October 22, 2009

Hi ISF New York Chapter Members,

To establish regular communications between ISF-NY Chapter members, I'm planning to send out monthly "newsletters" after our in-person meetings. This is an opportunity to followup on what was discussed at the meetings as well as keep everyone in the loop on what's going. These are going to be informal emails so pardon any typos.

People, Relationships and Sharing Knowledge
For those who have yet to attend a ISF-NY event, I just want to let you know that the New York Chapter is focused on:

"People, Relationships and Sharing Knowledge" which enables us to "Connect, Engage and Succeed."

We're all about our members talking to each other directly, establishing relationships, and discussing what is relevant to them and answering questions that they are facing. This is exemplified by our interactive roundtable sessions which everyone loves. If you haven't attended a meeting yet, come and experience it for yourself.

Also, membership in the ISF is for client-side senior Internet strategists only.

Upcoming Meetings
Wed, November 18, 2009 - 6:00pm
Wed, December 9, 2009 - Holiday Dinner, 6:00
You will receive emails with registration forms shortly.

Last Night's 10/21 Meeting:
Great meeting with many regulars and 1st time attendees:

We covered a lot of diverse topics during the Roundtable session.

Here are a few links as followup to a few items that were discussed.

To Ken at Conde Nast, Albert at Nielsen Business Media, and all the Media/Publishers in the room of which there were many - regarding content monetization
Newsweek.com moves to Subscriber Model
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/newsday-com-moves-to-subscriber-model-1.1539582

To Steven at NYSE regarding social media
How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries
http://www.clickz.com/3635397#

To Stefan at Siemens about Organizational Structure & Digital Sucess
The 12 Cs for Thriving in a Digital World - http://www.clickz.com/3628445
Identifying Corporate Barriers to Digital Success - http://www.clickz.com/3629600
How to Build a Winning Team in Digital Publishing - http://www.clickz.com/3629768

Also, I will be sending out Contact Info to those who attended.

Becoming a Well-Round Internet Strategist
For future meetings, we agreed that in addition to discussing digital topics, it will be good to have some speakers to discuss discplines (e.g. budgeting - how to budget for a new digital business) and industries (eg. someone who handles digital at a retailer discusses retail business so other industries can learn from it).

The importance of funding pizza
We also discussed, via my Pizza slide, the fact that we need to fund the ISF's actvities (non-profit) so will need charge a few $ for monthly meetings to "pay for pizza, soda and other things" so that we can fund activities that help all of us and our NY chapter community. We also have Paid Membership and Corporate Sponsorships which you'll be hearing about soon.

Welcome to some New Members
A welcome to some of our new members:
Ron at Fox
Mark at MTV
Chelsea at Random House
Marty at John Wiley Publishers

Congrats to Members
Congrats to Joe for his new job at Newsweek.
Congrats to Michael for his new job at Victoria's Secret.

Hope to see you at the next meeting on Wed, November 18.

Best,
Lee Huang
ISF New York Chapter Director
lhuang23@yahoo.com
201-214-8568
http://www.internetstrategyforum.org/chapters/nyc.html