Entries from August 2008 ↓

Hello from Singapore! We’re incredibly excited to have SMB3 in Singapore, this time held at the swanky Asian Civilisations Museum as a tie up with the National Heritage Board.

For the first time we’re introducing an agenda centered loosely around blogger outreach programmes and what they mean for all parties involved.

If you’re in Singapore, we’d love to invite you to come be part of this exciting event!

Day/time: Saturday, 16th August, 10am

Venue: Asian Civilisations Museum, The River Room

Pictures from the event to be up shortly!

Social Media in real life

SMB-TC6 is coming together quickly and seems to have a theme: social media in real life! We’ve got many great things happening that really show how social media is changing everything we do.  From writing books, to our political process, social media is transforming social interaction, bringing more interactivity and a voice to more people.

I didn’t plan on this, but as the event materialized, we ended up with a theme of sorts: social media in real life.  The agenda is full of it - we’re writing a chapter of a book, we’re learning of new tools by their creators, we’re talking with citizen journalists at the kickoff of a major political conference… all these things are part of the lives of our community. We get to share these things, and make them even better. At least, that’s my thoughts as we finish pulling this together.

We have a very special event at this SMB: live-writing a chapter of Pioneer Press Journalist Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s new book Twitter Means Business - How microblogging can help or hurt your company. How will this work? We’ll be using Twitter of course! The project kicks off on Monday August 18th, 2008 and runs through Friday, August 22nd at SMB-TC6! More details on this from Julio (@jojeda) shortly!

Also, we have a new sponsor this month: MarketWire (thank them for the bacon ;).

Ok, on to the details:

Location: Best Buy HQ in Richfield, MN (map link)

Date: August 22nd, 2008

RSVP on Upcoming*: SMB-TwinCities 6

• Julio Ojeda-Zapata (@jojeda on Twitter) will talk about his upcoming book Twitter Means Business - How microblogging can help or hurt your company
• Participate in live-writing a chapter to Julio’s new book on Twitter, we’ll wrap that up live at SMB-TC6! More info here!
• Live remote update from Noah Kunin (@noahkunin on Twitter) of TheUptake.org from the first day of the DNC in Denver, CO. Noah will be demonstrating how social media, specifically mobile video, is being used for citizen journalism.
• Phil Wilson (@Philson on Twitter) demo’s
• Bring your conversation topics and share your knowledge of Social Media
• Complimentary continental breakfast (I’m working on the bacon!)
• Celebrate a half a year of SMBs in Minneapolis/St. Paul
• Watch remotely via our new video channel on Mogulus: www.mogulus.com/smbmsp. Have a webcam - let us know and we will try some remote Q&A too!
• As always, additional agenda item suggestions are welcomed!

New video feed on Mogulus: http://www.mogulus.com/smbmsp

* Due to requirements at Best Buy, we do require an RSVP prior to the event. Remember, the event is no cost!

Sponsored by:

The 5th Memphis Social Media Breakfast met Wednesday, August 6th to discuss all the latest and greatest in the world of social networking. Dave Barger, of LunaWeb, Inc., hosted the event at Mantia’s restaurant.

The morning kicked off as Justin McGregor from Southwest Tennessee Community College gave a great presentation that put RSS (Really Simple Syndication), “in plain english.” This led into a group discussion/Q&A on the RSS tools that are available now and what the market might hold for future syndication sites. Barger wrapped up the meeting with quick overview of LinkedIn and FriendFeed.

Attendees ranged from old social media pros to several fresh faces just learning to take advantage of Facebook. Thanks to a good breakfast and even better discussion, first timers and regulars to the Social Media Breakfasts were able to walk away with something new to bring to their business.

Ottawa-based podcaster Mark Blevis, who’s also the co-founder of Podcasters Across Borders, has released a “producer’s commentary” that takes listeners through some of the audio techniques and editing decisions he made when putting together a podcast for Ottawa’s Social Media Breakfast 2, which was held last month and featured a presentation about community-based online video from Overlay.TV CEO Rob Lane.

Mark is a brilliant audio editor and producer, and his under-the-hood insights here are well worth listening to.

 

 Producer's Commentary, by Mark Blevis: Social Media Breakfast 2 Ottawa [19:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Just a quick note about an upcoming breakfast-hours Tweetup that might be of interest to regular attendees of Social Media Breakfast Boston.

Summer Tuesday Tweetup with Bryan Person: Coffee and Conversation at Peet’s (Upcoming.org listing)

• Day/date/time: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 8:00-10:30am
• Location: Peet’s Coffee and Tea, Harvard Square
• Address: 100 Mount Auburn St, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (Google Map)
• Cost: Pay for your own food/drink

There’s nothing formal here, but if you can make it, please do stop by for a few minutes or an hour to grab some coffee and say hello.

The traditional Social Media Breakfasts in Boston should resume in September.