From Newsday May 31, 2009
"I KNOW YOU: She's the YouTube sensation "Obama Girl." But Amber Lee Ettinger is actually a multifaceted actress and digital-branding role model, a walking, talking exemplar of star creation circa 2008-09. At a breakfast Tuesday, she'll describe "Selling Yourself in the New Digital Age." Other testimonials from Ben Relles of BarelyPolitical.com, Norm Golden of 50todeath.com and relationship guide Andrea Syrtash"
Tuesday, June 2nd
7:30am - 9:30am
The Samsung Experience at Time Warner Center
10 Columbus Circle/3rd Floor
New York, NY
(REGISTRATION LINK AT BOTTOM OF PAGE)
Promoting your
personal brand and business in the digital space has never been more of a
challenge. Yesterday’s blog is
today’s tweet so be prepared for
what tomorrow brings! Discover how
to make a name for yourself online from a panel of personalities who are leading
the pack:
- Meet barelypolitical.com Ben Relles and internet superstar, “The Obama Girl,” Amber
Lee Ettinger and find out how they brought sexy back to online
politics.
- Author
and life coach, Andrea Syrtash explains how she became one of digital media’s
foremost authorities on dating and relationships.
- Actor
and producer Norm Golden reveals how he created a whole new audience for his boomer-centric
online series, “50ToDeath.com”
- Political Journalist and Fox
News Channel analyst, Ellis Henican moderates the panel with stimulating
style.
Ben Relles is the founder and creator of video website Barely Political (part of NextNewNetworks). Graduated the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founded in Philadelphia own marketing company MarketVision Inc., and from 1997 to 2002 grew the business as its president.
Amber Lee Ettinger
is an American actress, internet celebrity, and model best known as
Obama Girl in her online video "I Got a Crush... on Obama" — referring
to U.S. Senator (now President) Barack Obama — which has earned her
scores of media appearances, from a part in a Saturday Night Live
sketch with Fred Armisen as Obama to an interview on Geraldo at Large
with Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly's The Factor.
Andrea
Syrtash is a dating expert, life coach, author and the host of 'ON
Dating', produced by NBC Digital Studios for ON Networks. Andrea is
currently working on
her third book, a dating advice title, which will be released by Rodale
early next year. Andrea has made various Google 'hot trend'
reports, ranking in the top 100 things googled on particular days in
2007 and 2008. She has no idea how that happened, but appreciates the
(very postmodern) honor. For more, please visit www.andreasyrtash.com
Norm Golden is an actor, writer and executive producer of the
‘growing ever more popular’ webseries, 50ToDeath.com, following the
(mis)adventures of 3 boomers jousting with the 21st Century. He is
still often recognized as the Norway Guy who’s really Swedish, from the
popular Citicard commercial. He’s been seen on recent episodes of
“Guiding Light”, “Law and Order Criminal Intent”, “The Maury Show”, and
if you watch carefully, he’s #5 on the new “Feed America” PSA.
Ellis Henican (Moderator) is a staff columnist for Newsday, joined
FOX News Channel (FNC) as a political contributor in July of 1999. His
opinion column appears in Newsday's front section every Wednesday,
Friday and Sunday. Ellis is also one of our favorite moderators!
And...joining us from San Francisco to introduce the panel is our good friend,
Kate Rodler, VP at
Loomia.
Loomia is a unique a web technology company that that aims to bridge the gap between technological capabilities and user intents. The very cool Loomia technology analyzes the content on the Web site, as well as user behaviors and social contexts to offer additional content that reflects the user's interests.
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and that's not all...
as an added bonus...
In Honor of the 44th President of the United States the Brooklyn Cyclones have dedicated June 23rd as "Baracklyn Cyclones" day. In honor of the event Cyclones GM Steve Cohen and Promotion Director Dave Campanaro will be joining us for a special announcement and will be raffling off tickets to Brooklyn Cyclones an upcoming Cyclones game as well as some cool Cyclones stuff!
(in case you have no idea who we're talking about here The Brooklyn Cyclones are a minor league baseball team in the Short-Season A classification New York - Penn League, affiliated with the New York Mets. The Cyclones play at KeySpan Park just off the Coney Island boardwalk.)
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Thanks again to our friends at NBC Sports we will be raffling off a pair of tickets to the first practice round of the US Open at Bethpage on Monday June 15th. These passes have a value of $40 (total $80) but you must be available on the 15th since these are "one day only" grounds passes.
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also...
a pair of tickets ($1570 value) to
June 10-11
Produced by Digital Hollywood
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