Utah’s First Awards Program, Focused Exclusively on Social Media, Set For Friday, November 6th!
The three Social Media Clubs of Utah announce the creation of the Utah Social Media Awards — the state’s first awards program designed to recognize excellence in social media practitioners and practices throughout Utah.
The USMAs, as we are affectionately calling them, have been in the works now since the beginning of the year. For those of you who haven’t yet heard about this new awards program first-hand, we have created an informative site!
Targeting Your Niche & Managing Your Reputation With Social Media
Thursday, October 1st – Mingling Begins at 6:30, Presentation at 7:00
We will be meeting in the same building as last month, but in a different room, at The Tahitian Noni building in Provo (address and map link below)
We are excited to be learning about some great tools and methods to help create an effective corporate social media account to target your niche market and manage your reputation.
Let’s face it, we all know what Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are by now. It’s time to learn how to use them effectively as a business. We’ll be sharing with you some of our favorite tools and platforms to manage your social media profiles, evaluate your online presence, find the people talking about your products, services and brand online, and engage them in an effective manner, and track your success!
We’ll also be discussing strategies to help you turn negative online publicity into positive opportunities for your company. Part of this includes learning to use your friends and employees to help creating a positive buzz around your business that others will actually want to talk about.
It’s time to step up your marketing. You know it can be done using social media… we’ll show you how.
Our three awesome social media pulpiteers on this month’s panel are:
NATE BAGLEY
Social Media Coordinator Dude at OrangeSoda. Nate has been working in the SEM industry for about 3 years. In that time, he has mastered the art of paid search, and worked on OrangeSoda’s SEO team while coordinating their social media efforts. He has helped develop search and social media strategies for companies such as Red Mango,Furniture Warehouse, and Maakoa. He recently abnegated his position at OrangeSoda to pursue his personal interests of world domination and flirting with mom bloggers on the Twitter. (atomfly.com)
SETH JENKS
Worker of all things Search and Social at APX Alarm. Seth has an irrefutable reputation for being awesome. After getting his start in social media as the online marketing director at Advent Creative in Cache Valley, Utah, he helped develop (along with @marshallt) the social media and SEO strategy for the Ogden Standard Examiner, to cope with the shifting industry. Seth has had the pleasure of working with and consulting for business all over the nation on the topics of SEO and social media. Seth was also a guest speaker at the University of Colorado with the infamous Gwen Bell of Kirtsy fame, and currently resides in his exclusive, private chateau in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
NATE KARTCHNER
Social Media Evangelist for Mozy. Nathan (aka @jazzcat), a graduate of BYU, has been involved the internet marketing industry for over 5 years. He is well versed in paid search, SEO, affiliate marketing, and social media strategies. Before managing social media at Mozy, he was the Internet Marketing Manager at Sewell Direct. He was recently featured as a panelist at the Digital Marketing World Fall 2009 Virtual Conference as a corporate Twitter expert due to his successes with the @Mozy twitter account. He was recently married and is planning to buy a puppy. (natekartchner.com)
We are excited to be learning about some great tools and methods to help create an effective corporate social media account to target your niche market and manage your reputation.
Let’s face it, we all know what Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are by now. It’s time to learn how to use them effectively as a business. We’ll be sharing with you some of our favorite tools and platforms to manage your social media profiles, evaluate your online presence, find the people talking about your products, services and brand online, and engage them in an effective manner, and track your success!
We’ll also be discussing strategies to help you turn negative online publicity into positive opportunities for your company. Part of this includes learning to use your friends and employees to help creating a positive buzz around your business that others will actually want to talk about.
It’s time to step up your marketing. You know it can be done using social media… we’ll show you how.
Our three awesome social media pulpiteers on this month’s panel are:
Nate Bagley – Social Media Coordinator Dude at OrangeSoda. Nate has been working in the SEM industry for about 3 years. In that time, he has mastered the art of paid search, and worked on OrangeSoda’s SEO team while coordinating their social media efforts. He has helped develop search and social media strategies for companies such as Red Mango,Furniture Warehouse, and Maakoa. He recently abnegated his position at OrangeSoda to pursue his personal interests of world domination and flirting with mom bloggers on the Twitter. (atomfly.com)
Seth Jenks – Worker of all things Search and Social at APX Alarm. Seth has an irrefutable reputation for being awesome. After getting his start in social media as the online marketing director at Advent Creative in Cache Valley, Utah, he helped develop (along with @marshallt) the social media and SEO strategy for the Ogden Standard Examiner, to cope with the shifting industry. Seth has had the pleasure of working with and consulting for business all over the nation on the topics of SEO and social media. Seth was also a guest speaker at the University of Colorado with the infamous Gwen Bell of Kirtsy fame, and currently resides in his exclusive, private chateau in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Nate Kartchner – Social Media Evangelist for Mozy. Nathan (aka @jazzcat), a graduate of BYU, has been involved the internet marketing industry for over 5 years. He is well versed in paid search, SEO, affiliate marketing, and social media strategies. Before managing social media at Mozy, he was the Internet Marketing Manager at Sewell Direct. He was recently featured as a panelist at the Digital Marketing World Fall 2009 Virtual Conference as a corporate Twitter expert due to his successes with the @Mozy twitter account. He was recently married and is planning to buy a puppy. (natekartchner.com)
Thursday, October 1st – Mingling Begins at 6:30, Presentation at 7:00
We will be meeting in the same building as last month, but in a different room, at The Tahitian Noni building in Provo
Jack went down to Tahitian Noni to check out the room and to reserve it. If you want to see the room, here is a quick vid he shot:
With chapters all across the globe, Social Media Club is doing a great job of “...building an organization and a community where the many diverse groups of people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, and learn.” We’re proud to launch the second Utah chapter of Social Media Club, and to work closely with our sister chapter in Salt Lake City. Join with us!
