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Beverly Hills, CA Gravity Summit 2010, a social media marketing event for business, opened the doors to attendees at its 2nd annual event on Monday, February 22, 2010. The event was held at the Covel Commons on the UCLA campus is Los Angeles, CA. Over 25 senior marketing executive speakers and innovators from a wide range of companies and organizations convened to share their best practices and lessons learned in social media and real-time marketing.
Speakers from top brands such as Eastman Kodak, MazdaUSA, USAToday.com, PayPal, Mashable, Domino’s Pizza and others presented to the audience at the conference as well as to the audience online who were able to view the event on UStream and join the discussion live via #Gravsum on Twitter.
Gravity Summit especially thanks it’s Sponsors and Partners: UCLA Extension Business, Management, and Legal Programs; TurboTax; MazdaUSA; SpiritJump; PayPal; Visible Technologies; LA Clippers; FLIP; PeopleBrowsr; GoDaddy.com; Mashable; PitchEngine; Social Media Club of Los Angeles; You2Gov.org; TweetPhoto, Fusiciology, iHollywoodForum, and The Roxy on Sunset for helping to bring this important and timely information to the business community.
A highlight of the program was the “Excellence in Social Media Marketing” Awards hosted by Rodney Rumford and Beverly Macy, Co-Founders of Gravity Summit, and Van Anderson, Program Director, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, International Trade & Commerce, UCLA Extension. These awards were created to recognize the superior understanding and use of social media marketing tools by well known brands, businesses and individuals. Recipients of the event’s first Excellence in Social Media Marketing awards were:
– Excellence in Social Media Marketing in Business to Eastman Kodak
– Excellence in Social Media Marketing in Entertainment to Felicia Day
– Excellence in Social Media Marketing in Social Good to Domino Foods
Another new feature was the Breakout Workshops in the afternoon:
Music, Entertainment, Sports – How to Use Social Media to Engage Passionate Fans Moderated by Nic Adler, Owner of the famous Roxy Theater on Sunset Strip
Social Media Meets Social Good: Cause Marketing Case Studies and Strategies Moderated by Emmy nominated TV and Web Personality, Shira Lazar
Getting Started, moderated by Alon Waisman of GoDaddy.com
Comments came pouring in after the conference and included: “I was riveted by every speaker and really enjoyed the day. I’m so excited to put social media marketing to work”;” …it was also by far the best social media event I have ever been to. The presenters were excellent, and it was also a great environment for networking”;and “ I have literally spoken at 4 conferences / colleges in the past month…and yours was the first where I walked away smarter and inspired”.
The AfterParty was sponsored by MazdaUSA and held at On The Rox at the Roxy Theater on Sunset. Gravity Summit also announced the 3rd Annual Event to take place at UCLA in February 2011 and will produce other events on an invitation-basis throughout 2010.
About Gravity Summit
Gravity Summit events help bridge the gap between the new Social Media Marketing tools and the business community. We seek to help educate and inform marketing professionals, small business owners, advertisers, and c-Level executives, and others, about the exciting new marketing and communications landscape that is evolving daily.
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