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Presentations usually last about 30 minutes with 10 minutes of Q & A time following. PowerPoint presentations or other visual aids can be a great addition to communicating your topic. 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).

Here’s a schedule of Saturday’s sessions, with descriptions below. If you don’t see your session listed, that doesn’t mean it won’t be happening — it just means it will be voted on for the afternoon crowd-sourced portion of the program. (For more on how that works, head here.)

8 a.m. – Registration, mingling

8:30 a.m. – Welcome/opening (Cafeteria)

• Vote on topics for afternoon sessions you’d like to see

9 a.m. – Session One

• Room 106: Blogging 101 – Beth Sanders
• Room 108: Intro to Ruby on Rails – Mark Dinstuhl
• Room 202: Google Wave: What it is and what it’s for – Greg Dunn & Thom Rigsby
• Room 204: E-mails That Convert: Tips for Effective Copywriting – Ashley High & Gokben Yamandag

10 a.m. – Session Two

• Room 106: Guest Posting: Why and How – Buck Rogers How to Destroy your Online Business with Social Media – Thom Rigsby
• Room 108: So You Want to Create an iPhone app? – Brian Cauble
• Room 202: Social Tools in the Enterprise – Daniel Pritchett & Ryan Hinricher
• Room 204: Bringing PPC In-House – John W. Ellis

11 a.m. – Session Three

• Room 106: It’s A Small URL After All – Bob Hazlett & Daniel Pritchett
• Room 108: Designer v. Developer – Steven Trotter, Joseph Yancey & Craig McCoy
• Room 202: We’re All Going to DIE! – Dave Delaney Simplify Your iPhone Development
• Room 204: The Changing Web Economy – Thom Rigsby

11:45 a.m. – Lunch (Cafeteria)

• Plus PowerPoint Karaoke and door prizes

1 p.m. – Session Four: Igniting The Conversation: Community blogging forum featuring MemphisConnect, Nashvillest & The Birmingham Terminal (Cafeteria)

2 p.m. – Session Five (to be determined by vote)

3 p.m. – Session Six (to be determined by vote)

3:45 p.m. – Closing remarks  & TONS of incredible Door Prizes (Cafeteria)

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Session One

Blogging 101
Beth Sanders bethgsanders.com
A beginner’s guide to the blogosphere.

Introduction to Ruby on Rails
Martin Dinstuhl MarksMenus.com
How to develop a Web application using the “next big thing” in Web development

Google Wave: What it is and what it’s for
Gregg Dunn unseenthings.net & Thom Rigsby jtrigsby.com

Emails that convert: Tips for effective copy writing
Ashley High, Gokben Yamandag
Enhance the effectiveness of your email through compelling copy. In this session, we will cover best practices in copy writing for various elements of an email—including from and subject lines, email body copy and landing pages—to ensure your emails are opened, read and acted upon.

Session Two

Guest Posting: Why & How
Buck Rogers buckdaddyblog.com
The basics of guest-posting and why it should be your next step as a blogger.

So you want to create an iPhone app?
Brian Cauble appsolutegenius.com
Getting started with iPhone development.

Social Tools in the Enterprise
Daniel Pritchett sharingatwork.com & Ryan Hinricher ryanhinricher.com
Discussing various social platforms and social needs used within an organization. The discussion will also include barriers, failures, and successes with implementation.

Bringing PPC In-House
John W. Ellis johnwellis.com
Yes, you can do pay-per-click yourself. I will go over the reasons why it’s important to bring PPC inside the company and not go with an agency.

Session Three

It’s A Small URL After All
Bob Hazlett onehalfamazing.com & Daniel Prichett sharingatwork.com
Daniel and Bob take you through a frolicking, animatronic journey of URL unity. They’ll be your tour guides as they demonstrate how to establish, set up and rock your own personalized URL shortening service.

Designer vs Developer
Steven Trotter steventrotter.com, Joseph Yancey createtheinternet.com Craig McCoy captaincodemonkey.com
An informal discussion about the things that designers and developers do to piss each other off. We’ll talk about ways to make peace and learn to collaborate on a new level. You’ll hear such common phrases as “the knee-jerk NO”, “don’t join the bandwagon”, “can’t we add some AJAX in there?”, “you ruined my design!” and “tables? we don’t need no stinkin’ tables!”.

We’re all going to DIE!!!
Dave Delaney  davemadethat.com
Yes, that’s right folks. You heard it here first. It’s true. We’re all going to die. We don’t like talking and thinking about it, but it’s inevitable. What happens to our content when we leave this place? Who will manage our blog posts, photos, videos, audio, tweets, etc.? It’s time to start giving this some thought kids. Death waits for nobody.

The Changing Web Economy
Thom Rigsby jtrigsby.com
Paid Links are dying, PageRank is dead. Now what?

Afternoon Sessions – Up for Vote

Prosper During a Digital Age Recession
Ryan Hinricher ryanhinricher.com
Ryan will discuss action items bootstrapping entrepreneurs can use to not only survive, but grow their businesses in recessionary times. Especially good if you recently started or are planning on starting a business.

How to destroy your online business with Social Media
Thom Rigsby jtrigsby.com

Breaker. Breaker. What’s your channel?
LeAnn Willard knowledgeweshare.com
Email to Text to IM to Video! Doing business in today’s market, age seems to disappear and you deal on a daily basis with someone who is from the older generation to the ones just out of college and they all use technology differently. How do you adapt, what do you need to do, and what is quickly heading our way. We’ve have seen us work from email – text – im – and almost video in 6 years time.

SEO and website promotion issues for the small business
David Sandy www.mymemphislawyer.com
Local attorney David Sandy has the number one website on Google for the term “Memphis Lawyer”. He will explain how he obtained that ranking on that and other terms using piecemeal outsourced SEO services and doing his own copywriting at a fraction of the cost of website promotion services you will commonly be telemarketed.

Simplify Your iPhone Development
Josh Grenon – inspirageek.com
How to simplify iPhone development with third party classes and controls.

Transformation of Internet from Destination to DataSource
Core Conversation (a group discussion where attendees participate)
The Internet as we have know it powered its popularity with destination locations, websites, blogs and entertainment sites. Now as more and more services move “into the Cloud” the individuality of these destinations is being traded for their combined value through aggregation (think FriendFeed rather than multiple diverse sources). In light of this transition, how will we as consumers and/or content providers change what/how we do.

Personal Security and Account Security in Social Media
Core Conversation (a group discussion where attendees participate)
See: Twitter and Facebook worms; stalker potential inherent in geotagged social media broadcasting e.g. Foursquare, Brightkite, and Twitter.

Social Business Design and the Business Relationship
Core Conversation (a group discussion where attendees participate)
A discussion about the philosophy of Social in the enterprise and how business thought needs to be enhanced given the social changes afoot within industry, people and their markets.
Everywhere we turn, “Social” and the notion of meaningful relationships are around every corner. This part of the discussion will table these notions and share resources for information and starting points.

Show and Tell – Social Tools
Variety of Presenters
Presenters have 6 minutes to share their favorite cool thing to share (think: Google SideWiki, Social Search, etc..)