’t have all of them, we hope to soon. The presentations are collected in a couple of ways to make it convenient for your to share them easily or even embed them on your own website. These groups will be updated with new presentations as they come in.

• SlideShare.com Nevada Interactive Media Summit group contains all presentations collected.

• Diigo.com Nevada Interactive Media Summit presentation slide show and Nevada Interactive Media Summit Group which you can see as a widget on our sidebar. (get your own on Diigo.com)

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

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.

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/

Register for the Nevada Interactive Media Summit ‘09

The first annual Nevada Interactive Media Summit registration site is finally up!  What is the Nevada Interactive Media Summit?

The Nevada New Media Summit is the first conference exploring the impact of interactive media and technology in Nevada.  Just two months into the first presidential administration to have new media staff, we felt it was time to look into the future and ask, “What’s next?” With the first Nevada Interactive Media Summit, we are seeking to develop an innovative interactive media culture that anticipates trends and issues and will shape the future of interactive media in Nevada.

Nevada Interactive Media Summit will bring Nevada bloggers, podcasters, film makers, Tweeters, 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. Help make the first Nevada Interactive Media Summit a success and clear your calendar on March 7th so you can help explore the theme: “Community Engagement.”

The NIM Summit will be your chance to meet members of Nevada’s online community “in real life,” whether you are interested in getting real work, making real friends, and/or building real networks.  We also hope to use the Summit to build a new professional association for interactive media professionals.

When: March 7th, 10:00am to 5:00pm (Ignite Reno to follow at 6:00pm at Se7en, West St. Market)

Where: Reynolds School of Journalism building, University of Nevada, Reno (campus map)

NIM Summit ‘09 will be at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Reynolds School of Journalism building on March 7th, 2009.

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?

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