Fired Up for SummitUp

I am all fired up.  The rea­son — Sum­mitUp 2010.

Two weeks from today, the Sum­mitUp con­fer­ence will take place in Day­ton, Ohio.  If you have never been or heard of Sum­mitUp, check it out. Sum­mitUp is a day long con­fer­ence ded­i­cated to explor­ing social media, mar­ket­ing, busi­ness, tech­nol­ogy, and cre­ativ­ity.  The event is sched­uled to take place on Octo­ber 19^th, 2010 at Sin­clair Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Day­ton, Ohio.  I am one of the orga­niz­ers of the event, and even get the fun job of being the emcee. (did I men­tion this event is just 2 days after I run my first marathon?  Wish me luck.)

The event is a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort between numer­ous local pro­fes­sional orga­ni­za­tions such as Tech­nol­ogy First, The Greater Day­ton Adver­tis­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, The Amer­i­can Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, The Pub­lic Rela­tions Soci­ety of Amer­ica, The Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Busi­ness Com­mu­ni­ca­tors, The Media Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Asso­ci­a­tion Inter­na­tional, and The Day­ton Cre­ative Syn­di­cate.  Mem­bers from each of these groups as well as other ded­i­cated vol­un­teers have been work­ing hard to make the day a suc­cess, and it looks like the event is shap­ing up to be quite an excit­ing day.

Why am I so excited about SummitUp?

Last year’s con­fer­ence was amaz­ing, and this year is only going to be even bet­ter.   We have an incred­i­ble line-up of keynote speak­ers includ­ing pre­sen­ta­tions from John Moore, Pete Black­shaw, Steve Lance, and Brian Solis.   We have an exten­sive line-up of break­out ses­sions — with two of last year’s keynote pre­sen­ters, Kevin Dugan and Artie Isaac, return­ing this year to con­duct more inti­mate break­outs.   Ses­sions also include dis­cus­sions of using social media for sales, com­ment mod­er­a­tion, social media on cam­pus, mobile appli­ca­tion devel­op­ment, strate­gic imple­men­ta­tion of social media, and orga­ni­za­tional exe­cu­tion strate­gies.  Every attendee will get a copy of Brian Solis’ book Engage, Steve Lance’s book Break­through, and Pete Blackshaw’s book A Sat­is­fied Cus­tomer Tells 3 Friends, An Angry Cus­tomer Tells 3,000. All of this plus break­fast, lunch, & park­ing for the low price of $179.00.  For mem­bers fo the asso­ci­a­tions listed the price is only $139.00.

Per­haps you are say­ing to your­self, “sounds great but I don’t have time for such an event?”  It is as Stephen Covey would say.  You have to sharpen the saw every now and then.  If you are so busy saw­ing and never take time out to sharpen the saw the blade gets dull and your results steadily dimin­ish over time.  The same is true with your pro­fes­sional skills, and if you are look­ing to sharpen your skills quickly, spend­ing one day at Sum­mitUp might just be the best invest­ment of time and money you make this year.

This is one of those events that truly has the poten­tial to be a trans­for­ma­tive day in your life and the life of your busi­ness.  The speak­ers are world class, the infor­ma­tion is cut­ting edge, and the price is a frac­tion of what com­pa­ra­ble events cost.  Best yet it is a one day event right here in Day­ton.  No need for expen­sive hotels, plane tick­ets, and travel headaches to hear the world’s utmost author­i­ties on mar­ket­ing, cre­ativ­ity, social media, and tech­nol­ogy.  They are com­ing right here to Dayton!

I am proud to be a part of this event, and delighted to be able to bring such a knowl­edge­able, tal­ented group of pre­sen­ters to my home town of Day­ton, Ohio.  Sum­mitUp is going to be a spe­cial day.  A day that you don’t want to miss.

This event mat­ters.  It can mat­ter to you, to your busi­ness, to your peers, and to your com­mu­nity.  Con­versely, you mat­ter to the event.  You can play a huge role in mak­ing it a suc­cess. How?

Sim­ple:

• Visit SummitUp.org & regis­ter for the event.
• Share the event with oth­ers by lik­ing the Sum­mitUp fan­page on Face­book, fol­low­ing @summitupcon on Twit­ter, updat­ing your sta­tus on Face­book and Twit­ter to tell your friends and fol­low­ers about the event.  Even if you can’t attend, sim­ply spread­ing the word to oth­ers helps a great deal.
• Chime in on the dis­cus­sions tak­ing place about the event, and help us to make the event as good as it can be.
• Encour­age oth­ers you know to attend the event.
• Show up at Sum­mitUp, tweet, take pic­tures, shoot videos, jot down notes, and show off this event to the world.
• Take the things you learn, the con­nec­tions you make, and the ideas you develop and change the world!

In sum­mary — 1 day, 2 meals, 3 books, 4 keynotes, 10 break­outs, & infi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties: Sum­mitUp 10/19/2010 Day­ton Ohio.

I hope to see you there!