Events

Believe it or not, we do get out of our office every now and then; and when we do, it’s usually a good time. We’d love to have you join us, so check out our upcoming events, and send us a tweet if you’re going!

ISESSTL Learning Lunch
August 31, 2010 — The Highlands Golf and Tennis Club

Erin presented to the St. Louis chapter of ISES on “Beyond the Cocktail Party: Making Social Media Work for You”. ISES is an international group of event planners, and this local St. Louis chapter had great questions about using social media and content strategy effectively. Not to mention there was delicious Oreo cake that they let us take to-go. Check out video clips of Erin’s presentation, her slides and more.

RISE Lunch
August 25, 2010 — Araka Restaurant

Another great Lunch and Learn from the RISE to the Top at Araka Restaurant. This month, there were three presentations: “Search Engine Insights” by Mark Sawlyer, “Eliminate Stress By Outsourcing And Increasing Productivity” by Ryan Mortland and “Why and How to Generate Buzz for Your Biz From Bloggers and New Media Sources” by David Siteman Garland. Check out a few of our pics here.

SMCSTL August Event: #140conf
August 23, 2010 — Robust Wine Bar

@steinburglar and @lisackeller attended the August St. Louis Social Media Club event at Robust Wine Bar. Jeff Pulver, from the 140 Characters Conference, spoke about the impact of Twitter both on brands and organizations, like the U.S. Airforce using Twitter during the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. The #140conf travels the world having events like this one to share knowledge, perspectives and insights about Twitter’s effect and the now real-time internet. You can check out photos of the event and Lisa’s free beer she got with her foursquare check-in here.

St. Louis Geek Night
July 28, 2010 — The Shell Building

Erin and Lisa attended St. Louis Geek Night to collaborate and brainstorm with other STL Geeks. The event is open to anyone with an interesting tech idea that want some feedback on from other developers, designers, marketers, entrepreneurs and investors. Once you present your idea to the group, attendees split up amongst each idea to discuss possibilities and give feedback. Erin and Lisa naturally gravitated towards the idea, “Flamenco Book”, a working title for an online community of St. Louis dancers and dancing opportunities.

This was the second Geek Night for St. Louis, and was put on in the Shell Building by a number of sponsors, including Scorch, Contegix, ITEN: Information Technology Entrepreneur Network, Appistry and Lambda Lounge.

Check it out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theloudfew/4841189270/

Geek meet-ups are pretty cool. We hope we see you at the next one!

Allsup Summer Entrepreneurship Academy Awards
July 30th 2010 – St. Louis University

St. Louis Universities Center for Entrepreneurship conducts a series of events and programs that educate and expand the knowledge of entrepreneurial concepts and principles. The Allsup Summer Entrepreneurship Academy is one such program designed especially for high school students. The Loud Few’s own Robin Rath will be participating as a guest judge at the event.

Update:This event was a blast, despite the St. Louis-style weather. Check out some of our pics.

6th Annual Race Around the Lou
May 15th 2010 – Tower Grove Park
10:30 am – Whenever You Cross the Finish Line

Teams of two compete in a scavenger hunt around St. Louis – It’s like The Amazing Race St. Louis Style. Each team is given a map, clues, and all-day Metro pass because you can only use Metro and your own two feet to move around the city as you race to the finish line.

Update:This event was a blast, despite the St. Louis-style weather. Check out some of our pics.

RISE Lunch – Sales 2.0: Online, Offline, Everywhere.
May 5th 2010 – Araka Restaurant
11:30 am-1:30 pm

We signed up for another non-boring, fluff-free, forward-thinking lunch from The Rise To the Top. Since this one promises to be a crash course of the entire sales cycle from generating leads to closing the deal.

Update: Read about Adam’s experience in our blog.

Wash U iPhone App Class Presentation – Robin Rath
April 21st 2010 – Washington University

Robin has been invited to present at Wash U’s iPhone Development class, which has been generating some news lately. Robin is going to help the students get focused on iPhone app project management by drawing on his experience with Radial 50.

Update: Check out the video of Robin’s presentation on our vlog.

Social Fresh Conference
April 19th 2010 – Millineum Hotel
8:30 am-5:30 pm

Social Fresh is a social conference for marketers, and the St. Louis event promises to be exciting, with a diverse group of speakers presenting topics ranging from designing online communities to zombie fighting. They had Erin at zombie.

Update: Erin confirmed that indeed, her favorite presentation was by Amber Naslund of Radian6, topic: Zombie Fighting.

Social Media Club STL – 1 Year Anniversary
April 15th 2010 – Mosaic Restaurant
5:30pm – ?

We wouldn’t miss celebrating the 1 year anniversary of one of our favorite local organizations, Social Media Club STL. We’ll be there, our friends will be there, and you should be there too.

Optimize Your Small Business Website – Erin Steinbruegge
April 7th and April 14th – St. Louis Community College, Meramec
6:00 pm-9:00 pm

Erin was invited to teach an SEO pilot course St. Louis Community college. The class will focus on teaching small business owners the fundamentals of search engine optimization. Attendees will learn how to evaluate their existing website, how to optimize their site for performance in the major search engines, and how to evaluate the success of an SEO program.

Rise Lunch: Big New Media Marketing Ideas
March 31th 2010 – Araka Restaurant
11:30 am-1:30 pm

Erin is looking forward to checking out the 2nd ever Rise Lunch presented by David Siteman Garland. Big New Media Marketing Ideas + delicious food + enjoyable conversation has to equal a win.

Buzzhound Open House
March 25th – Moosylvania
5:30 pm-8:00 pm

Buzzhound Learning Lab is offering a free introductory open house to anyone who is interested in meeting the Buzzhound instructors and learning more about the Buzzhound SEO training process. Enjoy complimentary food and beverages while Erin presents an overview of the course, complete with a few demo exercises.

Update: You can read a review of the open house over at Ad Saint.