Join us for our first doterati educational panel event!

The format will be an informal breakfast 2.0 'style', wherein we'll see brief presentations from the following:

7:00 - 7:30 registration, networking, bagels & coffee

7:30 - 7:40 doterati Overview What have we been up to?
-Tara Lamberson

7:40 - 8:00 What is Social Media (Basics)
- Rob Williams

What are the common features that make up social media websites. What are the major players and what are they about? Examples: Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Twitter(?), Delicious

8:00 - 8:20 Blogging for Your Business 101
- Mike Whaling

What the heck is a blog? Does your business need one? Mike will help you get started, share simple solutions & best practices and provide real examples from both major corporations and small local businesses.

8:20 - 8:40 Brand Reputation Management 101
- Mark Krupinski

What is brand management and why is it important to your business? What aspects of your business should you focus on and which tools should you use? Mark explores these questions and offers a number of solutions.

8:40 - 9:00 closing remarks, Q&A
- all panelists and attendees

Speaker Bios
Rob Williams has been involved with social media and online interaction for over 5 years. He and his wife has recently opened an Internet Strategy company Orangejack LLC

Mike Whaling is the founder of 30 Lines—his company helps businesses take a strategic approach to their online branding by focusing on social media marketing, online reputation management and local search optimization. Mike copes with slight addictions to Twitter, Google Reader and Pandora. FriendFeed.com/30Lines

Mark Krupinski is the Community Manager of Rasmussen and doterati. As Community Manager, he is responsible for corporate communications and social media development. Prior to this role, Mark spent over 10 years in the travel industry focused on operations management and new product development. To learn more about Mark, subscribe to his friendfeed account at friendfeed.com/markkrupinski

We'd like to encourage each of you to bring a friend/colleague/someone new to doterati; therefore, we're giving each of you a 2nd ticket for free - all you have to do is provide us with a few pieces of information.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Questions? email programming@doterati.com