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Online Marketing and Storytelling Training in the Works for SchipulCon'09, October 15-16
| Source: Schipul - The Web Marketing Co.
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - July 1, 2009) - Helping clients and Community members alike
grow their organizations through Web marketing, Schipul - The Web Marketing
Company (www.schipul.com) has scheduled their interactive marketing
conference SchipulCon'09 (www.schipulcon.com) for October 15 and 16, 2009.
The two-day training event will provide attendees with the knowledge and
tools needed to accelerate growth by enabling their communities to connect,
collaborate and strengthen relationships online.
SchipulCon'09 will be hosted at the Houston Zoo, which has aggressively
incorporated social media strategies into its marketing efforts. The
conference will feature a keynote address from Deirdre Breakenridge,
co-author of "Putting the Public Back in Public Relations" and "The New PR
Tookit," and author of "PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences."
Breakenridge, president of PFS Marketwyse (www.pfsmarketwyse-blog.com),
will discuss the convergence of marketing/PR and the Internet and examine
how to facilitate direct-to-consumer conversations through the use of
social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter and blogging.
"People have an inherent need to connect and feel a part of something, but
most organizations can do a better job of using their Web sites and various
social media tools to enable those connections," said Ed Schipul, founder
and chief executive officer of Schipul - The Web Marketing Company. "We
expect that SchipulCon'09 will help to establish Houston as a social media
hotspot and look forward to welcoming people from all over."
Tendenci software, developed and marketed by Schipul - The Web Marketing
Company (www.schipul.com), powers the Web sites of hundreds of
associations, corporations, government agencies, healthcare providers and
nonprofits around the world. It is a powerful online tool that makes it
easy for organizations to integrate social media functionality throughout
their Web sites.
Registration for SchipulCon'09 is $49 before August 1st, $99 before October
1st and $149 after October 1st. Visit www.schipulcon.com/ for more
information and to register.
About Schipul - The Web Marketing Company
Schipul - The Web Marketing Company developed and builds on the Tendenci
Web marketing application, a powerful online tool with over a half million
people logging in during the past year and millions of users overall.
Schipul is based in Houston, and provides marketing services on the
Internet to more than 300 organizations from a variety of service
industries in local, national and international markets. Schipul's
corporate clients include Evergreen Exhibitions, ExtremeTix, Inc. and
Reliant Park, among many others. Additional information about Schipul is
available at www.schipul.com and www.tendenci.com.