Marketing events in Calgary this fall 2011
It’s been a few days since my last post. It’s just been super busy lately and I haven’t had a chance to put my head together around a valuable posts until now (I hope ;). As many of you, I’m subscribed to a few email lists of organizations that create marketing events in Calgary and area. This time I wanted to share a few upcoming ones as well as provide you with a couple of great resources to track marketing events in Calgary.
Upcoming marketing events in Calgary
The main reason I share these is that I met the most amazing people attending and helping organize marketing events volunteering with various organizations. And if you happen to start in the industry, I highly recommend you both attend and help organize and run events in your area.
Third Tuesday Calgary (TTyyc) is having Linkedin over
Third Tuesday Calgary is one of my favourite organizations run by Doug Lacombe, the social media authority in Calgary and Canada. Doug and his team bring great marketing and social media speakers to Calgary. Their next event will feature people from Linkedin talking about managing your professional brand. Learn more about and RSVP to this marketing event.
Digital Alberta is launching its events season
Digital Alberta is a dynamic industry organization that runs events and helps companies connect across Alberta. Their events are more technology focused but they also get a great marketing crowd. I used to volunteer for Digital Alberta and very proud of it. Check the details of their season launch party.
Calgary Marketing Association talks about DM for Today
Calgary Marketing Association (CMAcalgary) runs a number of high-profile marketing events during their events season. They bring in awesome speakers and often join forces with Digital Alberta. I’ve been to a couple of events while being a part of DA. This time they are bringing Kathy Levinski, Director at OrangeDoor Direct to talk about direct marketing.
The Art of… is bringing … leadership to Calgary
The Art of… is a Canada-wide events management organization. They organize huge events in major cities across the country. Their marketing events are a bit pricey but they showcase best-selling authors and gurus from all over North America. Check their November event details on The Art of Leadership.
Marketing events sites in Calgary
It’s difficult at times to keep up to speed with events in your area but luckily there are those who help us stay up to speed on what’s happening. And without further ado, my favourite site and one of my favourite social media professionals and marketers in Calgary…
Shannon Bowen-Kelsick (sbk), Calgary’s marketing events keymaster
Shannon has been doing an amazing job keeping track of marketing events pulse in Calgary. Her events list is always up to date and I’d highly recommend connecting with her for marketing and social media matters. I’d also like to ask you to link back to Shannon’s list and site from your own blog. This will reward her efforts (link juice!), and this is the minimum we can do to thank her for the great job she’s done. Check Shannon’s list on her marketing events page.
Look out for Marketing Events Calgary .com
It’s a new initiative and at this point way weaker than the resource Shannon is developing. This website was developed to centralize marketing events information in Calgary. Looks like the website is supported by a few organizations with great people and powers to develop this website into a dynamic marketing events calendar for Calgary and area. Time will tell.
I hope this post is useful for those marketing veterans who want to keep track of marketing events in Calgary as well as those who just start in the industry and want to hand out with good people. Leave a comment or two in the reply and, as always, I appreciate shares and likes and +1s, of course, if you liked the article.
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