Posted on 10.15.10

Workshops and Presentations

by Stacy Jones Sutton

Upcoming workshops and recent presentations on social media, web development, and online strategy by some of our crew.

Take an advanced look at social media for brand awareness in a FREE workshop led by Tim Frick through University of Chicago Consulting Roundtable. Brush up on Drupal knowledge in November with Steve Persch’s Chicago Drupal MeetUp presentation, and check out recent presentations on web strategy and social media for non-profits to download.

Optimizing Advanced Social Media to Build Brand Awareness

October 27, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
FREE workshop offered by University of Chicago Booth School of Business,
Consulting Roundtable.
Open to everyone.

Workshop Description

Are your firm’s social media efforts returning on engagement, building audiences, and successfully marketing its products and services? If not, you’re probably missing out on opportunities to connect with new audiences. This workshop will take an advanced look at social media optimization and will help you learn best practices for engagement and digital marketing in order to steer traffic to your website. The workshop is based on actual examples and technologies that Tim Frick, creative director and owner of Mightybytes, and Santanu DasGupta, co-founder at TeleCascade Networks, a Chicago based firm that provides solutions for mobile marketing, have developed over the course of their careers. Specifically, this workshop focuses on how to:

Create content strategies that include tools and techniques for marketing and measurement
Align digital communications with your website
Create successful social media profiles and great content
Build customer communities through engagement
Develop cross-device mobile web-applications, including mobile video delivery, iPhone and Android applications
Facilitate integration of these methods into a firm’s business and marketing workflow

Where:
Gleacher Center
Room 600
450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr.
Chicago, IL

Discounted Parking:
Chicago Booth has arranged with the AMC Theater-River East Self -Parking Garage to provide discounted parking:
300 East Illinois Street (AMC Theater-River East Self Park Garage)
$6.00 after 3:00pm

Learn more about this free workshop on October 27, 2010.
Register now for the workshop.

Creative Freelance: Your Success

November 3, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Workshop for Alumni offered by The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago, Alumni Association

The Illinois Institute of Art’s Alumni Board is hosting its first event geared specifically toward being a successful freelancer. Our resident designer and prettiness expert Joy Burke sits on the AI-Chicago Alumni Board as the Visual Communications rep. Hosted at Rockit in Wrigleyville, this fab event will feature industry pros presenting and answering questions, food, drinks, and a cash bar. To top it off this is a fantastic opportunity to network with people you can learn from, collaborate with, or simply socialize with like-minded people. Tim Frick will speak on successfully marketing oneself as a freelancer and will be giving away copies of his books to a couple lucky attendees.

This event is open to Illinois Institute of Art alumni. For more info, contact us.

Workshop Questions To Be Addressed

How should a freelancer go about getting noticed?
How can freelancers utilize social media?
How can you meet people needing your services?
Do freelancers need a website?
How can you maintain relationships with clients?

Where:
Rockit Bar & Grill in Wrigleyville
3700 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL
TIME: 6:00 - 9:30 PM

Check out the Alumni Connections site of The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago, Alumni Association to see more about this group and its resources.

Chicago Drupal MeetUp Presentation: Using Multigroup in CCK 3

November 18th, 2010
TIME: 7:00 PM
Mightybytes developer Steve Persch will give a presentation to the Chicago Drupal Meetup Group about a new version of a classic Drupal module. The Content Construction Kit module allows site builders to add fields to their content. The yet unofficial CCK 3 for Drupal 6 provides a great way to tie multiple fields together in repeating groups. This presentation will go over how to add a “Multigroup” to a content type and how to build Views with Multigroup.

Where: Chicago Drupal Meetup (exact location TBA)

Meanwhile, take a look at our coverage of DrupalCamp 2010 from earlier this summer. Mightybytes was proud to be a sponsor of DrupalCamp Chicago. Recent websites Mightybytes developed using Drupal include The Joffrey Ballet and Therapy Buzz.

Recent Workshop Presentations by Tim Frick

Check out these downloadable presentations from recent workshops and seminars:

Chicago Artists Resource: Artists at Work Forum presentation sponsored by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
“Planning and Strategizing Your Web Presence”
Artists in all media rely on the web in many ways: to showcase and market their work; to promote shows; sell music, tickets, and artwork; connect with opportunities, and cultivate fans, collectors, and audiences. What are the most effective strategies for what you want to do online? Learn your options to make your web presence—websites, email, social networks—work for you. This Oct. 4, 2010 workshop is part of the Chicago Artists Resource Artists at Work Forum series from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

Download this presentation >>

Community Media Workshop’s Social Media for Non-Profits.
Social media provides nonprofits with an excellent set of marketing tools for those on a budget, but maintaining engagement in a cost effective manner over the long haul can be fraught with challenges. Tim Frick led a three-hour training workshop designed to teach nonprofits how to optimize social media best practices on Sept. 16, 2010.