Alliance Conference Live

Can’t make it to the Alliance conference in San Antonio this year? Here’s the next best thing to being there. Between 4/29 and 4/30 you can follow the conference sessions and view streaming updates by going to http://search.twitter.com and entering #careers09. Or, if you have a Twitter account, simply start following CMA09.

Our Twitter team, led by Barbara Safani and Deb Dib, will be tweeting highlights, insights, and other “ah ha” moments live from the event. You don’t have to have a Twitter account to read the updates. Just visit http://search.twitter.com, enter #careers09 and click Search. The results will give you everything that’s being said from the conference

With all the recent attention Twitter has been getting, it’s hard to miss, but if you aren’t familiar with it you might want to read Deb Dib’s article from last summer, “What Is Twitter? Why Should You Care?” http://tinyurl.com/DibTwitter.

For more information, email Barbara Safani at info@careersolvers.com.

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Free Preview March 20^th 3:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern
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I’m amazed and delighted to announce that ALL BUT THREE SESSIONS will be represented at the Free Conference Preview, Friday, March 20^th from 3:00 to 4:30 pm Eastern Time.

18 of 22 speakers will be joining the call to give you a taste of the 2009 Annual Conference. Each presenter will give you one important reason to attend his or her session, then we’ll save time for questions at the end. So grab your conference brochure or check out http://conference.careermanagementalliance.com to follow along.

Here’s who has agreed to attend:

Day One

-Peter Weddle - Work Strong: Career Fitness

-Kathryn Troutman - Federal Jobs in the New Administration

-Lauryn Franzoni & Robyn Greenspan - Who Moved My Job? Where Professional Growth Opportunities Will Develop

-Jay Forrest, Futurist - Looking Forward, A Futurist’s View

-Bill True & Dean Hyers - Putting Job Hunters in the Limelight

Day Two

-Ted Daywalt - Challenges Facing Transitioning Military, Guard and Reserve in the Job Market

-Carol McClelland - Plug Into The Green Economy

-Chandlee Bryan - Face it! Using Social Networking Sites with Intention

-Evelyn Salvador - Techniques to Garner Critical Client Information

-Myriam Rose Kohn - International Assignments: Landing and Thriving in the Global Marketplace

-Ellen Sautter & Diane Crompton - Build a Better Brand With Online Networking

-Richard Knowdell - A User-Friendly Guide to Assessing Transferable Skills

-Steve Gallison - Business Enhancement With Outplacement Services

-Barbara Safani - Add Value to Client Packages - The Web 2.0 Way

-Kathy Sweeney - Affiliate Programs - How to Get Paid While You Sleep

To register for this free webinar click here: https://www.careermanagementalliance.com/s/reg-teleseminar.php

To register for the conference itself visit: https://secure2.kennedyinfo.com/cmaConfReg

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I’m getting so many speakers available for the preview that I’m expanding it to 90 minutes.

Speakers confirmed so far:
Kathryn Troutman
Ellen Sautter & Diane Crompton
Kathy Sweeney
Carol McClelland
Barbara Safani
Lauryn Franzoni & Robyn Greenspan
Chandlee Bryan

Keynote speaker Ted Daywalt is traveling that day but will try to call in.

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I’m happy to announce that we’ll have another free Conference Preview webinar to give you a taste of the terrific topics at this year’s annual conference in San Antonio.

Speakers confirmed so far:
Kathryn Troutman
Ellen Sautter
Kathy Sweeney
Carol McClelland
Barbara Safani

Links to their websites are listed in the sidebar.

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The full agenda is posted. Check it out!

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The 2009 Alliance Conference will be held at the historic Menger Hotel starting April 28th 2009 through April 30th. I’ll be posting details as soon as they are finalized, but be sure to save those dates.

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I posted the rest of John O’Connor’s great snapshots on Picasa. Here’s the link.

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I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to anyone, everyone who attended our session, Mind the Gap: Connecting the Generations. It was truly an honor to get to present before you and we so appreciated your participation. The information we got back from program participants was wonderful; you provided us with 75+ ideas, strategies, and best practices that you use to connect with a multi-generational population.  Over the coming days, we will be sharing that feedback with you. Until then, thank you for your contributions to our presentation. If you didn’t have a chance to attend, feel free to share, write, post, pass along the feedback as you deem appropriate when it becomes available.  Thanks again from the three of us, Sarah, Karen, and Billie.

posted by: billie sucher

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Well, it was an amazing first day at the CMA Conference. Great speakers, superb networking, new friends made, lots of a-ha’s . . . and we’ve still got all day Friday and half-day Saturday. Your CMA braintrust enthuses on what transpired in this exclusive video from the Radisson Plaza in downtown Minneapolis:

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One of the recurring themes at this year’s CMA conference is the potential of social marketing to transform your business.  LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social marketing sites are drawing the attention of conference attendees.

But what the heck is social marketing? Is it real or just a fad? And can it benefit me even if I’m not a big wig with a big budget?

Well, we have an exclusive audio interview with Conference exhibitor Jason Alba, the author of “I’m on Facebook . . . Now What?”  Jason helps make plain sense of what can be confusing for a newbie and shows us how we can leverage the powerful potential of social marketing. 

You can download a higher quality version of the interview by clicking the link at the right.

 

 Jason Alba social marketing: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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