AGENDA:

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM - NATD Board of Director's Meeting (Board and Committee Chairs Only)   OAK ALLEY/MADEWOOD ROOM

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Convention Registration, Cocktails, Hors D'oeuvres                                     BIENVILLE SUITE

SPONSORED BY...

PANASEAS INT'L, TAKSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, TELECOM RESELLER, NTTN

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010

All Meetings will be held in the Bienville Suite

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM - NATD Focus on the Avaya/Nortel End User- 

Join the NATD as we meet and discuss ways in which Avaya/Nortel resellers can work more closely with Avaya/Nortel end users. 

Victor Bohnert, International Nortel Networks Users Association (INNUA) Executive Director will be present to discuss:

• Acquisition of Nortel by Avaya
• INNUA’s future going forward based on the acquisition
• Relationship with Avaya’s Channels and Secondary Market
• INNUA’s Global Connect 2010

About INNUA

The International Nortel Networks Users Association (INNUA) is an international, user-driven association serving Nortel users for more than 25 years. INNUA exists to educate and inform telecommunications and IT professionals while providing a professional network for those with common concerns to address and success stories to share. One of the industry’s largest and most progressive user groups, INNUA is a community of more than 4,000 members in more than 70 chapters around the globe. For more information on INNUA, visit www.innua.org.

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Networking Afternoon (Choose ONE Activity from below on your Registration form)

Golfers please meet in the Lobby for Transportation to English Turn Golf Course.

Scavenger Crawl clues to be given out immediately following the Morning Session in the Bienville Suite.

AGENDA FOR Scavenger Crawl

11:00 AM -11:30 AM - Meet in the Bienville Suite at the Royal Sonesta Hotel to break up into groups of about 10 people.  We will hand out 3 clues, instructions, and a camera.

The clues will lead to items to take pictures of in New Orleans.  Cheerleaders from the University of New Orleans will be stationed at each picture spot to facilitate.

Some of the pictures will have to be taken in bars at specific times, so that there is a good chance that all groups will meet up at the same drinking hole at the same time, more or less.

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Scavenger Crawl is suspended for Lunch and Drinks at Muriel's Restaurant in Jackson Square.  We will hand out 3 more clues after lunch.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2010

All Meetings will be held in the Bienville Suite

9:30 AM - Ethics Presentation - Mandatory for New Members and Applicants (Coffee and soft drinks will be served)

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM - SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESS - THE WHAT, THE WHY, AND THE ROI:

Presented by Patrick O'Malley, Speaker/Trainer Consultant on Social Media and Internet Marketing

He was the Vice President of Operations for the search engine that was tied with Google in the year 2000 (Northern Light). Consultant in Social Media since 2006, 20+ years of training and speaking in front of groups of over 1000 people.  Previous to that he was a high end technical trainer for Digital/Compaq HP.  Patrick O'Malley is an expert in LinkedIn for business, Twitter for business, Facebook and Youtube for business, Google Adwords, and Google SEO.

I love and live this stuff, and I can help you.  You know you need to use social media for your business, and you need an expert to explain the ROI, and to guide you in terms of doing it intelligently.  Here's why I can help you.
 

Session Description:

Social Media (especially LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube and Twitter) is one of the hottest phenomena in the history of marketing.   For little or no cost, a small company can launch a marketing campaign that can rival that of much larger companies, just by having some compelling content that causes a “word of mouth storm” through the Internet, gathering fans, followers and potential customers as it goes.

In this session, I’ll show you how LinkedIn, Facebook, You Tube and Twitter can be used for your business. You will learn:

• the hottest new trends in social media
• techniques you can use to implement each service in your marketing plan
• many undocumented tips that I have discovered about using each one
• some case studies of how they are being used
• how you can (and should) measure ROI

and you'll have fun learning it.

Come join us to learn about the cutting edge of social media, and find out how you can transform your business before your competition transforms their business.

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM - Bending the Healthcare Cost Curve for the Small Employer - What Works and What Doesn't?

• Join Allen Wishner, CEO, Flexible Benefit Service Corporation, for an in depth discuss of Health Savings Accounts and their impact on lowering costs for both employers and their employees.

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Networking Lunch

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM - General Membership Meeting (coffee and soft drinks will be served)       

• Attendee Introductions

• Financial Status

• Upcoming Meetings

• Charity Presentation

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM - NATD FOCUS ON THE CISCO END USER

Join the NATD as we meet and discuss ways in which CISCO resellers can work more closely with the CISCO end user community.

We are honored to have Dewayne Kendell, CIPTUG V.P. (CISCO IP Telecommunications User Group) present to represent CISCO end users.   

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Masquerade Party at THE ELMS MANSION - Dinner, entertainment, and lots of Libations!  Come dressed to kill in a style that fits the grand old south.  The Elms Mansion is located at 3029 St. Charles Avenue. 

If you would like to be adventurous and take the street car to the Mansion, please meet in the lobby at 6:00 pm.  We will walk, as a group, a few blocks to the trolley stop at the corner of Carondelet and Canal Street (in front of the Lady's Foot Locker).  To get to the Trolley stop, you make a left out of the Royal Sonesta Hotel and walk to Canal Street.  Cross the street and you are there.  If you miss the group and would like to take the street car, you want the St. Charles Trolley (green) which will take you to the Elms Mansion.  The trolley will take about 20 - 25 minutes to Elms Mansion.    You want to get off at the 8th Street stop which will put you at the Elms Mansion.

If you prefer to take a taxi, please allow about 15 minutes to get to the Elms Mansion.

You can return via the trolley or taxi at the end of the party.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

Contact US (in the USA) at 1-561-266-9440