Tuesday, April 23, 2013

OC CIO Minutes April 11, 2013


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.

 

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