• Name: Christin Eubanks
• College: Auburn University, 2007
• Social media activities: blog (see also), flickr, twitter, portfolio
• Highest recommendations: from her professor, Robert French
• Smart: absolutely
• Passionate: you bet
• Sense of humor: healthy (just ask the Aussie Boy)

Welcome to Converseon, Christi!

Read more:

• Christi’s announcement
• Our CEO, Rob Key, welcomes Christi
• A bogan’s tale
• (PR) Bloggers in NY (or: how we met in real life)

What: Vote for a project that could get funded by American Express’s Members Project to plant 1 million trees and to use Second Life to educate people about environment and what we can do to preserve it. Or - just go to vote for any project you find worthy of your support; American Express is donating $1 for each member who is registering to vote.

Where: At http://www.membersproject.com/Environment_Wildlife/991 (or look for the project titled “The Virtual Forest Project. 1 million trees. Easy.” on MembersProjects.com)

When: Until Sunday, July 15

Why: Because…

• you care about environment
• it’s a cool idea
• it brings together real life and Second Life in a meaningful way
• it’s the only AmEx MembersProject program that is using social media

Background & disclosure: American Express’s Members Project is an initiative that will allocate between 1 and 5 million dolars to 5 projects that were suggested and voted by AmEx cardholders. Plant-It 2020, a non-profit organization, has been selected as the ‘fulfiling organizations’ for one of the top 50 projects. The project, called The Virtual Forest, is linking Second Life and real life in a simple way: for every (virtual) tree planted in SL, a tree is planted in the real world to combat deforestation. The project is already up and running in SL; my company, Converseon, has built the Second Chance Trees island; the funds are used by Plant-It 2020, our partner, to plant the trees in RL.

More information:

• My friend and colleague Paull Young has an in-depth post about the project and our approach on his blog and on our corporate blog
• Watch our machinima video on YouTube to learn more about the project
• Visit the Second Chance Trees Island (SLurl)
• Take a look at the photos took on our island
• Visit the project’s website.

Thank you.

So here they are:

• I’ll be at the Search Engines Strategies conference in New York, on April 9, where my boss Rob Key is going to join Nan Dawkins from RedBoots on a panel called Creating an Effective Social Media Strategy
• Rob is going to present our first Second Life community project, done in partnership with Plant-It 2020, at WOMMA’s Word of Mouth Basic Training conference in New Orleans, on April 18. If you plan to attend the event (which is highly recommended!), you can use guestofconverseon for a $75 discount when you register. (Disclaimer: Converseon is currently a WOMMA governing member)
• Finally, I’ll be at the Authentic Communications event organized by the Business Development Institute in New York, on April 24, where Rob will join a panel of top communicators from Porter Novelli, Hewlett-Packard, AARP and Community Connect to discuss about social media’s impact on corporate communications and branding. Please drop me an e-mail if you’re interested in getting a discounted pass.

Hope to see you there!