In Review Blog World NYC Live Blog Day 2

While attending the Blog World Expo last week at the Javits Convention Center in New York, we were able to capture industry-notable quotes on emerging technologies impacting business and leading the trends in technology, marketing, journalism and publishing as we know it. 

If you are interested in learning more about any of these topics, please visit the actual live blog report from Social Fresh by clicking here >  

Live blog sessions coverage on topics such as: 

Gamification Creating Obsession and Addiction for Marketing Success

FourSquare, Angry Birds, Triva Games and More

Why ToyotaFailed, Behind the Scenes 

In-House or Outsource PR? 

How to Build Lead and Sales 

How to Use Humor and More! 

This post  provides industry shaping quotes leaked directly from live presentations from dynamic leaders making impact in the social media realm such as:

Jason Keath (Social Fresh)

Kipp Bodnar (HubSpot)

Shelly Kramer (V3 Marketing)

Lucretia Pruitt (Geek Mommy)

Mike Schneider (Location Based Marketing for Dummies) 

Chris Pirillo (Lockergnomie)

Jordan Cooper (Notaproblog)

If you or your business would be interested in live blogging services, contact Andrea Cook to learn more about how you can provide your readers with hot updates, live from your next event. 

The Midas Center is an innovative communication service that transforms touchpoints to gold. Go for the gold >

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Upcoming Event: BLOGGERS UNITE

Save the date for the second Friday of May.

BLOGGERS UNITE.

We are calling all bloggers and blogger wannabees to join us in a meet and greet networking event.

Open to all. All ages. All subject interests. All level of blogging experience. If you have a blog or would like to get started blogging, we'd like you to join us for a new Buzz Club meeting.

Friday, May 13th
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
at The Midas Center,
200 N. Michigan Street; Downtown Plymouth

Bring your business card, your lap top, your curiosity, your questions.

We will have light refreshments and some resources available for you. Feel free to bring friends and family members downtown to enjoy Plymouth's Second Friday activities that will be going on right across the street!

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Local Social Media Workshop for Beginners

You are invited to attend a beginner's social media workshop titled iHEARTplymouth 101.

iHEARTplymouth is a free local social media resource for everything we love about Plymouth. This workshop is open to persons of all ages. Workshop will provide hands on, step by step instructions for getting your own page for yourself, your business, church or neighborhood. Printed materials will be provided and will include how to set up a page, upload photos, add events, add friends, integrate with other social media tools like Facebook and Twitter and more. Bring questions and an eagerness to learn. All questions are welcome!



iHEARTplymouth 101 is a class sponsored by People's University as part of the Plymouth Park Department's Art and Leisure fall courses.

Cost is $3 for city residents, $5 for out of city limits.
Students need to bring a wireless laptop.

Classes will be held at Webster Recreation Center.
Located at 110 Webster Avenue, Plymouth, IN, west of South Michigan Street near Felke Florist.

Register for workshop by contacting People's University by phone or email.
phone: 936-9904 or toll-free at 1-866-936-9904 or email mcoas@hotmail.com


Select preferred date and class item number:
Friday, September 17, 9:45 a.m.
AL 110-1 Social Media (Instructor Cook)

Friday, October 1, 9:45 a.m.
AL 110-2 Social Media (Instructor Cook)



Interested in other social media workshops The Midas Center has available?

Some topics include:
- Branding: It is More Than Just For Cows
- Twitter 101: To Tweep Or Not To Tweep
- Social Media Pioneers: A New Frontier
- Be Famous: Get Your Blog On
- You’re Never Too Old: Social Media

Contact Andrea Cook at The Midas Center to schedule a workshop customized to meet your individual or group's needs today by calling 936 - 7058.

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Social Media Expertise Now Available

Technology has rapidly changed the way that the marketplace communicates, especially for the customers under the age of 40. Reaching out to this customer requires more than business cards, newspaper ads and color brochures. To effectively communicate your product, service or brand, you must have a Social Media Expert working for you.

A Social Media Expert lives and breathes in the new age frontier of communication. This frontier of social media requires an expert who can not only navigate through the world wide web and blogospheres while using Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Digg and other Web 2.0 technologies, it also demands a level of professionalism with a proven track record in both the traditional methodologies of marketing and the use of online media.

Ms. Cook has aspired to live on the cutting edge of creative marketing for 10 years and is currently available to work as a New Media Marketing Expert.

Known by friends and colleagues as “web savvy,” “a creative genius,” and sometimes a “tech geek” her favorite past times include blogging, tweeting, googling, digging, analyzing, tracking, reporting, commenting, updating, uploading, searching, linking, tagging, stumbling, sharing and just surfing around. She has a hint of compulsion when it comes to online media and knows how to get the message to stick.

As Founder and President of The Midas Center, Ms. Cook is currently interested in offering her expertise in both marketing and social media to promote products, services and brands as a Social Media Marketing Expert. Contact Ms. Cook today to learn how hiring a Social Media Expert can turn your vision into results.

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