20101024 November 2010 NWITweetup – Douglas Karr & Chantelle Flannery

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Finn's hero: Douglas Karr

Back in February, 2010, #NWITweetup teamed up with Blog Indiana to present, “Blog Indiana Valparaiso.” Held inside a packed, Golden Technologies’ affectionately-titled, “Boiler Room,” the attendees braved the 20 inches of snow bombarding The Region to be treated to a lively evening thought leadership, food, drink and ping pong.

The speaker for the evening was none other than my hero, Douglas Karr. At the end of his presentation, admist a barage of thought-provoking questions, Douglas asked if the audience wanted him to return to finish his presentation. The crowd voted overwhelmingly to have him back.

Doug agreed. Golden Technologies obliged. We couldn’t be happier!

On November 11th, at 6:30pm, back in the Boiler Room, #NWITweetup – along with Golden Technologies, Cartronix as well as other sponsors to be named – Douglas Karr returns to the Boiler Room to finish his presentation regarding the necessity of Corporate Blogging in today’s world.

And, yes, I did a backflip when I got this all finalized.

Not everyone one of you knows who Douglas Karr is, yet. So, we’ll bring you up to speed.

Here’s how we described him back in February 2010:

1. President and CEO of DK New Media – a national New Media Agency based out of Indianapolis, IN
2. Founder of The Marketing Tech Blog – a perennial top 100 AdAge blog
3. A sought-after public speaker
4. A gifted SEO specialist, blogger, social media maven, and email marketer
5. On the Committee to bring the Super Bowl to Indianapolis
6. Co-founder of NavyVets .com
7. Nat Finn’s bromance (though I claims it’s the other way around)

There’s one very important, very exciting resume-padder we’d be remiss if we didn’t add:

co-author of Corporate Blogging for Dummies, the gold standard in business blogging.

Here’s Doug talking a little bit about Corporate Blogging:

Corporate Blog from Douglas Karr on Vimeo.

The Northwest Indiana connection to Corporate Blogging for Dummies

Doug co-wrote Corporate Blogging for Dummies with Chantelle Flannery, Vice President of Firebelly Marketing in Indianapolis and more importantly, a 2001 Valparaiso High School graduate!

Here’s Chantelle talking about Corporate Blogging for Dummies:

Corporate Blogging from Douglas Karr on Vimeo.

At the end of Doug’s presentation, Doug and Chantelle will on hand to talk a little more about the book, answer questions about the book or about corporate blogging in general as well as mingle and perhaps share a few Gumball Heads (if we can find any. There’s a supply crisis because they’re that popular! Grrrr.)

They’ll have a few copies of the book on hand if you’d like to purchase one or two. And have them sign it for you. I’d have them sign my copy, but they already did that for me at Blog Indiana.

November 2010 #NWITweetup Quickfacts

Date: 2010/11/11
Time:
Pretweetup: 6:30pm (CHICAGO time, Doug! Though if you show up 3 hours early, again, I have an excuse to leave the office for a bit!)
Doug’s presentation: 7pm
Aftertweetup: 7:30pm
Afteraftertweetup: #1 about #afteraftertweetup: we don’t talk about #afteraftertweetup!
Food: caterer TBD
Drinks: The Boiler Room has a keg. Soft drinks will also be there. And maybe a few craft brews if requested beforehand
Prizes: sponsored by Cartronix
Venue Address: 2402 Beech St. Valparaiso, IN 46383
Map to Golden Technologies:

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