 Want to produce the official Web commercial for Interplay? InterPlay,
the first ever St. Louis interactive festival to be held September 18 –
20, is now accepting submissions for the Interplay Video Contest.
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We’re finalizing some of our speakers and etching out a rough schedule of panels and workshops; we’ll be posting updates shortly. InterPLAY 2008 will feature three tracks: Geek Chic, Bid’ness, and Lifestyle. Here is a partial list of the panels and workshops from the three different tracks featured at InterPLAY 2008; the remainder of our sessions (along with speakers) will be announced pending some remaining confirmations:
Geek Chic:
CSS for Rest of Us
Consult with web programming pros in this workshop and learn how to use cascading style sheets to create a unified, professional look for your site.
Multi-media panel: podcasting, vlogging
Learn the basics of creating a successful internet radio show. Talk with successful podcasters, and explore different hosting options, ways to market your new show, and ways to attract and keep loyal listeners.
Bid’ness:
Bloggers’ Rights: Protecting Your Intellectual Property
A brief introduction to basic copyright and trademark law and the Creative Commons copyright system, plus discussion on ways to confront and combat sploggers (spam bloggers) who take your work without permission. Pick the brains of prominent regional intellectual property and internet attorneys.
Social Media and the Small Business
How prominent is your business’s online profile? Is it necessary to build relationships with bloggers and others in social media? Learn just how important social media is to your business – along with how to save your advertising budget dollars, build a viral marketing campaign, increase word of mouth, and other “guerilla marketing” techniques.
Lifestyle:
Cyberbullying
An apropos topic in the state which has outlawed “cyberbullying” with a very controversial new law. This panel will host an open discussion on online safety and privacy issues that all internet users face. Explore ways to protect yourself and your family, while participating in online communities.
Blogging and Social Media 101
An introduction for newcomers to the world of blogging and social media. What is social media? What is Web 2.0? Learn that and more from those who were there when it all began.
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 Our friends at Inter:PLAY announce their participation in PLAY:stl and call for volunteers.
The St. Louis Bloggers Guild is please to announce our new project, St. Louis’s first interactive festival to be part of Play:STL, the successful music festival organized by the folks at Playback.
The festival is held in September at the U City Loop; this year it will
take place September 18 - 20 with a kickoff cocktail meet-and-greet on
Wednesday, September 17th.
The Interactive festival is a way for the
blogging, vlogging, podcasting, etc. community to connect with each
other and with the general public by way of sessions, panels,
workshops, and possible business opportunities. Similar to SXSW, STL
Interactive will showcase its social media scene and educate the
community as to how they can also benefit from this medium.
We’re currently lining up speakers and deciding
upon sessions, panel, and workshop themes. We’ve had phenomenal
feedback so far before even going public. We’d love to involve even
more area bloggers and participants in the social media community.
Several corporate sponsors have already signed on to support this
first-of-its-kind event in our city; we’re aiming for more.
Interested in participating? Sponsoring a panel, session, workshop,
or musical stage? Interested in joining area vendors by setting up a
booth? Let us know! Contact Dana at mamalogues dot com (interactive).
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