Wednesday, January 28, 2009

TONIGHT - CPAUG Patriot News Tour

Date: January 28, 2008
Time: 6-?
Patriot News Building - Lobby
1900 Patriot Dr.
Mechanicsburg, PA 17505
GoogleMap
CPAUG RSS Feed

About the Meeting:
TONIGHT - Join CPAUG for a Production Tour of the Patriot News Building!

Thanks to Terry Finnegan, CPAUG was able to arrange a tech-savvy Patriot News Production Tour! Thanks Terry! This should be a lot of fun, so be sure to attend! Look forward to seeing you there!

Next Meeting:
Our February Meeting - TBD

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House?

In November, not two weeks after winning the election and still two months from becoming commander in chief, Barack Obama brought the government into the 21st century. Or at least that was what we were told when he released his first Web video address as president-elect. The clip, billed by some as a modern fireside chat, was embedded as a YouTube video on Change.gov, the incoming administration's Web site. Sitting in a leather chair, framed slightly off center from his chest up, Obama delivered a three-minute talk on the economic crisis, vlog style.

The video quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views, and within a few days hundreds of blogs were linking to it. Obama's foray into viral video, the story went, heralded the beginning of a new era in government communication and transparency—"Franklin Roosevelt 2.0," in the words of The Huffington Post. The Washington Post proclaimed the advent of the "YouTube presidency."

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Advanced Twitter for Business Live Webcast

Advanced Twitter for Business
Conversation, Community, and Profit--140 Characters at a Time

Presented by Sarah Milstein, a consultant on Web 2.0 and editorial
strategies

Twitter matters. This free, nimble, and powerful messaging service is
fast becoming an essential part of every smart business's social media
toolkit.

If you're ready to go beyond dabbling with Twitter, join us for our new
"Advanced Twitter for Business" webcast on February 6. Learn everything
you need to launch a successful Twitter strategy for your business.
You'll learn how to use Twitter to promote your business, build
community, find employees, and research the market and your competition:

- Why--and how--to "listen" before you tweet
- How to get followers
- Picking the best people to represent your company on Twitter
- Promotional offers and contests on Twitter
- Trak what the Twitterverse says about your company, products,
competition, and trends
- Useful third-party tools and services built on Twitter
- Lots of real-world examples of what works and why

Date: Friday, February 6 at 10am PST (18:00 GMT)
Price: $99
Duration: Approx. 90 minutes
To register: http://oreilly.com/go/advancedtwitter

Questions? Please send email to webcast@oreilly.com

**** Don't wait 'til the last minute--registration closes at 5:00pm PST
on Thursday, February 5. ****

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You might also like:

The Webcast & O'Reilly Radar Twitter Report
Price for bundle: $149
https://epoch.oreilly.com/shop/cart.orm?prod=9780596801472.PDF

The O'Reilly Radar Twitter Report - $99
http://radar.oreilly.com/research/twitter-report.html

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About Sarah Milstein

Sarah Milstein has been on Twitter since the beginning--she was user
#17. A consultant on Web 2.0 and editorial strategies, and an MBA
candidate at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, she was
previously the Chief Publishing Evangelist for O'Reilly Media. Prior to
that, Sarah was O'Reilly's Managing Editor, Senior Editor, and Editor,
leading the development of the Missing Manuals, a best-selling series of
computer books for non-geeks. She's also written for the series,
co-authoring Google: The Missing Manual (1st ed 2004; 2nd ed 2006).
Before joining O'Reilly in 2003, Sarah was a freelance writer and
editor, and a regular contributor to The New York Times. She was also a
program founder for Just Food, a local-food-and-farms non-profit, and
co-founder of Two Tomatoes Records, a label that distributes and
promotes the work of children's musician Laurie Berkner.

Monday, January 5, 2009

CPAUG - January Meeting: Patriot-News Production Tour

Date: January 28, 2008
Time: 6-?
Patriot News Building - Lobby
1900 Patriot Dr.
Mechanicsburg, PA 17505
GoogleMap
CPAUG RSS Feed

About the Meeting:
Join CPAUG for a Production Tour of the Patriot News Building!


Thanks to Terry Finnegan, CPAUG was able to arrange a tech-savvy Patriot News Production Tour! Thanks Terry! This should be a lot of fun, so be sure to attend! Lets try to think of some great questions to keep our tour guide on his toes!

Please RSVP
cpaugmanager@gmail.com

Next Meeting:
Our February Meeting - TBD