Free Blog Webinar for IABC-KY Members 

Lunch and learn with IABC-Kentucky. As a benefit of your IABC membership, the chapter is offering a FREE web seminar, The Corporate Blog: Ten Community-Building Tips, on Wednesday, Sept. 17 from 12-1:30 p.m. Learn best practices in launching a corporate blog. The normal cost if you were to register for this webinar is $219, but the chapter is paying for the registration. If you are not a member of IABC-Kentucky, please join us for the nominal cost of $20. RSVP to Jim Mayer, jmayer@ups.com, so we can get some idea of the number of attendees. 

The event will take place at the UPS Airlines Welcome Center, 802 Grade Lane, just off I-65 at Fern Valley Rd. Feel free to bring your lunch, or you can order lunch from Dooley’s Bagels for $7, including a drink. To order lunch, go to the Dooley’s website http://www.dooleys.net/Eats/formlunchdel.html, and select a 1) sandwich 2) bread 3) chips 4) cookie and 5) drink from the choices in the drop-down menu. Send your selections along with your RSVP to Jim by 3 p.m. Sept. 16, and we’ll order the lunches for delivery to UPS. Please note: if you order a lunch and do not attend, you’ll still be expected to pay for it.

About the webinar: 

You’ve decided to launch a corporate blog, but now what? It takes some work to transform your blog from just another publishing platform into a destination for your online community. Sometimes it’s just a matter of better understanding your audience and other times, it means entirely changing the way you communicate. Either way, let’s stop talking and start doing.

 

In plain English, award-winning social media strategist Aaron Uhrmacher will provide you with ten tips you can use to immediately raise readership, increase interaction and create a robust community around your blog.

 

Forget the hype and hyperbole. Many factors, from blog design to content to publishing, can affect the success of your corporate social media efforts. This web seminar will examine ten of the most critical factors and help ensure your blogging efforts pay off.
 
Program objectives:

  • Learn what types of interactions customers want from companies
  • Examine best (and worst!) practices from other corporate bloggers
  • Understand what features make a corporate blog more participatory
  • Receive a host of actionable tactics to help you become a meaningful community participant
  • Acquire a list of useful community-building resources

Directions to UPS: 

  • I-65 south to
    Fern Valley Road

  • Turn right at the top of the exit ramp
  • Turn right at the first stop light,
    Fern Grade Lane

  • Turn left at stop light,
    Grade Lane

  • Turn right into parking lot entrance with large UPS sign. The Welcome

    Center is the brick building on your right.

Find out how Mercer used technology to repurpose existing intellectual property to make dynamic, purpose-driven communications available to their global sales team in 12 languages on-demand. Learn how Mercer was able to:- Get everyone on the same page globally;

  • Give consultants freedom and control; and
  • Decrease costs and achieve measureable the results.

Before Mercer’s creative solutions were implemented, marketing materials were obsolete and outdated before they could even be used.

Brittany Daoust will discuss how she worked with Kinetic to find creative ways to help her company’s consultants stand out from their competition. She is part of Mercer’s global human capital marketing group, responsible for coordinating global activities of marketing human capital. Brittany has 10 years of sales and marketing experience with Mercer.

These days, marketing materials printed just in the English language, just don’t cut it. Don’t miss our September program to find out how Brittany and her team worked to come up with a solution to get global marketing plans and materisl to market before it was too late! Her company did not have an ability to customize marketing materials or create specialized content quickly.

When: Thurs., September 11 , 2008

Where: Masterson’s, 1830 S. 3rd Street Rd. Register: 11:30 am, Program: Noon-1 pm

Cost: Members, $18, Non-members, $30, IABC

Student: $12, Non-IABC Student: $15

REGISTER AND PAY ONLINE