What’s a brand without a logo? To that end, the various Breakfast organizers have come up with several options. We’ve been debating the choices among ourselves and we’ve narrowed down the options to the following four. We’d like your help to pick one.

Note: The inclusion of specific cities in the logo are for example purposes only. Each city will have the option to add its own name to the final logo.

To see the logos at full size, please click the thumbnails below:

Logo 1

Logo 2

Logo 3

Logo 4

As well, we welcome your comments below. We’ll spend the next week or so gathering your votes and feedback, and then be back in touch to announce the winner. Thanks!

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.

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.

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!

Education was the word of the morning for May’s Social Media Breakfast Memphis. Presenters highlighted the value and importance of continuing education to keep up with the trends in technology, as well as how educational institutions are utilizing social media.

Joan McGrory, Ph. D, with Southwest Tennessee Community College, explained to the group the growing benefits of continuing education, especially in the realm of technology. While Bryan Berretta, of Lausanne Collegiate School, showed the ways their students and teachers are utilizing social media tools such as social bookmarking, blogs and private social networks to share information and stay connected. Bryan’s presentation can be found here on SlideShare.net.

Both presentations sparked interesting discussions on what social media trends are most effective in various realms. What are your thoughts about connecting social media with education?

All attendees, even the newbies, participated at a high level, whether it was exchanging a new idea, bringing forth questions or admitting when they needed a little more explanation of a new tool or social network! The constant conversation and the open-flow of new ideas represent the spirit of the un-conference, which is highly encouraged at the breakfasts. We look forward to next month’s meeting and, as always, are hoping to keep the conversation wheels turning in our online communities!

To spread the word about the breakfasts in Memphis, we use MeetUp.com for RSVPs. It’s a great tool and an easy direction in which to point registrants. We also use our Social Media Memphis group on Facebook to facilitate discussions among the members. Closer to the date of the breakfast, we create an event in Facebook to take advantage of its viral component among Facebook users.

Tomorrow’s breakfast will include a panel discussion about Web analytics, social media measurements and tools such as Google Analytics and Facebook’s Ad Analytics. Most likely, that will lead into a discussion about strategy, which could easily spill over as a discussion topic for next month’s breakfast! Memphis is taking full advantage of the productive conversations and networking being done through the Social Media Breakfasts.

More information with links to photos and quick outtake videos found on LunaWeb’s blog.

Big Shouts of “Thanks” to all involved:

Bob Hazlett / Maurrean Barger / Justin McGregor / Lindsey Coates / Debbie Neal / Robert Staub / Emily Joyner / Cortney Sellers / Will Murphy / Steven Russell / Curt Cowan / Jonathan Prince / Roy Barnes / Melanee Hannock

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.