Awesome time at LinkedCincinnati LIVE last night

• Had a tremendous time meeting lots of new people at LinkedCincinnati LIVE last night! I do hope our connections will be mutually beneficial, and I look forward to keeping in touch.
  
• More information about Please check out the LinkedCincinnati LIVE Online Silent Auction. will be coming soon.
• Next New Media Cincinnati meetup will be Saturday, September 20, 2008 from 2-4 PM at Buffalo Wild Wings in Norwood, Ohio. More information to be found at http://newmediacincinnati.com/ and http://newmediacincinnati.wetpaint.com/
• Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/…ljohnsonjr
• Send DANIELJOHNSONJR to 41411 to get my contact information, if you didn't get it last night.

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LinkedCincinnatiLIVE Tonight!

Tonight I and over 200 other folks from the Greater Cincinnati area will be meeting together for LinkedCincinnatiLIVE (more details below). I am so glad, too, that my schedule freed up at the last minute for me to do so. I hope to connect with as many of you as possible.

Here is a recent picture of me, in case you're looking to connect:

LinkedCincinnati LIVE - Details

If you have not signed up for LinkedCincinnatiLIVE tonight, August 27th, you need to do so right away! Over 200 attendees have pre-registered, and we’ve got some seriously incredible items up for grabs in the silent auction.

For those in the local recruiting community, we have a FULL ADMISSION ticket to SourceCon 2008 in Atlanta in just one week for auction, a FULL ACCESS ticket to ERE’s Fall Expo in Hollywood Beach, FL at the end of October, AND a ticket to RecruitFest coming up in Toronto on Sept. 19th. The RecruitFest ticket is worth $220, the SourceCon admission ticket at $1,195 and the ERE Fall Expo ticket at over $2,000. You’ll want to make sure to come to LinkedCincinnatiLIVE and put your bid in for one of these can’t-miss events!

In addition to these event tickets, we have some really cool things that will be on the auction tables, including:

• Design/promotional/marketing consulting services
• Recruiting services
• SEO consulting services
• DBA services
• Skin consultation services
• A B&B weekend package in WV
• A guided upland hunting trip
• Books written by some of our attendees
• A private flight tour from a local pilot
• …and much more!

The silent auction is optional participation, and money raised from these auctioned items will go to help fund an aid trip to South Africa being taken by two LinkedCincinnati members, Jennifer McClure and Amybeth Hale. The $5 door cover will go to offset the facility rental and refreshments and will enter you into a raffle drawing during the course of the event. Cash bar will be available: soft drinks: $1.95, beer: $3.25-$3.75, wine: $5.00, cocktails: $5.50+.

Our auction items range in cost from around $10 all the way up to $3500 so there is something for everyone to check out. Business owners and managers, consider bidding on some of the consultative services for your company.

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet other local professionals in the Cincinnati area (and beyond – there are people from as far away as Florida attending!). Bring your business cards and get ready to mingle! Hope to see you there!

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New Media Cincinnati - June Meetup!

New Media Cincinnati meetup:

When: Saturday, June 7, 2008 4:00-6:00 PM EDT
Where: Panera Bread Company, 405 East Kemper Road, Springdale, OH 45246 (map)

This is an informal meetup for people in the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Dayton areas involved with or who have an interest in new media (podcasting, video podcasting, blogging, Facebook, Twitter, social networking, etc.).

Everyone is welcome to come.

For more information on the store, please visit their local website: http://www.panera-centralohio.com/

The restaurant management has reserved the meeting room for us and politely requests that the group collectively spend at least $25 while we're there. I don't think this will be a problem.

The store has free wi-fi, so feel free to bring your recording equipment (audio and video) and laptops.

** I'd like for us to spend some time share some ideas on where we would like to go with the group. The usual free-for-all conversations will naturally follow.

** If you're unable to make it to this meeting but have some opinions, or if you have any specific announcements you'd like to make, please contact me.

If you have any questions about this event or the group in general, please contact:
Daniel Johnson, Jr.
(513) 373-4442
danieljohnsonjr [at] newmediacincinnati [dot] com
http://twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr

Facebook Group: http://www.newmediacincinnati.com
Google Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/2caxxp
Twitter: http://twitter.com/newmediacincy
Jaiku: http://jaiku.com/channel/newmediacincy
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/newmediacincy/

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17902141371

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Wikis and New Media Cincinnati?

I've been thinking about wikis lately, and these two videos have strengthened my interest in them:

Wikis in Plain English



WetPaint in Plain English



I've been thinking about the New Media Cincinnati community a lot lately, especially with respect to some things related to planning meetups. I've been getting a lot of suggestions via email (danieljohnsonjr at newmediacincinnati dot com), Twitter (@newmediacincy and @danieljohnsonjr), IM, Facebook discussion threads, etc. I keep wondering if using a wiki would be an easier and more efficient way.

So I asked the folks who follow me on Twitter, "Are you using wikis in your work/personal life? If so, how so?"

Here are some replies:

• claynewton @danieljohnsonjr I use wikis for work to manage deliverables and specs; in my personal life I use them to build knowledge w likeminded folks
• JeremyLuebke @danieljohnsonjr Recording of tech / design work fro websites
• davesnyder @danieljohnsonjr i use a wiki to store all of my optimization and social media strategies for my site. It is viewable by the company
• clq @danieljohnsonjr I have a personal wiki hosted on godaddy with notes, important usernames I hardly ever use, and anything else I think of.
• winemedineme @danieljohnsonjr my production department uses a wiki for templates.
• SuzyMiller @danieljohnsonjr Planning to use a wiki to develop sustainability policy for my small business.....
• writegirl @danieljohnsonjr I use wikis for both volunteer groups I'm involved in. It's better than exchanging 1000 emails back and forth.
• annezieger @danieljohnsonjr my company uses a wiki to share information not only among coroprates, but subsidiaries too

via direct message to me:
mjenkins We use a Wiki for the online staff at the Enquirer for storing and updating our production processes and best practices. It's helpful.

I asked if I could use her message in this post, and she replied:
mjenkins Sure, go right ahead. We are looking to expand the use of our Wiki across all departments (ads, HR, etc.) soon.

I also noticed some buzz on Twitter via Tweetscan related to wikis and shared that:
danieljohnsonjr Tweetscan twitter buzz about wikis: http://tinyurl.com/5koupw

After all these responses, I asked: "Related wiki question (thx for your help so far): which sites are you using to create/manage your wikis?" Here are a couple of the responses:

• clq @danieljohnsonjr Creating a wikimedia one on any server that supports databases is really easy. I use my own space on Godaddy, Works fine.
• sharemefg @danieljohnsonjr I have used tiddlyspot to manage my tiddlywiki hosting however since tiddlywiki has no server stuff could use googlepages

Do you think we should create a wiki for New Media Cincinnati?

newmediacincy How might @newmediacincy use wikis?

	danieljohnsonjr @newmediacincy Suggestions for meetup times/locations? about 1 hour ago from twhirl in reply to newmediacincy
	SteveGerl @newmediacincy: Contests where people have to post something, perhaps? about 1 hour ago from web in reply to newmediacincy

Should we put together a wiki for New Media Cincinnati? Feel free to continue the conversation in the comments below.

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05 Nov 2007 - Utterz from the road

Three topics discussed:

1. Effects of Daylight Savings Time ending one week later this year, especially on the commute home.
2. New Media Cincinnati: http://www.newmediacincinnati.com or http://danieljohnsonjr.com/2007/11/new-media-cincinnati-meetup-november.html
3. Dashboard-types of reporting I've been doing to provide a good pulse on the company. I love doing this kind of marketing-type of analysis.

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New Media Cincinnati Meetup, October 2007

How was your Saturday? I and about 11 others met up today, the first New Media Cincinnati meetup, at the Golden Corral just off exit 32 at I-75.

Some big thanks go out to people for helping inspire and organize and otherwise contribute to making the event possible:

• Mark Blevis and Bob Goyetche from the Canadian Podcast Buffet, for recommending getting a website as a landing place for meetup information.
• Andy Osier for buying newmediacincinnati.com and for setting up the New Media Cincinnati Facebook group
• Everyone in the region who has expressed interest in meeting up, whether you could make it to this one or not

It was so great meeting other people, most of whom I'd only known online, and some that I'd met for the first time. I was so engaged in the conversations that I barely ate anything!

Here are the people I met, with links to their websites/podcasts/online presence:

• The Smith Family, The Smiths' Occasional Podcast
• Jim Caliguri, 10 Minute Lessons
• John Buehler, 10 Minute Lessons
• Daniel Lewis, D.Joseph Design and The Ramen Noodle
• Cliff Ravenscraft, Generally Speaking Podcast Network (GSPN)
• Andy Osier, Halftone Media
• Diane Houdek, Catholic Colbert
• Ann from Ohio, Twittering on the Edge

I am definitely inspired by the depth of talent and diversity in the group, and I look forward to meeting up next month. More details on that to come soon. Be sure to check out newmediacincinnati.com!

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