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!!