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2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit program and schedule:

http://www.nevadanewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/finalProgram_nim10.pdf

http://nevadainteractsummit2010.eventbrite.com/

Media, Journalism & Government

“The New Look of Interactive Government with Kristi Fifelski

“Why This Is Reno: Community News Building from The Ground Up with Bob Conrad and Ryan Jerz

“Twits and Tweets: Covering Nevada Government and Politics in the Social Media Age” with David Bobzien, Anjeanette Damon and David McGrath Schwartz

“The Future of Journalism:  How Interactive Media Is Changing the Future” with Tracy Viselli, Beryl Love, Brian Burghart and Kirk Caraway

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

“21st Century Classrooms – Engaging, Networking, Publishing, Collaborating To Build Understanding” with Brian Crosby

“Towards a New Entrepreneurship – A Backwards Approach” with Eric Jennings and Ashley Jennings

“Building a Winning Personal Brand” with Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.

“Social Media Patterns for Social Media Applications” with Joe Chavez

“Beyond LOL:  Rebuilding a Business Using Social Media” with Ron Bell

Best Practices

“Searching for Strategy: There’s More to SEO than Code” with Mike McDowell

“Keeping it Legal: Learning to Protect Yourself in the Interactive Media Space” with Christina Gagnier

“Smart From the Start, or Dumb from the Get-go? The Nevada Wilderness Project’s One-year Anniversary with SMedia” with Charlotte Overby and John Wallin

“Building, Engaging and Managing Online Communities” with Annie Flanzraich

“Building Brands and Interactions through Content Marketing” with Mike Henderson

Tools & Techniques

“New Media 101: What Is It, Why Use It?” with Mike McDowell

“Everything you need to know about using as an EFFECTIVE business tool” with Camilla Downs

“Maximizing the Potential of Your Audience with Current Social Networking Trends” with Peter Blue

“50 Apps to Fuel Your Business” with Colin Loretz and Annie Vranizan

“Using Your Head (and Some Cool Tools) to Build Your Edge” with Charlotte-Anne Lucas

Special Opportunities

“Not Your YouTube Video: TriCaster Brings TV-Quality Live Streaming to the Masses” with Steve Halliwell and Susan Breidenbach

Tours of the @One area of the Matthewson-IGT Knowledge Center including the Dynamic Media Lab, the DataWorks Lab and the Multimedia Center

Keynote Speaker Erin Kotecki Vest

We are delighted and very lucky this year to have Erin Kotecki Vest as the Nevada Interactive Media Summit’s keynote speaker. Also known across the social web as @QueenofSpain , Erin is Political Director and Producer of Special Projects for BlogHer, Inc., the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online that reaches more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub (http://www.blogher.com), and an publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates. Like BlogHer, Erin is a social media trendsetter–combining her experience in journalism and interactive media to produce influential content and programming. She is known far and wide for her wit, sharp criticism, her prolific use of the #suckit hashtag, and her willingness to engage with her fans and followers on a daily basis (as her more than 17,000 followers on Twitter will attest).

Erin spearheads BlogHer’s initiative to connect community members directly to legislators and policy-makers. Recent successes have included landing an in-person briefing on women online with Senior Advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett, an exclusive on-camera interview with then-candidate Obama, a series of live, interactive conference calls about health care between Congresspeople from both sides of the aisle and BlogHer’s omni-partisan community members, and an exclusive webcast with Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about health care reform.

Prior to joining BlogHer, Erin spent ten years as a broadcast journalist in Los Angeles, Orlando and Detroit winning six Golden Mic Awards with LA news institution KFWB. She continues to blog on her personal site Queen of Spain Blog, and can be found tweeting both for @BlogHer and as @queenofspain .

Erin will use her legendary humor and her experience as a journalist, blogger, and online provocateur to discuss with us why social media is too important for anyone to ignore–in just a few years–social media has seeped into almost every facet of our daily lives including our government and politics, our personal relationships, the media, business, education, and more. In her own words:

“Social media has a role in everything from politics to journalism to simply updating family on your life and it’s now mainstream. To ignore it, is to turn a blind eye to the world around them. And to ignore it is also misses the huge opportunity it provides. For promoting one’s work. For elevating one’s voice. For supporting one’s causes. For authentically connecting to other people and enriching one’s life.”

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Call for Proposals

Listening, Building, Engaging

Nevada Interact will bring together business owners, non-profit advocates, publishers, newsmakers, bloggers, podcasters, filmmakers, media, PR and advertising professionals and anyone else interested in interactive media from every corner of Nevada together for hands-on learning, rich discussions, opportunities to meet with local companies working in interactive media and plentiful networking opportunities. Presenters will receive a special registration code so that they can attend the event for free. Those who have submitted a proposal should not register for the event until they here on the status of their proposal.

When: Saturday, March 6th, 9:00am to 5:00pm

Where: Joe Crowley Student Unon building, University of Nevada, Reno (campus map)

The Nevada Interactive Media Summit will take place on March 6th, 2010 at the Joe Crowley Student Union at the University of Nevada, Reno .

We encourage proposals that address the NevadaInteract Summit theme “Listening, Building, Engaging” and fit into the three tracks:

* Tools & Techniques
* Best Practices
* Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Submission Guidelines

We encourage proposals in all areas and are always open to good ideas. The more complete and fleshed out a proposal, the more likely it will be accepted. Although we are still planning the exact schedule, deciding to take our cue from the submissions we get, we do want your submissions to meet the following requirements:

Panels: 50 minutes
Workshops (how-to focused): 50 minutes
Presentations: 50 minutes

The deadlines for submissions is February 8, 2010. Read more details about submitting a proposal here: http://www.nevadanewmedia.org/nevada-new-media-summit/submissions/

Listening, Building, Engaging

Nevada Interact will bring together business owners, non-profit advocates, publishers, newsmakers, bloggers, podcasters, filmmakers, media, PR and advertising professionals and anyone else interested in interactive media from every corner of Nevada  together for hands-on learning, rich discussions, opportunities to meet with local companies working in interactive media and plentiful networking opportunities.

When: Saturday, March 6th, 9:00am to 5:00pm

Where: Joe Crowley Student Unon building, University of Nevada, Reno (campus map)

Registration Now! Eventbrite registration site

>>> Erin Kotecki Vest is Political Director and Producer of Special Projects for BlogHer, Inc. In that capacity, Erin spearheads BlogHer’s initiative to connect community members directly to legislators and policy-makers. Recent successes have included landing an in-person briefing on women online with Senior Advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett, an exclusive on-camera interview with then-candidate Obama, a series of live, interactive conference calls about health care between Congresspeople from both sides of the aisle and BlogHer’s omni-partisan community members, and an exclusive webcast with Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about health care reform. Prior to joining BlogHer, Erin spent ten years as a broadcast journalist in Los Angeles, Orlando and Detroit winning six Golden Mic Awards with LA news institution KFWB. She Continues to blog on her personal site Queen of Spain Blog, and can be found tweeting both for @BlogHer and as @queenofspain

Nevada Interactive Media Summit Is Sponsored by

Where will the Nevada Interactive Media Summit take place?
NevadaInteract ‘10 will be at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Joe Crowley Student Union building on March 6th, 2010.  We do not have an event hotel but there are several reasonable options located withing a free five minute bus ride to the UNR campus:

Where can I find the Nevada Interactive Media Summit ‘10 Agenda?
The Nevada Interact Summit will take place all day Saturday, March 6th and will include a keynote session and break-out sessions across multiple tracks:

Please check back soon for information about becoming a presenter and registering for the event.

Keynote – 9:30 a.m.
Jesse Stay, CEO of SocialToo, discusses the importance of social media today.

Birds of a Feather
Brainstorm with others during these impromptu birds of a feather sessions. Rooms available after lunch.
Speak to a staffer to schedule time.

Sessions and Workshops

10:30 – 11:15
50 Terrific Twitter Tools and Tips in 50 Minutes with Guy Johnson  (Cool Tools)    RM 101

Unconventional PR Strategies: How Social Media Has Changed Communications    RM 202
with Ronele Klingensmith and Bob Conrad. (Best Practices)

Small Change: Opening the Nevada Legislative Process through Technology with    RM 304
David Bobzien (Innovation and the Future)

11:30 – 12:15
New Media 101: what is it, why use it with Mike McDowell. (Cool Tools)   RM 101

Introduction to Social Bookmarking and Annotation with Maggie Tsai. (Best Practices)    RM 202

Twitter: Building Engaged Communities that ACT (and how to deal with bad    RM 304
behavior) with Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus. (Innovation and the Future)

12:30 – 1:45 LUNCH

2:00 – 2:45
Create your own widgets in Adobe Flex with Colin Loretz. (Cool Tools)     RM 101

A journalists’ toolbox of essential social media applications and attitudes with    RM 202
Charlotte-Anne Lucas. (Best Practices)

Mobilize GenWise: New Communication for Conservation and Outdoor Recreation    RM 304
with Jaimie Fields. (Innovation and the Future)

2:45 – 3:10 COFFEE

3:15 – 4:00
Data-driven web publishing without a programmer with Marcel Levy. (Cool Tools)     RM 101

Last Conductor Standing: Engaging an Audience in the Search with Francine    RM 202
Burge. (Best Practices)

Lessons Learned: A State Government Agency Using New Media with Bob    RM 304
Conrad. (Innovation and the Future)

4:15 – 5:00
Intro to Podcasting with Mike Henderson (Cool Tools)   RM 101

How to Engage Your Classroom Community Using Interactive Media with Michelle    RM 202
Montoya. (Best Practices)

The Future of Local News: Community Brainstorm with Donica Mensing and    RM 304
Andrew Pridgen. (Innovation and the Future)

5:00 – 5:45 Nevada IM Membership Meeting

*Subject to change. Program changes in red.