Social Media Club Louisville

Social Media Club Louisville is proud to welcome social media pioneer and innovator Chris Brogan to Louisville to speak to SMC Louisville in an event that is free and open to the public. Brogan will lead an open discussion on social media marketing for business on Tuesday, May 19 from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. in the Humana Training Center, 500 West Main Street, 25th Floor, in downtown Louisville.

The general topic of the discussion will be, “Now what?” Brogan will begin the event by moving past the social media basics to implementing strategies and tactics both internally and externally to empower and energize businesses small and large. The event is being presented by Humana and Louisville, Possibility City.

Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. He speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at chrisbrogan.com, a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati.

“Chris Brogan is one of the top two or three thinkers in the social media space on the planet,” said Jason Falls, president of Social Media Club Louisville. “To have an opportunity to spend a couple hours discussing social media marketing with him — at no charge — is a rare one. We’re honored to have Chris at SMC Louisville and hope the community understands what a rare opportunity it is to learn from one of the social media industry’s zen masters.”

Register here:

Brogan will also lead an all-star lineup in his New Media Labs’s Inbound Marketing Bootcamp during the day. That event, also held at the Humana Training Center, will run from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at a cost of $395.00. Until May 1, however, Social Media Club Louisville members and friends can use the discount code JASONVIP99 and register for just $99. Click here to learn more and register. (NOTE: The bootcamp is separate from the SMC Louisville May gathering. Please RSVP for SMC Louisville and register separately for the Inbound Marketing Bootcamp.)

Chris Brogan

Chris Brogan’s Inbound Marketing Boot Camp comes to Louisville Tuesday, May 19. The event, an intensive, one-day, keyboard level education seminar in new marketing, will be hosted by Humana at 500 West Main Street on the 25th Floor. Brogan, who will also be speaking at the May 19 Social Media Club Louisville gathering that night, will lead the all day boot camp, which will also feature standout social media and Internet marketing thinkers Justin Levy, SMC Louisville’s own Jason Falls and more.

Who should attend? From the Boot Camp website:

• Business communications professionals
• Marketers
• PR Professionals
• Agencies
• Corporate communications teams
• Practitioners of social and emerging media

While the cost of the all-day learning session is $395.00, for a limited time, registrants can sign up for a special, Social Media Club Louisville discount. Just enter the Discount Code “JASONVIP99” and your cost will be just $99.00.

REGISTER HERE

The Inbound Marketing Bootcamp is brought to you by Humana, Radian6, Blue Sky Factory, Hubspot and Mashable.

Please note: Brogan’s speaking event at the Social Media Club Louisville will also be at the Humana Building, 500 West Main Street, 25th Floor from 6:30-8:30 p.m. There is no charge to attend that event. A separate RSVP post will appear soon for the free event.

Social Media Club Louisville was proud and thrilled to host 34 advertising, marketing and public relations professionals for a half-day boot camp on Tuesday morning at the Frazier International History Museum. Participants got an up close look at social media strategies and tactics from members of the organization’s board of directors. Topics covered included listening to the conversation, participating in that conversation using blogs, blogger outreach as a public relations professional, leveraging social networks for your brands and clients and the all-important measurement piece of social media.

While we certainly didn’t quite have enough time to get through all the intricate details of every issue, the immediate feedback from the participants was positive. Our goal was to deliver value for each participant. If we failed in that goal for any of those in attendance, please let us know via email at smclouisville - at - gmail.com. We want to ensure you got value from your experience.

That said, as promised, here is the presentation from the boot camp for those interested:

Again, we are aware several other entities from both in and out of town are offering social media training an expertise these days. We are honored you chose to invest your time and money with us. We’re also thankful for our friends from Indianapolis who made the trip down. It was a pleasure to have you.

If you’re reading via email or an rss reader I highly recommend hopping on over to smclouisville.org. We’ve got a brand new, beautiful new site design and I want you to see it.

This design was very generously donated by a local SMC supporter. Then the design was turned into a brilliant, functional and altogether awesome Wordpress theme by local designer Ricky Irvine. Thank you designer who wants to stay anonymous and thank you so much to Ricky. I can’t recommend Ricky’s work highly enough. And he’s a super nice guy. Win-win.

Social Media Club Louisville has a good lineup of events ahead of us for Spring and I’m so pleased that we get to start this busy season with a new look for our home here.

The Louisville chapter of the American Marketing Association has graciously extended an invitation and a special member’s rate to Social Media Club Louisville to attend the April 30 AMA luncheon with Brains on Fire’s Geno Church, one of the masterminds behind the Fiskateers community of Fiskars enthusiasts. The event will be held at the University Club at the University of Louisville from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. The special, SMC Louisville rate is $25.00. Purchase your tickets by purchasing through our Eventbright RSVP below below. (A $0.99 fee will be added for Eventbright processing.)

Please note SMC Louisville guests will need to buy via the Eventbright order form. The special rate will not be accepted at the door.

Church will give tips on how marketers can create sustainable word of mouth movements for their brands, how to find people to engage the brand and how to manage the community once it’s started. He’ll also give tips on how to evaluate a word of mouth program’s success. Learn more about Church and Brains on Fire at www.brainsonfire.com.

Location:
The University Club at the University of Louisville
11:30 - 12:00 networking; 12:00 - 1:00 lunch and speaker
www.louisville.edu/org/uclub