Keith Finnegan

Session: Email Marketing and Ministry: Where To Begin

Keith Finnegan has spent 20-plus years in the world of technology from aerospace to apparel to publishing. In his current role at Zondervan, he leads the Internet Operations team and oversees corporate social media, email, and Internet marketing efforts. This includes more than six years experience in email marketing, which includes winning a prestigious Marketing Sherpa Silver Mouse award in 2007.

Keith has an MBA from Western Michigan University and has had the privilege of working with colleagues and partners in Europe, where Bordeaux, France, became like a second home. He is passionate about social justice and seeks to help children escape the clutches of poverty and slavery. You can follow Keith on Twitter (@KFinnegan).

Jacob W Noorman

Session: Mobile and Ministry

Jacob is the Digital Production Manager of eBooks for the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Christian publishing company, Zondervan. He and his team oversee the development, production, quality assurance, and distribution of hundreds of eBooks each year, including more than thirty Bibles, study Bibles, and devotionals. Jacob has a genuine passion for learning about the latest and greatest technological advances and sharing that knowledge with friends and colleagues. Given the opportunity, Jacob will talk to you for hours about virtually anything. His credentials include more than a decade in industrial manufacturing, four years in the US Army, and two weeks making Cracker Jacks.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/JacobWNoorman

Paul Kulp

Session: Bible Study Tools On The Internet

Paul Kulp is a dreamer, father, husband, developer, consultant, teacher,
internet strategist and Jesus follower. He has a PhD in Computer Engineering
and is currently Chief Information Officer and partner at Web Services Group
(Albany, NY). Paul lives in Averill Park, NY with his wife Sarah and three
daughters, Rowan (8), Levity (4) and Trinity (2). He is passionately
committed to showing the Church how to successfully use technology. If you
want an earful, ask him about his family, radical hospitality, volleyball,
church websites or Bible study on the internet.

Session: How to create a tailored Web strategy

Kent Shaffer got an early start in ministry as a missionary’s kid in Peru. Although he has experienced a broad scope of ministry roles, his passions have been children’s and youth ministry (10+ years) and communications (6+ years). Currently, Kent makes a living via Web and real estate startups so that he can volunteer full-time with the Digital Missions team at LifeChurch.tv (Edmond, OK).

Kent’s design, marketing, and ministry experience gives a fresh and practical perspective on ministry, which he shares with churches and ministries on his blog Church Relevance each month.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/KentShaffer

Dan Zarrella

Keynote: The Future Of The Internet: 2011 and beyond

Session: Social Media Marketing 101

Twitter: http://twitter.com/danzarrella

Dan Zarrella is an award-winning social, search, and viral marketing scientist and author of the O’Reilly Media book “The Social Media Marketing Book“. He has a background in web development and combines his programming capabilities with a passion for social marketing to study social media behavior from a data-backed position and teach marketers scientifically grounded best practices.

His Link Attraction Factors report helped readers determine which topics, days, times, and keywords attract links in social media stories for semantic content optimization, while his Viral Content report details the motivations, preferences and habits involved in online content sharing. His Science of ReTweets Report analyzes the when, why and how Twitter users ReTweet things, and explains how marketers can effectively get more ReTweets, and TweetPsych is linguistic analysis tool he built that allows users to generate psychological profiles of any other Twitter user or list based on the contents of their Tweets.

He has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Wired,Fast Company, Forbes, The Financial Times, Huffington Post, The London Times, The Miami Herald,Slashdot, Smart Money, AdAge, NYPost, Mashable, The Twitter Book, and TechCrunch. In 2009 he was awarded Shorty and Semmy awards for social media & viral marketing.

He has spoken at numerous conferences, including: PubCon, Search Engine Strategies, Iowatasmic,Convergence ’09, 140 The Twitter Conference, The Cool Twitter Conference, WordCamp Mid Atlantic, Social Media Camp, Inbound Marketing Bootcamp, and Social Fresh Nashville, and he currently works as marketing product owner at HubSpot.

What other people have said:

“Zarrella calls himself “The Social Media and Viral Marketing Scientist” and is one of the few people on the web with the credentials to back up such a bold claim.”
-Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb)

“@danzarrella just launched something I had drawn on our whiteboard a couple weeks ago”
-Ev Williams (Twitter CEO)

“Let Zarrella take you to social media marketing school. You’ll learn more from reading this book than from a month of research on the Internet.”
-Guy Kawasaki, cofounder of Alltop.com

“If I could be any other person for a day, it would be Dan Zarrella. Either him or Brad Pitt. But Dan’s smarter. This book is why I say that.”
-Chris Brogan, president of New Marketing Labs

“We’ve covered several utilities that have found fun and creative ways to analyze Twitter messages, but TweetPsych takes the cake.”
-Josh Lowensohn (cnet News)

“… [Dan Zarrella is] arguably the most knowledgeable of the ReTweeting trend”
-Nathania Johnson (Search Engine Watch)

Well, here we are in 2010 and I feel like it’s time to maybe try this again. I know it won’t be easy but I believe if God is in it then God do what He has planned. I  would love to know what you think would be good ideas for a conference this year – topics, speakers, etc.

Right now I am thinking possibly late October or early november. Thoughts?