Social Media Meets Social Good Workshop at Gravity Summit

DATE: Monday, February 22, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

REGISTRATION: SPECIAL DISCOUNT for Non-Profit Organizations/Foundations
Standard Price $349, YOUR PRICE $199; CEUs Available,
Includes Full day conference, lunch, networking, VIP afterparty

LOCATION: University of California, Los Angeles: Covel Commons
Venue Sponsored by UCLA Extension
Social Media Marketing campaigns are generating millions in donations for good causes. They also generate goodwill and consumer interaction for brands.

Learn how to increase donations and brand awareness in this Workshop. Find out how your organization or foundation can use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media tools effectively and take your cause into new levels.

Special Discount Registration HERE
Includes full day PLUS Social Media Meets Social Good Panel

JOIN THESE EXPERTS AT GRAVITY SUMMIT AT UCLA
The best learning and networking event in 2010!

Workshop Coordinator: SpiritJump
Moderator:
-Emmy nominated TV and Web Personality, Shira Lazar.
Panelists:
-Barb Dybwab, Senior Editor at MASHABLE
-Judy Chang, PayPal’s Principal Product Manager for Nonprofits
-Chris Noble, CEO of Causemedia Group
-James Sutandyo, General Manager, Causecast.org
-Meaghan Edelstein, Founder of Spirit Jump.

Whether you’re part of a 3 person non-profit on a shoestring budget or a multinational corporation trying to “figure out” social media, one of the most popular emerging tactics is to challenge your audience to do good.

We hope you’ll join us for our 1 year anniversary. Tell your friends and colleagues and let’s make this the biggest and best event ever! Go to Gravity Summit for more information.
Contact Information

phone: 310-860-4788; press Jonalyn Morris 323-376-3632
@beverlymacy
@gravitysummit

For those people attending Gravity Summit 2-22 at UCLA you are in for a real treat. Our afternoon keynote speaker is Ramon De Leon who is the COO of Dominos Pizza Franchise in Chicago (5 stores). Ramon is a bundle of energy & enthusiasm who energizes the room as he tells real world stories of how he has used social media for his multiple store locations in Chicago.

Once you meet this guy you will never forget him. I met him at our first summit when he was an attendee and once I talked to him I knew he had intense business knowledge and unbridled passion to share with the world; and we are thrilled to have him speak. (He has spoken at our Harvard, NYC and UC events and people continually rave about him)

Here is a short video that he just shot while speaking over in Amsterdam about social media. He speaks all over the world about the real world of social media to businesses. Get ready for Ramon to take attendees “Beyond the WOW!”.

We can hardly believe that it is quickly coming up on our 1 year anniversary date of the launch date for Gravity Summit. And you can register here for that.

We are deeply grateful for all the speakers, sponsors, attendees, partners and others who became part of the Gravity Summit Community and we promise to do our best to be of service to you in the future!

Now more than ever the value of social media is apparent as a vehicle for your organization, your brand, and YOU to connect with those who hold the power to help you succeed: your customers, your fans, your followers, your constituents, your employees, and your partners.

It was in that spirit that we created the conference -  to educate and inform the business community about how best to leverage and use social media. We wanted to be different than every other “Social Media” conference by focusing on real-world case studies, best practices and lessons learned. We wanted to bridge the gap and we have done that exceedingly well based on all of the terrific feedback that we have received.

We had an amazing 2009 with 5 summits at UCLA, Stanford, UC Irvine, Harvard and Y&R Brands’ Ney Center on Madison Avenue -  all sold out to capacity.

A few highlights from the past year:

• Streamed live on CNN.com/Live for Harvard Event
• Coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Boston Globe, and more
• 600+ Sr. Business Executive and decision makers walked away smarter and more connected
• 75 + speakers from amazing brands like: Sprint, Facebook, Yahoo Search , Sony Pictures, Bing, Turbo Tax, DEI, Digg, Six Apart, Pitch Engine, DirecTV, Lynksys, Cisco, Dell, Adweek, Business Week, Linkedin, Dominos Pizza, Intuit, VML, Young & Rubicam, TweetPhoto, Soutwest Airlines, EMC, Shift Communications, Arnold, Syfy, American Red Cross, Operation Smile, Rebel Industries, Oberon Media,  The Roxy on Sunset, Roger Smith Hotel, MC Hammer, Gary Vanynerchuck, Laura Fitton and many more.
• Large & Small Businesseswho that showcased Social Media case studies

We are honored to have the support from our sponsors who “get it” and who also spoke about the innovative things that they are doing with social media: Intuit, Quicken Online & TurboTax, Visible Technologies, Pitch Engine, Bing, Flip, and GoDaddy

We thank our media partners such as: Mashable, Silicon Valley Brand Forum, MITX, Six Apart, Social Media Club, 212 Interactive, LA American Marketing Association, YPulse and many more.

SO SAVE THE DATE FOR FEB 22, 2010 FOR THE UCLA EVENT! We want to thank UCLA Extension for committing to the Venue Sponsorship and we’re looking for other sponsors and speakers.  Please contact Beverly Macy beverlyATgravitysummit.com with proposals, suggestions, and referrals.

Gravity Summit - Social Media Marketing for Business at Harvard August 31, 2009
Twitter and Social Media in Popular Culture

06.23.2009 – Beverly Hills, CA — Gravity Summit is pleased to announce the one day intensive social media marketing seminar to be held on Monday, August 31, 2009 at the Harvard Faculty Center Library in Cambridge, Mass.

Everyone’s buzzing about Twitter and social media, but most marketers are still wondering just how to use it. At Gravity Summit events attendees hear from their peers in business about best practices and lessons learned as they are immersed in a full day of information, education, networking, and conversation with peers.

The Gravity Summit at Harvard event will be unique in that we will be joined by people famous in their field of popular culture who are active on Twitter and in social media. Join Beverly Macy and Rodney Rumford and their celebrity speakers from entertainment, the news media, non-profits, sports and other areas of popular culture for this intimate one to one conversation. Gain insights on how Twitter and social media is being used by these celebrities and the impact it is having in their lives and industries.

Registration begins on Wednesday, June 24. Seating is extremely limited.

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.

Gravity Summit is the brainchild of New Media Visionary, Author and Strategic Consultant Rodney Rumford. Beverly Macy, CEO of Gravity Summit, also teaches Social Media Marketing for the UCLA Extension Executive Business and Management Division. Beverly and Rodney began hosting a series of high-powered social media marketing events scheduled for 2009 at the UCLA Faculty Center on February 25, 2009, and then again at Stanford on May 5, 2009 and just successfully completed UCI on June 22,2009.

You can register for the event here at early bird discounted pricing.

Gravity Summit is pleased to announce that Young & Rubicam’s Chief Insights Officer John Gerzema will be the opening keynote for the upcoming Social Media Marketing for Business event at the University of California, Irvine on June 22, 2009. Gerzema is the author of the bestselling book “The Brand Bubble,” that was named to the BusinessWeek Best Seller List and was hailed by AdAge as one of the “Books You Should Have To Read.”

The theme of John’s keynote is how marketers are reconnecting with their customers using social media. Attendees will learn firsthand about the four cultural values shifts shaping new consumer strategies and brand behavior. John will also demonstrate how marketers are reconnecting with their customers using social media, search, inventive pricing, distribution and ideas beyond traditional communications.

“My talk will focus on how consumers are changing as a result of the recession and how companies are employing a myriad of new creative strategies to reconnect to their new mindset. Consumers are rapidly changing, and many of the best companies are as well,” said John.

John is recognized as one of America’s early founders of Account Planning. He co-founded Account Planning at Fallon Worldwide in 1992 and was integral to its growth in the mid-90’s, when Fallon tripled in size, was named Advertising Age’s “Agency Of The Year” (1996), and earned an A+ management rating in ADWEEK (2004). His client experience includes Coca-Cola, BMW, McDonald¹s, Citibank, Sony in Japan and China, Nikon, and Nikon Digital.

Gravity Summit events help bridge the gap between the new Social Media Marketing tools and the business community. Additional speakers for the UC Irvine event on June 22 include Cisco Systems, Intuit, Domino’s, LinkedIn, Visible Technologies, and the SoCal Action Sports Network.