Schedule of SoCon09
Friday Night February 6, 2009
Friday night starts at 7:30 at Maggiano’s at the Cumberland Mall.
- We are lining up tables of 8 dinner-table discussions on:
- Podcasting, Video, Citizen Media
- Obama, Social Networks, and Politics
- PR and Social Media
- Digital Serial Entrepreneurs
- Start Your Own Money Making Website
- Social Media in Education
- Social Media for Social Good
- Web Publishing
Saturday February 7, 2009
The New Social Science Building — First Floor — Auditorium — Kennesaw State University
- 8:00 a.m. — Registration, Continental Breakfast, Social Science Building Lobby
- 8:30 a.m. — Kennesaw State University Welcome
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Richard Vengroff
- 8:40-9:00 a.m. — Introductions and Unconference ground rules.
- Sherry Heyl and Leonard Witt
- 9:00-9:30 — What We Can Learn from Silicon Valley
- Jeff Haynie left Atlanta to seek his start-up fortune in Silicon Valley
- 9:30-10:15 — What Is Atlanta’s Niche in the Social Media Universe?
- Full Participation Facilated by Andrew Wilson of Atlanta.net
- What Are the Established Niches?
- Which Niches Are Emerging?
- Who Are the Players?
- Who Should Be Networking with You?
- Can the Networking Start Here, Today at SoCon09?
- Full Participation Facilated by Andrew Wilson of Atlanta.net
- 10:15-11:15 — Keynote: Seven types of markets that technology has enabled — Christopher Carfi, CEO of Cerado
- What are “markets” really?
- How social technology from GPS to eBay is changing their complexion
- 11:15-11:30 — Match Up Interests and Topics
- Find topics, or introduce a topic that interests you during afternoon sessions
- Our topic experts include podcasting, blogging, vlogging, social networking, online entrepreneurship, online customer relations, reinventing media, public relations, online education
- When you register help us decide on topic interests — register now, get your voice heard.
- Find topics, or introduce a topic that interests you during afternoon sessions
- 11:45-12:45 p.m. — Networking Lunch — Table discussions
- 1:00-2:00 p.m -- Break out room discussions decided earlier in the day
- 2:00-3:00 p.m. — Break out room discussions decided earlier in the day
- 3:00-3:30 p.m. — Wrap Up — What We Heard — What’s Next
- 3:45-5:30 — Mellow Mushroom — End of Conference Reception
- Across street from Kennesaw State University