SMBME 30 – Social Media and Events
Few things are paired together as well as social media and events. Whether you host regular events, online events, annual events, or just consider someone walking through your door an event – social media can help you.
This month we are going to talk specifically about how to use social media to help you in all aspects of your event. We gathered up a few people who know a thing or two about events or various shapes and sizes.
How to Create Killer Events (or at Least Get Someone to Show Up) – Stefa Normantas
Event management expert, Stefa Normantas of Green Tree Event Consultants, will share best practices for creating a killer event using social media tools. She’ll cover the elements of a killer event, teach you how to build a plan, manage the pieces and avoid event disaster.
How to Plan a Social Media Breakfast Maine – Amanda O’Brien
We will take a peek behind the curtain or under the kimono (whichever you prefer) and take a look at how this little group in a conference room got to be what it is today. We will talk about how’s and why’s and share our inner most secrets on holding a regular event.
How Soliciting Audience Participation is Imperative for Directing Enthusiastic Attention to an Event – Tanja Hollander
In a media landscape that been overwhelmed by constant digital chatter and distraction, Hollander has taken her project, which illustrates the role of social media in contemporary interpersonal relationships, directly to its audience and participants. In doing so, she has built into the final product room for artist-to-audience participation with her audience. The result has been the creation of an engaged and enthusiastic support base that transcends the power that derives from the superficiality of Facebook likes while simultaneously cultivating these connections for when such support is helpful and important.
Who: Tanja Hollander, Stefa Normantas and Amanda O’Brien
What: SMBME 30 – Social Media and Events
When: January 27th, 7:30 – 10am
Where: Portland’s Masonic Temple
How: We would never be able to pull any events like this off without the help of our sponsors – Hall Internet Marketing, Mainely SEO, August Wealth Management, The Cohen Tracy Team, GWI and the Internet Educator.
Speakers
Stefa Normantas
Stefa Normantas is a seasoned event manager and co-owner of the New England Products Trade Show and Green Tree Event Consultants/Giraffe Events, Maine-based event services companies. Whether directing a trade show or managing a conference for hundreds, Stefa enjoys creating killer events. She is the founding president of the Maine Marketing Association and former president of the Ad Club of Maine. She’s a novice beekeeper, creative gardener, loves good beer, good dinners and likes to find any excuse to bring the outdoors in. She married a Texan, Frank, and has four children, Harry, Lucy, Liam, and Mikas. You can find her @stefanormantas or visit the New England Products Trade Show @neproducts.
Amanda O’Brien
Amanda O’Brien is some lady who decided on a whim to start a monthly local social media educational event, Social Media Breakfast Maine. She also works as the VP of Marketing at Hall Internet Marketing. She is on the board for SARSSM and event planning committee of the Chocolate Lovers’ Fling. She can be found writing about lots of things on Hall’s blog, Social Media Breakfast Maine’s Blog, Social Media B2B’s blog, PROXI’s blog, Guiding Stars blog and her own little personal blog. You can find her on Twitter at @amanda_pants.
Tanja Hollander
Tanja Hollander was born in St. Louis, MO in 1972 and returned to the state after receiving a B.A. in photography, film, and feminist studies in 1994 from Hampshire College. Her work has been exhibited nationally at galleries in New York City and Boston and has twice been selected for the Portland Museum of Art Biennial, winning a purchase prize in 2007. She has also exhibited at the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine; and Jim Kempner Fine Art in NYC. In 1994 Hollander opened and directed Dead Space Gallery, Portland’s first art venue for local art, music, spoken word, and performance. Hollander founded and became the volunteer director of the Bakery Photographic Collective in 2001, a nonprofit member-based darkroom facility in Westbrook, Maine. In 2009, she was nominated and chosen for a month long residency at the La Napoule art foundation in La Napoule, France. Hollander is represented by Carroll and Sons in Boston, Massachusetts and Jim Kempner in New York City. She is a resident of Auburn, Maine.
You can read more about the exhibit on the blog.
Parking
The Portland Masonic Temple is at 415 Congress Street and there are plenty of parking options in the area.
- Elm Street Garage, 15 Elm Street (Metro station)
- Temple Street Parking Garage, 11 Temple Street (Nickelodeon)
- One City Center Parking Garage
- Top of the Old Port Parking, 119 Pearl Street
One Hour Parking enforced behind the Portland Masonic Temple on Cumberland and side streets.
