Attend our Free Seminar to learn the Secrets to Social Media Success!

When? Wednesday, July 29th 2009   7:00 pm EST

Who? Small business owners, professionals and those who are interested to learn ways to leverage the internet to work for you.

Simply fill out your name and email below to receive seminar information:

The next generation of communication is here!

Whether you are an individual, small business or a large corporation, you should have some social media component by now. If not, you need to aboard the express train and catch up with social media.

Are you tired or hearing about twitter, blogs and even wikis? Let us share with you our secrets of using social media to help you build your brand, expand your customer base, better control public relations and make money!

Learn how marketing is changing and how social media marketing campaigns are taking hold.

We will explore the convergence of old media vs new media. Why it matters, and how it affects your personal and professional world. Let us teach you how to leverage web 2.0 and use the power of communities to impact your message and increase sales, which establish a whole new customer dynamic.

You will learn:

• On overview of social media
• Old media vs new media
• Definition of the latest web 2.0 words like twitter, blogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking
• How social media is impacting our professional and everyday lives
• How to use Twitter to expand your communication and increase your brand
• The difference between using Facebook Fan page vs. Facebook Group
• How to effectively communicate using blogs

• And as a bonus, I will be sharing with you Kadidid’s tool box: My favorite tools that has helped me to work smarter!

For more information and RSVP, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/socialweb/calendar/10921529/

6:00 – sign-in
6:30 – demo’s start:

(signup options will be available by August 10)

7:30 – Introducing… GaZuBO Networking!

Topic/Theme: Everyone bring one tip to share (or a question) related to web traffic or online web promotion.

Search Engine Optimatization (SEO) meets Social Media Optimization (SMO)… a mashup of meetups & conversations. Plus generally a discussion around having a website or blog.

This is a recurring special event, as we bring different meetup groups together to discuss SEO as it relates to social & web 2.0 aspects… or is it that we’ll discuss how social & web 2.0 can benefit from knowing SEO?

Also joining us is the Washington DC SEO meetup group, for sharing ideas & experiences (their event listing adds more people to the event).
Starter ideas and questions for the night’s conversation:

• Are you more familiar with SEO, SMO, or neither? Or both?
• Is it better to focus on SEO to get traffic, or focus on SMO? What is the difference?
• Is traffic all that you want, or do you want a benefit that traffic will bring to you/your site? Examples of benefits include branding, signups/registrations/orders, advertiser ROI (including text ads), and
• How do links from comments (in blogs, on YouTube, etc.) help in SEO?
• Does having a blog risk a “duplicate page” penalty from search engines? Blogs can display the same page with different url’s, such as site.com/?p=1 , www.site.com/?p=1 , site.com/post_name , and www.site.com/post_name . Is this seen as content spam, or is it ignored by search engines?

Where? La Madeleine

7607 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda , MD 20814

Discussion on experiences with change management in both traditional and newer web 2.0 areas. What experiences or challenges do you have in bringing transformational changes to an organization? What tools & techniques – web 1.0 through web 3.0 – can be used to make the process more effective?

The result of this discussion will help drive a separate series of events on change management.

Some writeups found online relating to change management:

* http://home.att.net/~…
* http://www.change-man…

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From 6-7:30pm.

Who should come? Anyone looking to network with fellow small business owners, independent consultants, start-ups, and other professional service firms.

Bring your business cards, your 15-second pitch, and a givers attitude. We have the bottom floor to ourselves!

About The Science Club.

The Science Club (website) is a long established lounge in the Dupont Circle area. It is a constant hub for business professionals and for organizations like ours looking to host networking mixers at their venue. It has 3 floors with various set ups and rooms on each floor.

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