unGeeked Elite: A Social Media Event

Milwaukee will soon be hosting the first nationwide unGeeked Elite event. The conference is being organized by Cd Vann, owner of SohoBiztube.com, who defines unGeeking as "the widespread adoption of trends, strategies, and tools that allow us to enhance and embrace internal and external marketing campaigns, enhance customer service, strategize effective sales efforts, and develop better PR campaigns." The focus of the event will be "to form a community of social media, marketing and branding professionals and pundits." And they couldn't have found better folks to bring in for it. Chris Brogan, author of Trust Agents and Social Media 101, and Sally Hogshead, author of Fascinate, will both be delivering keynotes—as will Scott Stratten, author of the soon-to-be-released Unmarketing. We can recommend both Chris and Sally personally, as they are both old friends of the company. We first met Chris when he and Julien Smith wrote Trust Economics, the ChangeThis manifesto that begat their book. And we met Sally when she attended our first Author Pow-Wow around the time she released her fantastic debut effort, Radical Careering. (She later sent us a box of brass knuckles, which I would explain further, but it's a better story without the explanation). And speaking just before Ms. Hogshead is another friend and Pow-Wow attendee, Phil Gerbashak, a man as consistently bright as Florida and the author of 10 Ways To Make It Great. Other speakers include:

• Olivier Blanchard: The Brand Builder and Red Chair Group
• Jason Falls: Social Media Explorer - Marketing and PR
• Dan Schawbel: Personal Branding Guru, Best Selling Author, Columnist for Business Week
• Visible Technologies : Social Media Monitoring and Customer Relationship Management
• Hubspot: Inbound and Outbound Marketing Strategist and Experts

You can find more information and RSVP at sohobiztube.com.