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The next New North Social Media Breakfast will be held on Feb. 16, 2010 at Main Event Steakhouse in Little Chute, Wis. The event is sponsored in part by the local news team leading social media involvement in the New North, WFRV-TV Channel 5. The discussion will focus on the use of how social media is impacting the traditional media industry. Future locations will be announced a month in advance of the noted event dates.

Confirmed panelists for the event are:

Mark David Zahn - Creative Services, Woodward Radio Group
Erin Davisson – Anchor, WFRV-TV
Angenette Levy – Reporter, WFRV-TV
Joel Christopher -  Digital Content Editor, Post-Crescent

The New North Social Media Breakfast is provided to business professionals, both experienced and newcomers to social media, at no cost. Also, due to high interest, the New North Social Media Breakfast is implementing a new RSVP system for 2010 on EventBrite. To sign up for a breakfast, interested parties simply search “New North Social Media Breakfast” on EventBrite and order a free ticket.

Background: The New North Social Media Breakfast was founded in March 2009 by Dana VanDenHeuvel of Marketing Savant in partnership with Weidert Group, Inc. and Element. The group of local professionals meet monthly, rotating between Green Bay and Appleton locations, to discuss how social media is impacting their businesses. To cater to the diverse needs of this growing group of professionals, the New North Social Media Breakfast has burst out of the coffee shop setting and into the community. The breakfast will now be held at various local businesses each month with a panel that will discuss how social media is impacting their industry.

The event is free and open to anyone who wishes to attend. More information can be found at The New North Social Media Breakfast Ning group.

Heading into our second year, we’re really on top of things with an event schedule and our first social media breakfast of the new year on Jan 19th!

The The New North Social Media Breakfast, a local networking group for New North business professionals, announces their schedule for 2010. The updated program includes locations at various influential local businesses throughout Northeast Wisconsin, sponsorships and a formal RSVP system.

We’re also going to be focusing on a specific industry each month to highlight the great things happening in social media on a per-industry basis, featuring new speakers and businesses from each respective industry sector.

New 2010 schedule and topics:
January 19 (Green Bay) – topic: Restaurant and hospitality
February 16 (Appleton) – topic: News Media
March 16 (Green Bay) – topic: Education
April 20 (Appleton) – topic: Manufacturing
May 18 (Green Bay) – topic: Tourism
June 15 (Appleton) - topic: Small Business Owners
July 20 (Green Bay) – topic: Finance, banking
August 17 (Appleton) – topic: Healthcare
September 21 (Green Bay) – topic: Sports
October 19 (Appleton) – topic: Political campaigns
November 16 (Green Bay) – topic: Retail
December 14 (Appleton) - topic: City government & Holiday party

All events are scheduled from 7:30 – 8:45 a.m.

Our first breakfast of the year will be held at Republic Chophouse in Green Bay on January 19th and features a focus on social media in the hospitality industry.

Join our January sponsor, Republic Chophouse, on Facebook

To RSVP for the event (required) get your free tickets here.

We’ll be meeting at the Harmony Cafe (1660 W Mason St – http://www.focol.org/harmonycafe/) at 7:30 am, though you may want to show up a bit earlier to get some breakfast.

Here’s the agenda of what we’re going to cover:

1. Social media toolkits – what are organizations using and how are they tying it all together to get results from their efforts in social media [Presentation]

2. The Northeast Wisconsin social media survey results and what they mean to local businesses (www.whatthetweet.org/report) [Presentation]

3. Top 10 in 10 – The top 10 things that have happened in social media in the past few weeks [Discussion]

5. Feedback/roundtable – Bring your social media challenges for the group and get feedback on your challenge & ideas. [Discussion]

If you’re interested in staying in the know on our upcoming social media breakfasts, check out our Ning group – http://newnorthsmb.ning.com/

Our most recent social media breakfast in Appleton, WI effectively doubled in size from a nascent group of 12-15 to a group of nearly 30. The topics of the event were divided between a discussion of some of the questions that came up from our “What the *Tweet*” event in Green Bay and an in depth discussion of the nuances of Twitter.

We always ask the group to go around and do some quick introductions and to share the ‘question of the day’ that they brought with them to the event. Much of the information that people are seeking is to know more about what others are doing with social media in the area. I suppose that the SMB is a great place to learn that sort of thing!

We’ve set a date for the next meeting of July 9th. We’ll be doing our first actual ‘presentation’ by sharing a few examples of ’social media toolkits’ that people are using to leverage social media for their business.

In other news, the group also garnered some nice media coverage of the event in the Appleton Post-Crescent with an article entitled “Appleton’s Social Media Breakfast shows how businesses can ‘tweet’ their marketing“. It was some nice press for the group!

We’ve confirmed the breakfast location in Appleton with the Atlas Coffee Mill & Café on the Fox Riverfront in downtown Appleton. Here’s a link to the location on their site: http://www.atlascoffeemill.com/location.htm

They will provide table service (usually a walk-up counter) and a custom menu for our group free of charge.

We’ll be forming an agenda based on some of the questions that came from the last breakfast in Green Bay and from the “What the Tweet is Social Media” event on the 19th.

This event was put together by Abby and Greg at Weidert Group (www.weidert.com) in Appleton.

See you all there!

Join Us:

Sign up for the New North Social Media Breakfast NING group at: http://newnorthsmb.ning.com/events/

NEW North Social Media Breakfast May 5th at a’Bravo Bistro!  If you joined us for the last breakfast, you know that it was a good core group of smart people talking about social media!  See you on Tuesday!

May 5th from 7:30 – 8:45. If you have to come in a bit later or leave a bit earlier, that’s OK. I want to make sure that we can work around work hours, to some extent. They normally open at 8:00AM so the sign may not read open, but the door will be for us.

Thanks and hope to see you all there.

Here’s a link to a’Bravo on the map: http://bit.ly/VOmH7

We had a great group of about a dozen people from the Appleton & Green Bay area at this inaugural meeting of the New North Social Media Breakfast.  It was a lively discussion with some great ideas shared and, as is often the case in social media discussions, we left with as many new questions to think about as we did answers!

What was most interesting about the group (and it was an interesting group!) was that we came from such diverse backgrounds. Education, non-profit, healthcare, real estate, ad agencies and so on.

We discussed the topic of what organizations need in terms of social media expertise at the ‘corporate’ level and concluded, albeit at odds with the article that instigated the discussion, that social media expertise is critical to have within an organization, and more importantly, that the social media expertise should be distributed throughout the organization, not held in the hands of the default guru in the organization.

Kiar, @macdesign13, had a great point about FOCUS! In order to ‘do social media well’, we need to focus on the tools that matter to us, and to our audience, and then put energy into those.

Thanks again to everyone who attended and contributed to the discussion!  Thanks also to Abby, @abbyweidert, and Greg, @greglinn of the Weidert Group for signing on as co-conspirtors to help grow the group and keep it together!

Check out the New North SMB Ning group for the ongoing conversation of the group.  Our next meetup will be on May 5th – location TBD.

The first New North Social Media Breakfast is about to take place! Meet us on Tuesday April 7th at Tuckers Inn in Little Chute.

This is our innaugual meeting, so the schedule will be fairly light, but we’ll pick up steam with a full agenda, speakers and so on once we get the group up and running.

Alright, let’s kick this thing off. How about April 7th from 7:30 – 8:45 at Tuckers Inn in Little Chute. If you have to come in a bit later or leave a bit earlier, that’s OK. I want to make sure that we can work around work hours, to some extent.

Here’s a tentative agenda:
>> Intros – who’s here (name, organization, social media , what will make this group worthwhile for you

>> Co-conspirators – I’m looking for a colleague to help keep this going. Any takers? Greg and Abby from The Weidert Group are going to help out to make sure we stay on track!

>> Group question: Social Media “Purists” vs. the “Corporatists” in the enterprise. What’s your take?

>> Future topics – what do you want to hear more about and why?

>> A sneak preview of what’s to come at the May 19th social media event put on by the Green Bay Chamber of Commerce – “What the “Tweet” is Social Media Marketing and How Can It Build My Business?”

>> Bring your conversation topics and share your knowledge of Social Media

>> Bring your Flip cameras if you want to video, recorders if you want to podcast or just bring yourself and join the conversation!

Interested in joining the group?  Check out the New North SMB Ning group.

The Particulars:

Time: April 7, 2009 from 7:30am to 8:45am
Location: Tuckers Inn, Little Chute
Street: 118 W Main St
City/Town: Little Chute
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps…