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The Rockley Group’s Intelligent Content 2010 conference is February 18-19. Proposals for presentations are due on September 15, 2009.

Laid off and looking for new full-time employment?  Freelancing, and wondering where to find new clients?  I’ve got a couple of suggestions.

1. Read Chris Brogan’s free e-book, Using the Social Web to Find Work.  Chris is a marketing consultant who believes social networking is the future of marketing for individual freelancers, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.  He gives proven, practical advice we can use to improve our career-related networking success rate.  He is also entertaining, a quality that is missing in most job-hunting advice these days.

2.  Attend Communication Central’s 4th Annual “Build Your Business” conference on Saturday, September 26.  Internationally-known social marketing expert Neil Hare will be joined by Emily Carpenter, Steve Tylock, and Dick Margulis in a full-day exploration of the new Marketing 101 for freelancers and small business owners.  STC members (as well as members of other professional organizations) will receive a substantial discount on the conference fees.

Disclaimer:  Proof Sheet editor, Kat Nagel, is also a co-owner of Communication Central, the “Build Your Business” sponsor.

As the continuing recession affects our ability to find local employment and freelancing projects, many Rochester Chapter members are turning to online sources. Writers and Editors has posted a list of job sources.

Intelligent Content 2010: Making the Magic Happen

Call for Presentations

Intelligent Content is structurally rich and semantically aware and is therefore automatically discoverable, reusable, reconfigurable and adaptable to best meet the needs of the customer. Intelligent Content can seem like magic but it doesn’t “just happen”. It takes analysis, planning and creativity on many levels to achieve that seamless appearance of magic.

We’re looking for speakers who are working to “make that magic happen” for their customers and who can present on such topics as:

• Adaptive content
• Content mining
• Context aware behavior
• Dynamic device adaptation
• Integrated social software and semantics
• Personalization
• Semantic retrieval

We’re looking for great presentations from outstanding speakers. We’re looking for the visionary, but we’re also looking for the practical. We want our attendees to learn something useful – something they can use when they return to the office. We want presentations, case studies, panel sessions and interactive demonstrations.

Guidelines

Presentations should focus on a particular topic, methodology, or concept. Make sure that attendees are presented with clear concepts and guidelines that they can take away.

Case Studies should focus on how your organization solved a particular problem and should be presented by individuals that work for the organization and should answer what you did, why you did it, what worked well, lessons learned, tips and good practices and involve some audience interaction. Make sure that attendees can go back and work towards replicating your success in their organization.

Panels should be designed around a central theme with each panelist contributing to the presentation either via a series of questions, successive presentations or interactive discussions.

Submission Requirements

Deadline: September 15, 2009

Complete the submission form (link will open in a new window). Incomplete submissions will not be considered. Provide:

• Complete contact information for the presenter(s)
• 100-150 word biography
• Relevant and descriptive presentation title (help people to understand the content of your presentation with a descriptive title)
• 100 word session abstract that summarizes what the session is about and what attendees can expect to learn (to be used in print program)
• 300-500 word detailed session description that describes in detail what the session is about and specifically what attendees will learn (to be used on the event website and in email marketing campaigns).

Note: if your presentation is accepted, we will work with you in advance of the conference to assist you in creating a superb one!

For more information, please contact The Rockley Group