The  Brainstorming Sessions and Optimization Summits workshops will focus your attention on specific skills and opportunities, but your event experience isn’t fully complete without a look at New Media as a whole. Our optional lunch program on Friday is designed to expand and enhance your New Media vision with a look at the most powerful changes and opportunities driving and shaping the direction and growth of this dynamic realm—in both the near and long-term future. You’ll get a first-hand and far-reaching look at the New Media landscape; hear about the hottest changes happening now and how to capitalize on them; get clued in to important opportunities that are about to emerge; and walk away with insider knowledge that will help you position your company years ahead of the competition. Don’t miss it!

Session Details

  • Date: September 17,2010 ($55. per person)
  • Time:12:15 – 2:00pm
  • Room:
  • Level: All

Jun Loyaza

President , SocialMediaMarketing.com

Jun Loyaza has lead social campaigns for Levis, Activision, LG, Disney Interactive Media Group, and Musicians Institute. Jun has also spoken at events such as YPulse and Social Media Strategies, and has written for Mashable.com and PersonalBrandingBlog.com. He graduated from UCLA with degrees in Economics and Philosophy.  SocialMediaMarketing.com creates and leads powerful social media campaigns that will intelligently rocket your traffic, promote your brand and grow leads and sales with maximize ROI to give you a feeling of power and importance in the marketplace.

Shashi Bellamkonda

Social Media Swami, Network Solutions

The best title for Shashi Bellamkonda is Social Listener (given by Jennifer Nycz-Conner of the Washington Business Journal: ). His official title of Social Media Swami at Network Soutions was chosen by his teammates in a grass roots contest. With the goal of setting up a listening post to connect with the customers and community, Network Solutions won the 2008 SNCR Excellence in New Communications Award for Online Reputation Management and the 2009 a Gold Quill Award of Excellence in Social Media from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Shashi is passionate about helping small businesses connect via the social web, and has spoken widely on Small Business and social media tools at conferences like SXSW, IABC, PRSA, and Affiliate Summit. Also a passionate blogger, he writes at http://blog.networksolutions.com, http://www.shashi.name, in a regular column at examiner.com, and occasionally on techcocktail.com. He was named one of Washingtonian Magazine’s Top Tech Titan’s in 2009. Shasi makes his real-world home in Potomac, Maryland; and you can find him on Twitter @shashib.

Mike Whaling

President, 30Lines

Through his work at 30 Lines, Mike Whaling advises businesses and organizations on all aspects of online brand development, digital marketing and communicating through social media. His work as a brand builder was recognized by Business Week this year when one of his clients — Urbane Apartments — was named as one of four Innovators in Social Media, next to companies like Ford and the Sharing Foundation.  With many clients in the multifamily real estate industry, Mike co-moderates the weekly #AptChat on Twitter to discuss how apartment companies can use social media and other digital tools for their business.  Mike has been named a Young Business Leader by Florida Trend and the Volusia Business Report, and he also was named a Top 10 Promoter of Technology for the multifamily real estate by Broadband Properties. Mike manages various technology groups around the web, serves as a technology advisor to Men’s Health Living magazine, and has been featured in numerous publications including the Orlando Sentinel, the Orlando Business Journal, Urban Land Magazine, Multifamily Executive, Multi-Housing News and Entrepreneur Magazine. Contact Mike at 386.795.8000, mike@30lines.com, and www.30lines.com.