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Bryan Person on Social Media Edge Radio 4/6 Noon Eastern

Join Social Media Edge radio hosts Ken Cook and Jason Crouch at noon eastern with Social Media Breakfast founder Bryan Person.Social Media Edge

Social Media Edge radio was founded by Ken Cook in September 2008 and Jason Crouch was added as co-host in December that year. Notable guests include Shel Israel, Shane Gibson, Paul Cheney, and Chris Brogan to name just a few.

Bryan Person is the perfect guest for the show and recently spent a few minutes with co-host Jason Crouch at South by SouthWest #SXSW where the two shared in hearing from and meeting other social media thought leaders who are forming the social media plane.

Be sure to listen live and join in the chat room where the chat is often lively and takes on a mode of it’s own. The show is hosted on Blog Talk Radio and is one of BTRs most popular, long running shows on the subject of social media. Archives are always available at SocialMediaEdge.com – see you there!

SMBMSP December Podcast now posted

SMB MSP logoEach month, the Social Media Breakfast Twin Cities group produces and releases a podcast ahead of its event.

For December, host/producer Brad Bellaver and SMBMSP organizers Rick Mahn and Mykl Roventine welcome Lindsi Gish, communications manager at Second Harvest Heartland, on a “very special holiday show.”

Enjoy the discussion–and other holiday treats!

 
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Other special guests:
Bing Crosby (Toby Cryns | @TobyCryns)
Santa Claus (Phil Wilson | @Philson )

Additional links:
SMBMSP CafePress Store

SMBMSP Ning site

Music:
“White Christmas” – Esquivel
“Frosty the Snowman” – Toby Cryns

Audio: BJ Cooks talks SMB San Diego

One of the strengths of the Social Media Breakfast series is the “personality” that each breakfast group takes on, reflecting the strengths and smarts of the local organizers and the makeup of the attendees.

Captive group at SMB San Diego 5

In this short audio conversation that I recorded earlier this week, Digital Operative CEO and co-founder BJ Cook talks about the SMB San Diego group that he shepherds.

(Readers via RSS and e-mail may need to click through to the original post to stream the audio file.)

 
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Show Notes from conversation with SMB San Diego’s BJ Cook

  • Bryan Person and BJ Cook reflect on SMB San Diego 5.
  • BJ talks about the evolution of the San Diego Social Media Breakfast series.
  • BJ peviews the group’s upcoming work with the nonprofit organization, THINK Together.
  • Bryan asks BJ about the breakfast’s “Feedback in 5″ segment, where attendees talk about challenges they’re facing in their own social media projects.

Running time: 4:34

To keep up with BJ online, follow @BJ on Twitter.

10 takeaways from Austin’s Social Media Breakfast 4

1. Hoover’s Tim Walker is quite the presenter. He had billed his talk at this morning’s Austin Social Media Breakfast at the Genuine Joe Coffeehouse as informative, painless, and funny — and he delivered on all counts.

2. Tim likes to talk with his hands.

Tim Walker presents at Austins Social Media Breakfast 4

3. Tim reminded us that a medium is just a “means of human communication.”  Media include everything from printed newspapers and blogs to smoke signals and church sermons.

4. Messages easily jump from one medium to the next “because people want to communicate;” they also  “tend to use the media available to them for much the same human purposes over time.”

5. Was Martin Luther that different from today’s blogging superstars? He knew how to take advantage of a new technology of his day, the printing press (not to mention word of mouth), to spread ideas and build community.

6. How did Bob Hope stay so popular throughout his life? He knew how to port what was essentially the same act across multiple media (vaudeville, radio, television, etc.) through the years.

7. Corporate bloggers who only talk about their products and services would be wise to take a cue from Tim’s neighborhood hardware merchant, who will refer Tim to another store when he doesn’t have the product Tim needs on a particular day. In so doing, the merchant gains Tim trust and becomes a resource Tim will willingly come back to again and again.

8. Tim echoed Chris Brogan’s sentiment that newspapers are not in the newspaper business. Rather, they’re in the newsmaking business and need to deliver that news through whatever media/device their customers demand (newspaper, website, RSS, mobile phone, etc.). Understanding that distinction, Tim said, is crucial to papers’ survival and evolution.

9. Tim suggests that we’re only in the very early stages of development of social media, and that associated unpredictable social, economic, and personal changes are still very much to come.

10. Once again, Austin’s social media community showed its enthusiasm and willingness to come together, share, and learn.

Listen to Tim

Thanks to Karen Kreps, we have an audio recording from Tim’s presentation. Click below to stream or download.

 
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Online media from Austin’s Social Media Breakfast 4

SMB Austin 3: Does social media marketing matter?

Peter Kim speaks about social media marketing at Austin's Social Media Breakfast 3

Peter Kim led a spirited discussion on the value of social media marketing at Austin’s Social Media Breakfast 3, held this morning at Rudy’s “Country Store” & Bar-B-Q.

Peter, who’s currently building an Austin Ventures-backed enterprise social computing startup, asked several pointed questions of our group:

  • Does social media marketing matter at all?
  • Does social media marketing scale?
  • Why are enterprises still blocking employee access to social computing tools and applications?
  • Do A-list bloggers really care about “the conversation?”

Peter’s generally not shy about stirring things up, and today was no exception.

Take a listen to my own conversation with Peter, immediately following the breakfast

 
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To keep up with Peter’s daily take on social media marketing, follow his Being Peter Kim blog.

Other business

Media links from Austin’s Social Media Breakfast 3

Talking niche networks at Austin’s Social Media Breakfast 2

Jackie Huba leads a discussion on the value of niche communities at Austins Socil Media Breakfast 2

Author, blogger, and word-of-mouth expert Jackie Huba led an engaging discussion on the value of niche communities on Tuesday morning during Austin’s second Social Media Breakfast, held at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse in North Austin.

Jackie kicked off her talk with case studies from Fiskars and Maker’s Mark, two companies who’ve established communities through ambassador groups. With Fiskars, that community didn’t come together around their actual products (such as scissors), but around the hobby of scrapbooking.

Also emerging was a lively discussion around the value of “lurkers” in communities, a topic attendee Kyle Flaherty and Shel Israel have since blogged about.

After the breakfast, Jackie sat down with me for a one-on-one interview to recap the highlights of her talk, including:

  • Why Jackie thinks niche social networks are the “plastics of the future”
  • How customer communities can build loyalty and encourage participation
  • How Fiskars and Maker’s Mark have cultivated brand ambassadors.
  • What to do about lurkers
  • SWOMfest ‘08

 
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Running time: 9:09

Media links from Austin’s Social Media Breakfast 2

Image courtesy of Eugene Hsu.

The podcast behind the podcast at SMB Ottawa 2

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.

 
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