‘Ask a Geek’ at SchipulCon – where Web dreams come true

With 3 rooms fulls of fantastic speakers from all across the country and some of the finest attendees around (love you guys!), we just can’t wait to get to SchipulCon to grow your brain, network and creative side!!

October 6th and 7th is coming quickly and we’ve got some extra special announcements for you (psssttt… if you’re not signed up for our SchipulCon newsletter, you’re really missing out!).

Liza Kindred schools us on the future of e-commerce

Ever meet one of those people that just.plain.gets.it? Then SchipulCon speaker Liza Kindred should look awfully familiar with her Drupal, e-commerce and start up butt kickin’ ways.

Her presentation on ‘The New E-Commerce‘ is going to blow you away – learn how to combine the social web, innovative business models and awesome emerging technology to help you sell, sell, SELLLLL!!! Don’t miss this one, seriously.

Personalized Ask a Geek tech and marketing sessions

Think of our Ask a Geek sessions like a Web marketing kissing booth, without the chapstick and breathmints. We’ll have some of our Schipulite Web geeks on call to give you 20 minutes worth of their brains and expertise.

Have a specific pressing Facebook marketing question? Want to feel inspired about your latest Drupal site view? Need a little hand holding on your Twitter tactics (hey now, no frisky business). This is the perfect session for you!

Register for your slot by filling out this form here and get ready to connect to some Web marketing and tech magic like never before!

Get those SchipulCon badges – your website can do the robot!

While you might have two left feet, no reason your website or blog shouldn’t get a little funky. Grab our cool robot and brain SchipulCon badges and share your SchipulCon pride like never before.

Email us a link to your SchipulCon badge-laden website and you just might get a super cool surprise 🙂 Can’t wait to get our geek on with you at SchipulCon – tickets are going fast, jump in to join the fun!

Photo thanks to Zitona on Flickr

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Hear ye, hear ye – welcome SchipulCon sponsor Texas Ren Fest!

While there won’t be any jousts and we are not encouraging attendees to wear chain mail (although that would be hilarious), we are excited to welcome the Texas Renaissance Festival as a SchipulCon sponsor! (Disclosure, they are a Schipul client)

The Ren Fest folks be spreading good cheer (in Olde English, of course) and are providing every SchipulCon attendee with 2 tickets to the festival which, conveniently enough, begins the weekend following SchipulCon.

Grab those SchipulCon tickets now, before the goblins get them!

SchipulCon registrations are going fast, be sure to sign you and your favorite co-workers of the round table to enjoy the brain growing and, mayhaps, mead imbibing experience! Our Labor Day discount code ($25 / ticket off, good until 11:45pm Monday, September 5th) is the perfect accompaniment to your registration: laborday

And who knows? You might even make some new fairy friends! Photos thanks to Ed Schipul

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Meet Brian Sullivan + use our SchipulCon Labor Day discount!

Give your wallet the day off with our handy Labor Day discount code!

While Labor Day was originally designed to celebrate “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations”, the SchipulCon robots are putting their own spin on the holiday offering a handy discount code to all of our favorite laborers, leaders and learners.

Get your SchipulCon tickets with $25 to spare (that’s a decent happy hour tab, folks!) by using this code until Monday, September 5th 11:45pm: laborday

Meet super hero design speaker Brian Sullivan

As if a coupon wasn’t exciting enough, we have even cooler news! Please welcome Brian Sullivan, founder of The Big (D)esign Conference – among other notable achievements, as one of our amazing SchipulCon speakers!

Brian is joining us as an inspirational and actionable presenter bent on reaching the designer within all of us. Yes, even you CEO of that awesome company. And YOU, marketing director of our favorite nonprofit.

Read more about his great presentation “Collaborative Sketching for Design Ideation” and get ready to turn your brilliant ideas into well-planned and well-received successes in your business through the power

Get your SchipulCon tickets – don’t forget your favorite co-workers and clients

Know that post-conference high you get when your brain is so crammed full of ideas that you just can’t bear your old mediocre workstyle any longer? Be sure to bring along your office cohorts so they can join in on the inspiration and excitement too!

Want to bring a group? Let us know and we’ll connect you to a great group rate. Getting hyper about SchipulCon and want your brand to join in the awesomeness? Check out our totally awesome SchipulCon sponsorship info and be part of the buzz! Can’t wait to learn and play on October 6th – 7th!

>> Awesome robot image thanks to Flickr user Steve.M~

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SchipulCon schedule and robots galore!

Holy guacamole! We’re 8 weeks away from SchipulCon 2011 business, marketing and technology magic on October 6th and 7th – have you gotten your conference ticket yet?

There’s never been a better place to Create, Profit and Reach – come learn and play with us!

Get excited about our SchipulCon schedule!

We’re not afraid to show you our awesome work in progress, especially as we know what a masterpiece SchipulCon is going to be! Peruse some of our confirmed speakers and general topic areas on the SchipulCon agenda. Check back regularly for more updates!

Robots and brains for your blog and website

No, we’re not quitting our day jobs to become zombies – but we do have some pretty awesome SchipulCon badges to share the love of our upcoming conference!

Shout your SchipulCon pride loud and clear – whether you are a speaker, sponsor or absolutely awesome attendee – we’ve got a little something for everyone.

And now for some random robot facts:

* The very first robot to appear on the silver screen was in the 1927 film Metropolis

* George Lucas’ C-3PO drew heavily from Metropolis’ Maria robot (neat!)

* Even Leonardo DaVinci had a soft spot for our robot friends

* YOU! (yes, you!) will get to play with robots too at SchipulCon!

2011-07-272014-11-02

SchipulCon tech + marketing conference coming October 6th -7th!

SchipulCon web marketing and tech conference

Let us help grow your marketing and tech brain!

The Schipul crew (the team behind your Tendenci website software) is holding another SchipulCon event — our fantastic web marketing, technology and innovation conference in Houston, TX on October 6th – 7th.

We’ll be covering some pretty amazing topics all designed to grow your brain and organization, as well as leave you inspired for challenges to come in the new year.

Pick up some new Tendenci tricks, learn more about T5, pick up pointers on your marketing strategy, play with robotics and so much more! Check out our ever-growing list of speakers to see who is on deck. You’re going to love it!

Early bird registration ends July 31st – that $100 savings will go far in helping you bring more folks from your organization. Join us for SchipulCon!

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SchipulCon 2011 – get your discounted tickets before July ends!

What can SchipulCon fill your brain with?

We’re still doing the happy dance for our upcoming SchipulCon 2011 event on October 6th – 7th in Houston, TX. Seriously – the more we plan, the more awesome it gets. Seeing your name on our roster will make it just that much more special!

SchipulCon is a 2-day learning whirlwind for business owners, marketers, nonprofit professionals, Web geeks and all-around curious people. Do you have a brain, big ideas and awesome goals to accomplish? Then SchipulCon is for you!!

This year’s conference is dedicated to 3 very special areas of awesomeness (go in-depth on these topics on this blog post here):

Create – design, develop, program, master, conquer
Profit – grow, culture, sales, HR, employee relations
Reach – market, optimize, fundraise, community build, generate buzz

Our speakers (who are slowly but surely being announced – check out the latest folks here!) are a diverse, funny, brainy and successful bunch.

We want you to learn from the best in a variety of industries, disciplines and creative persuasions. SchipulCon is all about teaching, learning, creating and succeeding in ways you never realized were possible.

Early Bird tickets are going quickly – buy your SchipulCon tickets by 7/31!

Join us! We have a great July-only ticket special that’s quickly coming to a close, so buy your tickets by July 31st to take advantage of a $100 early bird discount.

Count your brain among the hundreds of SchipulCon attendees preparing to make a splash with the amazing content from SchipulCon. We can’t wait to see you there!

Curious about some of our great SchipulCon 2009 content? Watch Ed’s ‘Storytelling through Social Media’ video for a fun and informative blast from the past:

Storytelling Through Social Media from Schipul – The Web Marketing Co. on Vimeo.

Photo thanks to Flickr user Mettamatt

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SchipulCon 2011 is coming October 6th and 7th!

We are extremely excited to announce SchipulCon 2011 – our web marketing, business and ‘personal brain development’ conference held on October 6th – 7th, 2011.

You probably know the Schipul team well enough to realize we wouldn’t throw just any old marketing conference, we’ve got a life and organization changing event planned for you that’s going to knock your socks off!

This year’s event is going focus on connecting offline and online technology, communities and networking to help grow your problem solving creativity and shift those paradigms, baby.

Our Mission

SchipulCon Mission:
To grow community champions that make the world a better place through extraordinary thinking, smart technology and cross-industry creativity.

Schipul Mission:
To connect and organize the world’s people. Do good.

Great SchipulCon content

Create (build, program, re-construct, develop)

The act and art of creation is a powerful force to be reckoned with. Whether you build robots, program software, love to knit or make iPhone apps – you are adding to the human experience.

Our ‘Create’ content track will feature content on topics likes:

Drupal
WordPress
Tendenci and Tendenci 5
Smart, game changing design
Programming and app development ( with some love even for the non-programmers out there)
And some pretty terrific offline tech surprises that you are going to LOVE!

Profit (success, business life, management, financials)

Somewhere along the way, the word ‘profit’ has become a negative one. But what is the purpose of business other than to be profitable? What nonprofit can ignore their bottom line in their quest to make the world a better place?

Our ‘Profit’ track at SchipulCon will give you the tools, ideas and inspiration to grow your business through topics like:

Smarter sales strategies
Entrepreneurial and start up tips
Company culture development
Online and offline advertising
HR and people empowerment

Reach (connect, empower, market, optimize)

Let’s get social! We live in a digital era where people connect, teach each other, inspire and assist through powerful technology platforms, mobile devices and face-to-face experiences.

The SchipulCon ‘Reach’ track is all about creating and maintaining those connections – not just adding new Twitter followers, but inspiring your community and audience to take action in ways that benefit you and your organization. We’ll cover lots of ground, including topics like:

Social Media Marketing
Search engine marketing and optimization
Community building (online and offline)
Political technology
Strategic marketing plans

SchipulCon 2011 Details

What: SchipulCon 2011: The Web Marketing Conference
When: October 6th – 7th, 2011
Where: Norris Conference Centers at City Centre in Houston, TX

Registration opens next week! Our early bird special last until July 30th, so do not delay! Want to get a heads up when you can get your tickets? Sign up for our SchipulCon newsletter!

Want to be part of the fun?

Beyond having the time of your life as an attendee, we are looking for sponsors, vendors and partners to help this be a fantastic event!

Think you know an amazing speaker we should feature? Or have a great presentation idea of your own? Submit your SchipulCon ideas here!

We can’t wait to see you on October 6th – 7th in Houston, great things are in store for your brain and your bottom line at SchipulCon 2011!

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Friday Fun: Check out our SchipulCon Badges (and our giveaway too!!)

We’ve got SchipulCon badges!! And now you can too.

Simply head over to our Conference Site, grab some code, and post one of our super neat SchipulCon Badges on your site, blog or twitter background to show your love.

That is not all though!! We want to give some of you a free pass to the conference.

Send us the URL (communications@schipul dot com) to your site showing some SchipulCon love and you could win a free pass to the conference! We’ll be giving away random free passes from now until day one of SchipulCom and it’s so easy to win one! Show some love + Win a free pass! That’s it.

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SchipulCon 2009 coming October 15 – 16th!!

If you're an esteemed reader of our Tendenci newsletter, you already had a sneak peek at our Big News this week!

This year's Tendenci software and Schipul Web Marketing conference (now lovingly called SchipulCon) will be at the Houston Zoo on October 15 – 16th!!

Topics will range from some very exciting new Tendenci 5.0 feature showcasing by our Programming team to Social Media training to Web marketing strategies to online Community building classes. Know of a non profit or wannabe Web guru? Invite them to attend!! All are welcome 🙂

Tickets will go on sale later this month, in the meantime please do submit your SchipulCon training ideas and suggestions on our SchipuCon 2009 Forum. Can't wait to see you there!!

Want to see more ongoing Tendenci updates from the team? Connect with us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tendenci!

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Save the Date! SchipulCon2009 is taking over the Houston Zoo!!

We’ve been busy as bees here in the Schipul office planning something super special for you guys and it’s time to let the cat out of the bag!

We’ll be taking over the Houston Zoo on October 15 & 16, 2009 for our first ever Schipul Web Marketing Conference! Or as we like to call it…. SchipulCon09!

So save the date!!

We’ve got a passionate team full of subject matter experts on everything from Tendenci to Twitter and we want to share all of this knowledge with you!

Over the next couple of months we will be filling you in on all of the details including a super speaker lineup and all kinds of other awesomeness you’ve come to expect from the Schipul Crew.

We’ll be covering everything from the Web Marketing Fundamentals to how to execute a successful marketing campaign using your Tendenci Software. We’ll dish on social media and we’ll get wild about WordPress. If it has to do with teaching you how to tell your organizations story, we’ll be covering it!

We’ll be mad as wet hens if we leave something out SO WE NEED YOU! What do you want to learn at SchipulCon that we haven’t thought of yet? Visit our Tendenci Forums and drop us a line or a question. We couldn’t do what we do without YOU!

Keep your eye on the Blog Ladies and Gentleman, because pre-registration will be opening soon and we’ll announce it here first!

Just like all of our in-house trainings and webinars, SchipulCon is open to everyone, not just clients! There will be multiple tracks to choose from and there is plenty of brain candy to go around.