Hawaii Geek Week: October 18 – 25, 2008

Pulled from an email received from Roxanne Darling, Barefeet Studios.

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Governor Lingle has declared the week of October 18-25 ‘Hawaii Geek Week‘.

There are several events focused on “the social web” – which is by far the best business opportunity since typewriters were invented! We hope you will join us as we learn, network and promote Hawaii to the world using the best tools of Web 2.0.

We are offering several opportunities that may be of interest to you, your colleagues or even your friends and family. They are equal interest to for-profit, non-profit, and governmental organizations.

Here is an article defining Social Media, how these events affect the Hawaii business community, and how to decide which events to attend:

+++ Social Media Workshop +++
Thursday, October 23, 2008; 8 am – 3 pm
Hawaii Prince Hotel

$125 per person, includes continental breakfast, lunch, and charter membership in the Hawaii chapter of the Social Media Club. Send 4 from your organization and the 5th attends Free!

Register Here.

This is a small, exclusive business event to give you the 30,000′ view of the social web and how it is already affecting your business. Get one-to-one consulting and work with several mainland experts so you have specific ideas and action you can take to build your brand on the internet. “Geek Speak” not required.

+++ Podcamp & Wordcamp Hawaii +++
Friday and Saturday, October 24 & 25, 2008; 8 am – 5 pm
Hawaii Convention Center

Free to attend. Register Here.

This event is open to the public and will include lots of short sessions and hands-on workshops with local and mainland speakers. We have 350 people already registered to attend this event. It is a perfect follow-on to the Social Media Workshop and we recommend organizations send as many of their staff and volunteers as possible.  Rob Halper, of  the Johnson & Johnson Health Channel and Christine Lu, of the China Business Network, will join many of own local experts.

+++ Music and Hula Spots Available +++
We have openings for local artists to share their culture with our attendees at Podcamp. We will be live video streaming much of the day to viewers around the world, and think this is a great chance to share their talents. Plus there will be many podcasters there doing interviews and making media about the event. Please forward this email to anyone you know who may be interested in performing. People can sign themselves up on the wiki: http://www.podcamphawaii.com/wiki/

We hope you will join us at one or both of these events.

Mahalo.