Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table
April 11, 2013 meeting
Present: Scott Korgan, Sean Brown, Joe Desuta, Jennifer Curlee, Jim Sutter, Joel
Manfredo, Jeff Crowell,
Dave Phillips
The
following is a list of topics and speakers through June:
5/9/13 ERP Implementation Experiences Mario Leone
6/13/13 Preparing
for Cloud Computing John Mooney, Pepperdine
John Mooney has a conflict for the May date
and asked to be rescheduled to June.
Topic: Social Media
Sean Brown introduced Scott Korgan, Sevenly, to the group. Scott is an active coder and developer who
works mainly in the start-up world. He
is currently working for Sevenly, which is company who provides services for
charity organizations based on the use of social media for marketing. Depending on your point of view, social media
is a supplement or replacement for email.
Social media has changed the way people think, especially if you are of
the younger generation. Sevenly provides
services to one charity a week, services like funding and awareness, and
products like tee-shirts. It was started
about 2 years ago and now has 35 employees.
It has been profitable since Day One.
Every Monday at 10:00 a.m., they select the charity of the week, and
focus totally on providing services to that charity for that week. A charity can only repeat once every 6
months. Sevenly’s strategy is to buy,
grow and/or create niche social media properties; respond to as many as
possible; and obsess over crafting content.
Our thanks to Scott who lead an interesting discussion on an
interesting topic.
