The Sessions

8:30 - 9:00 Reg.

9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks

9:15am

Show Instead of Tell: Using Online Video to Connect with Customers Brad Rivers 2nd Floor Maxine Tynes Room

It’s About Time: 5000 Years of Technology Meeting Culture Andrew Burke 2nd Floor Starr Room

Exploring Google+ Hangouts for Business April Ennis 2nd Floor Lounge Area 1

How To Build An Enormously Popular and Successful Blog Andrew Konoff 2nd Floor Lounge Area 2

Grandmas talk trash: How litter sparked a global movement Neil Bailey 1st Floor lounge Area 2

The Local Social Experiment Gillian Wesley and Drew Moore Theatre

Content Modelling with ExpressionEngine CMS Jean St-Amand 3rd Floor Boardroom

Social Recruiting – Find Your Next Job or New Hire Socially Andy Osburn 1st Floor Lounge Area 1

Website Liberation Frank Orlando 2nd Floor Helen Creighton Room

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15am

Enablers.ca, The Disability Site Roswell James 1st Floor lounge Area 2

Unlikely Likes: What are big brands doing with social media? Ian Conrad 2nd Floor Lounge Area 1

Take This Lollipop Jason Nickel Theatre

Creative Freedom in Web Content Management with MODX Jay Gilmore 3rd Floor Boardroom

Branding in the Digital Age Sean Williams 2nd Floor Maxine Tynes Room

Cost Effective Apps All Small Businesses Should Use Jesse Mawhinney 2nd Floor Lounge Area 2

The Recipe for Social Media Success Ross Simmonds 2nd Floor Helen Creighton Room

The User Experience of Everything Jeff MacArthur 1st Floor Lounge Area 1

11:00am

Bitrate WTF? Video Livestreaming and Engagement Craig Moore 1st Floor Lounge Area 1

Wading into the social media pool Halifax Regional Municipality 2nd Floor Helen Creighton Room

How to get good ideas Mike Hayes 3rd Floor Boardroom

Adventures in Pinterest: a Halifax story Andrea Young & Brigid McWhirter 2nd Floor Starr Room

DC2GO: The Most Advanced Piece of Technology You’ll Ever Step Inside Andrew Coe 1st Floor lounge Area 2

Hacktivism, DDoS and #Anonymous Jon Blanchard Theatre

WordPress Q&A Brad Touesnard 2nd Floor Maxine Tynes Room

Picking your clients jeff white 2nd Floor Lounge Area 2

11:45 - 1:15 Lunch

1:15

5th Annual State of Social Media in Atlantic Canada Giles Crouch Theatre

#changetheratio Kirsten Tomilson 2nd Floor Helen Creighton Room

Quantifying Yourself Chris Campbell 2nd Floor Starr Room

The Piwik Revolution Stephen Smith 2nd Floor Maxine Tynes Room

2:00

Webcomics & Technology: Beyond the Box Chris Hemsworth & Joel Duggan Theatre

The Social Author Kimberly Walsh & Chris Benjamin 2nd Floor Starr Room

Avoid the ‘jaw-drop’: How to address the top Q’s in Social Media Lindsay Cross 2nd Floor Maxine Tynes Room

Social Media and Public Policy: Attention, Bias and Identity Ryan Deschamps 2nd Floor Helen Creighton Room

2:45

HRM Open Data Initiative Qingshuang Jiang 2nd Floor Helen Creighton Room

Business Grants – A look into the funding landscape of NS Matthew Pickup 2nd Floor Starr Room

Buzzwords Must Die Thomas Rankin 2nd Floor Maxine Tynes Room

What’s the big idea? The first question for digital strategy. Brenden Sommerhalder & L-A Steeleworthy Theatre

3:30 Wrap-up and iPad Draw

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