Mashable Meetups Everywhere

Presented by The Office Media Professionals, Vibewrangler Studios and Hamilton Seen

Social Media Day is a world-wide celebration of social media. Social media has changed our lives. It has not only changed the way we communicate, but the way we connect with one another, consume our news, conduct our work, organize our lives, and much more. So why not celebrate? We have answered the call to action and are assembling next Wednesday June 30th at Vibewrangler Studios to celebrate the revolution in human communications happening around the globe.

The evening promises to be both entertaining and informative with ten presentations of five minutes each. While there will be bona fide social media experts and techno-geeks capable of informing participants where we are heading, we will also hear from those who have used social media effectively to promote community issues, political agendas and consumer campaigns.

Doors open at 7:00pm with presentations starting at 7:30pm, moderated by Simon Geoghegan of Epiphany Coaching.

This is a FREE event but advance registration is required here at the Meetup page or at the facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126998720663858&...

Cash bar and light refreshments will be served.
Dress: Business casual
Musical performance by Carolyna Loveless and DJ Johnny Angel spinning 78s.
Parking is available on Gage and Cumberland Avenues and side-streets

MODERATOR
Simon Geoghegan, Partner/Coach at Epiphany
Simon is a partner and leadership coach. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in management, technology and training to his clients. As a lifelong learner, Simon completed a year-long Leadership program through CTI in 2008. He received his B.A. from Carleton University and has completed Masters level courses in Education through the University of Calgary. One of his primary interests is travel, having lived in Hiroshima and Boston.

PRESENTERS
Mark Tharme / Judy Boswell
Mark and Judy are Partners at The Office Media Professionals. They specialize in helping clients take advantage of the many opportunities available through social media for businesses, organizations and social awareness campaigns.

Richard Birney-Smith
Richard Birney-Smith has lived in Dundas for forty-three years. During that time he has been Thalia’s husband, Noëlle & Monique's dad, grandfather three-times, organist, harpsichordist, orchestral & choral conductor, composer, broadcast musician, and recording artist. He is currently working as a home-business developer: training people to be successfully self-employed.

James Burchill
James has been helping people enjoy new technology since he taught his grandparents how to program the flashing clock on their Betamax VCR. Fast forward, and today he demystifies Social Media for companies seeking successful marketing integration. James is also a published author and the founder of Business Fusion Marketing.

Karen Burson
After first cooking in England several years ago, I worked in IT (shudder), became a personal chef/caterer, then a Manager with Goodness Me! and later created Sky Dragon’s Bread & Roses Café. Mayday and H Magazine articles explored food issues. I became Hamilton Eat Local’s Project Manager in September 2008.

Chris Ecklund
Hamilton businessman and philanthropist for whom community improvement is an ongoing concern.

Jason Fairfield
Jason Fairfield is the president of Oncor Solutions Inc. He has been involved in marketing and sales for over 20 years. He has spent the last 18 months entrenched in social media, working with and proving that you can monetize it. What is Oncor all about? The very simple answer is we follow the principal that ROI is king in marketing. We do that by leveraging online and offline marketing strategies for clients in very cool and remarkable ways.

Barry Forth
Barry has been the General Manager of Copetown Woods Golf Club for the past 8 years and this past winter took on the role as Chair of Kraft Hockeyville in Dundas. Barry proved the power Social Media has by taking a community campaign from the ground up to become winning town in Canada only 5 months later.

Mike Hulleman
The first time Mike sat at his brothers Commodore 64 and had his first online chat -- Green text on a black screen -- with a friend around the corner, he knew his life would revolve around digital communications. Mike currently holds a position at LinxSmart Inc. growing their business, and those of their clients through business development, social media, SEO application, organizing online campaigns and website plans. Mike's main focus as of late is finding commercial uses for social media that work.

Matt Jelly
Community Activist and Creator of Bylaw Crawl

Keith Mann
Keith Mann started programming computers when he was eight years old and hasn't stopped yet. His current projects involve information theory, user interface research, and developing interactive content for the web and mobile devices.

Wayne MacPhail
Wayne is the President of w8nc Inc and helps nonprofits, NGOs and educators make sense and use of emerging media. He has been a traditional and online journalist for nearly 30 years and teaches online journalism at Western and Ryerson. He is also the Director of Emerging Media for rabble.ca.