Session Topics

The event is Saturday, November 12th from 7:30am to 4:30pm at the STCC Macon Campus.

Submitted Session List

Socially Speaking
* Google Plus for Business
* Blogging local at BestMemphisBurger.com
* Social Media or Social Mania?
* In search of the magic bullet
* LinkedIn for Professionals
* Gamification & Triggers

Web & Application Development
* Legacy Code of Brutality
* ThinkFactory: Gamestorming to break through design challenges
* Scale or Fail – Deploy your apps in the cloud
* Mobile Usability Testing: Hands-on Demo Session
* Becoming a better web developer by being lazier: using the tools at your disposal to more efficiently use your time.
* Mobile Audience Research: Sometimes you just gotta be there…
* Smart / Responsive Mobile Design
* CoffeeScript – This ain’t your daddy’s java, Dude
* Create a Microblog in 30 Minutes or Less with node.js
* Bootstrapping with a Day Job

Marketing & Enterprise
* Gamification of the Workplace
* Google Analytics

* iPhone & Android site usage (it’s different)
* Online Media Plan development
* Marketing campaigns that killed it (and some that should have been killed)

Sessions that we’ve received descriptions on:

Marketing & Enterprise

The Digital Media Plan – Maurrean Barger
A beginners guide to the how’s and why’s of online media planning. Target audience, budgets, basic plan creation and more will be covered.

Marketing campaigns that killed it (and some that should have been killed) – Steve Phipps
A review of campaigns and what small business folks can learn from them, the good, bad and the ugly.

Social Media

LinkedIn: Power of Connection  – Jessica Grammer
Making the most out of the worlds largest professional networking site

Mobile Audience Research: Sometimes you’ve just gotta be there - Shiloh Barnat, VP of Interaction Design and Tish Pinion Mills, Sr. Account Executive / Lokion Interactive
“Know thy users for they are not you.” The best way to understand the folks we design for is to go hang out with them, but that can be scary if you’re shy or unprepared. We’ll share some stories from our recent mobile-focused field studies and offer lots of suggestions for how to plan, conduct and analyze such out-in-the-wild audience research so you get what you need out it.

Google + Pages – Jessica Grammer
Carefully navigate this newest opportunity for your business’ online presence. A “How to +”

Klout: What’s the Big Deal & Is It Worth your Time? – Liz Jostes
An explanation of the popular social media influence measurement, its algorithm, how Klout is being put to use and why so many social media users want to #OccupyKlout.

Web & Application Development

Smart / Responsive Mobile Design - Shiloh Barnat, VP of Interaction Design and Tish Pinion Mills, Sr. Account Executive / Lokion Interactive Designing for touch interactions on an ever-growing array of devices and screen sizes can be daunting. We will discuss efficient ways to focus mobile features, tips for designing for touch and approaches to implement a “responsive” design that adapts to any screen size.

Unity 3D -  Greg Dunn
What Unity 3D is, does, and how you can use it to develop cross platform apps for mobile and the desktop.

Mobile Usability Testing: Hands-on Demo Session  - Shiloh Barnat, VP of Interaction Design and Tish Pinion Mills, Sr. Account Executive / Lokion Interactive
Come try out the “sled” we crafted to be able to record usability test sessions on any mobile device. With help from you, we’ll quickly conduct, record and play back usage of someone’s mobile site or app, then discuss how to plan usability testing and analyze the outcomes so you can get concrete data to improve usability.

Create a Microblog in 30 Minutes or Less with node.js – Douglas Starnes
One of the hottest new platforms for web development is Node.js, which empowers JavaScript developers with a platform for creating server-side applications.  This presentation will discuss Node.js along with several popular third party libraries and tools.  Among the libraries and tools included are the node package manager, express (a web framework inspired by Sinatra), and Jade (HTML templates inspired by Haml).  These libraries will be put to work in a microblog which will also support HTML5 web sockets and URL shortening via bit.ly.  The presentation will close with a brief discussion of Cloud9, a browser based IDE for developing, testing and deploying Node.js applications.

ThinkFactory: Gamestorming to break through design challenges - Shiloh Barnat, VP of Interaction Design and Tish Pinion Mills, Sr. Account Executive / Lokion Interactive
As a group, we will try out some fun sample workshop tactics for getting folks energized and involved in creative thinking and problem solving. Together we’ll brainstorm approaches to an on-the-spot design challenge and talk through what we’ve learned about smartly structuring participatory workshops that produce actionable outcomes.

CoffeeScript – This ain’t your daddy’s java, Dude – Douglas Starnes
Searching Github will show that the most popular programming language is JavaScript.  However, the design of JavaScript is obfuscated by the arcane syntax it borrows from C.  This presentation reveals a better solution.  The CoffeeScript language is an ‘alias language’ for JavaScript that removes a lot of the syntactic noise.  In addition, CoffeeScript adds several features present in other modern programming languages.  Finally, CoffeeScript can be used to write node.js applications and works with many third-party libraries.

Legacy Code of Brutality  - Jeremy Kendall
Legacy code can be defined as untested, untestable code.  Working with legacy code can be brutal, and it can easily drive the maintainer insane.  This talk is about the causes of legacy code, how to identify it, and will show examples of some of the worst legacy code I’ve ever seen.  Finally we’ll discuss ways to stay sane while maintaining, refactoring, testing, and generally improving the disaster that is legacy code.

Speakers

Everyone is encouraged to come ready to present a session (slides or no slides). Presentations usually last about 30 minutes with 10 minutes of Q & A time following for a total for 40 minutes.

Projectors will be available in each session room.  Please bring your notebook (If you don’t have your own notebook, no problem – just let us know in advance and we’ll make arrangements) packed with any presentation (ppt, video, flash, etc.) you’ll need. The rooms typically have wi-fi available, but since your audience is bound to be online, depending on wi-fi during your presentation is generally discouraged. If you want to present, just let us know. and we’ll add your presentation to the site.

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