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Get a discount at Finance 2.0.

The Finance 2.0 SummitIn January, I’ll be speaking at Finance 2.0.

I just found out that I can offer my readers a discount. Ten of my readers can get a 15% discount off the regular registration fee of $2,095.00. I was also offered two discounts of 35% each. Normally I would keep the bigger discounts for colleagues at Vancity, but I want to offer them here to readers of my blog.

So if you want a discount, contact me at william |at| azaroff |dot| com and I’ll shoot you the info.

It should be a great conference, with talented and insightful speakers, including:

  • Trey Reeme – Are You a Spider or a Fly? Defining Your Relationship with the Web
  • Ron Shevlin – Why Are We Talking About Finance 2.0 When We Haven’t Figured Out Finance 1.0?
  • Tim McAlpine – Young & Free Alberta: Integrating Marketing & Social Media to Connect with Consumers
  • Ed Terpening – Crashing the Party: Are Financial Institutions Welcomed on the Social Media Scene?
  • Shari Storm – Best Practices in Blogging: How to Maximize the Benefits of This New Medium
  • Morriss Partee – Perfecting Your Palette: Recipes for a Successful Social Marketing Campaign
  • Jeffry Pilcher – Results 2.0: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Achieve Real Business Objectives

Thanks, see you there.

Looking forward to Finance 2.0.

The Finance 2.0 SummitA few months ago I was put in touch with Kristin Rodriguez at Financial Research Associates who was starting to put together a conference about social media and finance. She was calling it Finance 2.0, but beyond that she was simply seeking advice and support to put on a great conference.

Over the next few weeks, we spoke a lot, and she caught on extremely quickly, talking to many of the best and the brightest in the online world of banking innovation. The result is that I’m on the advisory board of what should be an amazing conference at the intersection of community engagement and banking.

Some of the highlights I’m completely looking forward to are (and no offence at all to the people on the agenda I’m overlooking):

  • Trey Reeme – Are You a Spider or a Fly? Defining Your Relationship with the Web
  • Ron Shevlin – Why Are We Talking About Finance 2.0 When We Haven’t Figured Out Finance 1.0?
  • Tim McAlpine – Young & Free Alberta: Integrating Marketing & Social Media to Connect with Consumers
  • Ed Terpening – Crashing the Party: Are Financial Institutions Welcomed on the Social Media Scene?
  • Shari Storm – Best Practices in Blogging: How to Maximize the Benefits of This New Medium
  • Morriss Partee – Perfecting Your Palette: Recipes for a Successful Social Marketing Campaign
  • Jeffry Pilcher – Results 2.0: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Achieve Real Business Objectives

I’ve heard many of these speakers before, and I’m looking forward to hearing from them again

My session is called Using Social Media to Connect With Your Community: It Really Does Change Everything. I’m excited and honoured to be sharing the stage with these amazing thinkers and experts.

I am particularly excited to finally meet the amazing Ed Terpening in person. He will be chairing the whole event, and his take on things should prove illuminating and insightful.

I’m also really excited to hear from Jeffry Pilcher. After meeting him this weekend at BarCampBankBC, and catching his energy and enthusiasm, plus after reading Gene Blishen’s review of a recent presentation, I imagine he will close out the two-day conference with a bang.

If you’re looking for a conference on the future of financial services marketing and engagement, check out The Finance 2.0 Summit – Channeling the convergence of social media and finance: Practical marketing strategies to connect with your customer. Coming to New York January 26-27th, 2009.

Let me know if I’ll see you there!

Welcome to the new ChangeEverything.ca!

ChangeEverything.caLadies and gentlemen, I introduce you to the the brand new ChangeEverything.ca.

This has been a long time in the works. Since we launched two years ago, we have identified new functionality we wanted, usability issues we wanted to resolve and design enhancements we wanted to make. With this relaunch, we got almost everything we wanted.

The site revolves much more around the people now, and not just around text. It’s easier to use. And it’s pretty too.

This project would not have been possible without Kate Dugas, who has animated this community in an amazing way. This relaunch is a testament to her vision of what our community could be.

I want to thank Currency Marketing for designing such an amazing site. And Affinity Bridge, an amazing development shop that understands how to harness technology to build community.

I hope you enjoy.