Join Us For The Inaugural Social Media Week DC

You’ve heard of Digital Capital Week (all things DC Tech), right? Well now iStrategy Labs brings you the inaugural Social Media Week DC! If you haven’t signed up you better get on board — just announced are keynotes Macon Phillips, Director of Digital Strategy, The White House, and Joaquin Alvarado, Senior Vice President for Digital Innovation, American Public Radio. With a wide variety of events to choose from we’ve muddled through and picked our top choices, check them out…

SMWWDC Kick Off Breakfast | February 13th 8:00 – 10:00 AM | Pillsbury Law Offices | Register for free, fast
Kick off Social Media Week Washington DC with two engaging panels – Social + Cultural Institutions – Using Social Media for Community Collaboration and Building Social Businesses. Breakfast served complimentary of Pillsbury and your education and networking comes for free! Register fast as seats are limited to the first 120.

Unleash the Hidden Power of Your Social Customer and Grow Your Business | February 13th 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Ketchum | Register on Eventbrite, price vaires
Social media is driving a change in customer behaviors; do you know how to harness it? This talk will help you create winning strategies that leverage social media to grow your business, and that of your clients, through current customers and brand loyalists. Join Capitol Communicator and AMADC for a special Social Media Week DC opening day luncheon with Becky Carroll, Fortune 100 social media consultant, author and NBC/TV contributor hosted at the DC headquarters of Ketchum.

*Sex, Politics & Social Media | February 13th 6:00 – 8:00 PM | Living Social | Register for free!
Life online often interferes with, well life. How do we blend our personal and professional selves in a city seemingly as intertwined as Washington, DC? Come join us on February 13th — Valentine’s Eve — to discuss everything from the polite and political to the sultry and scandalous nature of life, online and off. We promise you a panel worth ravishing! Also, join us for a warm-up Happy Hour at Lost Society this Thursday.
*Hosted by @DCeventjunkie and @Digitalsista

Politics and Technology: The Media’s Role in the Changing Landscape | February 14th 10:00 AM | 733 10th St NW | Register for free on Eventbrite
Digital platforms have changed the media landscape forever, but how has it changed the way the media covers politics?  Join a panel from Gannet, National Journal, ABC News and Politico as they discuss 2012 election coverage.

The Impact of Social Media in Healthcare | February 15th 10:00 – 11:30 AM | Ogilvy PR | RSVP to attend
Join thought leaders from Eli Lilly, Inspire, Ogilvy and Ozmosis as they explore the positive impact social media has made throughout the healthcare system. Together, you will examine how patients, providers and healthcare organizations have leveraged social tools to enhance communication, promote education, improve the delivery of care, and reduce growing costs.

#Winning with Social Media: Driving Clicks and Caring for Your Customers | February 15th 3:00 – 4:00 PM | Motley Fool HQ | RSVP to attend
HelloWallet, The Motley Fool, and Fleishman Hillard will be hosting a social media panel. Topics discussed during the panel will include creating a successful social media strategy, driving traffic, helping clients meet social media needs, and caring for your online customers (and future customers.)

Prep Yourself Before You Rep Yourself | February 15th 3:00 – 5:00 PM | American University | RSVP to attend
The American University Social Media Club is helping you get your act together… digitally. We’ll have five stations and dozens of experts, each one devoted to a different aspect of your digital brand including a “head shot station,” a resumé consulting team and more. The goal is for students to leave the event feeling more prepared than when they walked in the door. This is only open to AU students only. 

Women’s Leadership in DC Biz: A Happy Hour Soiree | February 15th 5:30 – 8:30 PM | Busboys & Poets | RSVP ASAP!
Join some of my absolute favorite women –@JillFoster @Tinu and @Nakeva — for 3 hours of wine, women and some of the better times you’ll have this week. Celebrate women’s entrepreneurial leadership in DC and come talk shop, startups, small biz and innovation — with a side of wine.

DC Tech Meetup: Social Media Edition | February 15th 7:00 – 9:00 PM | Sixth & I Synagogue | RSVP on Meetup
DC Tech community news and special Social Media Week DC Keynote by Macon Phillips, Director of Digital Strategy, White House (@macon44) and Joaquin Alvarado, Senior Vice President- Digital Innovation, American Public Media (@joaquinalvarado)

The Secret Sauce to Social Media Fundraising: DC’s Give to the Max Day Story | February 16th 7:30 – 9:00 AM | AARP | Register on Eventbrite
Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington raised $2,017,196 with 17,838 donations for over 1,000 nonprofits in the DC, suburban Maryland, and northern Virginia areas. In social media, this event generated over 8,000 tweets using the #give2max hashtag and daylong trending in the Washington region. The Give to the Max Day Facebook page had a 99.4% talking about rate (1,716 of the total 1,726) rolling into days after the event. So what’s the secret to this event’s success? Come find out!

Using Facebook for your Advocacy Campaign | February 16th 4:00 – 6:00 PM | Edelman | RSVP to attend
Learn how you can harness the power of Facebook to help take your advocacy campaigns to the next level. Edelman and Facebook representatives will talk about pages and ads but also about the new things Facebook is working on such as Timeline applications.

Tech Cocktail’s DC Winter Mix | February 16th 6:30 – 9:00 PM | Shadow Room | Grab tickets fast, price goes up!
Tech Cocktail invites all friends, technology enthusiasts, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers and social media folks from across the DC region to join us for an evening of fun as we showcase a number of emerging technology companies and take a closer look at their latest achievements.

Social Media Week DC Closing Happy Hour | February 17th 5:00 – 9:00 PM | Local 16 | RSVP to attend
The Inagural Social Media Week DC has come to a close. What will we do with ourselves now? Drink, mingle, and recap all of the awesomeness you experienced during the week!

You can check out the full schedule on their website.

*DCeventjunkie Founder, Lisa Byrne, is proud to be an Advisory Board Member for the 2012 Inaugural Social Media Week Washington DC

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