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What Does a Community Manager Do?

Published in August 13th, 2008
Posted by Connie in Events
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I have been invited to serve on a panel called: “What Does A Community Manager Do?”. I must talk about that or something?!!
But I need your help in voting for the panel. So if you could please click on this link: Vote for Connie! 

At the bottom - register, then click on the link [...]

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MSP Social Media Breakfast 3

Published in May 17th, 2008
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Wednesday evening I connected with many of my Twitter friends from MSP area. And the Social Media breakfast on Friday morning was an opportunity to connect with more! About 40 attended. And I met my good friend @rmsylte in person!
Garrick VanBuren started out with a presentation on Cullect.com - the most shareable feedreader. He created [...]

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Duality Reality: Who Controls the Message in The Enterprise?

Published in May 15th, 2008
Posted by Connie in Events
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That was the topic of the panel discussion last night hosted by the
Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association. It was fabulous to see over 250 people there!
The panel included representatives from Minnesota’s largest brands:

Jim Cuene, Director of Interactive, General Mills
Brad Smith, VP of eCommerce & Digital Marketing, Fingerhut Direct Marketing
Gary Koelling, Creative Director, Social Technology, [...]

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Minnesota Social Media events this week

Published in May 12th, 2008
Posted by Connie in Events
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Will you be there? I’m really excited about making the jaunt down for the two events! I live closer to Canada than I do the Twin Cities, but that doesn’t affect my working remotely. I’ve gotten to know people from all over the world, but meeting in person has great value!
Because I’m a connector [...]

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Social Media Meetups in Victoria, BC

Published in May 1st, 2008
Posted by Connie in Events
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Home office visits give me the opportunity to meet up with bloggers! My husband & I had dinner with Michael Allison & Dave Traynor. (Tris Hussey tweeted in sick). It was funny to hear Michael explain the connections. I met Tris in Seattle at the Web Comm Forum event. I had met Michael online thru [...]

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Social Media Breakfast in the Twin Cities

Published in April 11th, 2008
Posted by Connie in Events
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I attended it from my living room 300 miles away! And all thanks to @RickMahn for putting it live on UStream. It was totally fabulous! Many others joined us on the backchannel to listen in, possibly comment & enjoy the discussion.

It was a really great two hours & so much fun to see many people [...]

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Singapore Social Media Breakfast

Published in March 27th, 2008
Posted by Connie in Events
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It’s on Saturday morning at 9:30 am. And yes it’s in Singapore! Unfortunately I won’t make this one.
So why am I talking about it? Well, I have a group of social media friends in Singapore of course! And I introduce them to each other as I meet them. It’s my nature…
So upon request [...]

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Offline Community Building

Published in March 13th, 2008
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Building community online is great. I’ve been doing it for awhile, but I have more experience with doing it in real life. For nine years I promoted public libraries & always enjoyed the aspects of outreach.
Early this week I was invited to talk about ACDSee software at the Winnipeg Camera Club. I met the person [...]

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