Blog workshop with special guest Andy Beal will be live streamed

Tomorrow night marks our fourth workshop in the monthly series of free workshops we're doing for 2012 (the first one was in December, 2011), and we're excited to welcome special guest speaker Andy Beal. Not only will this workshop be recorded for online video, but we'll also be live streaming from the Mechdyne cave at Riverstone Energy Center.

Andy Beal, internet marketing consultant, award-winning blogger, professional speaker and coauthor of the critically-acclaimed book Radically Transparent: Monitoring & Managing Reputations Online will join us via Skype. Andy has appeared on ABC News, CNBC and NPR and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , Business Week, Inc. Magazine, Forbes and many other publications - and now he'll be appearing in Riverstone Energy Center! He is considered “the Indiana Jones of reputation management.”

In addition to his publications and on-line expertise, Beal is also an entrepreneur and the founder of Trackur.com, a comprehensive and affordable online reputation monitoring and brand tracking tool. Glerin now offers Trackur in it's product lineup and will give all participants attending the workshop a 30-day free trial to test the software out.

Riverstone Energy Center employees Kristy Johnson and Ben Thompson have been great in arranging for us to use the modeling and simulation “Cave” to host the interactive discussion , which will make it possible for workshop participants to personally interact with Andy. photo right - Riverstone Energy Center team members Kristy Johnson (on screen) and Ben Thompson (standing) make first trial run using the modeling and simulation “Cave” for immersive teleconferencing.

He is in high demand for speaking engagements throughout the world and there was no way that our little workshop could afford to bring him in; by his graciously offering to attend via Skype, our business community will have the opportunity to ask questions about how to use the internet for market research, online reputation management, customer service, and competitor research.

Andy is considered one of the world’s most respected internet marketing consultants. He has worked with many top companies such as Motorola, GlaxoSmithKline, SAS, Lowes, Quicken Loans and NBC. Highly respected as a source of internet marketing advice, Beal has had articles published around the world, including in Business Week, Forbes, Mashable and Web Pro News. He is also coauthor of the only book on the topic of monitoring and managing online reputations.

We hope you'll join us for this special workshop, but registration ends in the morning so you need to register soon!