Happy networking!
~Katharine
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Hey, NYC entrepreneurs: Welcome to the Future of Media! Business Insider is holding the first annual IGNITION conference on Dec. 2-3.
And you can attend for just $225. (Hurry--first 20 respondents only.)
We're witnessing the greatest period of creative destruction -- and invention -- in the history of media. Hear from Nick Denton, Sarah Chubb, Susan Lyne, John Borthwick, Eric Hippeau, Jason Kilar, and many more on where it’s all heading.
Monday, November 15th
6PM Brandhackers "Facebook Effect" Meetup
Brand strategies- A review of the best practices (so far) that brands are employing to be invited to Social Media conversations and how Facebook humanizes brands for consumers in ways that corporate websites do not (yet). And we'll ask our experts, is the Facebook brand page the new corporate brand page?
Tactics- Getting specific on 3-4 of the most effective tools, apps and services of Facebook used by leading brands, including:
*Chris Cunningham, CEO & Founder, appssavvy
*Stephanie Agresta, Managing Director of Social Media, WEBER SHANDWICK
*Rebecca Ulanoff, Marketing Manager, WHOLE FOODS
*Myles Kleeger, General Manager of Strategic Brand Partnerships, BUDDY MEDIA
6:45PM Hoboken Tech Meetup 6: Jeff Stewart and Stephane Levy
Jeff is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, having founded over a half dozen companies in his career, which combined to employ over 600 people. He was recently voted one of the valuable angel investors in NYC.
Stephane will be speaking about the the common mistakes made by early stage startups. Stephane is an attorney at Cooley LLP, a prominent law firm focused on emerging companies.
Tuesday, November 16th
9:30AM GE: ecomagination challenge announcement Meetup!
In July, GE and four venture capital partners launched a $200 million Challenge to find and fund ideas to build the next generation power grid. Turns out that all you need is a rich guy with a homegrown particle accelorator that can fashion a big washer into a glowing neon tube. Power problem: solved. They'll announce him as the winner in this event, so long as Mickey Rourke doesn't show up. Don Cheadle? Seriously?
6PM Mashable Meetup featuring Greg Verdino and Steve Rosenbaum
Equal parts marketer and futurist, Greg Verdino is a recognized expert on marketing innovation, emerging media and Web 2.0. He's also bald, which means he gets automatic inclusion in this week's newsletter.
Steve Rosenbaum has been working with Curated Content since he created the groundbreaking hit MTV UNfiltered in the pre-web days. Now, as the founder and CEO of Magnify.net, runs a platform company that allows Publishers, Brands, and Web communities to embrace web content with Aggregation, Curation, and user Contributions. He's not quite as bald as Greg, but still gets some points for the brush clearing that's going on upstairs.
6:30PM CodeFree WordPress: Point-and-Click Themes
Whether you're designing a WordPress theme from scratch or modifying an existing one, most of the time you need to know some PHP, HTML or CSS. However, there are a few powerful themes that allow you to point-and-click your way to total customization. In this session we highlight two of these powerful themes and go over their customizable features. If MacGyver used a CMS, it would definately be WordPress--because you can basically make it into anything. For a list of problems solved by MacGyver, click here.
6:30PM Five on Food #4
This month, Five on Food is back! Meet, mingle, and hear from five group members about how they weave together food and technology. Chip on a chip anyone?
7PM Hobby!
Hobby is a monthly gathering at Harvest HQ where four fine citizens are invited to talk about their hobbies.
This months hobby will feature sad songs, drawings of buildings, birdhouses, electric tennis rackets, and an old man fashioning a kayak out of a log.
9PM NY Night Owls
Expect Pizza and good tunes powered by Kelley and Jamie's project, http://tu.nr. Just thinking... what if you showed up and slept at Night Owls. It would make for a pretty inexpensive hotel ($12/night), and you'd get six hours of sleep. Just something to think about if you're bootstrapping.
Wednesday, November 17th
6:30PM Demystifying PR for Startups: Identifying Your Target Message and Your Reporter
• James Moran and Vin Vacanti, Founders at Yipit: Featured in over a dozen publications like The New York Times, Wired Magazine and national TV
• Ben Kessler, Director of Communications at SeatGeek: Ben previously worked at LaunchSquad PR, a boutique agency that serviced top-notch tech startups like SeetGeek.
• Jordan Goldman, Founder at Unigo: Jordan is master of getting press and telling stories, with Uniqo covered in a New York Time's magazine expose and literally every other major outlet out there.
• Nick Saint, Reporter, Business Insider/SAI
• Erica Swallow, Assistant Editor, Mashable: Erica covers social media, small business and the latest trends for one of the largest blogs in the world.
• Devindra Hardawar, Lead Mobile Writer, VentureBeat
• Adam Isserlis, Director of Digital Media at Rubenstein Communications
7PM Internet Is People Goes Back To School
Join Internet is People, in partnership with Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems for a discussion focused on sharing the stories of some of the people and companies changing higher education and distance learning through the use of innovative technology
Jeremy Johnson, Chief Marketing Officer, 2tor
Kevin Prentiss, CEO of Swift Kick
Dr. Christelle Scharff, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Pace University
Thursday, November 18th
6PM Bite Communications’ Fall Fling - “Take a Bite out of Flatiron”
Come by to check out our new office, catch up with friends, play some fun games and network with peers. We will have drinks and food to nibble on all night. Put your game face on and be ready to win great prizes. Does great prize automatically have to mean iPad these days? Can you get away with a Samsung tablet?
6:30PM DigitalFlashNYC exclusive networking event: A "Fireside" Chat with the "Smartest Man in the World" - Saul Colt
DigitalFlashNYC welcomes you to a "Fireside" chat with Saul Colt who is " the Smartest man in the world". He's an award winning Word of Mouth Marketer as well as social media expert, who's based in Canada. His sideburns also retain the title "Smartest sideburns in the world", narrowly edging out Jays pitcher Dustin McGowan.
Friday, November 19th
2PM nextNY Touch Football
Two hand touch, co-ed, pickup game. We'll see who shows, mix up the teams, and play football for two hours. No unnecessarily on the field celebrations, please--unless it involves whipping out an iPad after you catch a touchdown. That would be crazy. And yes, this is for women, too. We don't want too many sacks.
6PM Tech Cocktail NYC Fall Mixer presented by Sprint
Tech Cocktail offers a handful of startups an opportunity to show off in an expo-style to the rest of the NYC entrepreneurial community for FREE. Thank you to our special title sponsor Sprint as they look to show off the 4G Wireless technology that has been rolled out in New York, meaning you'll be able to get drunk at lightning fast speeds.
