Entries from June 2008 ↓

Canada’s first Social Media Breakfast in Ottawa, the Nation’s Capital, is now one for the books! The inaugural Breakfast, sponsored by Overlay.TV, was held this past Tuesday. Over 60 guests braved the early hour and sauna-like weather to gather for a morning of social media talk over coffee at the headquarters of Ramius Corporation.

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June’s Social Media Breakfast #4 highlighted social media releases, as well as small businesses utilizng social media. Emily Joyner gave a quick presentation about social media releases, during which she showed the group the standard template for social media releases. Other notable examples of social media releases include Coca-Cola’s® SMR for the Virtual Thirst Contest and Ford’s® Digital Snippets about their selection of vehicles. 

Dave Barger’s presentation highlighted the social media uses small businesses could employ to help reach their target audience. By using Shashi Bellamkonda’s example of “Small Business and Social Media,” Dave gave the group tips and various ideas for utilizing social media to better connect with their audiences.

The next Social Media Breakfast Memphis will be held in August. Details to come at a later date.

Boston’s Social Media Breakfast 8 will be held on Tuesday, June 24, from 8:00-11:00am, at the Ryles Jazz Club in Inman Square, Cambridge.

—> Register here.

Speaking program: Making the business case for video
SMB8 will feature four 5-minute presentations on the use of video in social media campaigns and in ongoing community building. The presenters:

• Larry Lawfer, YourStorys founder and president
• Jeff Glasson, director of social media & technology at PerkettPR
• Rob Lane, CEO/co-founder of Overlay.TV
• Emily Belyea and Ben Grossman, principal at The Plenary Group

Sponsor
SMB8 is being sponsored by Overlay.TV, an Ottawa, Canada-based interactive media company that enables users to “overlay” contextual information onto online videos.

SMB8 event details

• Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
• Time: 8:00 - 11:00am
• Venue: Ryles Jazz Club
• Address: 212 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Google Map)
• Directions to the Ryles Jazz Club (Nearest T stops: Central Square and Harvard Square on the Red Line). Free and metered parking is also available.
• Cost: Free

—> Register here.

Making media?
Please use the tags SMB8 and Social Media Breakfast.

Questions?
Please contact Bryan Person by e-mail at bperson - AT - gmail - DOT - com, or Bob Collins at bob - AT - shiftcomm - DOT - com

We’ll be meeting at Concordia University in St. Paul, MN again this time since it worked out so well last time.

When: June 11th from 8am to 10am

Where: Concordia University, St. Paul

RSVP: Check out the event page on our SMB Twin Cities Ning site!

Details:

Concordia University, St. Paul has again offered meeting space with WiFi, true conference room facilities, and parking.

Agenda will follow soon.

We’ll be in the Library Technology Center Room 215 for the event. Here is 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

Here is a campus map: 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. Parking may be tight due to a few other conferences hosted on campus. There is street parking available on Concordia Ave, Carroll Ave, and Syndicate Street.

A month ago, I watched my Twitter stream get taken over by Tweeps attending Boston’s Social Media Breakfast 7. Envious of those living in Social Media Breakfast cities, I emailed Bryan Person to ask about ‘franchising’ SMB. Today, thanks to help from my co-organizers, Ryan Anderson and Rob Lane, we’re less than one week away from the inaugural Social Media Breakfast in Ottawa, Canada!

Here’s the gist:

When: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 from 7:30 to 9:00 AM

Where: Ramius Corporation, 55 Metcalfe Street, Suite 530

Guest speaking will be Adrian Salamunovic, Co-Founder of DNA 11. DNA 11 is a company that pioneered the creation of personalized artwork from the DNA of its customers. You’ll learn how Adrian and his partner energized the DNA 11 brand by using social media.

For more details and to register for this event, please go to our Eventbrite page at http://smbottawa.eventbrite.com

We look forward to meeting many of you next week!

UPDATE: Thanks to all of our supporters, our first event has quickly met our originally targeted goal of 60 registrations! We’re hoping to be able to free up some additional tickets, if you’re interested, please contact Simon Chen.

Wednesday, June 4 will be the 4th Social Media Breakfast for Memphis, TN. So far, they’ve gone really well with many newbies, along with the regulars, showing up each time excited about new technologies.

Each breakfast has the same routine: time flies, agenda never followed, discussion goes on and on. Sounds perfect, huh? Although the primary topic hasn’t been chosen yet for this week’s breakfast, we can be sure we’ll have another morning of stimulating social media-related conversations going around the room!

SMB Memphis is still utilizing MeetUp.com for RSVPs and Facebook for idea discussions, photos, videos and recap, which has been working great so far!

The Social Media Breakfast series goes extra niche tomorrow morning in Boston, with the inaugural Science Social Media Breakfast.

Here’s a preview of the event, as taken from the registration page:

Join Elio Schaechter of Small Things Considered and Chris Condayan from the MicrobeWorld Radio and Video podcasts for a lively breakfast discussion about using new media for science communication. All attendees are encouraged to share their experiences in using new media, such as blogs, social networks, video and audio podcasts, and wikis, to promote the life sciences or for use in educational settings.

This event coincides with the American Society for Microbiology’s 108th General Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts from Sunday, June 1 to Thursday, June 5, 2008.

Please note that The Science Social Media Breakfast is not directly associated with ASM’s General Meeting and is therefore open to anyone in the Boston Metro Area to attend.

Science Social Media Breakfast event details:

• Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
• Time: 8:00 - 10:00am
• Venue: The Channel Cafe
• Address: 300 Summer St., Boston, MA 02210 (Google Map)
• Cost: Free

How to register

To attend the Science Social Media Breakfast, please RSVP on the Eventbrite registration page.