IMC Vancouver

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This year’s theme for IMC Vancouver is “Managing the Digital Marketing Eco-System.” According to the website, sessions will be focused on:

Content, Community, Campaigns and Insights:

• Content Strategy: Email, Video, Website Content, SEO
• Community Strategy: Social Media Management and Participation
• Campaigns: Paid Search, Display, Social and Mobile
• Performance Strategy: Digital Marketing KPI and Conversion Optimization
• Insights: Voice of Customer, Analytics and User Experience

Cost:
A two-day pass is $895 if you register before July 30 and $995 if you register before Sept 9.
A one day pass is $495 if you register before July 30 and $595 if you register before Sept 9.

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Social Intranet Summit

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The 2nd annual Social Intranet Summit is happening on September 28th. It’s focused on how to drive business value with social intranets.

Speakers include noted authorities on social intranets from around North America, including Shel Holtz, Toby Ward, Gentry Underwood, Rachel Happe, Mark Fidelman, Andy Jankowski and CV Harquail. Topics include:

• Mobile Intranets: Understanding and Exploring Context of Use
• Motivating your users: strategies for intranet adoption
• The public sector Intranet - what should we expect tomorrow?
• Engaging Employees in Enterprise 2.0: An Emerging New Model for Internal Communication
• The Science Linking Intranets to Happiness

Discount ticket price (until Sept 7, 2011): $499 CAD
Regular ticket price: $599 CAD

For more information, visit the conference website.
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Marketing Through Social Media

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Taught by Haig Armen of LiFT Studios and Todd Sieling of Corvus Consulting, this workshop will teach you how to use social media to engage more directly with your customers. From the SFU Publishing website:

The new model of web communication is a dialogue rather than a monologue. Successful public relations in this new era focus on listening and facilitating conversations between companies and their market communities.

Through case studies and group activities we will go behind the scenes of both company and product and follow the thread from conceptual development to market implementation, learning from the successes and challenges each company has experienced.

Topics include commonly used social networking features, a survey of the content management systems that make social media possible, and how to encourage the exchange of user-generated content about your brand or product.

The cost of the workshop is $225. 

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For more information, visit the SFU Publishing website.

The Art of Marketing 2011

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The Art of Marketing, Canada’s Marketing and Innovation Conference is coming to Vancouver on June 9, 2011.

The conference presents remarkable speakers including Guy Kawasaki, William Taylor, Mitch Joel, Avinash Kaushik, and Gary Vaynerchuk. All great speakers, and all with excellent business and marketing books to their names.

The day-long session looks at critical issues in marketing, business and innovation and is an invaluable networking opportunity. It’s a mini SxSW and worth the ticket price.

Thursday, June 9th, 2011
9:00AM - 4:45PM

The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts
777 Homer Street (at Robson St)

General Admission is $399, VIP is $499 and includes copies of the speakers’ bestselling books.
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The 2010 tour was sold out so grab your tickets now. The goal of the day is to provide a clearer understanding of how marketing has changed, what role it now plays in buying decisions, its impact on your business and ultimately how the customer views, interacts and positions your brand in a crowded marketplace.

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Northern Voice 2011

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Northern Voice is a two-day, non-profit personal blogging and social media conference held at the UBC main campus in Vancouver on May 13-14, 2011. Early bird tickets are $50 for one day for $90 for both.

For full details, visit the Northern Voice site.

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South By Southwest

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The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals blend music, film and new and emerging technologies. From their website:

Year after year, the event is a launching pad for new creative content. New media presentations, music showcases and film screenings provide buzz-generating exposure for creators and compelling entertainment for audiences. Conference panel discussions present a forum for learning, business activity thrives at the SXSW Trade Show: The Exhibition for Creative Industries and global networking opportunities abound. Austin serves as the perfect backdrop for SXSW(r), where career development flourishes amid the relaxed atmosphere. Intellectual and creative intermingling among industry leaders continues to spark new ideas and carve the path for the future of each ever-evolving field, long after the events’ conclusion.

SXSWeek 2011 runs March 11-20. The conferences run as follows:
Interactive March 11-15
Film March 11-19
Music March 16-20

Costs vary depending on which conferences you plan to attend. For information about costs and to register, visit the SXSW registration page.

International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference 2010

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November 4 - 6, 2010
Emily Carr University
1399 Johnston Street
Vancouver, BC

Now in its 8th year, this Fall’s International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference (iDMAa 2010) will focus on the subject of The Digital Narrative: Pushing scholarship, creativity and imagination.

If you register before October 20th, a member ticket costs $289, a non-member ticket costs $395 and a student ticket costs $89.

From their website:

Leading academics, professionals and artists will gather at Emily Carr University of Art and Design for the International Digital Media and Arts Association’s 8th annual conference to explore the world of digital technologies with a focus on the subject of The Digital Narrative. The conference will include workshops, keynote speakers, “extreme close-up” guest panels, paper presentations, networking, discussions, and social events as well as opportunities to explore Emily Carr’s state of the art facilities

New digital technologies and mediums are informing, challenging and reinventing our notions of narrative structures and storytelling. Non- linear, virtual, artificial, interactive, and cyber culture have become common terms and concepts when describing the emerging integration of science, art, and sociology. The Digital Narrative explores ideas of how storytelling and communication is influencing and influenced by new and emerging technologies.

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Internet Marketing Conference Vancouver

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September 21-23, 2010
Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver
791 West Georgia Street
Vancouver

Internet Marketing Conference (IMC) Vancouver is an annual event that covers everything you need to know to successfully do business online, including analytics, strategy, content, SEM, SEO, email marketing and social media. This year’s keynote speaker is Guy Kawasaki.

A full access ticket for all 3 days costs $1,295.00. You can also buy tickets for individual days.

From the IMC Vancouver website:

IMC Vancouver features world class sessions on how to create simple marketing in a creative way.

• Google started with one simple function: search.
• Twitter started out serving only one function and asking one simple question: What are you doing?
• YouTube had one and only purpose: sharing videos.  It shared an extraordinarily simple user interface.

Why is Apple the hottest company in our Industry in 2010? The success lies in their 30 year of work to simplify the experience for the users. Ipod, Iphone & now Ipad has one thing in common to the users: Easy to use.

Over three days, September 21st-22nd & 23rd we will teach you how to simplify content, getting easy traffic & use tools that is understood instantly in order to create Simple & Easy Marketing that is extremely effective.

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For details visit the IMC Vancouver website.

Twitter for Business Workshop

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Join Tanya Roberts and Monica Hamburg for a fun and informative workshop about using Twitter for Business!

The goal of this workshop is to demystify Twitter and give you tangible, real life examples that you can use to get on the Twitter bandwagon, beef up your marketing efforts, and ultimately grow your online presence.

Details
Saturday, August 21, 2010
8:00am - 12:30pm
Cost: $250
Light food & refreshments will be provided.

Topics:

• Twitter: What is it good for?
• Getting Setup: Creating a compelling profile and generating content.
• Growing Your Following: Building your following and engaging followers.
• Twitter & Marketing: Adding social media to your marketing mix.
• Best Practices: What works? Real life examples, cautions, and what “not to do.”

Note: this session is geared to beginners. Tanya and Monica are aiming to offer more advanced sessions soon. If you are interested, fill out this form to be entered in their database.

For more information, or to register visit the Twitter for Business Workshop EventBrite page.

Connected Marketing Week

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Launched by ClickZ, this is the first ever Connected Marketing Week, meant to bring a community of organizations and events together. It’s the umbrella for all marketing events that week, including SES San Francisco but will also feature cross channel events, including forums on email marketing campaigns, ad networks and exchanges, and an international marketing forum.

From the website:

In its inaugural launch, Connected Marketing Week has garnered industry wide excitement as the biggest voices in the most critical fields including search, social, and email have signed on with brands like SES, 140conf, the EEC, the IAB and more. Hosting more than 8000 attendees, and showcasing more than 200 sessions, with revered speakers from around the globe - connected marketing week will be a gathering of digital marketing intellectuals like no other. Now executives, business owners, programmers, designers, and marketers alike will gather to learn, network, and party with the industry in one place and time.

August 16 - 20, 2010
There are various priced tickets. An all access pass costs $2090 before Jul 30, 2010.
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Marketing Through Social Media

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A part of SFU’s Summer Publishing Workshops, Marketing through Social Media will teach strategies to leverage social media to market brands and products.  Topics include commonly used social networking features, a survey of the content management systems that make social media possible, and how to encourage the exchange of user-generated content about your brand or product.

July 11
9am to 5pm
$225 CDN

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Social Media Marketing Bootcamp

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Coast Coal Harbour Hotel
1180 West Hastings Street
Vancouver
Friday, April 23
9:30am - 4:30pm

The one-day bootcamp costs $299 (price includes GST and fees).

Want to save $50? Blog about the workshop on your own established (meaning not brand new) site. Don’t have a blog? Ask a friend or a local blogger if you can write a guest post for their site.

Social Media Marketing Bootcamp

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BCIT Downtown Campus
555 Seymour Street
Tuesday, June 23
9:30am - 4:30pm
Register for Vancouver Bootcamp #2

The one-day bootcamp costs $299 (price includes GST and fees).

Want to save $50? Blog about our workshop on your own established (meaning not brand new) site. Don’t have a blog? Ask a friend or a local blogger if you can write a guest post for their site.

We’re giving away one seat for free for each event. All you have to do is use Twitter to post a link to the page on Capulet’s site (here’s a shortened one: http://capulet.com/smm) and include the hash tag #smmvic or #smmvan, depending on the session you want to attend.