BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2016816:Event:6023 DTSTAMP:20091226T183054Z SUMMARY:Central Texas Chapter of WFS Monthly Meeting July 21, 2009 DESCRIPTION:The Central Texas Chapter of the WFS presents The Future o f User-Generated Content and Social Commerce: Speaker Brett Hurt\n\nBr ett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice, will speak to rapid accelera tion of user-generated content on branded sites such as Bank of Americ a, Best Buy, GEICO,Procter & Gamble, and Walmart. You have read cu stomer reviews prior to buying a book, movie, or hotel room online, bu t what does this trend mean for the future of marketing? How does this intersect with the growing influence of social networks,\nsuch as Fac ebook and Twitter? How will merchandising and product design change?\n How will company culture change? What will the shopping experience of the future ultimately look like?\n\n\nBIO:\nBrett is the Founder and C EO of Bazaarvoice, where he is responsible for guiding the company's s trategy and overseeing day-to-day operations. Brett is a seasoned\nexe cutive widely recognized throughout the online industry for turning gr oundbreaking ideas into leading businesses.\n\nBrett has extensive exp erience in the online marketing arena, especially as it pertains to th e eCommerce industry. He founded Coremetrics in February 1999 after sp ending 10 years developing Internet-based software. Brett helped grow Coremetrics into the leading marketing analytics solution for the eCom merce industry, servicing more than 1,000 clients today. Forrester Res earch eventually rated Coremetrics #1 in\nthe industry. Prior to Corem etrics, Brett was the founder and CEO of Hurt Technology Consulting an d BodyMatrix, an online retailer of sports nutrition products, which h e sold. Before that, he was a consultant at Deloitte Consulting and An dersen Consulting (now Accenture). Brett has more than 15 years of Int ernet programming experience and has developed multiple software appli cations, including Internet\nmarketing analysis solutions, eCommerce p latforms, Web-based classroom management applications, virtual communi ties, multiplayer online games, and Bulletin Board\nSystem (BBS) softw are. He started programming when he was seven years old, launched a BB S on a 110-baud modem when he was ten, and created one of the first\nI nternet-based multiplayer games in 1990. Brett holds an MBA in High-Te ch Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School at the University of Penns ylvania and a BBA in Management Information Systems from the Universit y of Texas at Austin.\n\nBrett was named Entrepreneur of the Year for Austin in 2009. He serves on the Board\nof Directors of Shop.org, the leading non-profit industry association for retailers online and a div ision of the National Retail Federation, the largest trade organizatio n for retailers. This is his second term on the Shop.org board, where he\npreviously served for two years. He also serves as an Entrepreneur -in-Residence at the Wharton School and served as a Board of Advisors member to the non-profit Web\nAnalytics Association. Brett actively ad vises several early-stage technology companies. He is an inventor (US Patent #7,050,989) and a regular speaker at various industry events an d universities.\n\nBrett is one of the few, the proud - a native Austi nite. Outside of Bazaarvoice, his biggest project is raising Rachel, h is beautiful daughter, with Debra, his wonderful wife. He also enjoys spending time with their sometimes insane miniature pinscher, Onyx, an d reading AlwaysOn, Business Week, Wired, and almost anything written by Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, or Neal Stephenson (except for the Baroque Cycle...sorry, Neal).\n\nFor more information visit http://cen texwfs.ning.com/events/central-texas-chapter-of-wfs-3 DTSTART:20090721T230000Z DTEND:20090722T020000Z CATEGORIES:monthly, meeting LOCATION:Marie Callendar's Restaurant WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT:512) 349-7151 ORGANIZER;CN="Derek Woodgate":http://centexwfs.ning.com/profile/DerekW oodgate ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Pat Jack son":http://centexwfs.ning.com/profile/PatJackson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Raymond M. 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