Social Marketing Kung Fu, Yellow Belt - "Listening Everywhere" February 23, 2011

Dave Olson's first SMKF talk at Bootup was jam packed with a bunch of practical nuggets to help founders get started including the importance of listening in building your social marketing strategy.

On February 23, get ready to earn your social marketing yellow belt! Dave O is coming back to Bootup to explain just what it means to "listen everywhere" and show us how we can use social media dashboards to connect with customers, build communities, and keep our ears on the competition.

This event will be hands on. To get the most out of this workshop, we encourage you to sign up for Hootsuite, Netvibes, diigo.com and/or delicious.com in advance and bring your fully charged laptops.

About Dave:
Dave Olson (@daveohoots) is the Community Marketing Director for social media dashboard maker HootSuite. Working in the Internet space since 1996, Dave was a partner is two successful ISPs plus worked with start-ups including ecommerce software, open source web development, and a green business directory. He frequently presents at events including SXSW and Northern Voice, and appears in the media discussing technology, art, hockey and culture. Dave is also a mentor at Bootup.

A graduate of Evergreen College in Inter-disciplinary Studies, Dave's work is published in magazines and journals on topics ranging from Japanese agri-history to Telco de-regulation. A chronic documentarian from his earliest days, Dave creates visual art, writes essays and produces podcasts and led a ground-breaking project for social coverage of the Vancouver Olympics. After living and traveling worldwide, Dave now enjoys exploring his local North Vancouver mountains and forests.