Louisville Digital Association

Fark.com Founder Curtis to Preview Technology Disruption Book at June LDA Event

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What’s the next disruptor in the technology space? It may not be Fark.com, but its founder, Drew Curtis, has ideas on what will. Curtis, who tried his own hand at disruption as an independent candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 2015, will share thoughts from his upcoming book Don’t Give Guns to Robots: Choosing Our Future Before It Chooses Us at the Louisville Digital Association’s gathering on June 20.

The event, which will feature hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar, will be 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at GenScape (1140 Garvin Place in Old Louisville) Tickets are $10 and will include pizza and one drink ticket. (Buy yours below.)

Curtis is a widely respected media critic and technology influencer. Fark.com ushered in the era of social news and link aggregation when it sprung to life in the late 1990s. The site was the first independent blog to earn over $1 million per year. A keen curator of popular culture, Curtis parlayed his media criticism into his first book: It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News in 2007 – a decade before “fake news” became a mainstream concern.

His current book project focuses on near-term technology disruptions and what we can expect from the world around us in the coming years. It is slated to be published in the spring of 2018.

Native Advertising Institute’s Chad Pollitt Featured at LDA’s May Gathering

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What is Native Advertising and how can your brand benefit from leveraging it? Who better to answer that question and teach us all about the past, present and future of Native Advertising than Chad Pollitt, partner and vice-president of audience for the Native Advertising Institute?

Chad Pollitt - LDA - May 23

Pollitt will be the featured speaker at the Louisville Digital Association’s May gathering, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at PriceWeber (10701 Shelbyville Road in Louisville). His presentation will explore native advertising’s timeline of existence, while postulating its future from a content marketing perspective.

Register to attend for free in the ticket form below!

Pollitt is a decorated veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a former U.S. Army commander. He also serves as an adjunct professor of internet marketing at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and an adjunct instructor of content marketing at Rutgers University Business School. His role at the Native Advertising Institute puts him atop a global think tank dedicated to advancing native advertising as an industry.

Pollitt’s talk will look at the mistakes of the past and present to help audience members maximize outputs from their own native advertising and look at the trends we need to watch for as the industry evolves.

The event is one of the Louisville Digital Association’s regular monthly gatherings which are typically free or low-charge events to help educate and inspire the digital community of Louisville and Southern Indiana. The May gathering is sponsored by our host, PriceWeber, an innovative marketing agency with a long list of successful digital marketing campaigns and strategies for worldwide clients.

This event is free, open to anyone and light hors d’ouvres and beverages will be served.

How to Land a Job in Digital – LDA April Meet Up

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Looking for a job in a digital career? Looking to change careers? Curious about what a “digital” job even is? It’s a broader field than you think. Come hear a panel of local experts, including a recent grad that just landed a job, talk about what, where and how to look.

When:

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

6 – 8 pm

Where:

Sullivan College of Technology and Design

3901 Atkinson Square Drive, Louisville KY 40218

Parking is free in front of the building. It’s the first on the left (there are only two.)

This Month’s Speakers:

Jenna Ahern

Guardian Owl

Jenna Ahern is the President and Owner of Guardian Owl Digital Boutique in Louisville where she is responsible for quality control, client relations and strategic development with Google Partners. Guardian Owl is Digital Boutique is a certified Google Partner specializing in SEO, SEM, and PPC. Jenna graduated from the University of Louisville where she was the Vice-Captain of the nationally ranked field hockey team. Jenna has been in search engine marketing for the past 8 years compiling experience under 3 Google Premier Partners and two of the world’s largest automotive search engines.

Susanna Conway

tronc

Over her career, Susanna Conway has evolved from an IT Staffing Recruiter to a Corporate Strategic Sourcer and Educator. Susanna specializes in Talent Acquisition process improvement, recruitment marketing, and best practice education. She currently leads all sourcing efforts for award-winning media company tronc which operates over 160 titles in nine of the nation’s largest markets including Chicago, Los Angeles and Baltimore. You can connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Aaron Henry

Jefferson County Public Schools

Aaron Henry graduated from the University of Louisville in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication. Soon after, he landed a job as the Digital Media Coordinator for Jefferson County Public Schools, where his role includes content editing, webpage management and social listening.

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