Connect09: PR and social media conference

Grady College and Porter Novelli are teaming up again to sponsor UGA's third annual conference on public relations and social media, to be held Sept. 19 in Athens. The unofficial theme this year is "integrating social media with traditional PR and marketing."

Confirmed speakers include:

• Paula Berg, Southwest Airlines
• Toby Bloomberg and Jeremy Pepper -- on consumer/B2B 
• Dr. Richard Waters and Dr. Tom Watson (via Skype from the UK) -- on nonprofit PR
• Government PR panel TBA 
• Melanie James (via Skype from Australia) and Dan Greenfield -- "Is Social Media Transformational?" 
• Perry Binder -- on legal issues related to employee blogging 

The student team (Kristin English, Allison Brill, and Lesley Anne Dickerson) and I are working on the rest, and we'll keep you updated via @UGAconnect.

Unfortunately Grady's Web site recently got hacked (by Russians, no kidding!), so we're slow getting the registration site up -- I'll let you know when it's ready. The deadline will be Sept. 11.

Comments

[Sydney]

If you're looking for more ideas, I'd be interested to hear a panel of recent graduates talk about their experiences with social media. What are they expected to know? How does what they learned in college translate to the real world? How do different agencies, non-profits, corporations etc. use YPs in strategy, implementation, measurement?

[N Tindall]

Thanks for the update. I will make it this year!

[Karen Russell]

Sydney, they're doing something similar to this at PR Camp Atlanta (in fact, I think a couple Grady grads will be in the mix).

Natalie, so glad you're going to make it this year! It's going to be great.

[Sarah Freeman]

I am really looking forward to UGAConnect this year. Last year's conference was so good. See you in September!