In advance of our meeting tonight, I wanted to be sure to give everyone a little amuse bouche, and some advance information about our panelists, an illustrious bunch of foodies and hospitality experts.
Following a welcome from our generous hosts, the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, we'll launch into a great presentation from Chef Scott Boswell, and then our panel discussion about food, restaurants and social media. We're looking forward to eating, drinking and learning with you all!
With no further ado, your panelists:
Scott Boswell: Chef and owner of Stella! and Stanley in New Orleans, Chef Scott will be discussing his role as a blogging and tweeting chef, both in New Orleans and during his travels and work in other cities. Stella! was recently awarded 5 beans from The New Orleans Times-Picayune's Brett Anderson, and I can attest to the deliciousness of the menu--well deserved beans, imho! Follow him on Twitter, he's @chefscottb
Brooke Boudreaux: From her hidden Where Magazine offices in New Orleans, Brooke is responsible for promoting and building community for the magazine through social media technology. She's a connector and a provider of news, and we're excited to have her join the panel! Follow her on Twitter, she's @whereneworleans
Lizzy Caston: New New Orleanian and marketing and urban planning guru, Lizzy is going to share her experiences of working with businesses (notably, food carts!) in Portland, Oregon and her thoughts and feelings on working with social media as a marketing tool. Follow her on Twitter, she's @misslizzyc.
Lorin Gaudin: New Orleans Food Diva, and WGNO star, is a food and restaurant journalist and insider, having hosted many different radio and television programs on the subject. She is an active user of social media for spreading great tips on where to eat next, and for gathering information about new food trends in New Orleans. Follow her on Twitter, she's @loringaudin.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Setting the Table for Social Media: Restaurant and Hospitality Roundtable
Please join us for the next Social Media Club of New Orleans Meeting on August 20 at 6:00 pm at Ralph's on the Park (900 City Park Avenue.)
The topic will be: Setting the Table for Social Media: Restaurant and Hospitality Roundtable, featuring some of New Orleans' best known chefs, food journalists and restaurants.
Ralph's on the Park is sponsoring this meeting in their upstairs private dining space, and are offering $5 glasses of wine and $2 Abita Amber, as well as hand-passed hors d’oeuvres, crafted by new Executive Chef Chip Flanagan. All are also welcome to stay for the summer special, featuring 3 appetizers and a glass of wine for $28.
In preparation for this meeting, we'd love to hear what questions you have for our panelists. What do you want to know about the ways restaurants, chefs and food/hospitality journalists use Social Media? Please post your questions in the comment section, and one randomly selected comment will receive a fantastic gift bag with Bliss products courtesy of W Hotels of New Orleans, as well as drink tickets for their Dirty Linen Party at the W French Quarter.
The topic will be: Setting the Table for Social Media: Restaurant and Hospitality Roundtable, featuring some of New Orleans' best known chefs, food journalists and restaurants.
Ralph's on the Park is sponsoring this meeting in their upstairs private dining space, and are offering $5 glasses of wine and $2 Abita Amber, as well as hand-passed hors d’oeuvres, crafted by new Executive Chef Chip Flanagan. All are also welcome to stay for the summer special, featuring 3 appetizers and a glass of wine for $28.
In preparation for this meeting, we'd love to hear what questions you have for our panelists. What do you want to know about the ways restaurants, chefs and food/hospitality journalists use Social Media? Please post your questions in the comment section, and one randomly selected comment will receive a fantastic gift bag with Bliss products courtesy of W Hotels of New Orleans, as well as drink tickets for their Dirty Linen Party at the W French Quarter.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Cease and Desist | Social Media Legal Roundtable
Join the Social Media Club of New Orleans that as we open the floor to discuss copyrights, creative licensing, libel, slander, and how brick and mortar legal definitions are being interpreted online.
The wonderful Cochon will be providing appetizers to nosh on, and as always, there will be giveaways and prizes. We hope to see you there!
Panelists will include:
Ray Areaux, Chair of IP Practice at Carver Darden:
Raymond G. Areaux is a founding member in the law firm of Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, Blossman & Areaux, LLC where he chairs the firms intellectual property practice group. His practice is devoted to obtaining, licensing and enforcing all manner of intellectual property rights. His primary practice areas are computers and software, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, media law, copyright, unfair competition and franchises. He is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property topics.
Mr. Areaux's experience includes:
* prosecuting patents in the electronic arts, software arts, web-based delivery arts, biotech arts, and mechanical arts;
* negotiating many and varied types of licensing agreements and franchising agreements:
* prosecuting and maintaining hundreds of trademarks, service marks and brands;
* litigating patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and licensing disputes, including patent claims against the Federal Government; and,
* arbitrating computer software and other commercial transaction disputes.
Mr. Areaux obtained his J.D. from Loyola University where he was a member of the Law Review and published his commentary "Computer Software Protection: >From Infancy to Adolescence."
Mr. Areaux holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering as well as a B.S. in Computer and Information Systems, both from Tulane University.
Prior to starting his law practice in 1985, Mr. Areaux was a product development engineer with IBM at its lab in Austin, Texas and then later a systems engineer with Conoco in New Orleans
Ernest Svenson
http://www.ernietheattorney.net
Darwin observed that "it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." The legal system, long bound by tradition, now struggles to adapt to increasing societal change. Today, lawyers can use technology in novel ways to improve communication and increase efficiency in gathering information. We need to be more adept at handling digital information to fully represent our clients.
Brian Oberkirch
Veteran online media planner, http://www.brianoberkirch.com/
I’m a marketing consultant focused on social media and product/service development. Like It Matters is my personal blog where I write about social media, community-based marketing and technologies that revolve around relevance.
I do social media consulting and projects for companies and marketing agencies of all sizes, helping them use these new tools to have better conversations with those who matter to their business. I also do quite a bit of speaking and training on social media and other topics.
In my past lives, I was a marketing consultant and writer for hire, managed national brand accounts at large and small advertising and PR shops, started a social media consultancy called Weblogs Work and helped build a suite of applications for those clients, taught literature and creative writing, wrote newspaper articles, did the morning news at a radio station, and many other things.
The wonderful Cochon will be providing appetizers to nosh on, and as always, there will be giveaways and prizes. We hope to see you there!
Panelists will include:
Ray Areaux, Chair of IP Practice at Carver Darden:
Raymond G. Areaux is a founding member in the law firm of Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, Blossman & Areaux, LLC where he chairs the firms intellectual property practice group. His practice is devoted to obtaining, licensing and enforcing all manner of intellectual property rights. His primary practice areas are computers and software, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, media law, copyright, unfair competition and franchises. He is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property topics.
Mr. Areaux's experience includes:
* prosecuting patents in the electronic arts, software arts, web-based delivery arts, biotech arts, and mechanical arts;
* negotiating many and varied types of licensing agreements and franchising agreements:
* prosecuting and maintaining hundreds of trademarks, service marks and brands;
* litigating patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and licensing disputes, including patent claims against the Federal Government; and,
* arbitrating computer software and other commercial transaction disputes.
Mr. Areaux obtained his J.D. from Loyola University where he was a member of the Law Review and published his commentary "Computer Software Protection: >From Infancy to Adolescence."
Mr. Areaux holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering as well as a B.S. in Computer and Information Systems, both from Tulane University.
Prior to starting his law practice in 1985, Mr. Areaux was a product development engineer with IBM at its lab in Austin, Texas and then later a systems engineer with Conoco in New Orleans
Ernest Svenson
http://www.ernietheattorney.net
Darwin observed that "it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." The legal system, long bound by tradition, now struggles to adapt to increasing societal change. Today, lawyers can use technology in novel ways to improve communication and increase efficiency in gathering information. We need to be more adept at handling digital information to fully represent our clients.
Clients increasingly need lawyers who look at things in fresh ways, who seek hidden advantages, and who properly assess risk instead of reflexively avoiding it. "Zealous representation," to me, is less about swash-buckling and more about thoughtfulness and strategic planning.
Brian Oberkirch
Veteran online media planner, http://www.brianoberkirch.com/
I’m a marketing consultant focused on social media and product/service development. Like It Matters is my personal blog where I write about social media, community-based marketing and technologies that revolve around relevance.
I do social media consulting and projects for companies and marketing agencies of all sizes, helping them use these new tools to have better conversations with those who matter to their business. I also do quite a bit of speaking and training on social media and other topics.
In my past lives, I was a marketing consultant and writer for hire, managed national brand accounts at large and small advertising and PR shops, started a social media consultancy called Weblogs Work and helped build a suite of applications for those clients, taught literature and creative writing, wrote newspaper articles, did the morning news at a radio station, and many other things.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Live Stream of Hurricane Panel & Giveaway
Here's the video form the SMCNO Crisis/Hurricane Preparedness Panel.
Comment on what you learned to win a $25 Border's Gift Card. Or add your best tips.
Comment on what you learned to win a $25 Border's Gift Card. Or add your best tips.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
SMCNO Streams Live on LaunchPadTV, and Our Giveaways are Revealed
In the spirit of being truly social, and thanks to the generosity of the whole crew over at LaunchPad, we will stream this month's meeting live, LIVE on LaunchPad's internet channel: http://www.livestream.com/launchpadlive this Thursday evening. We will meet at 6pm, and our panel discussion will start at about 7pm. If you can't make the meeting this month, you still have a great opportunity to participate in our panel discussion, joining the chat room is as simple as choosing your username, and we will be taking your questions as well.
We have a great panel lined up to discuss their implementaion of Social Media and Web 2.0 tools into their disaster and crisis practices.
We've also got two $25 gift certificates to Borders to give away at this meeting!
We are all very excited about this month's meeting and we hope to see you in person or in the chatroom on livestream.com!
RSVP now on Facebook, Linked In or Twitvite!
Thursday, June 18th, 6pm at Launchpad
643 Magazine St.
Suite 102, New Orleans, LA 70130
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We have a great panel lined up to discuss their implementaion of Social Media and Web 2.0 tools into their disaster and crisis practices.
We've also got two $25 gift certificates to Borders to give away at this meeting!
We are all very excited about this month's meeting and we hope to see you in person or in the chatroom on livestream.com!
RSVP now on Facebook, Linked In or Twitvite!
Thursday, June 18th, 6pm at Launchpad
643 Magazine St.
Suite 102, New Orleans, LA 70130
[map]
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Hurricane and Crisis Discussion: How Web 2.0 Tools Can be Used in Crisis Situations
June marks the official start of hurricane season here in New Orleans and in the Gulf Coast Region. Has your business updated their Crisis Situation Guide and Procedures this year? What makes this year so different? There are now many Web 2.0 tools to incorporate into your Hurricane and Disaster Protocols.
Social Media can be a powerful tool to help keep in touch with people during a crisis situation, and we at Social Media Club NO would like to take this opportunity to share and discuss how you and your workplace can integrate Web 2.0 tools into your Crisis/Disaster Protocol.
We will be featuring 3 panelists that have embraced Web 2.0 tools as it relates to hurricane preparedness:
RSVP now on Facebook, Linked In or Twitvite!
Thursday, June 18th, 6pm at Launchpad
643 Magazine St.
Suite 102, New Orleans, LA 70130
[map]
Social Media can be a powerful tool to help keep in touch with people during a crisis situation, and we at Social Media Club NO would like to take this opportunity to share and discuss how you and your workplace can integrate Web 2.0 tools into your Crisis/Disaster Protocol.
We will be featuring 3 panelists that have embraced Web 2.0 tools as it relates to hurricane preparedness:
Stanford Rosenthal of www.levees.org will discuss how they realized that there was a conversation going on outside of their site and how they integrated tools to embrace and engage in the community dialogue and comment. Not to mention, the "reputation management" that comes into play if and when you have to go up against a Goliath like the Corps of Engineers.
Robert X. Fogarty of www.evacuteer.org, a volunteer recruitment and management organization will discuss how they are utilizing new tools to manage volunteers and to help organize the evacuation process.
Kayla Castille, of www.WDSU.com will discuss how the media is changing and embracing new web tools to track real time events and developments, particularly in crisis situations.
RSVP now on Facebook, Linked In or Twitvite!
Thursday, June 18th, 6pm at Launchpad
643 Magazine St.
Suite 102, New Orleans, LA 70130
[map]
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Are you ready for a crisis?
Next week we will be chatting with some local people who are using Web 2.0 tools in creative ways to address the hurricane season. I'd like to hear what your business or organizations are doing to prepare for a storm? What tools have you found helpful- from Twitter to blogs to Instant Message? Share some of your best practices and ideas!
Join us Thursday June 18th from 6-9, as we discuss best practices with three panelists. For more details on the event and to RSVP, click here: http://budurl.com/sksd
Join us Thursday June 18th from 6-9, as we discuss best practices with three panelists. For more details on the event and to RSVP, click here: http://budurl.com/sksd
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