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The Online Marketing Summit (OMS) enables attendees to collaborate, network and learn how to execute on the best practices in Online Marketing with no exhibit floor or vendor sales pitch distractions.
What sets OMS apart from the typical conference or tradeshow is its fervent focus on providing educational content without the fluff. Events include hands-on training workshops, one-on-one personalized labs with experts, thought-leadership presentations and peer-to-peer collaboration on the subjects of:
July 11: Online Marketing Boot Camp
OMS, in conjunction with the Online Marketing Institute, is offering a special Boot Camp the day before each OMS event. This Boot Camp offers intensive workshops and classes taught by leading professionals and practitioners with the marketing acumen to provide you a theoretical foundation and practical training. All Boot Camp workshops attended earn you credits towards certification with the Online Marketing Institute.
Three main workshop tracks will be available during the Boot Camp:
Digital Marketing Essentials
The Digital Marketing Essentials cover the online marketing fundamentals for all areas of online marketing including: Website Strategy, Usability, Search Engine Marketing, Email Marketing, Online Reputation Management, Social Media, and Analytics.
Tactics and Execution
Tactics & Execution workshops are designed especially for marketers
who have already mastered the basics. This workshop track provides actionable lessons on how to improve online marketing efforts via vehicles you are likely not already employing.
Social Media Marketing
The Social Media Marketing workshop track offers intensive workshops that cover proven strategies for effectively using social media to strengthen relationships with members, find new members, reduce costs, and drive attributable revenue.
July 12: OMS Conference Day
The main conference day offers three tracks led by online marketing thought leaders and innovators. Attendees will be able to attend any of the sessions from any of the tracks to customize the conference day agenda personally. Three main keynotes are featured on this day.
Keynote: Lessons in Social Success: IBM on building the first social marketing community, infoboom to competing on Jeopardy
Brand marketers hear all the buzz about social media but what do they really need to know? Learn how brands are utilizing social tools and integrating word of mouth into their marketing strategies and getting results. It goes beyond building a Facebook page, creating a Twitter account or blog. Hear from the brands who are gaining success, building brand advocates, and showing measureable results. The keynote is lead by Leslie Reiser, Program Director for WW Digital Marketing, IBM-General Business.
Keynote: The New Revenue Engine-Empowering Revenue Performance ManagementThe need for sales and marketing alignment is no new concept to organizations in fulfilling the need to drive revenue. This session explores Revenue Performance Management, a strategy for managing a company’s interactions with buyers through the entire purchase process to enable more predictable, rapid, and profitable revenue growth. Attendees will hear the new realities of growing revenue such as changing buyer behavior and an evolving buying process and how companies can build their own revenue engines by leveraging the right tools, platforms, and communication approaches. Steve Woods, CTO of Eloqua will be giving the keynote.
Keynote Panel: Social Media "hotseat"
Hear from both your marketing peers and the world's elite brands as they delve into how their organization has evolved into a successful social business. From internal Social Communication policy to business unit alignment and of course getting buy-in from the Big Kahuna(s).. insights, stories, and in essence one giant case study on how to succeed and avoid potholes along the way. Featuring:
Eve Fish, Sr. Director of Online Marketing Development for Publisher's Clearing House
Mike Grehan, VP and Global Content Director for Search Engine Watch, ClickZ, Search Engine Strategies
Crispin Sheridan, Sr. Director, Global Search, SAP
Amy McDowell, VP Consumer Marketing, RentTheRunway
Eli Goodman, Search Evangelist, comScoreInc.
Dennis Yu, CEO, BlitzLocal
July 13: Partner Training Workshops
On the last day of the Summit, attendees can choose between two training workshops.
"Rock the World" Linkedin Intensives
These workshops are built for marketing professionals who want to go beyond introductory courses and receive intensive intermediate and advanced Business Social Media training focused on the Premier Business Social Networking Site, LinkedIn.
SES Express: Totally Tools Masterclass
This all new SES Express masterclass will guide attendees through tools that are available to you to power your SEO, Paid Search, Analytics and Social Media endeavors. Key takeaways on how to navigate your way through the countless options available will all be presented to ensure you are using the tools most relevant to your business. After this session attendees will walk away with key new ideas that you can implement right away.
For more information, go to http://www.onlinemarketingsummit.com.
Online Marketing Summit
July 10 - 12, 2011
Hyatt Regency Jersey City
2 Exchange Place
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
201-469-1234
Anime Expo (AX 2011) returns to Downtown LA on July 1 - 4, 2011 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
Presented by The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA), and held annually in Los Angeles, Anime Expo is North America’s largest anime and manga celebration. "Anime Expo gives fans the rare opportunity to meet and hear from some of the most famous anime, manga and musical artists from Japan."
This year‛s theme the "Year of the Fan," Anime Expo 2011 fully immerses guests into the world of Japanese animation, manga (comic books), music and fashion. Anime Expo is a non-stop marathon of Japanese pop culture that’s been likened to Halloween in July.
Romance Writers of America (RWA) is holding its 31st Annual Conference from June 28 - July 1, 2011 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square, New York City.
The Conference attracts more than 2,100 published and aspiring romance writers, editors, agents, and other industry professionals.
This year’s Spanish Game Conference, one of the fastest growing events on interactive culture and industry in Europe, hosts the 7th annual Gamelab Conference June 29 – July 1, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.
The most influential creators of the videogame world will be attending, including Japanese creator of the Metal Gear Solid saga, Hideo Kojima; British father of the so-called "God games" Peter Molyneux; and the American designer Cliff Bleszinski, one of the industry's "enfants terribles" and creator of the worldwide success Gears of War.
Gamelab Conference also features notable figures such as the visionary founder of Electronic Arts and Digital Chocolate, Trip Hawkins; the historical founder of Westwood Studios and current Vice President of Zynga, Louis Castle; the controversial designer, ex-IdSoftware, American McGee, and virtual world's pioneer Richard Bartle.