Thursday, March 22, 2012 / St. Francis College / 180 Remsen Street / Downtown Brooklyn
Speaker
Brian Meece
RocketHub
Brian Meece plays a mean ukulele and is CEO of RocketHub, one of the world's top crowdfunding platforms, which has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and The Economist. Brian has lectured on crowdsourced funding at SXSW, NYU, Columbia University, NXNE, among other universities, conferences and institutions.
Speaker
Laura Vanlandingham
Laura Boyd Studios
Laura does portrait, wedding and boudoir photography in NYC. Before starting her own photography business, she studied at The International Center for Photography and Parsons. Laura leveraged the concept of crowdfunding to help launch her own company, and successfully raised almost $6,000 on RocketHub.
Speaker
Jennifer Shaheen
The Technology Therapist®
Jennifer Shaheen, The Technology Therapist®, is an expert at helping business owners harness today’s technology to effectively grow their businesses in the digital marketplace. As a monthly columnist for Entreprenuer.com, and with over 14 years of top-level experience, she has empowered businesses of all shapes and sizes to integrate effective digital strategies that boost sales, enhance staff productivity, expand customer base and increase market share. Her most recent accomplishment is the launch of her new line of books called Technology Therapy TO GO. Jennifer is a dynamic and seasoned speaker, presenting monthly for Social Media Magic University on the ongoing ways to leverage Facebook for business. She also partners with large organizations like SCORE, the National Organization for Women and Small Business Technology to give audiences across the country relevant, usable and simple business solutions that work.
For more information, please visit http://technologytherapy.com
Speaker
Wendi Caplan-Carroll
Senior Regional Development Director/Business Development, Constant Contact
Wendi is a marketing expert with over 25 years experience developing and implementing marketing strategies for businesses and organizations spanning a variety of industries. In her role at Constant Contact, Wendi uses her expertise to provide coaching for small businesses and organizations on best practices of email and social media marketing. Additionally, she creates powerful business alliances and initiatives throughout New York and New Jersey to help empower Constant Contact customers and its partners.
Wendi is a popular speaker and educator. She delivers real-world tools and strategies that drive stellar results immediately! And although the topics and strategies may be cutting edge, it doesn’t take an interactive guru to “get it.” Wendi simplifies the information and provides essential basics, secrets, and shortcuts that make it easy for seminar attendees to get on their way fast.
Wendi gives her groups the “Know How” to boost business, awareness, and customer loyalty.
Speaker
Carley Ribet
Carley Ribet works on the Agency team at Google in New York, NY as the Agency Coordinator. Prior to joining Google in August 2011, she worked at Cohn & Wolfe, a PR agency, as an Assistant Account Executive in the healthcare practice, and also worked as an Events Associate at Guidepoint Global, an independent research and consulting company. Carley graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL with a degree in journalism. She is originally from the southern suburbs of Chicago and currently resides in Manhattan.
