“Bringing like-minded people together in an un-conference format.”

That’s the petty much sums up the idea of Get Social Conference.  My friend, Bryan Wempen and I have put together a series of 1/2 traveling unconferences that will reach a number of midwest locations.  For a number of the general professional population, the concept of social media is still very new.  Budgets are tight.  Businesses can’t afford to send their teams or employees to events like the 140 Conference in NYC or SXSW.  It’s just not in the budget and with cut backs and re-organizations. The workload shift for a team is a hard burdon to manage while someone runs off to sunny Austin attending late night parties and interactive sessions.

Our solution lies in bringing the conference to them.  Yes, we’ll travel to you!  Our events will consist of small 100+ person venues in an intimate and informal atmosphere that allows for interaction, learning, creativity, and collaboration, the good stuff.  Persons who can benefit by attending these events are decision makers, creatives or curious, and people who are new to social media or seasoned but eager to learn how different industries, thought leaders, and businesses are using social media to grow their companies and organizations.  We aim to bring business leaders from a variety of different industries–publication, PR, Marketing, entreprenuers, bloggers, HR, Services, and more.

It’s going to be fun!  And what is really exciting is that we have just opened registration for our first event in Tulsa, Oklahoma for May 4th, 2010.  The cost to register is $75 and includes 9 tracks with leaders from literally all over the world.  Registration starts at 1:30 that day with tracks ending at 5:00 followed by a networking event or tweetup.

To learn more or register visit our Tulsa Get Social Page and feel free to visit the site.  Companies can also inquire about sponsorship opportunities at the Tulsa event or upcoming events as we begin to travel the Midwest.

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