If you’re going to be in NYC August 7th come check out KickApps at the grand finale of Mashable’s Summer Tour. SummerMashNYC at TOUCH (240 West 52nd Street) from 7:00-10:00 will be a blast so don’t miss out. Come stop by the KickApps booth for some schwag, a demo and maybe a free drink ticket if you’re lucky.
We’re also giving away four tickets to the event. If you’re in NYC and want to attend, send us an email at info@kickapps.com. The first two will get the tickets.
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As many of you know, we spend a lot of time working on enabling deeper levels of integration with Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress. Since releasing our single sign-on modules and plugins we’ve had a number of great websites go live which have integrated KickApps powered social & media applications into Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress powered websites.
Developers and web designers are finding that they’re increasingly required to integrate social & media applications into websites that they build. As a result, the combination of KickApps and a CMS is a very powerful one.
Which makes it a perfect time to introduce you to Mitch Pirtle (@Mitchitized and @KickDeveloper). Mitch is one of the founders of Joomla and as KickApps’ Developer Evangelist is tasked with making KickApps a developer’s best friend.
If you’re heading to Linux World Expo next week, come by and hang out at booth 1000 with Mitch, Mike Sommers, Chris Keane and Stan Shaul. If you need somewhere to rest your feet, check your email, write some code, meditate, do some yoga, come to the KickApps Developer Lounge at room 130. Or, check out the meet ups that we’re hosting in the lounge:
Tuesday, August 5th
1230 – 130PM : Drupal Meet Up
Kieran Lal, a leader in the Drupal project, will demonstrate how many showcase websites from education, non-profits, big media companies, and newspapers are using Drupal to rock the social publishing world.
2PM – 3PM: Integrating Drupal with KickApps
Open discussion about integrating social & media applications into your Drupal powered website.
4:30PM: Drupal vs Joomla Rockband Smackdown! Heck yeah!
Wednesday, August 6th
1230 – 130PM: Joomla Meet Up
Ryan Ozimek, OSM Board Member and longtime Joomla community member will be on hand to demonstrate Joomla and discuss open topics raised by the group.
2 – 3PM : Integrating Joomla with KickApps
Open discussion about integrating social & media applications into your Joomla powered website.
4:30PM: Open Rockband Smackdown!
Sign up at KickApps booth #1000
Thursday, August 7th
1230PM: Social Media & Open Source Open Discussion
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We held a webinar today entitled: A Blueprint for a Successful Social Media Website. If you didn’t get to see it live, you can watch an archived video of the session (registration required) or if you like, simply download the slides.
The session was presented by Mike Sommers, KickApps’ SVP of Products, Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus (the award winning agency that launched one of the funniest TV shows–oops, it’s not TV because it’s on HBO–The Flight of the Conchords) and Stephen Merrill, the GM of Budget Travel (probably the most innovative magazine today–their 10th anniversary issue consisted entirely of reader submitted stories and photos. Talk about UGC!
We covered a bunch of topics from setting your strategy, marketing, editorial programming to community leadership. Now we’d like to ask all of you for your thoughts, your stories and your tips. I’m sure many of you have some great ideas so please leave a comment and share what you’ve learned from your experiences. We’ll all undoubtedly learn from each other so let’s get a discussion going.
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On July 23rd at 2PM ET/11AM PT, we’ll be hosting a webinar where we’ll share tips and best practices for creating and running a successful social media website. If you’re in the process of putting together your social media website or are looking for ideas to take your website to the ‘next level,’ this webinar is for you.
Topics we’ll be covering:
- Designing your social media strategy and experience
- Leading and managing your online community
- Programming your website’s social media experience
- Social marketing for growth
We’ll be joined by a couple of special guests who are leading minds in their respective fields:
Ian Schafer is the CEO of Deep Focus, one of most innovative marketers around whose award winning agency has developed numerous social media marketing campaigns for brands like HBO (Flight of the Conchords) and Vitamin Water. Ian will share some ideas and thoughts around putting together a social media strategy and marketing a social media website.
Stephen Merrill is the general manager of BudgetTravel.com. Stephen recently launched My Budget Travel, inspired by the magazine’s daring, user-generated June 2008 10th Anniversary issue that showcases a reader-submitted cover photograph, and feature-length articles written entirely by readers. The KickApps powered social media section of the website gives readers and travel enthusiasts the opportunity to share their fondest travel experiences and adventures, and discover new ones. Stephen will talk about how to integrate social media and user-generated content successfully with editorial programming.
Sign up for the webinar at: http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=49150.
Once you’ve registered, just click on the link above to attend the webinar. If you need to use another machine, just re-register. We’ll send you a reminder a day prior to the event.
Update: If you didn’t get to see the webinar live, you can watch an archived video (registration required) or if you like, simply download the slides.
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