Pijoo.com and DotSauce new partners for IZEAFest!
Category: Blogging
As we posted on our company blog late last week, IZEA has recently brought on two new partners to our social media conference, IZEAFest. They are both great sites that offer resources to bloggers and social media enthusiasts. Please take a few moments to visit their websites to learn more about the services they offer, and welcome them to our Community.
DotSauce.com is an exclusive web based magazine for domainers, web developers, designers and of course bloggers! Featuring almost daily updates on innovative web applications, sales and marketing, SEO, blogging resources, domain name industry news and more. You can join their private discussion forum community for the best free resources, video tutorials, available domain lists, coupons, discounts and more.
Pijoo is a blog directory, a social network, and a social voting site all rolled into one. By adding your blog to Pijoo, you can get more hits, more readers, and a whole bunch of new contacts from the blogosphere, as well as being able to track your visitors, build a community around your blog and keep up with the latest posts from other blogs.
It's hard to believe we are quickly approaching our two-year birthday as a company! Time sure has flown, and we--the IZEA team--have enjoyed every minute along the way. You know we've been through many changes over the past couple of years, and have grown immensely: IZEA branding, the launch of SocialSpark, PostieCon in Las Vegas, and the announcement and planning of the upcoming IZEAFest.
We'd like to know how you've grown over the past two years, as a Blogger or as an Advertiser. Send us your stories by leaving them here in the comments section.
Better yet, if you live in the Central Florida area or within driving distance, we'd love to hear your stories in person. Help us celebrate our two-year anniversary in downtown Orlando at Wall Street Cantina, at 8pm. It's totally free for you, but we do need you to register so we can get a headcount of those attending.
IZEA headquarters had a sign installed on the outside of our building this past Friday! Now everyone driving through downtown Orlando will know about IZEA!
RockStartUp - Episode 46: Day of Reckoning
Category: Blogging
The latest installment of RockStartUp is now out. After months of planning and a large investment of time and money, its time for PostieCon (now IZEAFest). The team hurries to set up before people arrive while Pete and Ted scramble to fix an oversight for their first public demo of SocialSpark.
It's official: IZEAFest is here! And quite frankly, it's shaping-up to be a bomb-diggity blog conference. How could it not be with these folks already confirmed to speak:
- Alex Schek <> Fayerwayer.com - Brian Clark <> Copyblogger.com - Christopher Schmitt <> ChristopherSchmitt.com - Eric Hersman <> WhiteAfrican.com - Etan Horowitz <> Orlando Sentinel - Jeremy Schoemaker <> Shoemoney.com - John Chow <> JohnChow.com - Katia Adams <>1800-flowers.com - Lea Alcantara <> Lealea.net - Lena West <> xynoMedia.com - Loren Feldman <> 1938Media.com - Matt Blancarte <> Unique Blog Designs - Merlin Mann <> 43Folders.com - Michael Brito <> Britopian.com - Peter Shankman <> Shankman.com - Scott Allen <> MindComet.com - Sean Bonner <> SeanBonner.com - Sean Jackson <> LeadMaverick.com - Steve Spalding <> HowToSplitAnAtom.com - Susie Gardner <> Hop Studios, "Blogging for Dummies" - Ted Murphy <> IZEA - Zach Coelius <> Triggit.com
Each of these speakers are bringing invaluable knowledge to the event, as well as tons of energy and passion about the Internet! Visit IZEAFest.com/speakers for extensive profiles on each individual.
If you're planning on attending--or are already registered--make sure and grab a badge (that fancy little thing over to the right) so you can promote the event to your readers. And don't forget about the community we created at Eventful -- you can establish a profile and interact with other attendees, and even engage with the conference speakers.
On the site you'll also find helpful information on travel, accommodations, and restaurants here in the Orlando area! TAKE NOTE: There are group rates available at the Grand Bohemian Hotel and the Courtyard Marriott (just down the street from the conference). To learn more make sure and visit the "Lodging" page under the "Travel Info" tab.
If you'd like to receive event updates simply enter your e-mail address under "Newsletter Signup" on the homepage -- there will be more information coming within the next few months.
IZEAFest, IZEA’s annual blog conference, is shaping-up very quickly! Several new speakers have been added to the agenda. Check-out this post Founder & CEO Ted Murphy published today on the IZEA company blog:
IZEAFest is coming along very well, the sessions are starting to fill up with speakers and the lineup is impressive so far. We have authors, bloggers, entrepreneurs and representatives from Fortune 500 companies. Here is a recap:
Thursday, September 11th 7:00 - 10:00pm : Cocktails and appetizers Grand Bohemian sky pool
Friday, September 12th 8:00 - 9:00am : Registration, Coffee and Networking.
9:00 - 10:15am : Keynote Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com
10:15 -10:30am : Break
10:30 -11:30am : Improving your content Susie Gardner, author of Blogging for Dummies
11:30 -1:00pm : Lunch and Social Downtown area restaurants
1:00 - 2:00pm : Panel - Fab Four TBA
2:00 - 2:15pm : Break
2:15 - 3:15pm : Panel - Growing Traffic Lea Alcantara of lealea.net Alex Schek of fayerwayer.com Additional TBA
3:15 - 3:30pm : Break
3:30 - 4:30pm : Panel - What Advertisers Want Michael Brito, Social Media Manager at Intel and author of britopian Katia Adams, Interactive Marketing Manger at 1-800-Flowers.com Additional TBA
6:00pm - : Group Dinner and Social Downtown Orlando
Saturday, September 13 8:00 - 9:00am : Registration, Coffee and Networking.
9:00 - 10:15am : Keynote TBA
10:15 -10:30am : Break
10:30 -11:30am : Panel - Social Networking : What’s in it for you? Peter Shankman, author of Can We Do That and shankman.com Lena West, CEO of xynoMedia.com Additional TBA
11:30 -1:00pm : Lunch and Social Downtown area restaurants
3:30 - 4:30pm : Blog Design Makeover Nate Whitehall, Founder of Unique Blog Designs Christopher Schmitt, Author of CSS Cookbook, Designing CSS Web Pages and Professional CSS Scott Allen, VP of Creative Service at MindComet
4:30 - 5:00pm : Closing and QA Ted Murphy, IZEA
7:00pm - : Group Multimedia Scavenger Hunt Downtown Orlando.... this is going to get MESSY!
LOCATION Grand Bohemian in Downtown Orlando
The cost for the event is normally $65 (an incredible value). The first 50 people who register will save $15 (are you kidding me... this is a crazy good deal). You can register here.
This event will be IZEA’s equivalent to MacWorld. Expect to see the next generation of SocialSpark along with some other goodies. We will be launching a full IZEAFest website with additional information and confirmed speakers soon. I hope to see you there.
Sponsorship packages are available. Please contact joe (at) izea (dotcom) for more information.
If you follow us on our company blog, here on MySpace, or on Twitter then you know tonight we’re hosting the official afterparty of Orlando BarCamp. It’s gonna be a rockin’ time!
Registration for IZEAFest 2008 is now open
Category: Blogging
If you plan on attending IZEAFest in Orlando this coming September, you can now register! And registering early has benefits: it’s cheaper!
To obtain more information, or to register, click here. You can also follow our company blog for continuous updates on the program schedule.
Here’s a brief overview:
Thursday, Sept 11th 7:00pm-10:00pm Cocktails and appetizers at the sky pool.
Friday, Sept 12th Registration begins at 8:00am, keynote at 9:00am. Last session ends at 5:00pm. Organized group dinner and social at 6:00pm
Saturday, Sept 13th Keynote at 9:00am. Last session ends at 5:00pm. Organized multimedia scavenger hunt with prizes starting at 7:00pm. Mass Cakeplow!!!
Sunday, Sept 14th - No Sessions. If you are still here there will be a group organized plan to a theme park.
** Join our IZEAFest Community over on Eventful.com. You can interact with other attendees, converse with speakers, share the event with family and friends, and more. **
