After years of hearing about how wonderful the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AIMA) is from Toby, I'm delighted to see that Wisconsin is finally doing the same thing out of Milwaukee. (seriously, I thought about starting this in Green Bay...sure, this would really fly in Green Bay...). Ventures like this take critical mass to succeed long term and Milwaukee has just that. Home to countless ad agencies, top tier web dev houses and now the Milwaukee Interactive Marketing Association!

If you're within earshot of Milwaukee, how about showing up for the next event on Sept 29th. The speaker will be none other than Mitch Golu, President of cars.com, who will share his thoughts about online media and how it has matured in the last decade.

Props to the president of the org, Andy Vogel, for having the foresight to get this thing going!

[via the Wisconsin Technology Network]

Dana,

This is great news. If you need any help/ guidance, please feel free to reach out to our Atlanta chapter. We have a lot of experience that should help your group. We are very complimented that you are looking to Atlanta as the model organization. I am looking forward to catching-up Sept. 30th. Maybe we can dicuss some interactive marketing association stuff then. -Dave Williams

Dana, just wanted to thank you for the kind words. We had about 65 people show up on Thursday night for some great NETworking and a informative talk from Mitch. Lots of good questions and comments. Folks showed up from Baltimore, Cinci, and Chicago. Our next event will be on October 27th at the Chophouse for lunch and will be a panel discussion on community and individual based publishing. OnMilwaukee.com and MilwaukeeMoms.com will be panelists and we'll have some primary research to share with attendees.