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Gary Campbell — University 101: What you need to know

Dis­claimer: Cen­Pho­Camp is not affil­i­ated with Cronkite School or Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity. We are grate­ful to have the use of their world-class facil­i­ties for our event.

Nice work by Gary to give us some insight into how to deal with local universities.

And his slides:

Kathy Jacobs — Social Media: Not just for the young

Kathy’s video from CenPhoCamp:

And her slides:

Kevin Spidel — Small Business Branding: Customer Loyalty 2.0

Kevin Spi­del and his pre­sen­ta­tion “Small Busi­ness Brand­ing: Cus­tomer Loy­alty 2.0.”

First, his video:

And next, his slides:

And last, a thank you for par­tic­i­pat­ing in Cen­Pho­Camp. Excel­lent job!

CenPhoCamp Roundup

Absolutely loved the top­ics, the energy and the cama­raderie dis­played at yesterday’s event. Thanks to every­one who par­tic­i­pated, pre­sented and sponsored.

Please check back through­out the week for the videos of the pre­sen­ta­tions. They will be posted as edit­ing is completed.

Please take a sec­ond to fill out a sur­vey that will let us do bet­ter next time. Thanks in advance for your time.

Congrats to PhxDW — Welcome communitasPHX

The word of the sea­son is sce­nius. With­out the suc­cess of con­fer­ences like Phoenix Design Week (PhxDW , facilities/communities like Gang­plank and the hard-working, hard-playing scen­esters of the Val­ley, Cen­Pho­Camp wouldn’t exist.

Cen­Pho­Camp exists to bridge the gap between those in the know with those who want to learn. It’s here to build on the inspi­ra­tion that events like last week’s PhxDW bring to the table, but we know that just hav­ing an event isn’t enough, you must have a focus.

PhxDW cat­a­lyst Mark Dud­lik attrib­utes PhxDW suc­cess to its focus on con­tent and com­mu­nity. “If you focus on those things, REALLY focus on them, don’t just say you are in some mean­ing­less plat­i­tude meant to “inspire”, then there is no way you can go wrong.”

Now that the cre­atives are fired up, it’s time to get every­one else involved. Gang­plank co-founder Derek Neigh­bors agrees.

“Phoenix has been dev­as­tated by the hous­ing cri­sis and result­ing reces­sion. In times of cri­sis, it is imper­a­tive that peo­ple find com­mu­nity and bind together to move for­ward. Cen­Pho­Camp epit­o­mizes this spirit of locals help­ing locals and real­iz­ing that ris­ing tides raises all boats. Phoenix could use more of this kind of collaboration.”

So join us, write about us and invite those who want to learn to Cen­Pho­Camp and help us help busi­nesses thrive in the new econ­omy. Noth­ing can be accom­plished in a vac­uum and noth­ing is sus­tain­able with­out buy-in from all stakeholders.

Cen­Pho­Camp is also proud to announce the involve­ment of com­mu­ni­tas­PHX, a non-profit cul­ti­vat­ing spir­i­tu­al­ity, com­mu­nity, jus­tice, and cre­ativ­ity in Down­town Phoenix. With a grass­roots col­lec­tion of ini­tia­tives, com­mu­ni­ties, and exper­i­ments, com­mu­ni­tas­PHX is help­ing to imag­ine new ways of liv­ing and being human in the city. Let’s see if we can’t help them out, too.

Scenius — Communal Genius

Call it col­lab­o­ra­tion, call it syn­ergy or now call it sce­nius.

Sce­nius, coined by musi­cian Brian Eno, means: the intel­li­gence and the intu­ition of a whole cul­tural scene. It is the com­mu­nal form of the con­cept of the genius.

Sure it’s another cheesy play on words, but it’s def­i­nitely a goal. Not only must groups be bet­ter as a whole then the peo­ple involved, but those groups must par­tic­i­pate together in a way that fos­ters inno­v­a­tive think­ing. Phoenix Design Week is all about cre­at­ing sce­nius right now.

We look for­ward to do some­thing sim­i­lar next weekend.

See you on Octo­ber 9. Bring your smart friends. Remem­ber to reg­is­ter here.

Tell everyone you know about CenPhoCamp!

The sched­ule is set, the spon­sors are happy and the after party has been reserved.

Now it’s time to get every­one involved. Below, you’ll notice three four things: 1) the boil­er­plate copy that you can copy and paste to your blog, your Face­book page or wher­ever else you live online; 2) a Word copy of the offi­cial press release; 3) a PDF copy of the same release; 4) a text copy for you to give to your non-press friends. Please dis­trib­ute any or all of these to greater down­town Phoenix res­i­dents and busi­ness own­ers that you think might ben­e­fit from CenPhoCamp.

Boil­er­plate copy (just copy and paste, yo)
Cen­Pho­Camp exists to teach greater down­town Phoenix busi­nesses how to thrive in the new econ­omy. From Kirk Yuhnke of ABC15 to Jose Gon­za­lez and Bill Binder of Torch The­ater and Kevin Spi­del of Gan­nett Local to Jonathan Kres­saty of Rip­Styles and Betwext, we’ve gath­ered prac­ti­tion­ers, not dis­as­so­ci­ated experts, together for an after­noon or learn­ing and collaboration.

The event is free to anyone.

Please reg­is­ter at www.cenphocamp.com/register/

Cen­Pho­Camp will be held at the Cronkite School at the down­town Phoenix ASU campus.

555 N Cen­tral Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Octo­ber 9, 2010
1–4:30pm (con­fer­ence at Cronkite)
5–7:30pm (hosted appe­tiz­ers at the District)

Down­load­able press releases
Word press release (right click)

PDF press release (right click)

Down­load­able friend invite
Text friend invite

Bill Binder & Jose Gonzalez — October 2010 Speakers

Bill Binder
Bill Binder per­forms and teaches with The Torch The­atre in Phoenix and is the exec­u­tive pro­ducer of the Phoenix Improv Fes­ti­val. He has been per­form­ing impro­vi­sa­tional the­atre since 1994, start­ing with Michi­gan Tech University’s The Troupe.

Jose Gon­za­lez
Jose Gon­za­lez is a Phoenix native who has been study­ing and per­form­ing improv since 2001. One of the founders of The Torch The­atre and a pro­ducer of the Phoenix Improv Fes­ti­val, he has been a sup­porter the down­town and cen­tral Phoenix art scene for nearly 20 years and active in it for the past decade.

Bill and Jose will present Cre­ate, Com­mu­ni­cate and Con­nect at 2:10pm.
Over­com­ing the sprawl of the val­ley to con­nect with your com­mu­nity whether for busi­ness, fun, or progress can be a chal­lenge. Bill Binder and Jose Gon­za­lez will dis­cuss their expe­ri­ences jump­ing into the down­town Phoenix art scene nearly 10 years ago and using improv-inspired ideas, we’ll explore how every­one can bet­ter cre­ate their own path, com­mu­ni­cate it to the world around them, and con­nect with the com­mu­nity to make great things hap­pen.

Drew Manusharow — October 2010 Speaker

Drew Manusharow
Drew Manusharow has a Bachelor’s degree from the Uni­ver­sity of Ari­zona in Fine Arts with an Empha­sis in Visual Com­mu­ni­ca­tions & Graphic Design. His pas­sion for cre­ativ­ity and the envi­ron­ment stemmed at an early age when his par­ents enrolled him and his brother in the Boy Scouts of Amer­ica. Drew has grown to appre­ci­ate life and the envi­ron­ment. Since grad­u­at­ing Col­lege, he has worked in the field of graphic design, project man­age­ment, and has also started a small busi­ness. He con­sid­ers him­self a phil­an­thropist; pas­sion­ate about help­ing oth­ers see the qual­ity of life. Humbly on a tight bud­get, and for­tu­nate enough to travel the world, he has real­ized he wants to bridge his cre­ativ­ity with his pas­sion for sus­tain­abil­ity. Cul­ti­vat­ing edu­ca­tion for peo­ple; Drew would like to help Phoenix, Ari­zona be a more sus­tain­able city. When Drew is not doing some sort of project man­age­ment, or enjoy­ing Phoenix’s Moun­tain Pre­serves, he is fig­ur­ing out a way to help res­i­dents, and busi­ness own­ers reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Drew will be pre­sent­ing Green tips for small busi­nesses at 3:50pm.
This will be an open dis­cus­sion about how busi­ness own­ers can and should pro­mote sus­tain­abil­ity at their office. With an under­stand­ing that in this down econ­omy and tight bud­gets, most busi­ness own­ers are think­ing about the bot­tom line. This dis­cus­sion will give you some tips and incen­tives to con­sider to jus­tify the return on invest­ment. Come pre­pared to change the world!

Catrina Knoebl — October 2010 Speaker

Cat­rina Knoebl
Cat­rina Knoebl gets around greater down­town Phoenix. From the Down­town Phoenix Jour­nal to her busi­ness Urban Affair and Radi­ate Phx to the Cac­tus League, Cat­rina has her hands in just about every­thing urban. She spends her days at Coe House, a his­toric res­i­dence known for host­ing small con­certs and urban­ite get togethers.

Cat­rina will be pre­sent­ing How hyper local works at 3pm.

As large news­pa­pers become out of touch with their com­mu­ni­ties, hyper­local pub­li­ca­tions are fill­ing the void. Smaller audi­ences means less top­ics to draw from, but enables writ­ers to go to depths they’d never pre­vi­ously have time to. This pre­sen­ta­tion will show you how that process works, how it’s dif­fer­ent than tra­di­tional news gath­er­ing and how to make your busi­ness hyperlocal-coverage worthy.

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