Upcoming Webinar Featuring Pawan Deshpande and Burt Herman

I’m happy to annouce that registration is open for our upcoming webinar 5 Tips for Old World Story Telling in Today’s New World with Pawan Deshpande from HiveFire, Inc. and Burt Herman from Storify providing their unique perspectives. There will also be a short Q&A with both Pawan and Burt after the webinar.

5 Tips for Old World Story Telling In Today’s New World

Date: 9.29.11      Time: 1pm EST    To Sign-up: Click Here

Content curation thought leaders Pawan Deshpande, CEO/Founder of HiveFire, Inc. and Burt Herman, CEO/Co-Founder of Storify will review the tips and tricks of story telling that have been passed down through the centuries to today’s marketers.

Pawan and Burt will show how content curation can help marketers Find, Organize and Share information and synthesize it into concise stories that your prospects and customers can understand.

In this webinar, you will learn 5 Tips and Marketing Best Practices for story telling in today’s new social media economy.  Pawan and Burt will also be available for Q&A during and after the session.

For more information or to register.

Speakers:

 Pawan Deshpande is the CEO and visionary behind HiveFire, Inc.  HiveFire’s product, Curata, www.getcurata.com, is an easy-to-use marketing solution for content curation and content marketing.  Pawan has spoken at leading events including SXSW, the Online Media Summit, Social Media Breakfast, Content Marketing World and several American Marketing Association webinars, and was recently named to Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list of influential business leaders. Prior to founding HiveFire, Deshpande held positions at both Microsoft and Google. Pawan attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for both his graduate and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science.

Curata is content marketing in a box. Curata helps marketers maximize their content curation efforts with web-based tools to easily find, organize and share online content - helping them build thought leadership and grow their qualified leads.

Connect with Pawan on Twitter: @GetCurata
Burt Herman is co-founder and CEO of Storify, a platform for creating stories from social media, and founder of Hacks/Hackers, a worldwide organization bringing together journalists and technologists. Storify was named one of the top 50 Web sites for 2011 by Time Magazine, and won the grand prize in the 2011 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism, among other accolades. Burt previously worked as a journalist at The Associated Press. In his dozen years there, he served as Korea bureau chief, founded a bureau covering the five countries of former Soviet Central Asia and reported on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, among other assignments worldwide.

Storify is a free platform that lets users, brands, and media outlets tell stories using social media and their own content. The New York Times and Weather Channel use Storify, as have Levi’s and American Express, and people telling the story of their weddings.
 
Connect with Burt on Twitter: @burtherman