This weekend, the halls and classrooms of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh will be filled with people who are eager to learn about advances in social media, interact (in real life!) with others in the regional Web 2.0 community, and apply their new found insights to their social media business strategies and personal ventures. Continue reading
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Social Media Share – How Do You Use Social Media for Your Business/Blog/Organization/Non-profit?
Tomorrow I will be a panelist for one of the sessions at the Pittsburgh Craft Collective’s The Business of Craft workshop.I am sitting here at my computer putting together some links and ideas on how I use social media – blogs, facebook, twitter – for IheartPGH and some of the other projects I manage for work. I thought it might be interesting to have a conversation here in the comments about how other Pittsburgh groups, businesses, blogs, non-profits are using online tools. Continue reading
Workshop for Handmade/Crafty Sellers – The Business of Craft – Sat. July 24
One of the things that makes Pittsburgh great – is the affordable cost of living here. In recent years, a number of groups have started to promote and support local crafters and artists. Now there are lots of festivals, some shops and websites where you can purchase interesting, one of a kind, handmade items from local artists and crafters. Over the past few years the craft seen in Pittsburgh has flourished with a couple of different groups working to promote handmade businesses. A few years ago, I had a ton of fun spending an afternoon with some of the crafters at the beehive talking blogs and business and I honored to be included on their panel on social media this weekend. Not only is the crafting movement a good thing for the local economy but its great to see a groups of passionate people supporting their businesses and creating a fun community in Pittsburgh.
The Business of Craft is a day long workshop this Saturday, hosted by the Pittsburgh Craft Collective. This is a day of workshops and speakers focused on how to improve your crafting business. While this is being organized by crafters – I think that many of the topics will also apply to small business as well and there will lots of info on using the internet to promote your business.
I will be one of the panelists talking about social media and small business. I am looking forward to meeting these amazing other presenters Tara Gentile of Scoutiegirl.com, Carrie Nardini of I Made It! Market, Alissa Martin of Pavement, Michelle Hammons of Burgh Baby, Mundania Horvath of Steeltown Anthem. Continue reading
Connect to the Pittsburgh Organizations via Social Media
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Image by Gary Hayes via FlickrPittsburgh Parks Conservatory is a non profit organization that supports the parks in the city of Pittsburgh. They have been doing some great things in Schenley Park. Pittsburgh Parks Conservatory has set up on Facebook and Twitter to make it easier for you to follow their good work. The Mattress Factory does a great job of updating their Twitter account too.
What other Pittsburgh Organizations are you following on Facebook and Twitter?
Are you involved with an organization in Pittsburgh and want to get started with some social media outreach? I would start by setting up a fan page on Facebook.
Follow IheartPGH on Facebook and Twitter too.
Want to Learn about Web 2.0?
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Coiuncil is offering a workshop (and it is only $5)…
February 26, 2009 – Get a Plan: Online Social Media & The Arts
PodCamp Pittsburgh 3 – Free UnConference This Weekend
If you want to learn about blogging and podcasting – PodCamp is for you. PodCamp is an unconference that was started a few years ago and has been popping up around the country – there is even a PodCamp Hawaii. This is an informal free conference where everyone is welcome to come and share info about how to use these new media tools. I have attended and presented at the past PodCamps and I have met some really great people – folks like Chris Brogan – he has a great blog on all things social media at ChrisBrogan.com and Mike Woycheck who is the founder of Wear Pittsburgh (aka the website that sells awesome parking chair t-shirts).
The conference kicks off on Friday with a reception at the relatively new offices of AlphaLab (I got a sneak peak tour today – they have a great space on the Southside) and this should be a fun reception. The un-conference runs Saturday and Sunday – feel free to stop by for just part of the weekend. The full schedule of workshops is available on the website.
More Info: PodCampPgh.com
There is a great group of companies and organizations sponsoring the event this year – if you are looking to learn more about some of the amazing things happening in Pittsburgh this is a great place to start.
Some other bloggers who are looking forward to PodCamp Pittsburgh…
- ShawnFarmer.com
- BurghMom
- ShowClix – I love their blog which is titled the Schlog
- Chris Brogan
- Jason Cable
- Rachel from ThatNight
- Blake Imeson
- Uncle Crappy
- Doug from Should I Drink That
- TechBurgh
- Blubrry
- Robin Maiden