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June 10th, 2009 — SMB Cincinnati, Upcoming breakfasts
Thursday, June 11th Joe DiNunzio will be leading an active discussion on gaming and social media at the June Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast. DiNunzio is president of Fido Management, a visiting professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group.
This month’s discussion is designed to engage the audience. After DiNunzio profiles some companies doing interesting things in the social media space, he’ll lead an audience discussion around how the work these companies are doing relates to attendees’ experiences.
Companies profiled are doing work in Alternative Reality Games, a next-gen Internet-connected gaming device, crowd sourcing feature quality animation, widgets and tools to analyze and measure the impact of WOM/social media placements.
Event Tag #cincysmb
Date Thursday, June 11th from 7:30 am until 9:30 am
Location The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal 1301 Western Ave Cincinnati, OH 45203
Cost FREE.
Questions? Contact Daniel Lally and Kevin Dugan via cincysocmed AT gmail DOT com
About Joe DiNunzio: As a senior executive with more than two decades of leadership experience with corporate and entrepreneurial ventures, DiNunzio has extensive expertise in strategy, business development, product development, operations, marketing, and technology deployment.
DiNunzio is president of consultancy Fido Management, a visiting professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group. Previously, he spent six years at Walt Disney Imagineering, where he served as SVP of New Product Development. DiNunzio has an AB (Psychology) from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford.
About Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal: Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is a nationally recognized institution. Organizations within Museum Center include the Cincinnati History Museum, Duke Energy Children’s Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater, and the Cincinnati Historical Society Library. These organizations combine to serve more than one million visitors annually, reaching out to nearly 400,000 young people through hands-on exhibits and programs. Originally built in 1933 as a train station, Union Terminal stands as one of the last remaining grand-scale Art Deco style railroad terminals.
About Cincinnati Social Media: Founded by Kevin Dugan, Daniel Lally and Dave Knox, Cincinnati Social Media counts more than 400 members and holds monthly events where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. It is part of the international Social Media Breakfast series which is held in 25 cities.
April 22nd, 2009 — SMB Cincinnati, Upcoming breakfasts
Come to the next Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast to listen, share, network and learn along with other area professionals.
Is your digital footprint in compliance with the communications decency act? Is giving credit online and linking to a source enough to avoid copyright infringement? In an online world full of social media, sharing and mash-ups, the answers might seem fuzzy.
Jack Greiner’s goal is to help you “avoid your lawyer” by bringing clarity to the latest in online intellectual property laws. Greiner is with Graydon, Head & Ritchey. From Facebook terms of service to the role of re-tweeting in libel cases, anyone involved in creating content online will be interested in this presentation
The event is free thanks to CincyTech. Join us on Friday, April 24th from 7:30 am until 9:30 am at the Mercantile Library.
Event Tag #cincysmb
Registration Event registration is required and limited to 50 attendees. Once the event is sold out, please send an email to cincysocmed AT gmail DOT com to be added to the waiting list.
Date Friday, April 24th from 7:30 am until 9:30 am
Location The Mercantile Library at 414 Walnut St # 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Cost Free thanks to our sponsor, CincyTech.
Questions? Contact Daniel Lally and Kevin Dugan via cincysocmed AT gmail DOT com
About Jack Greiner: Jack is a partner with Graydon, Head and Ritchey. He works with the firms’ Media Communication and Information clients and practices in the areas of commercial litigation and First Amendment law. His work has included litigation of disputes over a variety of contracts, First Amendment issues, non-competition covenants, libel and intellectual property disputes.
Since 2005, Jack has been named a “Leading Lawyer” by Cincy Business Magazine. Jack has been named one of The Best Lawyers in America and an Ohio Super Lawyer since 2007 for his work in Commercial Litigation and First Amendment Law. He was also awarded the Ohio Society of Professional Journalist Award for Best Defense of the First Amendment for his contribution to “Lead’s Dangerous Legacy.”
About CincyTech: CincyTech is a public-private group whose mission is to accelerate the growth of start-up technology businesses into high-growth companies in Southwest Ohio. CincyTech does this through management assistance, seed-capital investments and connections to partners who share this mission.
CincyTech is a regional technology initiative of the State of Ohio’s Third Frontier Project. Its work focuses on opportunities in information technology and bioscience. Portfolio companies include Zipscene, ThinkVine and Assure Rx.
About Mercantile Library: Organized in 1835, The Mercantile Library is a membership library. It is the city’s senior library and one of the oldest cultural institutions in the Midwest. The name refers not to the collection, but to the Library’s founders who were young merchants and clerks. It is a non-profit institution supported by members’ annual subscriptions, gifts, and income from an endowment fund. The Library receives no tax support. Be sure to check out their blog, Stacked.
About Cincinnati Social Media: Founded by Kevin Dugan, Daniel Lally and Dave Knox, Cincinnati Social Media counts more than 250 members and holds monthly events where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend. It is a proud member of the international Social Media Breakfast series.
January 20th, 2009 — SMB Cincinnati, Upcoming breakfasts
Come to the fifth Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast to listen, share, network and learn along with other area marketing and new media professionals.
While times seem dark, we’ll see some very bright ideas come to fruition during the recession. To help inspire your own ideas, Pandora Internet Radio founder Tim Westergren will tell us his own story of innovation at our free, morning event. Learn more about Pandora, The Music Genome Project and future plans for this innovative, online music experience.
The event is free, complete with a light breakfast, thanks to LÛCRUM Incorporated. Join us on Monday, February 2nd from 7:30 am until 9:30 am at LPK’s Brand Innovation Center.
Event Tag #cincysmb5
Registration Event registration will open soon. **Registration will be required and limited to 100 attendees. Once the event is sold out, please leave a comment below to be added to our waiting list. **
Date Monday, February 2nd from 7:30 am until 9:30 am
Location The LPK Brand Innovation Center at 22 Garfield Place
Cost Free thanks to our sponsor, LÛCRUM Incorporated
Questions? Contact Daniel Lally via DanielJLally AT gmail DOT com or Kevin Dugan via prblog AT gmail DOT com
About Pandora Pandora has a single mission: To play music you’ll love - and nothing else. To do this Pandora created the Music Genome Project — the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
About LÛCRUM Incorporated LÛCRUM is a premier, global business services firm providing a full range of software development and integration solutions for Fortune 500 clients. With significant experience in Financial Services, Health Services, Manufacturing and Energy/Utilities, LÛCRUM continues to redefine the standard of success in the technology industry by focusing on strategic objectives and delivering true business value.
About LPK LPK is an international design agency with a proven track record in building leadership brands. By integrating strategy, design and innovation, LPK leverages relevant insights to create value, sustain leadership and transform businesses. Directions to their Brand Innovation Center at 22 Garfield Place are located here.
About Social Media Breakfast Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend. The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to cities throughout the U.S. and around the world.
January 18th, 2009 — Recaps, SMB Cincinnati, Videos
Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast Four attendees heard ShareThis CEO Tim Schigel cover topics including how the web, using tools like ShareThis, is democratizing influence.
Are You Hungry For Social Media?
“People Share What Matters”
ShareThis eliminates the need to cut and paste a URL into an email. Analytics show that sharing goes up eight times with this distributed sharing widget on a site. Perhaps that’s because it also allows you to publish the URL to a variety of social networking sites and send it via email or text message to your personal contact list.
As your RSS feeds turn to noise and overwhelm you, ShareThis helps users more easily discern the value of content through their own network. These friend-curated information flows are a prime example of the democratization of influence. As information and viewers of information grow exponentially, our attention is finite, luckily Forrester research shows that 81 percent of people share to help someone else as opposed to simply broadcasting or promoting themselves. This means sharing is as powerful as it is spontaneous and tools like ShareThis will help us sort through the information glut.
The Future of Sharing
Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast attendees previewed the next iteration of ShareThis as well as some future plans. Perhaps the most exciting news is that, as ShareThis ties into analytic providers like Overture and Google Analytics, a metric for influence can be developed.
December 1st, 2008 — SMB Cincinnati, Upcoming breakfasts
Come to the fourth Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast to listen, share, network and learn along with other area marketing and new media professionals.
Content marketing is the theme of this free, morning event as ShareThis CEO Tim Schigel leads a discussion on how web users want instant access to their favorite content and are using technology to keep up with what’s important to them in their increasingly self-defined, online worlds.
It’s a free event, complete with breakfast, thanks to Game Day Communication’s sponsorship. Join us on Tuesday, December 16th from 7:30 am until 9:30 am at the Reds Hall of Fame.
Event Tag: Please tag all event content with #cincysmb4
Registration: Click here to register. **Registration is required and limited to 40 attendees. If the event is sold out, please leave a comment below to be added to our waiting list. **
Date: Tuesday, December 16th from 7:30 am until 9:30 am
Location: The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum
Cost: Free thanks to our sponsor, Game Day Communications.
Questions? Contact Carla Franke via Carla DOT Franke AT gmail DOT com or Kevin Dugan via prblog AT gmail DOT com
About ShareThis: ShareThis lets millions of people easily share the things they find online, in the most convenient way possible. ShareThis consolidates address books and friend lists, so that anything can be shared immediately, without even leaving a webpage. It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with the growing number of web sites and social web communities. ShareThis lets you instantly access all of your profiles, blogs, friends, and contacts for easy sharing and updating.
About Game Day Communications: Game Day Communications was founded in 2002 by former ESPN anchor Betsy Ross as a public relations firm specializing in sports and entertainment. The firm serves clients around the country cultivating existing and new relationships with media and consumer influencers with a personalized approach using the latest in technology.
About The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame: Bring your cameras as we experience this one of a kind, historic space. The Reds Hall of Fame and Museum is located downtown on the west side of Great American Ball Park along Main Street. Directions are located here.
About Social Media Breakfast: Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend. The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to cities throughout the U.S. and around the world.
September 30th, 2008 — SMB Cincinnati
Come to the third Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast to listen, share, network and learn along with other area marketing and new media professionals.
The power of Word of Mouth Marketing is the theme of the free morning event as our special guest, Pete Blackshaw, leads a discussion on the powerful shift that’s changed the relationship between brands and consumers. More importantly we’ll discuss how companies are responding to these changes.
It’s a FREE event, complete with breakfast, thanks to Enquirer Media’s sponsorship.
Pete Blackshaw is EVP of Digital Strategic Services at Nielsen Online. He is also the author of “Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000.” An accomplished blogger, Blackshaw has connected Cincinnati’s digital enthusiasts together via the Digital Cincinnati group on Facebook.
You will not want to miss Blackshaw’s industry-leading views on Word of Mouth marketing.
Registration
** Registration is required and limited to 40 attendees. If the event is sold out, please leave a comment below to be added to our waiting list. **
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, from 7:30 to 9:30 am
Location: Bridge Worldwide
302 W. Third Street
Suite 900
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513.381.1380
Cost: Free thanks to our sponsor, Enquirer Media
Questions? Contact Laura Deaton via lauradeaton AT gmail DOT com
or Kevin Dugan via prblog AT gmail DOT com
Register for the event here.
About our Sponsor Enquirer Media
Owned by the Gannett Corporation, Enquirer Media is committed to delivering the best news and information in the region. These news and information products include: The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Kentucky Enquirer, The Community Press and Recorder weekly newspapers, the Cincinnati.Com network, NKY.Com, CiN Weekly, Our Town magazine and more than 75 special publications ranging in coverage from sports to entertainment and more.
About Social Media Breakfast
Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend. The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to cities throughout the U.S. and around the world. More at http://www.socialmediabreakfast.com/category/smb-cincinnati/
July 31st, 2008 — SMB Cincinnati, Upcoming breakfasts
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“I heard the news today, oh boy…”
PimpMyNews is a new, free service allowing you to hear the latest news from your personally selected mix of news sources and blogs. Anyone with an MP3 player and Internet access can use it. CEO John Atkinson will be speaking at the next Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast* so we did a quick Q&A with him to give some background on the event’s special guest.
1) PimpMyNews is a great name and service. What’s the inspiration behind each?
My Co-founder Roy Georgia and I used to always struggle to keep up with news and current events. Before starting PimpMyNews, we were both “road warriors” in our previous jobs and we could never find the time to read newspapers, or to tune into scheduled TV or radio news broadcasts. And, using the Internet for news and blogs required us to be at computers- searching, sifting and reading. So, we came up with the idea of a service that would automatically find breaking stories from your favorite sources on the Internet and read them to you wherever you happen to be - kind of like TiVo for news and blogs.
Our users say that the strongest benefit is the “productivity benefit” of being able to get current on their favorite news and blogs by listening on-the-go, while they do other things like, drive, workout, ride the train and more.
After considering over 200 different names, we chose “PimpMyNews” because we feel that it conveys the “personalized news” aspect of the service - and because it seems to get people’s attention 
2) How do you determine which news sources you cover?
We pride ourselves on PimpMyNews being a source of solid, trusted and obscure news and blog content.
There are so many news and blog sites out there that “information overload” is a real issue. Technorati reports that it tracks over 112 million blogs world-wide. To arrive at the roughly 1,200 sources we have in PimpMyNews, we reviewed tens of thousands of the world’s most popular blogs and categorized the blogs that passed our editorial review into 59 unique categories. So whether you’re interested in Technology, Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment or something else, there’s a good chance you’ll find it on PimpMyNews. We also receive a lot of suggestions from users. Anyone can suggest a blog by emailing Feeds AT PimpMyNews DOT com.
3) What’s next for PimpMyNews? Scoble dubbed PimpMyNews as one of the best iPhone apps prior to the 3G release. Any plans to offer PimpMyNews as an application?
Because of the uniqueness of our service, we’ve received a lot of press, for which we’re very thankful. Our current iPhone Web Application works on all iPhones and iPod Touch devices, including iPhone 3G. Anyone with a computer or an MP3 player can also use the service. (Our full site can be accessed at http://PimpMyNews.com , and our iPhone Web App is at: http://PimpMyNews.com/m).
Our goal is to continually increase the mobile platforms we run on. In the near future, we’ll be rolling out a native iPhone application that will be accessible through Apple’s App Store, as well as applications for other mobile devices.
4) What do you think the news landscape will look like five years from now?
There’s never been a more exciting time, or a more volatile time, in the news industry than right now. According to Pew Internet, nearly one-third of Americans now use the Internet for news. Ten years ago, only two percent of us used the Internet for news. The trend of people shifting from “traditional” news sources to “new media” sources will continue and accelerate. Personalized, mobile, social news is the new frontier, and we think that the smart phone explosion - sparked by the iPhone - will bring the market to a “tipping point” in the next couple of years.
Mobile “applications” (versus “sites”) will instantly deliver the exact news you care about from thousands of sources - in the format you desire, no matter where you happen to be. Publishers who have great content and who embrace new digital distribution methods will thrive.
5) What are your personal favorite news sources? Same applies to gadgets (top 3 favorites).
I have the following sources in my PimpMyNews Playlist - I listen to them every day.
TechCrunch - A great source for news on Web 2.0 startups.
Mashable - I love their focus on social networking & social media.
Seth Godin - The world’s best marketer
My number 1 favorite gadget is the iPhone - no surprise there. I’m curious about all of the alleged “iPhone-Killers” being rolled out by the wireless carriers. I’m also intrigued by the Amazon Kindle, but I haven’t purchased one yet.
Cross-posted to the Bad Pitch blog and
Strategic Public Relations.
*The Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast. is SOLD OUT. However you can get on the waiting list by commenting below.
tags | John Atkinson | PimpMyNews | social media | media | news
July 20th, 2008 — SMB Cincinnati, Upcoming breakfasts
Come to the second Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast to listen, share, network and learn along with other area marketing and new media professionals.
Making communications more effective with multimedia is the theme of the free morning event as the definition of content continues to morph and include everything from 140-character Twitter bursts and Flickr images to Flip videos pushed to YouTube and of course the social media news release.
It’s a FREE event thanks to Marketwire’s sponsorship, but we do need you to RSVP as space is limited! You can RSVP here: http://cincysmb2.eventbrite.com.
Our special guest is PimpMyNews CEO John Atkinson. PimpMyNews is a free service bringing you news in audio format. Anyone with Internet access or an MP3 player can listen to thousands of breaking text news and blog stories. Users create podcasts pushed to them daily based on their customized profiles.
Attendees will also be registered to win a copy of Pete Blackshaw’s new book “Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000: Running a Business in Today’s Consumer-Driven World.”
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, from 7:30 to 9:30 am
Location: Rookwood Pavilion First Watch on 2692 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH 45208.
Cost: Free thanks to our sponsor, Marketwire.
RSVP: http://cincysmb2.eventbrite.com
Questions? Contact Kevin Dugan via prblog AT gmail DOT com
or
Daniel Johnson Jr via danieljohnsonjr AT newmediacincinnati DOT com
April 30th, 2008 — SMB Cincinnati
The turnout at the first Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast must be reflective of the total audience on social networks, passionate, knowledgeable, and committed to sharing with the community, the early adopters if you will. There were more people than I expected about 20 people, which the Holiday Inn Riverfront graciously accommodated with a separate meeting room, thank you very much. The group covered many topics, which included:
- What is more important accuracy or speed? An excellent give and take about how newspapers can allow for greater social media without undermining their main concern of distributing accurate information.
- The “Twitter Effect” on reporting, business, conferences, oh just about everything we do.
- How blogging and twitter has impacted the lives of people around the table, from finding new jobs to leaving old ones.
Now, here’s an example that I hope others can use about how the community of people work together to raise the level of the entire group. On Tuesday night I tweeted that I’d post a quick wrap up on Wednesday AM. Everyone has stuff to do so what’s here is my contribution, but I used twitter to let everyone know what I was going to do. So one of the attendees Roger Bauer saw my tweet and posted this more detailed (and his own perspective) on the issues discussed at the first social media breakfast in Cincinnati. Nice. For those of you just looking into social media or attending a breakfast, this is the kind of stuff that happens all the time in social media, whether it’s a group of technology folks, an internal group of employees, customers. (ok enough already, you get the point).
Here is a list of the folks who we were able to capture at the breakfast and their twitter name. In the spirit of social media, this commentary will be added to, refuted, corroborated, etc. etc. etc. by my new and old friends from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. All the best,
Name Twitter Handle
| Albert |
Maruggi |
AlbertMaruggi |
| Kevin |
Dugan |
prblog |
| Mandy |
Jenkins |
mjenkins |
| Roger |
Bauer |
rogerbauer |
| Chris |
Bergman |
chrisbergman |
| Daniel |
Johnson, Jr. |
danieljohnsonjr |
| Debba |
Haupert |
girlfriendology |
| Jason |
Falls |
JasonFalls |
| Krista |
Neher |
KristaNeher |
| Andy |
Osier |
andyosier |
| Cliff |
Ravenscraft |
GSPN |
| Michelle |
Lentz |
writegirl |
| Kevin |
Gerl |
|
| Aaron |
Forgue |
aaronforgue |
| Chris |
Ainsworth |
chrisainsworth |
| Shawn |
Morton |
smorty71 |
April 18th, 2008 — SMB Cincinnati, Upcoming breakfasts
The first Social Media Breakfast of Cincinnati is on Tuesday, April 29 at the
Holiday Inn Riverfront
Street: 600 W THIRD STREET
Time: 7:30am - 9:00am (casual so drop by anytime in this window)
City: Covington, KY
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps…
Contact Info: 612-325-8126 (Maruggi) or 513-240-0547 (Bergman)
Update: Because of the quick comments back, it makes sense to shoot me an email amaruggi@providentpartners.net just in case we need to set up more tables than I’ve reserved in the hotel restaurant. So thanks Michelle and MandyJ for those comments.
Chris Bergman of Cincinnati and Albert Maruggi (visiting Cincinnati that week), senior fellow with the Society for New Communications Research, kicked around the idea for holding the breakfast after tweeting about it with Daniel Johnson Jr, Cliff Ravenscraft, Krista Neher, and others. There is a good group of corporate marketers, agency and PR practitioners, and technologists in the Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati region and this a chance to create an in-person experience.
A loose outline for the group is:
highlights from the recent NewComm Forum and the Media Relations Summit,
discussion of personal networks and the value they create (aka recent issue of selling twitter profile by Andrew Baron )
Cincinnati area news, events, and people
