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Desiree Scales Interviews Kwanza Hall, Brent Leary and Robin Carey from The Social Shakeup Conference

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Brent Leary

Brent Leary is a crm industry analyst, advisor, author, speaker and award winning blogger. He is co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, an Atlanta based CRM advisory firm covering tools and strategies for improving business relationships. Clients include Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Intuit, SAP and other major technology companies. In 2009 he co-authored Barack 2.0: Social Media Lessons for Small Business.  Leary is in the process of writing his next book, “The Amazon Effect: How a New Customer Culture is Creating Crazy New Business Opportunities and Killing Companies That Won’t Adapt”, due out in 2014.

Recognized by InsideCRM as one of the 25 most influential industry leaders, Leary also is a past recipient of CRM Magazine’s Most Influential Leader Award.  He serves on the national board of the CRM Association, on the advisory board of the University of Toronto’s CRM Center of Excellence, and on the editorial advisory board for The Atlanta Tribune.  Leary writes regularly CRM Magazine, Inc.com and Direct Marketing News, and serves on the advisory board for Social Media Today.  He hosts the “One on One” conversation series at SmallBizTrends.com, and teams up with Paul Greenberg on the CRM Playaz show. Leary also is the organizer of the annual Social Biz Atlanta event.  He blogs at BrentLeary.com, and can be found on Twitter @brentleary.

Kwanza Hall

Atlanta City Councilmember Kwanza Hall represents the heart of Atlanta, including the neighborhoods of greater Downtown Atlanta. Hall’s District 2 includes 2 Nobel Peace Prizes (at the King Center and the Carter Presidential Library), the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, and the Martin Luther King Historic District. Hall is completing his 2nd four-year term on the Atlanta City Council and he is unopposed for a third term to begin in January 2014. Kwanza and his wife Natalie Hall live in the Martin Luther King Jr Historic District. They have 2 sons, Mario and Marc. You can find Kwanza on Twitter @kwanzahall

Robin Carey

After a long career in business development and advertising, Robin decided to launch Social Media Today in 2007 as a way of creating vibrant conversations with thinking people. Then she decided to keep it going by developing a variety of ways for thinking companies to get involved in those conversations.

Social Media Today LLC is the company that also hosts conversations in energy policy, metropolitan planning and sustainability, health care for professionals, and data. Robin is very proud of what her team has accomplished and continues to do every hour of every day. Social Media Today LLC was launched in 2007 as one of the first and still the leading site for social media pros. Robin is bringing the Social Shakeup Conference to Atlanta September 15-17, 2013. More details here. You can find Robin on Twitter @robincarey

 

Special Edition: Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce

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Kelly Clark/First Watch Soar FacebookTwitter

First Watch is a daytime-only restaurant open daily from 7 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. that specializes in delicious Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch creations all freshly-prepared. Their creative menu features traditional favorites like cooked-to-order eggs and omelets, fluffy, plate-sized pancakes, hot soups, fresh salads and mouth-watering sandwiches as well as signature items such as the Chickichanga®, Siesta Key Cocktail® and Floridian French Toast. For the more health-conscious, First Watch’s “Healthier Side” features a variety of delicious options, including egg white omelets, Fresh Fruit Crepes and their signature Power Wrap™.

First Watch is opening its newest location in Dunwoody in early October but is giving Dunwoody residents a sneak peek during Dunwoody @ Dusk in the Dunwoody Villages on the 20th of September.

Allison Howard and Brian Friedman/Dentistry for Children and Family Orthodontics FacebookFacebook

Dentistry for Children and Family Orthodontics provide an uncompromising excellence of care in pediatric dentistry and orthodontic treatment. Together under one roof, patients have convenient access and a seamless transition from pediatric to orthodontic care.

September Chamber Event Schedule

Monday Sep 9, 2013 – FIRST MONDAY Networking at D’Vine Wine and Bar Shop

Wednesday Sep 11, 2013 – YPODs Monthly Mixer at Joey D’s Oakroom

Tuesday Sep 17, 2013 – Dunwoody Chamber in Heels ‘Kick up your Heels & Connect’ Lunch at McKendrick’s Steakhouse featuring guest speaker Miller Finch discussing Social Media for Business

Friday Sep 20, 2013 – Dunwoody at Dusk at Dunwoody Village, Community Festival

Tuesday Sep 24, 2013 – Dunwoody Perimeter Coffee Connections at The Capital Grille featuring guest speaker, Douglas J. MacGinnitie, who serves as Georgia’s State Revenue Commissioner.

 

 

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Desiree Scales Interviews Sarah Miller Caldicott with The Power Patterns of Innovation and Sander Biehn with AT&T

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Sarah Miller Caldicott/The Power Patterns of Innovation 

A great grandniece of Thomas Edison, Sarah Miller Caldicott is an innovation process expert. She works with organizations that want to bring innovation to the center of their business practices, accelerating growth and relevance.

Inspired by a family lineage of inventors dating back five generations, she has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life.  Sarah spent the first 15 years of her 25-year career as a Marketing executive with Global 500 firms including Quaker Oats and the Helene Curtis subsidiary of Unilever.

Concerned that America was losing its innovation leadership as the new millennium dawned, Sarah spent three years researching Edison’s innovation methods with experts at Rutgers University.  She co-authored the first book ever written on Edison’s world-changing innovation process, updating his approach for the 21st century. Entitled “Innovate Like Edison: The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success,” Sarah’s book has been translated into 5 languages and is used as an innovation textbook in graduate and undergraduate programs across the US.

Dedicated to revitalizing America’s ingenuity and innovation leadership, Sarah travels all over the world inspiring organizations on how they can employ Edison’s timeless Five Competencies of Innovation™. An award-winning speaker, she was selected for the popular TEDx series.

Sarah’s newest book is “Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success, from Thomas Edison’s Lab” (Wiley Publishing). Midnight Lunch brings Edison’s collaboration approach into the digital era, offering executives at every level new tools for driving innovation through collaboration. Midnight Lunch has been featured in Fast Company magazine and several other leading publications. Sarah’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, Fortune Small Business, and USA Today.  She has also appeared as an innovation expert on PBS television, CNBC, the Fox Business Network, and NPR.

Sarah is President of her own Chicago-based consultancy, The Power Patterns of Innovation, offering expert training and guidance on how to build innovation and collaboration capabilities in organizations of all sizes. Her clients include Intel, John Deere, Motorola, the Mayo Clinic, and Microsoft among many others. She lives in Chicago.

You can reach Sarah via social media and online using these links:

Twitter: @SarahCaldicott

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcaldicott

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PowerPatternsOfInnovation

Blog: http://www.powerpatterns.com/Blog

Sander Biehn/AT&T

Sander is a  salesman and social media evangelist for AT&T. He has worked in a variety of sales and sales management roles both in the US and abroad over the past 15 years. These days he lives in Atlanta and on any given day can be found coaching teams on how to accelerate sales using social media, writing blogs on corporate innovation or just interacting with his network learning about new trends and ideas. Sander holds a patent in social media and is a charter member of the steering committed at AT&T evaluating social media initiatives for B2B sales. Sander is married and has two kids. He enjoys field geology and astronomy and has recently written a feature length screenplay based on the life of the poet Percy Shelley.

Sander can be reached:

Twitter: @sanderbiehn

Eric Tejeda with PossibleNOW and Randy Gold with AGH

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Eric Tejeda/PossibleNOW LinkedinTwitter

Eric Tejeda is the Director of Product Marketing for PossibleNOW. PossibleNOW provides enterprise preference management solutions that empower direct marketers to personalize multi-channel communications to prospects and customers. Eric supports the organization’s growth objectives by productizing and launching innovative new products and services that fill critical needs in the marketplace.

He also directs all aspects of brand marketing, thought leadership, demand generation, sales enablement, and training. Responsibilities include campaign planning, direct marketing, digital advertising, social media, and promotions to drive sales through both direct and channel sales organizations.

Customer Engagement Marketing Summit in Atlanta September 26-27, 2013

 Randy Gold/AGH

Randy Gold brings talent and experience to the firm’s real estate and construction practice in his role as Principal and Chief Operating Officer of AGH.  Randy has an extensive background representing commercial and multifamily real estate developers and investors through purchase/sale transactions, deal structuring, consulting and reporting.  With more than 14 years of experience representing pension funds, private investment groups, insurance companies and builders with portfolio assets ranging from $25 million to $5 billion, Randy’s clients rely on his practical expertise to help them meet their goals.

In his role as Chief Operating Officer of one of the leading accounting firms in the Southeast, Randy is responsible for helping to create the strategy and tactics to support AGH’s long term vision of developing expert team members who provide the foremost client communication and service.  Focused on business development, Randy helps the firm continue its history of significant growth in each of its practice areas.

 

 

 

 

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Special Edition: Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce

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Carolyn Axt and Irene Schweiger/Workforce Development Alliance

Recognizing the importance of an adequately trained, skilled workforce to the long-term economic vitality and growth of the community, the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce has convened the Workforce Development Alliance to facilitate the establishment of partnerships between businesses, educators, non-profits and students, and to ensure a qualified workforce for the Sandy Springs/Perimeter region.

 

 

 

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Eric Holtzclaw with Laddering Works, Doug Isenberg with The GigaLaw Firm, Larry White with The Ritz Group and Desiree Scales with Bella Web Design

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Eric V. Holtzclaw is founder and CEO of Laddering Works, a marketing and product strategy firm. He advises clients on the development of customer-centric products, services, marketing messages, and experiences. Eric has spent more than 20 years founding multiple start-up companies, including one of the first profitable Internet enterprises. Eric speaks regularly on evidence-based customer research, consumer trends, leadership, and entrepreneurship. His column Lean Forward appears weekly on Inc.com, he is a frequent contributor to CMO.com, the WSJ and Forbes. His book Laddering: Unlocking the Potential of Consumer Behavior was recently released by Wiley Publishing.

Doug Isenberg/The GigaLaw Firm LinkedinTwitter

Doug Isenberg, an attorney in Atlanta, has been called “an international authority on Internet law” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He began practicing Internet law in 1996, about the same time that legal issues started becoming commonplace online. In 2000, he launched a website about Internet legal issues called GigaLaw.com; in 2002, Random House published his book, “The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law”; and in 2005 he started his own legal practice at The GigaLaw Firm, where he helps clients of all sizes protect themselves and their brands online. Doug has taught Internet law at Georgia State University College of Law and speaks frequently about the topic. He spends a significant portion of his time on domain name issues, helping clients acquire domain names and fight cybersquatters. He also serves as a domain panelist for four international dispute providers, including the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.

Larry White/The Ritz Group

Larry White is president and CEO of the Atlanta-based Ritz Group networking organization which hosts live “Shark Attack” events.

Desiree Scales/Bella Web Design FacebookTwitterYouTube: www.youtube.com/bellawebdesign

 Desiree Scales has been a featured online marketing and web design expert for USAToday.com, CBS News in Atlanta, 11Alive, NBC Nightly News.

She founded Bella Web Design in 1998 following a successful career as a flight attendant for United Air Lines and an analyst for Delta Airlines. Since the company’s launch, Desiree created a track record of success and profitability for Bella Web, which has helped over 1,000 companies build and maintain a strong online presence with services such as compelling web design, web hosting, ecommerce, automated marketing, SEO, email marketing, and social media coaching. Desiree is also an Infusionsoft Certified Consultant (ICC).

Bella Web Design’s success is a direct result of Desiree’s expertise and experience, which has evolved into a passion to educate both businesses and organizations on how to use Internet technology to spur success. She has been a featured speaker at companies, conferences, and seminars across the country. She also provides classes on blogging, web design, branding, Internet marketing, Web 3.0 strategies and social media, and offers personal social media coaching to business owners who want to apply “an online buzz” to their customer relationships and bottom line. She has over 55,000 followers online.

 

 

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Special Edition: Divorce Money Matters

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Lisa Decker/Divorce Money Matters 

Lisa C. Decker – referred to by her clients as Miss Money Matters® – is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and the CEO and founder of Divorce Money Matters®, and Speed Divorcing Workshops, as well as the soon to launch online community, DivorceTownUSA.com.

Ms. Decker is a frequent radio show guest and has also been interviewed by CNBC, NY Times, ForbesWomen.com, Business Week, and Oprah magazines. Lisa is an expert in divorce financial matters, and a discreet problem-solver who guides her clients to “Divorce Your Spouse, Not Your Money®.”

She is also a Breast Cancer Survivor, married for more than 30 years and mom to three daughters, and a new granddaughter, as well as, an active volunteer in her community.

Steve Worrall/Georgia Family Law  FacebookFacebookLinkedinTwitterTwitter

Stephen M. Worrall is an experienced family law and wills, trusts and estate planning attorney in Marietta, Georgia. He concentrates on all areas of family law including wills, trusts, probate, special needs planning and guardianship.

Steve is committed to being a different kind of lawyer and doing things differently in his areas of practice. His goal is to guide his clients through the divorce process as efficiently and painlessly as possible. Steve is also focused on his desire to fully serve and help his clients make the best legal and financial decisions.

Steve is an Atlanta native and has lived in Cobb County all of his life. He graduated with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law and lives in his hometown suburb in Marietta. He is married and is a dad to three children. He is involved in his community in local organizations.

JoAnne Donner/Mediation Services of Georgia, Inc. Linkedin

JoAnne Donner, with Mediation Services of Georgia, Inc., is a conflict resolution specialist with a Master’s Degree in Conflict Management. She is a mediator, a mediation coach, and a divorce coach. As a mediator, she is a neutral third-party who facilitates the conversation between disputing parties, helping guide them through the mediation process toward their desired outcome, which can include a complete settlement on all issues. As a mediation coach, she works with one side in a dispute to prepare them for an upcoming mediation session so they approach mediation feeling confident, comfortable, and knowledgeable about the process. As a divorce coach, she guides divorcing individuals as they navigate the sometimes overwhelming maze of selecting and working with divorce professionals, as well as defining and refining goals, priorities, and decisions that can affect them and their families, potentially, forever. Note: mediators, mediation coaches, and divorce coaches do not offer legal or financial advice and are not substitutes for legal or financial counsel.

Mark and Anne Lackey/Atlanta Housing Source Team FacebookLinkedinLinkedinTwitter

Mark and his team at Atlanta Housing Source are specialists. Each agent has their own skill and specialty.

Divorce: One specialty is in working with couples who are going through or considering divorce.

Corporate Relocation : Our teams of service providers are available to our clients to bring peace of mind to the person or family who is relocating and provide them with exceptional service at a pre-negotiated price – No Surprises! We refer the most services or product to meet almost every need of our client. We also use our partners regularly to ensure that they are providing the best service and value.

Selling Homes: We sell a lot of homes. Whether you have equity or are under-water, we can help. We have a special plan & team for those homeowners who are underwater. All our listing are marketed through all channels of advertising to reach the maximum number of Buyers. Our tech savvy team has sold thousands of properties with their combined experience. Our marketing skills are second to none in our market and we stay on the cutting edge in our field.

Investors: We work with investors looking for Financial Freedom through the power of leverage with real estate. We have helped hundreds of investors interested in Metro Atlanta fulfill their dreams. Whatever your situation, don’t miss the perfect storm of the current environment of low prices and historically low interest rates. Buy your first home, move up to that dream home or buy that investment property. Let Mark and his team of professionals help your dreams come true.

 

 

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Kara Tarantino and Amanda Helmey with Vericom Corporation and Demi Tanner with Axia Payments

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Kara Tarantino/Vericom Corporation FacebookLinkedinTwitter

A results-driven strategic marketer with 25 years in the healthcare industry, Kara is intuitively passionate about bringing health literacy messaging mainstream and developing content for healthcare audiences that can be acted upon in order to positively impact patient behavior. Kara has led marketing at Vericom Corporation for more than 18 years, diligently working to help clients improve the patient and employee experience with more effective internal communications. Her unique expertise lies in strategic healthcare content development for hospital communications. Kara holds a B.A. in Business Administration and French from Gettysburg College.

Amanda Helmey/Vericom Corporation Linkedin

Amanda joined Vericom in April, 2010 as an account manager, bringing with her eight years of experience as the marketing manager for an Atlanta-based general contractor. In her current role as director, customer engagement, she is responsible for mentoring and coaching the client relations and account management staff as they build relationships with clients and provide extraordinary customer service. She is accountable for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the department. Amanda holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia with a concentration in public relations.

Demi Tanner/Axia Payments Linkedin

 

 

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Special Edition: Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce

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Andrea Hall/City of Sandy Springs Andrea Linkedin

Andrea Hall currently serves as the Economic Development Director for the City of Sandy Springs, where she is responsible for facilitating the location or expansion of businesses in the City. In this role, Andrea works with various partners at the local, state and regional levels to provide site selection assistance for companies and acts as the City’s business ombudsperson.

Prior to joining Sandy Springs, Andrea served five years in Economic Development for the City of Smyrna. In addition to business retention and recruiting efforts, she was also involved in the City’s redevelopment efforts, working with Tax Allocation Districts and a variety of public-private partnership tools.

Before her public sector work, Andrea worked in various positions for an independent power producer and energy trading firm. Her past experience also includes real estate and site selection work with Arthur Andersen LLP.

Ms. Hall is a member of the International Economic Development Council, the Urban Land Institute and the Georgia Economic Developers Association. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies from Georgia State University and a Masters in City Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

James Comerford/Proscenium Capital James Linkedin

 

 

 

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