Juicy blogs. Sweet tweets. Fresh, hot analytics. Today’s Internet is a virtual all-you-can-google buffet. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. Well, no more. Come learn how to manage all your information sources, and sift the gold from hundreds of options out there.

We’re bringing together a group of fine folks to dish about how they filter through the onslaught of RSS, email newsletters, Google Alerts and other research to find truly useful information, fast.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
All enterprise and agency employees responsible for:
• Information technology
• Branding / creative services
• Website development and maintenance
• Interactive marketing
• Market research
• Legal
• Public relations

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
• How to steer clear of information vertigo: Get tried-and-true tips on how to better find, absorb and filter lots of useful information. 
• Sorting tools: Learn about all the great tools out there that can help you sort, organize and prioritize your information.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Garrick van Buren
President, Working Pathways, Inc.
Garrick Van Buren runs Working Pathways, Inc., a customer experience strategy company. He helps companies like Sun Microsystems, Target, Orbitz.com develop and maintain a customer-centric web presence.

Garrick co-founded and contributes to the MNteractive.com and PodcastMN.com communities, and continues to publish one of the first podcasts - The First Crack Podcast, he also occasionally writes for Minnov8.com. His latest project is Cullect.com - a feed reader designed for work groups.

Greg Swan
Social media strategist, Weber Shandwick; music blogger, citizen journalist, egoist
An expert at monitoring blogosphere buzz, Greg uses this expertise to inform client campaigns on brand, product and trend issues. He’s also an avid blog reader and trend spotter, as well as an active member of PRSA and MIMA. Greg is always looking for ways to take a more active role in defining and shaping the fields of public relations, advertising and marketing.
In his free time, Greg runs a music blog, PerfectPorridge.com, and is co-captain of Metroblogging Minneapolis, a citizen-journalism online community.

Mike Keliher
Public relations practice manager at Provident Partners, Blogger at Unjournalism and The Same Rowdy Crowd, Co-producer of the Marketing Edge podcast
 
Mike’s works in Web development, technology support services, print journalism and public relations. These skills, mixed with a wealth of early-adopter geekdom, give him a knack for helping businesses figure out “What’s this?” and “What can it do for me?”
 
At Provident Partners, Mike leads the public relations projects and helps clients understand and learn to use social media tools like blogs, podcasts, Twitter and more. Mike also helps with the technical side of the production of Provident Partners’ Marketing Edge podcast.

Alisa Coddington
Alisa is a Knowledge Specialist at Carmichael Lynch where she is part of the Marketing Intel