Highlight Midwest showcases the entrepreneurs, innovators, and early-adopters using web technology to grow their businesses, advance their careers, and enrich the regional economy in new ways.

Three of the area’s up and coming social media strategists will present an overview on how the web is changing their cities for the better and how new opportunities for innovation are expanding the importance of web-based technology in the Midwest.

Ideas and Angles has been chosen to present the Kansas City portion of this exciting event bringing together a lot of projects and companies from around the midwest. We encourage everyone to check out HighlightMidwest.org for information leading up to the October 29th event. You can also follow @highlightmw on Twitter.

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This exciting opportunity is happening at the Boulevard Brewery. The workshop will be Thursday, September 25th and will cover negotiation and marketing & sales. The speakers will be Bill Garcia, Negotiating for Success and Bob Sullivan, the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Boulevard Brewing Company. They both have tremendous backgrounds and very interesting stories to share. It should be a great time.

The best part, if you mention Ideas and Angles upon registration, you will get a discount of $50! Bringing the total price to $149 down from $199. Be sure to drop a line to @IdeasAndAngles on twitter or christopher.culbertson[at]gmail[dot]com if you use the price break and plan on attending.

Although the workshop itself does not involve social media, we would like to organize a breakfast the day after to discuss topics from the workshop and how they can be applied through social media.

So, recap. Thursday, September 25th, an all day workshop on negotiation and sales & marketing with lunch included and a $50 discount for mentioning Ideas and Angles. Then Friday, September 26th, 7:30am breakfast at First Watch in Westport to discuss how to apply social media to the key points discussed at the workshop.

An important part of social media is finding ways to apply regular business lessons and practices through different mediums. Have you learned something from a workshop or speaker that you were able to transition into social media? Please share it with us and we hope to see you at there!

You can get more info about the event and sign up information by clicking here. (PDF)

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Big thanks to @wrytir for hosting the tweetup last night.  It is really neat to meet people face to face that you have followed through twitter and even other social media sites.  A few you know right when you walk in, like Jeff from Jeffisageek.net, because of his video posts on 12seconds.com, but others you are not quite sure about, especially when they do not have a picture on twitter.  @edroberts seems to be in the head seat along with @zenaweist for the Social Media Club KC which we are excited to be a part of and meet people Friday morning at breakfast.

Aaron and I had to head out a earlier than we would have liked, but are looking forward to more meetups in the future.  I know Zach would have loved to made it, but work pays the bills right.  I also have to give a quit shout out to @derek who I chatted with for quite a while and got some press from mega popular Tech Crunch website.

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Aug 26 Kansas City Blogger Gathering 5:00pm-? 75TH Street Brewery Kansas City, MO

Aug 27 Kansas City Tweetup! – 5:30-8pm at Perceptive Software, Shawnee

Aug 28 CodeDiving in the Amazon Cloud 3-8pm at Kauffman foundation, $5-$10 donated to CCCKC.

Aug 29 Social Media Club breakfast. 7:30am at Broadway Cafe in Westport

Sept 13 Kansas City Podcasting meetup 4-6pm at Johnny’s in Overland Park (119th and Glenwood location)

Do you know of an event not on the wiki?  Let us know about it here and be sure to add it on the wiki.

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