Entries from April 2009 ↓

To personify Web 2.0 to a New Zealand local government audience, Tara Hunt (The Whuffie Factor) and Chris Messina introduced us to citizen superheroes. We’re pleased to announce that Mark Kuznicki, one of Tara and Chris’ citizen superheroes, will be our guest speaker for Breakfast 9 on May 6th! Continue reading →

On a gorgeous Tuesday spring morning in Boston, the city’s social media community gathered at PUMA City on the waterfront to hear from speakers who are “rocking the boat” in their work .

The main presenters were Dan Schawbel, best-selling author of Me 2.0, Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success; George Grattan, marketing specialist with EarthWatch; Roger Wu, president of Klickable.TV; and C.C. Chapman, media maven and partner of The Advance Guard.

Video: ‘Passion is contagious.’

In this video interview recorded shortly after C.C.’s presentation, he talks about the opportunities for brands to better connect with their fans online.

Video: Bob Collins puts a wrap on SMB13

As the breakfast wound down, I asked SMB Boston organizer Bob Collins for his thoughts on the event.

Additional online coverage

(Steve Garfield Flickr photo)

• Steve Garfield: Social Media Breakfast at PUMA City Boston
• limeduck: Puma, Thoreau, Twitter, Earthwatch and more at Social Media Breakfast
• Art + Science: Social Media Breakfast at PUMA City
• Twitter: Tweets with #SMB13 hashtag.
• Sarah Merion: [video] Interview with Dan Schawbel on Personal Branding
• Flickr: Photos with SMB13 tag.

Boston’s Social Media Breakfast 13 was organized by Bob Collins and sponsored by PUMA, which is also sponsoring the worldwide Volvo Ocean Race.

Come to the next Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast to listen, share, network and learn along with other area professionals.

Is your digital footprint in compliance with the communications decency act? Is giving credit online and linking to a source enough to avoid copyright infringement? In an online world full of social media, sharing and mash-ups, the answers might seem fuzzy.

Jack Greiner’s goal is to help you “avoid your lawyer” by bringing clarity to the latest in online intellectual property laws. Greiner is with Graydon, Head & Ritchey. From Facebook terms of service to the role of re-tweeting in libel cases, anyone involved in creating content online will be interested in this presentation

The event is free thanks to CincyTech. Join us on Friday, April 24th from 7:30 am until 9:30 am at the Mercantile Library.

Event Tag #cincysmb

Registration Event registration is required and limited to 50 attendees. Once the event is sold out, please send an email to cincysocmed AT gmail DOT com to be added to the waiting list.

Date Friday, April 24th from 7:30 am until 9:30 am

Location The Mercantile Library at 414 Walnut St # 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Social Media Breakfast – Charlotte is a moderated, high level discussion on Social Media topics. The chosen topic for the first event is how social media is growing in Charlotte and determining possible future topics.

Join us:
May 12th – 7:30 am to 9:00 am
Dilworth Neighborhood Grille
$11 to attend, space is limited

SIGN UP NOW – http://smbcharlotte.eventbrite.com/

This event is not for beginners, meaning it will not teach the basics of Social Media, but rather enable a thought leading conversation on the chosen topics.

For more info – http://www.socialmediacharlotte.com/page/social-media-breakfast

Visit Social Media Club, Charlotte, NC at: http://www.socialmediacharlotte.com

The forth session of Social Media Breakfast San Diego had a great turn out this morning, with a bunch of fresh new faces! We had 3 people present their nominations for non profit organizations that they felt our group could help.  The submissions were; San Diego Hospice Palliative Medicine, Think Together and finally Move SD.

Our new format is in place and the group dynamic is beginning to shine.   We spent the first 30 minutes filling up on coffee and pastries.  The next 20 minutes going over our Top 10 in 10 social media news bites like, Ashton Kutcher’s defeat over CNN, Oprah’s debut on Twitter, Google’s experiment with viral marketing and other great social media topics.

Melanie Gordon, VP of Sales and Marketing at Internet marketing Inc.  Spoke and during her speach she presented a case study she has currently been working on illustrating how she helped @Sunflowerguy build their product with social media strategies. Follow her @melgordon

You can view some of Melanie’s presentation on the Ustream clip below:

San Diego – Social Media Breakfast 4

We ended the session with Feedback 5, which allowed a couple people to discuss the challenges they are currently facing with their social media efforts in their own work. If you’re interested in following the conversations from the session you can follow our hashtag and view our sample below:

This morning was a great success.

A big thanks to Milano Coffee Co. for having us and an especially big thanks to Melanie Gordon for speaking and sponsoring the breakfast this month.

Next session will be May 27,2009 and more details will be available on the SMBSD website soon.

With the successful re-launch of last month’s session and new structure, we have the opportunity to have Melani Gordon, VP of Sales and Marketing for Internet Marketing Co. discuss how a company can build a product, drive brand awareness and make sales online through the use of social media.   She will be focusing directly on Twitter by covering the basic fundamental strategies to achieve the results and goals you set out to accomplish.

Melani will also be covering the following additional topics:

• How to reach your target audience
• How to start, build and keep a conversation flowing with your target demographic
• How to get results

New Social Project UPDATE:

Why not share what we know to help others grow? We’ve decided to take on an exciting new project and during this session we will pick the top 3 non-profit organizations from nominations that were submitted over the course of this month, who we feel will benefit most from our group.  Our goal is to enter into our 5th session with new ideas and strategies for the chosen organization.

Event Details:

• Where: Milano Coffee Co., 8685 Rio San Diego Dr., Ste B, San Diego, CA (website)
• Parking: Recommend parking across street in shopping center lot.
• When: April 21, 2009 … 7:30am – 9:00am
• Bonus: Pastries and coffee will be provided.
• Cost: FREE … bring a friend or 2
• Register for the event and view more details.

Internet Marketing Co. will be sponsoring this month’s breakfast. To sponsor a future event, please contact Erin Levenson:VIA Twitter @erinlevenson or @SMBSD

Looking forward to seeing you everyone! If you’re interested in following updates about the Social Media Breakfast San Diego on Twitter or via our hashtag #smbsd

Location: Allianz Life (Golden Valley, MN) (Map)
Date: April 29th, 2009, from 8am to 10am

NOTE: About parking, ramp parking is available and the gate will be open from 7:30-8am. Before/after that just press the assistance button and say you’re here for SMB
There will be bagels, coffee and bacon

Agenda:

• Supercharged Personal Branding
  by Mykl Roventine
  What do you need to think about to build "Brand You?" It doesn’t matter what industry you belong or aspire to, everyone has a brand. Being able to define and convey your unique brand will become necessary skills as the explosive growth of the social web continues. The alternative is to be lost in the digital shuffle. Far from being complicated, there are simple lessons that can be applied immediately to get started. Tools, tips and common sense techniques will be explored to help harness your brand now and well into the future. To jump-start the process, a Holly Iverson, of Holly Marie Photography, will be on hand to take free avatar photos of attendees. Feel free to dress up above the waist.
  

  Mykl Roventine is a Senior Interactive Designer at Allianz Life and self-proclaimed social media junkie. He designs things like web sites and social media strategies, drinks lots of coffee, runs the Minneapolis chapter of TechKaraoke and blogs at myklroventine.com.

  Holly Iverson started Holly Marie Photography (hollymarie-photography.com) about 2 years ago after graduating with a BFA from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN. Always trying to learn more and push herself, she strives for fabulous photography.

• What Matters With Twitter, an in-depth look at 2 Million Tweets
  by Scott Pete
  These days it seems that the Twitter metric given the most attention is Follower Count. But is that what really matters? In this presentation, we will explore how Twitter is being used by a group of 300 "Tweeters" over the past 5 months, to build their personal brand and/or support their business. This hand selected group includes 100 high volume users, 50 thought leading businesses, as well as 250 authors/speakers, business coaches, and marketers.
  

  Scott Pete is part of the sales team at August Ash, Inc. – a Minneapolis Internet Marketing and Web Development firm. He has over 20 years of experience working within marketing agencies, end user environments, and as a freelance consultant in the Internet Marketing space. He specializes in the innovative application of technology to drive business results. His Web site is www.scottpete.com

• The Scoop on Skimmer
  by representatives of Fallon, TBA
  Skimmer is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities. It improves upon your day-to-day interaction with multiple social networks, removing distractions and providing a rich experience that is particularly suited to multimedia content.

Organizers:

Rick Mahn, Mykl Roventine

Sponsors:

As you all know I am on a great push to get hyper-local this year in addition to my national business (You can read more about that over here). As part of that I’ve been doing small, intimate local classes (like this one on kid safety online) and organizing and sponsoring local events designed to foster knowledge and connection. One of these has been starting and organizing Social Media Breakfast NH.

As we enter our third meeting, averaging 50 – 80 people each time (and growing) no matter what the weather holds, it became time to get some behind the scenes help. Kevin Micalizzi and Matt Turner have been instrumental in helping at each breakfast without being asked (Kevin has been doing the live-casting everyone loves so much through DimDim, and Matt has been excellent on concierge duty the day of each event). It only made sense then to bring on Kevin and Matt officially.

From now on, while I will still be the main contact, you can also submit topic, speaker, sponsor and venue ideas to Kevin Micalizzi as well as to myself. He will also be another source for answers to your questions. Matt Turner is so fantastic at on-site duties and connecting people during the event that he’ll be instrumental in that area, so the day of the event you can see either myself or Matt for whatever concierge-type help you may need.

You probably already follow me on Twitter (geechee_girl). Be sure to follow Kevin (kevinmic) and Matt (onmatt) also. Hashtag for all Social Media Breakfast NH events continues to be #SMBNH.

We also have our next breakfast coming up this Friday, April 17th. From the official EventBrite Sign Up:

Special thank you to our event sponsor, University of New Hampshire (UNH). Thanks to their generosity we are able to offer
this breakfast at no cost to you.

Location: UNH Campus (street address, room and parking information to be added here shortly)

Theme for the third Social Media
Breakfast: Education 2.0 (how social media tools can help educators)

The third
Social Media Breakfast NH (hashtag #smbnh) will be all about topics
related to Education 2.0. In this struggling economy and shifting
paradigm we need to be working together to be more successful and
better weather the storm. We should be pulling in all aspects of
technology, new media, old media and social media to succeed. This
meeting will help us lay the foundation for a richer, better education,
tech and new media community in NH.

Usually, In addition to myself,
who will be your host and MC for the morning, you will have three
speakers giving three brief presentations on topics relating to the
theme for the morning. However, we are switching it up a bit this month. BEcause the focus is education, I thought, “Why not educate?”. To that end we will have two speakers, then any educators in attendance will get the floor to put us, the social media gurus in attendance, on the spot and let us answer their questions. A kind of reverse breakfast, if you will.

Speakers:

Speakers:

• Opening Remarks by Evangelos Simos, Professor at UNH

• Kelley Muir, Partner of Sunder Media and Director of Float Left Labs, has worked in the interactive and new media realm, in NH for the past 5 years. Kelley was part of the first graduating class of New Media from the
University of Maine and has a focus on usability, user experience, and design. Kelley’s favorite word is intuitive. she will be discussing “Interns 2.0: A reflective look at the role of Interns, their treatment in our industry
and country, As well as how the economy has changed the internship process for better and worse.”

• Hans Mundahl has taught since 1995 when he first stepped to the front of a classroom as a Fullbright Exchange Teacher in the former East Germany. Since then he has been creating stimulating educational experiences for students that combine cutting edge tools with durable skills. Hans is the Director of Experiential Learning and Technology Coordinator at the New Hampton School. He will be presenting on using live streaming and Mogulus in the classroom.

• Reverse speaker slot: educators and students in the room will get a chance to pick the brains of the social media crowd for how to use social media tools in and out of the classroom

TO SPONSOR THIS OR A FUTURE SMBNH CONTACT LESLIE POSTON via Twitter, Email or Phone or purchase a sponsor ticket above.

Let’s make the new SMBNH crackle with energy and success! See you there!

Our next Waco Social Media Breakfast will be on Tuesday, April 28th, starting at 7:30 am

At our April Social Media Breakfast,Jay Ehret will talk about how to choose a social medial channel for business. Hosted by CJ Jackson and Caryn Brown.

This is a free event, but you must register to attend. There are a limited number of tickets available. Breakfast will be available to purchase.

http://wacosmb05.eventbrite.com/

7:30-8:00 – Networking and Socializing
8:00-9:00 – Presentation by Jay Ehret, questions and answers
9:00-9:30 – Networking and Socializing

Hosted by Caryn Brown and CJ Jackson

Social Media Breakfast Toledo staged its first event on April 3 in Toledo.

Team SMB Toledo with Patrick Giammarco, Janeile Cudjoe, Julie Cantu, Tim Langhorst, Dave Rigotti, Damian Rintelmann, Kevin Cesarz, Allen Mireles, Mike Driehorst, Michael Temple, Steve Robison and Victoria Kamm began planning for the event in January.

Thank you to all in the Toledo-area social media community for coming and making this such a success. We had 79 people attend the inaugural event at the Elks Club on Holland-Sylvania Rd. near Wildwood Metropark, and another 67 followed live on Ustream. Toledo’s WTOL provided the bright lights and TV interest that began before dawn on a rainy Friday.

Our panel of Victoria Kamm, Allen Mireles, Dave Rigotti and Damian Rintelmann were led by Michael Temple through a discussion of such topics as attracting new customers with social media, retaining existing customers with social media, and market research to learn what customers want through conversation.

The panel worked through questions on Twitter, LinkedIn, Ning and other social media platforms, citing personal experience on tactics, tools and trends.

There was no way to cover all things social media in the one hour time frame so we look forward to your comments on Twitter, Ning and other platforms to improve for the next event on May 1, also at the Elks.

View the recent Social Media Breakfast Toledo highlights