events

Fusion Room believes that the stronger our technology and creative communities are, the better work we will produce for our clients. Our partnerships with a number of industry associations and our own hosted events are a great way to keep each other updated on the latest and greatest in our industries. Keep coming back to this page for the best upcoming events for our community.

AMA
Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 11:30 am
Building and Executing Online Localized Marketing Strategy
Nina Hale, President & CEO of Nina Hale Consulting will explain the ways that localization influences online activity and tell you what you need to know to effectively get your website and physical store locations to show up. She’ll also cover ways to geo-target advertising online.

MIMA
January 20, 2010 6pm
EMBRACING MOBILE MARKETING: GENERATING ROI WITH THE INTEGRATED APPROACH
The practice of mobile marketing is going mainstream. In this event, Michael Becker, VP Mobile Strategies for iLoop Mobile, will address why mobile and why now?

Twin Cities .NET User Group
February 4, 2010 5pm
User Group Meeting
The Twin Cities .NET User Group presents on topics of interest to local Twin Cities .NET developers.
Topics to be covered in this meeting:

• "3 Screens and a Cloud"
• Azure
• Silverlight 4
• WCF RIA Services
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4
• Parallelism

Silverlight User Group
Event Calendar
Silverlight is fun, interesting and powerful. One of the big limitations, however, is that it's hard to sell decision makers that Silverlight is the right option. Scalability, testability, maintainability and implementing best practices are among some concerns that are quelled by Composite Application Guidance for Silverlight, a.k.a. Prism. We'll go over the highlights of Prism, its business benefits and have a couple of fun demos.