By now you’ve probably already signed up for e-mail updates from the UGA Grady College Social Media conference I’ve been talking about, but if you haven’t then you don’t know that the first draft of the conference schedule was released!
FRIDAY, Oct. 19
Dinner and speaker: Kevin Dugan, founder of the Bronze Anvil award-winning Bad Pitch Blog
Restaurant: East-West Bistro, Athens
SATURDAY, Oct. 20
8:30 a.m.-10:00: Advice from the PRos: What professionals and educators should know
Josh Hallett, Hyku; Winterhaven, Florida
Constantin Basturea, Converseon; New York City
Katie Delahaye Payne, KD Paine & Partners; Berlin, New Hampshire
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30: What does research tell us? What research do we need?
Dr. Kaye Sweetser, University of Georgia
Dr. Walter Carl, Northeastern University
(Third speaker TBA)
11:30-noon: Case presentation: Forward blog
Paull Young, Converseon; New York City
12:15 to 1:30: Lunch
Speaker: Jay Bernhardt, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta
Catered by the Foundry Park Inn; on the Grady College lawn (weather permitting)
1:45-3:00 Influence on public relations, business, mainstream media , society
TBA
3:00-4:30 How-to break-out sessions (at Grady)
TBA
5:00-6:30 p.m. Educators roundtable: Integrating social media in the PR curriculum
TBA
7:00 p.m. Dinner
TBA
Hope to see you at the conference!
Looking forward to it. Looks like I’ll finally be able to meet Kevin in person
Karen has really put together an awesome group – it is going to be AWESOME!