May 5th, 2008
Posted by Bryan Person in Recaps, SMB Boston, Videos
May 1st, 2008
Posted by Rick Mahn in Upcoming breakfasts
Hey everyone, we finally have concrete news on the next Twin Cities Social Media Breakfast. SMB-TC3 will be held at Concordia University in St. Paul on May 16th.
After the fantastic turnout & and small space of the last event, we’ve been looking for a better space for the next one. It seems like there aren’t a lot of places that had what we seem to need for our event. Namely, larger space for 20 or more people, WiFi, centrally located, access to public transportation, and food/coffee.
All the spaces that did have enough space were actual conference facilities that start costing real money. Since this is a free event, we have no good way of paying of a larger space.
So, luckily, a number of people offered to check with the places they work at and we suddenly had a few options. The one that worked out first was at Concordia. Jason DeBoer-Moran works in the IT department at Concordia and was able to arrange a true, full-featured conference room for us to use. It meets all the needs of the group, save the one thing that makes for a good breakfast… food.
So, we’ll be bringing in food ourselves. Anyone who would like to donate a box of bagels, doughnuts, coffee, or fruit tray is welcome to bring it with you, or contact me to coordinate making that happen. Simply direct-message me via Twitter, email me (rickmahn at gmail.com), or message me via the MSBMSP Ning site if you want to “donate-a-doughnut”.
Agenda
So what’s going on at this event? Quite a bit for sure! Since there is open WiFi, space, projection equipment, and (did I mention) space we can do quite a bit.
- Demo of Cullect by Garrick Van Buren
- Shared Feeds & the need for better filters
- What exactly is Social Media - a continuing discussion
- We’ll have a live video feed and will be include the remote folks via the overhead projection. At least we’ll try and hope it works.
- YOUR IDEAS HERE!
Location
You can RSVP at: http://smbmsp.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2029643%3AEvent%3A1382 (requires simple registration)
We’ll be in the Library Technology Center Room 215 for the event. Here’s the location information:
The Concordia University Library Technology Center is located on the north side of the campus, near Concordia Avenue and directly east of the Pearson Theater. The Library Technology Center’s physical address is 1282 Concordia Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104
Campus map:
Get an (original) copy of the campus map at: http://www.csp.edu/AboutUs/maps/color_campus_map.gif
On this map, The Library Technology Center is building 25, and parking can be found in lots A, B, E, & H.
I look forward to seeing everyone there! Our Social Media Breakfast Network at http://smbmsp.ning.com now has 50 members and I’d love to see as many people make it in person or via video as possible.
Technorati Tags: Social Media Breakfast, Twin Cities, SMBMSP, SMB-TC3
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April 30th, 2008
Posted by AlbertMaruggi in SMB Cincinnati
The turnout at the first Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast must be reflective of the total audience on social networks, passionate, knowledgeable, and committed to sharing with the community, the early adopters if you will. There were more people than I expected about 20 people, which the Holiday Inn Riverfront graciously accommodated with a separate meeting room, thank you very much. The group covered many topics, which included:
- What is more important accuracy or speed? An excellent give and take about how newspapers can allow for greater social media without undermining their main concern of distributing accurate information.
- The “Twitter Effect” on reporting, business, conferences, oh just about everything we do.
- How blogging and twitter has impacted the lives of people around the table, from finding new jobs to leaving old ones.
Now, here’s an example that I hope others can use about how the community of people work together to raise the level of the entire group. On Tuesday night I tweeted that I’d post a quick wrap up on Wednesday AM. Everyone has stuff to do so what’s here is my contribution, but I used twitter to let everyone know what I was going to do. So one of the attendees Roger Bauer saw my tweet and posted this more detailed (and his own perspective) on the issues discussed at the first social media breakfast in Cincinnati. Nice. For those of you just looking into social media or attending a breakfast, this is the kind of stuff that happens all the time in social media, whether it’s a group of technology folks, an internal group of employees, customers. (ok enough already, you get the point).
Here is a list of the folks who we were able to capture at the breakfast and their twitter name. In the spirit of social media, this commentary will be added to, refuted, corroborated, etc. etc. etc. by my new and old friends from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. All the best,
Name Twitter Handle
| Albert |
Maruggi |
AlbertMaruggi |
| Kevin |
Dugan |
prblog |
| Mandy |
Jenkins |
mjenkins |
| Roger |
Bauer |
rogerbauer |
| Chris |
Bergman |
chrisbergman |
| Daniel |
Johnson, Jr. |
danieljohnsonjr |
| Debba |
Haupert |
girlfriendology |
| Jason |
Falls |
JasonFalls |
| Krista |
Neher |
KristaNeher |
| Andy |
Osier |
andyosier |
| Cliff |
Ravenscraft |
GSPN |
| Michelle |
Lentz |
writegirl |
| Kevin |
Gerl |
|
| Aaron |
Forgue |
aaronforgue |
| Chris |
Ainsworth |
chrisainsworth |
| Shawn |
Morton |
smorty71 |
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April 21st, 2008
Posted by Bryan Person in SMB Boston, Upcoming breakfasts
April 29 update: I’ve added the lineup for the speaker program below. ***
Boston’s Social Media Breakfast 7 will take place from 8:00-11:00am on Thursday, May 1 at the Ryles Jazz Club in Inman Square, Cambridge.
Program - “Hiring/Getting Hired in a 2.0 World”
We’ll follow a similar format to the one we used at Social Media Breakfast 5. We’ll have four presenters speak briefly about how social media is impacting the hiring process — from both the employer and employee perspective.
Presenters
Workstations
After the presentations, we’ll also offer two workstations for participants:
- Using LinkedIn. Christopher Penn, CTO of the Student Loan Network and co-founder of Podcamp, will demo his “power tips” for getting the most out of LinkedIn.
- Video and you! Owen Mack, chief of strategy & development at coBRANDiT VIDEO, will record a short video of you and your projects that you can publish on your own site, blog, or social network.
Sponsor
The event is being sponsored by Todd Defren and SHIFT Communications, a PR agency with offices in Boston and San Francisco.
Social Media Breakfast event details
- Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008
- Time: 8:00 - 11:00am
- Venue: Ryles Jazz Club
- Address: 212 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Directions to the S&S Restaurant (Nearest T stops: Central Square and Harvard Square on the Red Line)
- Cost: Free
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To attend Social Media Breakfast 7, please RSVP through Eventbrite.
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April 18th, 2008
Posted by AlbertMaruggi in SMB Cincinnati, Upcoming breakfasts
The first Social Media Breakfast of Cincinnati is on Tuesday, April 29 at the
Holiday Inn Riverfront
Street: 600 W THIRD STREET
Time: 7:30am - 9:00am (casual so drop by anytime in this window)
City: Covington, KY
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps…
Contact Info: 612-325-8126 (Maruggi) or 513-240-0547 (Bergman)
Update: Because of the quick comments back, it makes sense to shoot me an email amaruggi@providentpartners.net just in case we need to set up more tables than I’ve reserved in the hotel restaurant. So thanks Michelle and MandyJ for those comments.
Chris Bergman of Cincinnati and Albert Maruggi (visiting Cincinnati that week), senior fellow with the Society for New Communications Research, kicked around the idea for holding the breakfast after tweeting about it with Daniel Johnson Jr, Cliff Ravenscraft, Krista Neher, and others. There is a good group of corporate marketers, agency and PR practitioners, and technologists in the Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati region and this a chance to create an in-person experience.
A loose outline for the group is:
highlights from the recent NewComm Forum and the Media Relations Summit,
discussion of personal networks and the value they create (aka recent issue of selling twitter profile by Andrew Baron )
Cincinnati area news, events, and people
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April 12th, 2008
Posted by Rick Mahn in Recaps, SMB Twin Cities
SMB Twin Cities 2 was a great success! While we gathered at a venue that was admittedly too small for the group, we had tremendous turnout! We had somewhere north of twenty SMBer’s show up despite the nasty early April weather, and another 18-20 join us remotely via the video feed.
Over good coffee and cramped space, the conversation flourished. The group again had ideas of what they wanted to talk about, which I’m glad to see. These “organic” conversations are much more informative and enjoyable than a planned agenda could provide.
Topics the group touched on are at the core of social media, including the question “What is Social Media?”. No, we didn’t get that definition completed for those interested, though someone suggested we lock the door until we did define it! 
We talked about Twitter, what it means by Hugh MacLeod leaving it, privacy and how to protect the anonymity for those that need it. Comparison of the professionalism of LinkedIn vs. the personal aspects of Facebook. How to introduce social media tools to those less acquainted with the concepts. What about the rise of shared feeds and services like FriendFeed, Cullect, and similar services. Finally, there was real interest in how to filter all these information sources so it was easier for a person to keep on top of it all.
One of the really fun points at our meetup this week was to break the news of Seesmic’s new Customer Service and Community Support person: Thomas Knoll (dydimustk on Twitter). Keep an eye out for Thomas on Seesmic (dydimustk)!
Some lessons learned for the meetups themselves are that we need larger spaces, WiFi is a necessity, a live video feed worked well and was much appreciated by remote SMBer’s. Also, bridging the conversation disconnect between the remote viewers and the discussion in the room is needed.
Overall the SMB group in the Minneapolis & St. Paul area is growing fast, our social network (http://smbmsp.ning.com) is now over 40 members and doesn’t show signs of stopping. We’ll be enhancing the meetup and are already setting up the May event.
Thank you to everyone who was able to take time out of their busy day and make it over to the meetup, or to tune in online. See you in May!
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April 7th, 2008
Posted by Bryan Person in Photos, Recaps, SMB Boston
More than 80 members of Boston’s social media community came together last Tuesday morning for a social media breakfast co-hosted by Jeff Pulver and me at the S & S Restaurant in Cambridge.
While there was no specific agenda, Jeff did distribute his personal social-networking toolkits to everyone, ensuring the gathering was … social! He also hinted that the “Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and friends)” series he is hosting around the world might lead to a book.
Here are some links to media from the event:
Look out for SMB7 in early May.
(Jeff Pulver photos)
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April 3rd, 2008
Posted by DaveBarger in Recaps, SMB Memphis
“Analytics” was the keyword of the morning for our second Social Media Breakfast. Bob Hazlett and Emily Joyner discussed social media analytics, varying in topics from Facebook and Google to RSS Feeds and Social Bookmarking.
All attendees, even the newbies, participated at a high level, whether it was exchanging a new idea, bringing forth questions or admitting when they needed a little more explanation of a new tool or social network! The constant conversation and the open-flow of new ideas represent the spirit of the un-conference, which is highly encouraged at the breakfasts. We look forward to next month’s meeting and, as always, are hoping to keep the conversation wheels turning in our online communities!
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April 1st, 2008
Posted by DaveBarger in SMB Memphis, Upcoming breakfasts
This afternoon, things are gearing up for tomorrow morning’s 2nd Social Media Breakfast Memphis! Our first breakfast, held last month, had a good turnout and the RSVP list is steadily growing for the next one.
To spread the word about the breakfasts in Memphis, we use MeetUp.com for RSVPs. It’s a great tool and an easy direction in which to point registrants. We also use our Social Media Memphis group on Facebook to facilitate discussions among the members. Closer to the date of the breakfast, we create an event in Facebook to take advantage of its viral component among Facebook users.
Tomorrow’s breakfast will include a panel discussion about Web analytics, social media measurements and tools such as Google Analytics and Facebook’s Ad Analytics. Most likely, that will lead into a discussion about strategy, which could easily spill over as a discussion topic for next month’s breakfast! Memphis is taking full advantage of the productive conversations and networking being done through the Social Media Breakfasts.
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April 1st, 2008
Posted by Rick Mahn in Upcoming breakfasts
Hi folks, just letting everyone know that the next SMB in the Twin Cities is scheduled for Friday, April 11th. You can find the details at Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/467223
Some topics we’ll touch on are:
- Custom/Personal Search Feeds
- Social Media Tools (Twitter, FriendFeed, Blogs…)
- Wherever the group wants to take the conversation
Space is limited, so sign up soon!
UPDATE: We’ve added a video feed for this event. Join us live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/social-media-breakfast—twin-cities
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