PDMA - MN Event (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

Management of Power: Successful Leadership

Where:   University of St. Thomas | Opus Hall | Great Auditorium
1000 LaSalle Avenue  |   Minneapolis, MN 55403

Cost:      $30.00  PDMA members | $35.00  Non-members
             $15.00 Students w/ valid ID

As a leader, do you find yourself in power plays with others? Successful leaders need to understand the behaviors associated with power plays and how to change them into effective adult behaviors.

Topics  Discussed:

 * Review the brain of the inventor

* Discussion on how we hear things differently - inventors  vs marketing

* How to work together better

Join Diane Amundson, the owner of Diane Amundson & Associates.  She has over sixteen years of training, speaking and consulting experience in the areas of leadership, creativity, generational diversity, team building, sales communication, conflict resolution and strategic planning.  She has worked with Fortune 500 Companies like General Mills and Pepsi Cola and she  has co-authored a book titled Success Strategies: A High Achiever’s Guide to Success.  She is a member of the National Speakers Association and has served as Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at Winona State University.

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STC-TC Lunch Meeting (Twin Cities, MN, USA)

Julio Ojeda-Zapata has been a syndicated columnist, editor and reporter for more than a decade.  He covers consumer technology for the St. Paul Pioneer Press where he writes a weekly Tech Test Drive column.

He recently wrote a book called “Twitter Means Business“, which documents how Twitter has become a vital tool for companies who communicate to employees, partners and customers in real-time.

 Julio makes frequent media appearances to discuss the latest consumer-technology and social-media trends.

Get more details at STC -TC.

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Two 3M Projects: 3-D Displays and Library Products (St. Paul, MN, USA)

UPA MN September Meeting

Speakers: Glenn Casner and Peter Eisenberg

Program Details 
 
1st PRESENTATION TITLE: Stereoscopic 3D Displays: A new dimension to consider in terms of research and design.  

Glenn will be presenting a brief overview of the basics of stereoscopic 3D displays and the advantages and disadvantages they provide to the user as well as the designer.  

Glenn E. Casner is currently a Human Factors Engineer at 3M, St. Paul.  He earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Montana – Missoula in 2001, an M.S. in Psychology from Iowa State University in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience from Iowa State University in 2006.  His main area of research in graduate school was in the area of visual recognition (e.g., how we visually recognize objects and people).

2nd PRESENTATION TITLE: How Smart Should a Smart Hole-in-the-Wall be?

How much cleverness should your product flaunt in front of its users?  Sometimes “less is more” does work best.  We’ll look at the design of a product that benefitted the user by dumbing down a bit, in a presentation by Peter.

Peter Eisenberg has been a human factors engineer at 3M for over 25 years.  He has worked on the user interface and ergonomic design of a wide variety of products ranging from hand-held tape dispensers to heart-lung machines.  He is a Certified Professional Ergonomist and has been a long time member of UPA.  He received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1981.

Event Cost: $10 for members & students, $30 for non-members 
RSVP: By 5:00 p.m. on Monday September 7, 2009,
 to programdirector2009 [at] upamn [dot] org  (Note new RSVP email address)

Location: Building 235, 3M Center. Maplewood, MN
 
Directions:
I-94 east of Saint Paul, between I-494/694 & Hwy 61. Take the McKnight Road exit (exit 246), and go north on McKnight. Take a right at Conway Avenue. On Conway, go through the stop sign, take a right (on 17^th) and an immediate left on the frontage road (“M”). Park along the large brick building, building 235.

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If you’re late, and nobody is at the door to let you in, there will be a cell phone number, so you can call upstairs and get in.

Refreshments: Hors D’oeuvres and beverages are included in the admission fee 
Program Agenda 
6:00 p.m. Registration and networking 
6:30 p.m. Presentation and discussion

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You CAN Measure Social Media (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

You CAN Measure Social Media: True Tales from the Social Media Measurement Trenches

Presented by

Katie Delahaye Paine
CEO, KDPaine & Partners
PR Week 2008 Power Player list

Summary

Ever since social media emerged as a significant part of the communications and marketing mix, discussion has centered around developing standards for measurement with no clear consensus. Meanwhile, the number of blogs, social networks and other channels of social media continue to proliferate. Organizations are increasingly looking for metrics to apply to their social media efforts to help determine what is working, not working, and how best to spend communication budgets.

During the past year, KDPaine & Partners has conducted six benchmark reputation studies for a variety of organizations including institutions of higher education, nonprofits, business-to-business and business-to-consumer organizations. These studies resulted in a standard methodology that can be used by any organization to assess and measure its position in social media.  This session will address the research methodology, data collection and procedures created to determine a standard methodology for measurement of social media. Further discussions will reveal how organizations are using these benchmarks to create and improve their own communication programs.

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Alphabet Bash (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

Alphabet Bash

Epic Event Center View Map Learn More
110 North Fifth Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Do you want to connect with other marketing, communications, creative and PR professionals in the Twin Cities? Do you want to build business and your network? Are you looking for a job? Tired of events with a long agenda and very little one-on-one conversation time?

If you answered yes to any of the above, join us for the 4th Annual Alphabet Bash on Thursday, August 20th from 6-10 p.m. at Epic Event Center in Minneapolis.

A joint venture with Ad Fed, AIGA Minnesota, AMA, IABC, MWMC, and PRSA, The Alphabet Bash is an annual opportunity for members of the combined organizations to make business connections, develop relationships, and explore business development opportunities.

SPECIAL! Register before July 31 and save $10!
Only $35 for AIGA members, $20 for students if you register before Friday.

The price of admission includes two drinks, heavy appetizers, and a chance at valuable door prizes.
 

Get your acronyms straight and register today! www.alphabetbash.com

Cost:
On or before July 31, 2009
$35.00 for members of the above organizations
$45.00 for non-members
$20.00 for students

After July 31, 2009
$45.00 for members of the above organizations
$55.00 for non-members
$25.00 for students

Register now!

Pre-Networking Event
Beat the rush and check in early for the 2009 Alphabet Bash. Join us from 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. for “Make Big Talk Not Small Talk… and BTW, How Do I Hold My Wine Glass and My Plate and My Cards and Still Shake Hands?” presented by Betsy Buckley.

About The Alphabet Bash
A joint venture with Ad Fed, AIGA Minnesota, AMA, IABC, MWMC and PRSA, The Alphabet Bash is an annual event that serves as an outlet for the combined membership of more than 4,000 to make business connections, develop long-lasting relationships and explore other business development opportunities. See: www.alphabetbash.com.

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MIMA Fall social (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

THINK. DRINK. HYPERLINK.

Ready to eat, drink and be social? Great! Because the annual Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association’s (MIMA) Fall Social is back, and we’re NOT messing around. There will be fun, foodstuffs and libations a’plenty!

Where:
Calhoun Beach Club
2925 Dean Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55416-4470

Pre-registration Fees
Members = FREE
Student Members = FREE
Non-Members = $20

Walk-in Registration Fees
Members = $20
Student Members = $20
Non-members = $20

See mima.org for more information.

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General Mills: Innovating on Innovation (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

Product Development and Management Association, Minnesota chapter, presents General Mills: Innovating on Innovation.

When: September 16, 2009

Where: iSquad
Boone Ave Directions
1000 Boone Avenue, Suite 600A - Golden Valley

Time: 9:00-9:30 Networking and Reception
9:30-10:30 Program
10:30-11:00 Wrap-Up

Cost: $30.00 PDMA members
$35.00 Non-members
$15.00 Students w/ valid ID

See pdma.org for more information.

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IDSA Midwest conference (Minneapolis, MN)

The Industrial Designers Society of America’s Midwest conference is about “Meaning: Uncovering multiple levels of meaning in the design of objects and experiences.” Meaning can be interpreted many ways regarding the design process. For example:

• How can we as designers make the object more meaningful to the user?
• How can the result of a designer’s insight make life experience more meaningful?
• How can we identify real problems and provide solutions to the everyday person?
• How can we understand what is meaningful to a person at this time and make that object important, that experience relevant?

It is these questions that will be investigated, explored and presented at this conference.

See IDSA.org for more information.

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Twin Cities Book Club (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

The first MinneUX Book Club discussion will be Wednesday, Feb. 11 between 6-8pm at Wilde Roast in NE Minneapolis, discussing Bill Buxton’s “Sketching User Experiences.”

See UX Book Club for more information.

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Putting Research into Practice (Minneapolis, MN)

Putting Research into Practice provides participants with an engaging review of foundational and recent research with a distinct “How can I use this?” focus. HFI’;s experts provide in-depth summaries of the current literature in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, Technology, Usability Engineering, and Marketing. We present the practical implications of this research and its impact on how we conduct user-centered design. Through discussion and lively exchange, participants learn to effectively apply exploratory research to their real-world applications.

Cost: $1295 per person; $1165 each if three or more attend from the same company

More information: http://www.humanfactors.com/training/annualupdate.asp

To register: https://www.humanfactors.com/training/registration/registration.asp?id=231

Location information: www.mclabs.com/facilities/Minneapolis/

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