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A panel of experts will discuss their successes (and failures) in social networking for finding jobs, shows, gigs, friendship and more. How to work the room, the phone and the internet
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Panelists:
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Karen Atkinson believes that networking is for artists one of the primary and most necessary tools for creating a successful career. Networking encompasses not only social networking sites on the web, but a wide range of networking strategies. Karen will explore these strategies and point you to a variety of resources both old school as well as stretching traditional strategies. Karen has a long record of exhibition and project experience. She has been teaching at CalArts since 1988, founded Side Street Projects and has an artist run company for artists called Getting Your Sh*t Together. You can read GYST's professional practices blog at www.gyst-ink.com. GYST also provides services to artists, has software and a new teaching manual for teaching professional practices.
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Dan Kimpel is the author of five best selling entertainment industry books including Networking Strategies for the New Music Business. As a visiting faculty member for five years at Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in the UK, Dan developed a curriculum for networking in a professional business environment. Currently a faculty member at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, Dan lectures on networking and personal presentation skills at conferences and seminars worldwide. Who you know, what you know and who knows you: Dan presents a “Kimpelling” case for the power of the personal presentation.
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Jesse Porter is the founder and president of the Young Winos, an LA-based wine organization for the 30-and-under crowd. About ten months ago, Jesse and his partners launched www.youngwinos.com, a social network on the Ning platform, which now boasts 1000 twenty-something members nationwide. The network is designed to allow members to organize off-line wine meetings in local chapters around the country.