Where:
Doubletree Hotel
2649 S Bayshore Dr
Miami, FL
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You can rspv here

Come join us for this month event, we are going to have a great lineup.
Robert Murray will introduce us to Social Media for Social Change, an example of how social media can bring together people from all around the world together to change society in a big way.
John James Jacoby , the developer of Buddy Press, will talk about WordPress MU and Buddy Press, more specifically about the new Buddy Press 1.1 release that is scheduled to come out later this month.
Alex De Carvalho and Brian Breslin are going to give us an overview on the current situation of the South Florida tech community and its future.

David Bisset – @dimensionmedia will present on how to build a social network using WordPress and BuddyPress, which has recently been released. David specializes in website strategy and design and is an expert on WordPress and WordPress Multi-User platforms.

We will also talk about the other new media and tech events in South Florida, and you will have the opportunity to introduce your meetup or event in two-minutes or less.

There will be food, wine, beer, sodas, and other snacks and refreshments. Please make sure you RSVP at the facebook page. Find out more about RefreshMiami. We will be meeting at 7:30pm, at:

Brikolodge
3301 NE 1st Ave Unit L207
Miami, FL

Directions for getting to Brikolodge:
Brikolodge is in the Midtown4 building, on the south side of the building (follow the signs). Midtown 4 itself is at the southeast corner of NE 33rd street and NE 1st Avenue. There is plenty of parking along the street, and several garages a block or two away (next to target or the other stores on S Miami Ave).

Upcoming New Media Events

It’s a busy month! Featured events include:

Lisa Sparks and Alex de Carvalho will speak about using E-Mail and Social Media for Business Success on May 27, 4-7pm, Hyatt Coral Gables, 50 Alhambra Plaza, Coral Gables. RSVP here, the cost is free.

Miami Drupal Training, May 27-29.

This Saturday, May 30th, join over 200 other local techies as we learn from local and non-local experts on developing for the facebook platform.  Facebook, Intel, and Infinimedia are proud to host the second ever Facebook Developer Garage in South Florida.  Topics will include integrating Facebook Connect, Facebook Connect on iPhone, building your fan page, Social Gaming, and more. See Facebook Miami for more details and the speaker’s lineup. The event is at capacity, please arrive early to ensure your seating.

LaidOffCamp Miami: on Saturday, June 6, 2009 a gathering of job-seekers, freelancers, entrepreneurs and startups will meet at the Miami Beach Convention Center for South Florida’s first community-driven conference for creative employment. Don’t miss this event!

Second #pizzatweetup June 8th, 7pm at The Sicilian Oven Lighthouse Point. Free pizza when you buy a drink!

Social Media Club South Florida June 9th, 7-10pm, is holding an outstanding meetup: “Creative Community Engagement and Engaging Creative Communities”. We will be joined by a panel of artists and bloggers, including Steve Roitstein of the Palo latin-jazz band, Maria Lemus, creative writer, Carlos Miller, photographer, Onajide Shabaka, artist, and Irina Patterson, art event entertainer. Denise Jacobs will lead the panel, and later we’ll dance to the tunes of Palo music! Please RSVP here.

Coffee & Social Media meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month in Naples. Next meeting is June 9th, 8am at Bad Ass Coffee. Email cyndee@c2-com.com or (239)571-3174 for more information.

FPRA Treasure Coast Annual Media Conference June 12th, Stuart. This year’s topic is “Successful Media Strategies”.

Mobile Monday Miami on June 15th, in conjunction with the Mobile Commerce Americas conference

Miami Herald tweetup, June 16th (@miamiherald, @heraldsports). Time and location TBD.

The AWC hosts “Social Media – Challenge or Opportunity?” on Thu, Jun 18, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at the Havana Club. In a few short years, online communications have changed dramatically. From blogging to Facebook to Twitter, more and more people are participating in the conversation online. For continued effective communication, using these tools is not optional, it’s required … or is it? Join Murray Izzenwasser and Alex de Carvalho for a lively discussion at the outstanding Havana Club, at no charge!

KickStartz Weekend 2009 will held June 18-20, 2009 at DeVry
University in Miramar Florida. KickStartz is an intense 3 day event bringing techies, designers, marketers, and business folks together to create businesses, projects, and work through their ideas! Idea submissions will be presented in an “Elevator Pitch” format to the attendees. The attendees will vote the ideas down to 10 or so finalists. The attendees will then be broken out into teams and will literally create these businesses over the duration of the event.

Friday, June 19, 10am, the Naples Daily News Press Conference and Media Tour, Naples, Florida. Collier County’s only local daily newspaper will move into its new $95 million multi-media facility in September. Media and communications professionals in South Florida are encouraged to attend this personal first-look at their new facility in Naples hosted by publisher Chris Doyle. Critics call it the “last newspaper press to be built in America.” Contact PRACC for more info.

More events:

“The Glitter of Twitter & Social Media” at SFIMA, June 11th

Miami Ruby Brigade Meetup June 15th

RefreshMiami June Meetup June 24th

South Florida iPhone Meetup Group TBA

Check Doterati’s site for many events in Orlando

PRSA PRVille June 18-20, Jacksonville

Our next meetup is going to be held January 28th at 7:30PM at Brikolodge.  Here is the event on facebook please RSVP there if you are interested in attending.

Our speakers this month will be :
Quynn Pham
Denise Jacobs
Mark Reznik
Matthew Lally

Quick heads up for those of you not on the google group or the other mailing lists. The next meetup is this coming wednesday October 29,2008 at 7:30PM. Space is limited so please show up early and make sure you RSVP.

This month’s speakers: Alex de Carvalho, Michael Montgomery, and Adam Singer.

“The dream had vanished. Unfortunately the lifestyle remained” —Gapingvoid. The question is, how do you create new opportunities for yourself? Alex de Carvalho presents five steps to personal branding online and will lead a discussion on best practices for online reputation management. He is the co-founder of StartPR, which provides self-service tools for brand monitoring online. He blogs on social media at alexdc.org and Twitters @alexdc.

Our next meetup is on Wednesday!

Yahoo! Latin America hosts us again at their cool Coral Gables offices and we’ve got great presentations lined up:

- Alexandra Leite will describe what it’s like to work in global virtual teams;

- Jeffrey Sass of Myxer will talk about dealing with the complexities of mobile content;

- Jose from the Knight Foundation will present the Knight News Challenge Garage and give information on how you might win part of $5 million!

If we’re running on time, we’ll lead a discussion on “Steps to building your personal brand online.” Let us know about your experiences of what works … and what doesn’t!

Here are the details of the meetup:

When: Wednesday September 24th, 2008, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Where: Yahoo! Latin America
Street: 1 Alhambra Plaza, Coral Gables, FL
RSVP: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36985634056

Here’s a Yahoo! map of the location.

Space will be limited to 75 people this time, so make sure to RSVP and to arrive promptly on time. Nearly 100 attended the last event, which caught us by surprise since there were more people than had confirmed. Please arrive early as we may not be able to accommodate more than 75 people.

We’ve set up a quick poll to record your preferences on where to hold RefreshMiami meetups. Please take a couple of seconds to choose you preference: http://tinyurl.com/3ov5d5

If you are interested in presenting at the October event or hosting the October event, please let us know.

Nathaniel McNamara of HIG and YASNAP will present his thinking on viral distribution of web applications. He’ll talk about how to how to build, measure and optimize your apps for viral distribution.

We have also started researching the ins and outs of formalizing RefreshMiami as a non-profit organization. There are many pros and some cons, and we’ll present our latest thinking and progress at the meeting. If you have experience in running or setting up a non-profit, we would love to hear from you.

After that we’ll have some beers and wine!

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13697336138

Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Location: Brikolodge
Address: 250 NW 23rd ST, Miami, FL

Many thanks to Denise Jacobs and dotMarketing for hosting a great RefreshMiami meetup in May. We talked about developments in South Florida’s burgeoning tech community and then learned about website accessibility.

Thanks also to Victoria Edwards from the Collins Center for Public Policy, who presented her upcoming free Conference on Universal Access, on June 23rd. She is also setting up a volunteer program (Facebook link) for tech savvy people looking to give back and help bridge the divide in South Florida.

Since the meetup was in Coconut Grove, we continued the conversation over dinner and drinks at Jaguar’s.