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2008 Tendenci User Conference: What's the Point of Social Media Anyway?

The Schipul team is very sorry to announce that we are canceling this year's Tendenci User Conference 2008 in order to best serve our Houston Community and get our affected clients back on their feet.
 
We look forward to a GREAT Tendenci User Conference in 2009 and will have invites in your mailboxes to alert you of next year's conference.

Keep an eye on:  www.tendenci.com/conference for updates.
  Thank you for your patience, your support and your business.  You are TRULY a valued member of our Schipul family.
 
 
Katie Laird - Strategic Advisor
Social Media has become a catch-all term used to describe the full array of online communication tools that are designed to encourage interaction. The leaders are easy to identify, including YouTube (videos), Facebook (social networking, Flickr (photos) and Twitter (micro-blogging). But this is an environment that undergoes enormous change virtually every week, so it's great to have the guidance of someone who makes it their business to stay on top of the latest developments.
 
Join Katie Laird at 11:00 a.m. Friday, October 3, 2008 for "What's the Point of Social Media Anyway?" Katie will describe how Social Media strategies are changing how organizations connect and interact with their customers, members and prospects. She will also drill down into what Social Media initiatives can accomplish.
 
Did we mention that it's FREE for anyone who pre-registers? 

REGISTER TODAY!
 
Katie Laird serves the Schipul team as Strategic Advisor, a position that involves lots of tea leaf divination, thumb war training and borderline obsessive-compulsive book reading. Katie started working at Schipul in 2005 as a graphic designer, moved on to a Communications Coordinator position and now enjoys working with all different parts of the company and regularly bringing in brownies to keep the office sugar high going strong.
  
Read the official stuff on Katie's CV here. An active Blogger for over 8 years, you can find Katie writing online at some of these spots:
  1. happykatie (www.happykatie.com) - a personal blog covering topics ranging from Social Media to online communications and marketing to non profit organizations to graphic/industrial design to things that are pretty and shiny to graffiti and hip hop magic.  So yeah, pretty much everything.
  2. happykiddo (www.happykiddo.com) - a kiddo-focused blog devoted to all things Ella (the shortest person in Katie's life) along with modern parenting tips, tricks, ideas and shopping hyperness.
  3. happykatie thinks outloud (www.happykatie.tumblr.com) - a brain candy dumping ground for urban culture, DIY fashion, foodie and other completely and utterly random pieces of trivia and links. 
  4. Netsquared blog (www.netsquared.com/klaird) - Katie contributes to a little piece of the non profit technology group Netsquared discussing ways NPOs can utilize online technologies to advance their organizations' objectives.
  5. Houstonist (www.houstonist.com) - serving as Features editor, Katie joins the Houstonist team in borderline smarmy coverage of Houston-area news, events, food, people and juicy metro tidbits.
  6. Houston Dr. Sketchy (www.houstonsketchy.com) - happykatie plays Hip Swinging Hostess to the Houston chapter of the burlesque-inspired drawing club.  Artists meet monthly for cheeky life drawing sessions, live music, silly contests and an all-around fabulous time.
An avid photographer (in both digital and old skool 35mm/120 mediums), you can find some of Katie's latest photos on Flickr at www.flickr.com/happykatie. 

Other Social Media networks you can catch up with happykatie on:
  1. Ravelry (www.ravelry.com/happykatie)
  2. del.icious (http://del.icio.us/happykatie)
  3. Twitter (www.twitter.com/happykatie)
  4. Facebook (www.facebook.com)
  5. MySpace (www.myspace.com/happykatie711)
  6. LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/b00/88)
  7. ClaimID (http://claimid.com/happykatie)
  8. Virb (www.virb.com/happykatie)
 
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