FIFTH CONFERENCE: CHICAGO - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 2009, 10:00AM - 5:00PM
We are very happy to announce that we will be holding our fifth one-day conference in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, August 5th.
Our Chicago event will be held in The Auditorium at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (The CME Group) at 20 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606.
Speakers:
Dr. Barbara K. Iverson
Journalism
Columbia School of Chicago
"Twittering Can Make You Smarter: Tips for Using Twitter in Education"
Craig Kanalley
Founder
Breaking Tweets
Jared Roy
President
Risdall Integration Group
"How to find influencers on Twitter"
Amy Ravit Korin
Founder
interactiveAmy.com
"Twitter Customer Service - Examples of Best Practices"
Pek Pongpaet
Principal
Firesnake Designs
"Elements of a Viral Twitter Application"
Jeff Willinger
VP Business Development and Marketing
RightPoint
"Building Better Business Relationships Using Twitter: How Do You Position Yourself Digitally to Take Advantage of Opportunities on the Web"
Ramon De Leon
The Domino's Pizza Twitter King
Domino's Pizza
"How To Make Real Dough With Twitter"
Tim McDonald
Real Estate Agent
Zoom Real Estate
"Leveraging Twitter in a Buyer's Market"
CALL FOR SPEAKERS!
At this time we are welcoming abstracts from all interested speakers to present on Twitter. All topics are currently welcome, including for-profit ideas, government applications, non-profit ideas, socializing applications, development APIs, and all cultural impacts and phenomenon based on twitter.
We aim to create one of the most compelling and intense full-day conferences on Twitter and would like to make the selection of topics as diverse as possible. All selected speakers will receive a complementary registration pass. For those that are interested in speaking and presenting, please email a short one paragraph abstract on your topic with contact information (email and phone number) to chicago@cooltwitterconferences.com, and put CHICAGO in the subject line. We will be accepting abstracts until August 2nd, 2009.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This conference is aimed at providing an informational exchange opportunity for all those trying to understand and maximize the opportunities surrounding the technology and the phenomenon that is Twitter.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Lunch is included with all registrations
Early-Bird Registration through July 20th, 2009: $195.00 USD
Registration from July 16th through August 4th, 2009: $295.00 USD
On-Site Registration - August 5th, 2009: $395.00 USD
Twitter Beginner Boot-Camp: $95.00 USD
Twitter Intermediate Boot-Camp: $95.00 USD
Voluntary Carbon Offset: $5.00 USD*
The Twitter Beginner Boot Camp will take place from 8:00am-9:30am before the start of the conference. It will be aimed at educating and bringing individuals up to speed on the basics of Twitter and potential applications.
The Twitter Intermediate Boot Camp will take place from 5:00pm-6:30pm after the end of the conference. This session will focus and examine very specific applications and tools available for use with Twitter, aiming towards helping individuals think outside the box in terms of potential Twitter applications.
*Cool Twitter Conferences tries to limits its impact on the environment wherever possible and practical. We kindly request all attendees and speakers (including ourselves) to donate $5.00 per person toward offsetting the carbon we all release into the atmosphere through our travel to the conference (by car, by metro, by plane, by train). 100% of these funds will be donated to the Carbonfund.org organization and requested to help finance their Wildlife Refuge Reforestation project in the Tensas River Valley of Louisiana.
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