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The American Marketing Association - DC Chapter is holding a Mobile Marketing session on Thursday, September 4th - details are here. Half of the world's population owns at least one phone. Mobile advertising is an exploding marketplace, increasing by $1B in one year to $2.8B worldwide in 2008. In 2007, 1.9 trillion text messages where sent worldwide, leading to $52B in revenues. What does this have to do with you? Come find out! The session runs from 6-9PM, and participants include: Jeff Arbour, Vice President of Mobile Integration at The Hyperfactory: Brian Reich, Principal at EchoDitto; D.P. Venkatesh, Founder and CEO of mPortal; and Mary Gramaglia, Director of Sales at Sybase365. The whole thing is ably moderated by Cabalist Limor Schafman, President of the KeystoneTech Group. Check it out! Our Potomac Tech Wire pals are at it again, this time with The Future of Software on Friday, September 5th. This event is part of the Potomac Tech Wire breakfast series that brings together senior executives in the Mid-Atlantic to discuss technology issues in a conversational, roundtable environment moderated by the editor of Potomac Tech Wire. Two star-studded panels will examine the major trends and issues facing the software sector, including Software-as-a-service, open source growth, business models, trends in enterprise software and venture capital. All details and registration information here, don't miss it! Our good pals at The Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington have been producing Advertising Week DC for a few years now, and the 2008 edition is looking hilariously impressive. The events will be held September 15-19 at locations all around the metropolitan area, and the speaker lineup includes Steve Forbes, Tim Ellis of Volkswagon, Hard Baller Chris Matthews, and Robert Wong, Executive Director of Google Creative Lab. Plenty of Interactive/New Media issues will get discussed, so check out the lineup. Also, we Cabalists can guarantee that the U.S. Premiere of the Cannes Advertising Festival winners, which is just one of the week's events - held Tuesday, September 16th - is an extremely cool way to spend an evening. Flush with victory following two superlative events, Peter Corbett and pals are organizing yet another Twin Tech for September 18th, at a tragically hip urban hang-out to be named later. Yet again, the brightest minds in the tech/venture space, be they urban, suburban or open source, will be on hand to mix and mingle with one another during a happy hour style meet-up. An open bar will be sourced thanks to the generosity of the sponsors, which at this writing are too numberous to mention. A mere 400 people have already done the RSVP thing, yes 400, so jump onto this very fun bandwagon whilst you can. Look out Maryland, here we come again! Due to popular demand, we're bringing our New Media Salon and "Dot Com" Networking reception back to Bethesda on September 23rd - 4th Tuesday! Cabalists come from all parts of our wonderful D.C. Metropolitan area, so we're trying to be commute-friendly to as many people as possible. The event is sponsored by the good people at Genius Rocket. All the details at the site - join us! www.capcabal.net/4thTuesday InterAct 2008 is the interactive media event of the year for both attendees and exhibitors, merging web Strategy, Creativity, and Technology, September 29-30, 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Conference Center in Washington, DC. There has never been an interactive show like this in the Washington Metro area - be a part of it! Over a thousand attendees will hear proven methods to increase profits from 35+ of the hottest interactive media gurus, including: Apple, Adobe, AKQA, Avenue A/Razorfish, Cisco Systems, David Carson, Digitas, Fuzion, Google, Hillman Curtis, Ivan Chermayeff, JESS3, National Geographic, R/GA, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sapient, Threespot, Viget Labs, and more. Learn the latest effective marketing techniques and business strategies in interactive media, Web 2.0, interactive web design, turnkey Web site solutions, user experience, branding, rich media, video on the web, e-commerce, social media, new business development, networking, Web site case studies and effective digital strategies in both the private and public sector. This event will sell out, so sign up today to be a part of the interactive media event of the year! More details at the site: http://www.interact2008.com 
Finally, it's not too early to make plan for the Holidays. The Capital Cabal is yet again one of the proud Hosts of the One Holiday Party, a big joint-venture throw-down that's not to be missed. This year's event is on December 3rd, 2008, at the newly remodeled Eye Bar, 1716 I Street NW. Other Host organizations include The Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington, The American Marketing Association - DC Chapter, The Advertising Photographers of America, The Production Club, The Capitol Communicator, and Potomac Tech Wire. We plan to easily top last year's 400 attendee mark, so please make plans to join the holiday festivities. SPONSOR THIS EVENT and get up in front of 25,000+ area professionals - send an email to info_(at)_capcabal_(dot)_net and we'll get a Prospectus out to you right away. Of course, D.C.'s regular monthly New Media networking salons and cocktail parties, 2nd Tuesday and 4th Tuesday, are going strong. Mark your calendar and make plans to join us at a reception that suits your schedule. Please join our mailing list to receive more information on these and other events. Rest assured we do not lend, sell or rent you contact information. Questions? Send us an email at info_(at)_capcabal_(dot)_net and we'll get right back with you. |