Entries from February 2008 ↓
February 29th, 2008 — SMB Memphis, Upcoming breakfasts
The inaugural Social Media Breakfast - Memphis will be held Wednesday, March 5, at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn. Join other members of the Memphis’ social media community for neurosocietal brain swapping and biscuit passing! (breakfast and parking are free).
Please register at newmedia.meetup.com/84
Here are the details:
- Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
- Time: 7:30a.m. - 9:30
- Place: Holiday Inn at University of Memphis
- Address: 3700 Central Ave. Memphis, TN
The event is being hosted by LunaWeb.
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February 16th, 2008 — SMB Austin, Upcoming breakfasts
The Social Media Club Austin will host the city’s inaugural Social Media Breakfast on Thursday, February 21, at Rudy’s Bar-B-Q.
Join Connie Reece from SMC Austin, SMB founder Bryan Person, and members of Austin’s social media community. Here are the event details:
The event is being sponsored by GCI Read Poland.
Technorati Tags: Social Media Breakfast, SMB Austin, Social Media Club Austin
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February 15th, 2008 — Recaps, SMB Twin Cities
The inaugural SMB in Minneapolis/St. Paul was a good time and a great success. While we were hoping to have about 10-12 people 
participate, we had an outstanding first group of 16 meet in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday. Hosted at Keys Café in the historic Foshay Tower, talk of social media over coffee and eggs was long overdue - Bryan Person really had a great idea in these SMB’s!
This first meetup really was left fairly loosely structured, and most appreciated just having time to really meet in person the people we’ve been interacting with for months online. Common topics that made it around the table were related to Twitter, mobile access to new media, and the common challenges of social media adoption in the Midwest.
Also, we were treated to a demo of the new Shareable Feed Reader Cullect.com by Garrick VanBuren and Albert Maruggi did an interview on Utterz with me. Overall, it was a great time, and something the crew here in the Twin Cities area has been hoping to do for some time. We’ve got a lot of talented people here looking to help organizations leverage the opportunities that social media brings to building and connecting with a community.
Below is a list of attendees with links to their Twitter profiles (sorry if I missed anyone - not everyone left a link!):
We’re looking forward to future SMB’s and are looking for suggestions, ideas, and other feedback. If you would like more structure, presentations, demos, breakouts, etc… just leave a comment or email Rick Mahn at “rickmahn [at] gmail [dot] com”.
Technorati Tags: Social Media Breakfast, SMBMSP1, Garrick VanBuren, Albert Maruggi, Cullect.com
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February 14th, 2008 — Photos, Recaps, SMB Boston
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Scott Monty, Doug Haslam, Jim Storer, and Laura Fitton headlined the ticket at yesterday morning’s Social Media Breakfast 5 at the S & S Restaurant and Deli in Inman Square, Cambridge.
Each of the four led a five-minute presentation on how Twitter has “changed our lives.”
Scott Monty (@ScottMonty on Twitter) reminded us that “Twitter is nothing if you don’t have the community,” and explained how Twitter was indirectly responsible for helping him land his current gig at crayon.
Doug Haslam from Topaz Partners used props — specially a ball of dough that matches his Twitter handle, DougH — to demonstrate how Twitter serves as the hub of much of his work online. He also shared answers from members of his Twitter community to the question, “How has Twitter changed your life?”
Jim Storer from Mzinga (and @jstorerj on Twitter) talked about the potential of Twitter’s under-used favorites tool; the bright future for microblogging (including inside the enterprise), which he termed the “gateway drug to social media”; the notion of “hunters and gatherers” on Twitter; and the importance of listening.
Pistachio Consulting’s Laura Fitton (aka “Pistachio“) delivered a deeply personal and moving account of the ways that Twitter has changed and enriched her world, both personally and professionally, since she moved to Boston last year.
A big thanks to Jim, Aaron Strout, and everyone at Mzinga (disclosure: Mzinga is a client of mine) for sponsoring Social Media Breakfast 5, and to Boston’s ever-passionate — and growing — social media community for making this breakfast series the success that it has become.
Other media from Social Media Breakfast 5
Your Twitter ID
Did you attend yesterday’s breakfast? Please drop a comment with your Twitter handle to this post, or to the one announcing the event. I’ll round up all the IDs and share by e-mail.
Photo credits
Montage above uses Flickr photos from Mzinga Marketing, davefishernc, colin_n, alexa627, doughaslam, and stevegarfield.
Technorati Tags: Social Media Breakfast, SMB5, Scott Monty, Doug Haslam, Jim Storer, Laura Fitton, Mzinga, Twitter
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February 9th, 2008 — SMB Twin Cities, Upcoming breakfasts
The Social Media Breakfast series will begin in the Twin Cities on Wednesday, February 13, when Rick Mahn hosts an event at the Keys Cafe in Minneapolis.
Details are below, and in a post previewing the breakfast on Rick’s blog.
- Date: Wednesday, February 13th, 2007
- Time: 8:00am to 10:00am
- Place: Keys Cafe Minneapolis - Located in the Foshay Tower
- Address: 114 South 9th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402 (Directions/Map)
- Cost: Buy your own breakfast, and enjoy free WiFi!
- RSVP at our Upcoming page: Social Media Breakfast - Twin Cities!
Technorati Tags: Social Media Breakfast, SMBMSP1, Rick Mahn
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