RAMA Events for October - December, 2009

On October 8 RAMA is partnering with the Rochester PRSA who is hosting their Northeast District Conference here in Rochester this year taking place at the RIT Inn & Conference Center titled Changing Dynamics.RAMA members can enjoy PRSA member rates to attend the entire day-long conference or to just attend the luncheon where they can hear Social Media Guru, Peter Shankman give the keynote address titled “It’s not Web 2.0. It’s not Web 3.0. It’s simply life.”

Peter is the founder and CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc a boutique Marketing and PR Strategy firm located in New York City, with clients worldwide. He is perhaps best known for founding Help A Reporter Out, (HARO) which in under a year has become the de-facto standard for thousands of journalists looking for sources on deadline. Here's a great article on Peter from the New York Observer that should give you a pretty good preview of what to expect to hear from him on October 8.

You can register just for the luncheon here. The fee for RAMA and PRSA members is $35 each and non-members is $45. We want to thank Roberts Wesleyan College of Business for being our luncheon sponsor for this event.

There will also be a Haro Networking Event later that day at Murphy’s Law Irish Pub located on the corner of East Ave. & Alexander St. starting around 5pm where PRSA, RAMA, eBA members are all invited to attend and meet Peter Shankman. Those that attend the conference or the luncheon can attend this event for free, all others are asked to pay a $10 fee. You can register here if you'd only like to attend this networking event.

For more information on the entire conference and to register you can visit www.prsarochester.org/conference.

On October 29th we'll be back at Mario’s again for lunch with Dave Seigel, President of Launchforce, speaking on consumer insight and product innovation right from a book he co-wrote and was published earlier this year called Myths and Mythstakes.

You can find out more information and register for this event here

November 17, we’re hosting a breakfast with David Berkowitz, Director of Emerging Media and Client Strategy at 360i, a digital marketing agency. David will be continuing our series on Social Media Marketing and sharing insights on ways to measure social media and the “Key Conversation Indicators” that his agency uses with their clients. David is also a columnist for MediaPost’s Social Media Insider.

Registration for this event is now open here as well.

To round out 2009 we will have our holiday networking event at Strong National Museum of Play on the evening of December 3rd where we'll have some fun with our Marketing Transformers!

So keep checking back here for updates and for registration information. Looking forward to seeing you all at these upcoming events!