The NewsGator 2012 Collective is almost here!

The 2012 Collective is less than two weeks away! The agenda is packed with great content and speakers - including Accenture, American Family Insurance, the Community Roundtable, Kraft Foods, Merck, Microsoft, Nalco, Oakley Inc., and OppenheimerFunds. Click here to see the full lineup!!

Boot Camp Workshop

The Boot Camp Workshop for the Social Enterprise - the first full day of the Collective - will be a highly-engaging, interactive workshop focused on kick-starting or turbo-charging your social initiative. This workshop is for business and technical users who are just starting their implementation or for those who are veterans looking for new ideas. Throughout the day, we will discuss seven critical topics including (but not limited to) governance, adoption, success metrics, and community management through the use of collaborative exercises, group work, and Q&A. In order to get the full potential from the workshop, you should plan to participate for the full day.

Hotel Details

For those customers, partners, and special guests who are attending, make sure you book your hotel this week! Our room block at The Ritz-Carlton, Denver is SOLD OUT, but we do have another room block at the Monaco (a neighboring hotel). The rate at the Monaco is $175/night and the rate expires tomorrow, February 23rd. Be sure to mention that you are part of the NewsGator Collective event!

More Info

For more info, check out our website and the Collective Community on eNGage - our Extranet. See you in a few weeks!

Early Bird Deadline and Agenda Updates!

The 2012 Collective User Group Meeting is a month and a half away!

To keep it simple, here is the only thing you need to do:

• Early-bird registration ends THIS FRIDAY, January 20th - be sure to register today!

To keep you in the loop, here are the latest event updates:

1. Jared Spataro, Sr. Director, Microsoft's SharePoint Product Management will be our closing keynote on Thursday, March 8th!
2. The rest of the agenda is almost ready to announce!! It includes great speakers from Accenture, the Community Roundtable, eBay, Kraft Foods, Merck, Nalco, OppenheimerFunds, and Unisys. The topics they will cover include migration, implementation, user adoption, community monitoring and management, third-party integrations, social learning, mobile, cloud, and much more.
3. In case you missed it in our last update - The first full day of the Collective will be a highly-engaging, interactive Boot Camp Workshop focused on kick-starting or turbo-charging your social initiative. Throughout the day, we will discuss several critical topics including (but not limited to) governance, adoption, success metrics, and community management through the use of collaborative exercises, group work, and Q&A. The workshop is included as part of your Collective registration. You won't want to miss it!

Opportunities to harness the collective wisdom of your fellow socially-enlightened peers is the focus of the 2012 agenda, which will include topics for business and technical NewsGator clients.

Register today!!

Call for Speakers Deadline is Tomorrow!

We are in the process of planning our next annual Collective User Group Meeting. It will be taking place March 6-8, 2012 at the Ritz-Carlton, Denver. The goal of the Collective is for NewsGator customers, partners, and employees to network, share best practices, and build and nurture relationships. If you are interested in sharing your story or expertise at the Collective, please submit a proposal using our Call for Speakers form in the Collective Community on eNGage by tomorrow, Friday, December 16th.

Click here to submit your speaking proposal.
* You must be a NewsGator customer to submit a proposal through our eNGage portal.


Important things to know about submitting a speaking proposal:

• Please complete and submit all areas of the submission form.
• You may submit more than one proposal. Please complete a separate form per proposal.
• If you have any questions, contact Jennifer Keyerleber @ jenniferk@newsgator.com.
• Proposals are due by tomorrow, Friday, December 16, 2011.
• The Collective audience will consist of NewsGator clients, partners, staff, and special guests.
• We will notify you by January 13, 2012 of your session acceptance.
• You will be required to submit the first draft of your presentation by February 13, 2012.
• You will be required to submit your final presentation by February 27, 2012.

Registration is Open for the 2012 NewsGator Collective User Group Meeting

Registration is now open for the 2012 NewsGator Collective User Group Meeting taking place March 6-8, 2012 at The Ritz-Carlton, Denver. Don’t miss this opportunity to get together with colleagues, peers, industry thought leaders, and technologists - all motivated by a common purpose of harnessing and reaping the benefits of Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration tools.

Register today to take advantage of early bird prices!
Link to Customer Registration >

Link to Partner Registration >

Agenda Announcement
We are pleased to announce that Mike Hower will emcee the 2012 Collective. Mike is currently the Chief Learning Officer at Strategic Knowledge Solutions after recently culminating a 24-year career with the US Air Force focused on communities of practice, instructional systems technology and design, and leadership development.

Opportunities to harness wisdom abound with the 2012 agenda, which will include topics for business and technical NewsGator clients. Click here to download the tentative agenda, and stay tuned for more agenda updates as they progress!

Call for Speakers

  

As a NewsGator customer or partner, if you're interested in sharing your "social" story or expertise with fellow NewsGator users at the Collective, please submit a proposal using our Call for Speakers form in the Collective Community on eNGage.

Save the Date for 2012!

It's official! Next year’s NewsGator Collective User Group Meeting will take place March 6-8, 2012 in Denver, CO at The Ritz-Carlton, Denver. Check out the Collective Community for updates, polling questions, Call for Speakers, and sponsorship opportunities. Your feedback is always welcome!

Collective Successes

The bad news: the Collective event has come to an end.
The good news: you don’t have to let the collaboration, sharing, and learning stop.

We’d like to extend a warm thank you to those of you that were able to attend our event. We’ve heard a lot of positive feedback, and it was especially exciting to bring all of our customers, partners and invited guests together to collaborate about all things enterprise social.

Throughout the event, we heard several people ask about the session presentations. We’d like to announce that we’ve made them available on our Collective community*. We’d also like to encourage you to visit the community often so that you can keep enriching it with your collective discussions, questions, and ideas.

Once again, we’re so glad you could help make our first-ever NewsGator Collective such a success. We look forward to your participation again next year!

Note: a username and password is required to access the Collective community.

Become a Star in the NewsGator Collective Video Lounge

Calling all NewsGator advocates! We want to give you an outlet to share your stories, tips, and best practices long after the NewsGator Collective event has ended. So, we’re inviting you to come speak about your NewsGator experience in the Collective Video Lounge. Laura Farrelly, NewsGator's VP of Microsoft Alliance, will be on-hand to ask you questions about all things E2.0. The recorded material will eventually be posted on the Collective Community so that you can share what you recorded and continue to learn from your peers - long after you leave Denver.

The video lounge will be open on Wednesday, February 2^nd, from 12:30 – 5:30pm and on Thursday, February 3^rd, from 8:30am – 1:00pm. Come take a look -- even if you’re camera shy, you can still hear about what some of your peers are doing!