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Summer 2009 marks the one year anniversary of the Breakfasts in Ottawa. To help us celebrate we’ve got David Crow (@davidcrow) joining us for Breakfast 10 taking place on Wednesday morning, July 15th! David is Microsoft Canada’s User Experience Evangelist. And, many of the Canadian startup community will know David well as being the instigator of DemoCamp and Founder & Funders.

A bit about him . . .

David is a software designer with a passion for community. At Microsoft, David helps companies understand the technology and design opportunities for creating compelling digital experiences. He focuses on helping companies to extend their customers’ reach with next generation technology for the desktop, digital devices, standards-based applications for the Web, and rich media applications.

David has been named Toronto’s Best Web and Tech Evangelist for his efforts in founding DemoCamp, BarCamp Toronto and Founder & Funders. David has worked to facilitate a vibrant community and ecosystem in Toronto. David continuously helps his clients understand that the power of community is beyond just being an audience: community is the framework.

Want to meet and learn from David Crow? Sign up today at http://smbottawa10.eventbrite.com or by clicking the button below!

Fall 2009 - Save-the-Dates!

We’ve also been busy programming for the Fall. A couple of Save-the-Dates for you to consider:

Wednesday, September 16th - Breakfast 11 with Miss. Rogue - Tara Hunt

Wednesday, October 14th - Breakfast 12 with Krista Napier, IDC

Rob, Ryan and I will tweet more details as we get closer to the dates. And, you can join us on Sixent, LinkedIn and Facebook.

We hope to see many of you on July 15th! Remember to help spread the word and tag your content with smbottawa

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 →

Like Bryan Person, I’m in rainy Toronto this week for the mesh conference. And I’m looking forward to catching up with him during the event and at Joe Thornley’s Third Tuesday  - this edition, on a Thursday over breakfast (#TTTSMB). Before I begin meshing, I need to announce Ottawa’s next Breakfast:

What:  Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 8

When:  Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 7:30 to 9:00 AM

Where: Gowlings, 160 Elgin Street, 26th Floor, Ottawa,  Canada

How: Purchase your ticket at http://smbottawa8.eventbrite.com

Next week, our guest speaker is Chris Greenfield, product strategist and Founder & CEO of clever communications.

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REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE

Special thank you to our partial event sponsor, Custom Scoop, publisher of Media Bulls Eye Magazine. Thanks to their generosity and the generosity of Rick Korn from Rick’s Pond View we are able to offer this breakfast at a low cost to you.

What’s Custom Scoop?

CustomScoop, a leader in Media Intelligence,
delivers customizable media monitoring technology and analysis to its
customers in Public Relations, Sales, Marketing, Investor Relations and
Competitive Intelligence.

CustomScoop’s solutions utilize proprietary software, an extensive
database of sources and a team of search experts to deliver information
quickly, accurately and with detailed reporting. Products range from an
efficient online news clipping service to an enterprise-level blog
monitoring and analysis solution.

CustomScoop is headquartered in Concord, NH.

Location: Rick’s Pond View, 92 Route 125, Kingston, NH 03848 (right in the middle of several major highways and roads: Hwy 101, I 495, Route 125, Route 111, Route 107, Route 108 and more. Follow Rick’s Pond View on Twitter, or Rick’s A Cafe and Grille, also on Twitter, and check out both on FaceBook (group/fan page).

Social Media Breakfast History

Over the last few weeks I’ve been quietly planning and plotting a new branch of the nationwide Social Media Breakfast in NH. It isn’t that we don’t love Boston, because we do, but our neighbor to the north is rich in technology and social media, and often overlooked when events are planned. I saw a need for networking opportunities that were easier to get to for the northern tech and social media crowd, and decided to step up and fill it. Because NH itself is a diverse and scattered state, the Social Media Breakfast there will be just a little bit different than the one in Cambridge/Boston.

What is a Social Media Breakfast?

From the official description: The Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to more than a dozen cities throughout the United States and around the world.

How will the Social Media Breakfast in NH be different?

The main difference between Social Media Breakfast NH and other SMBs will be all-inclusiveness. I do not want only social media people and companies to attend, I also want technology types, programmers, coders, tech writers, tech companies and more to attend. As a state that is rich in technology but scattered in distance, I think the best networking and connection making effect will be achieved by combined our different cultures. You never know, as a social media type you might just meet the coder you’ve been looking for to create your dream project if we all come together to connect and to learn from each other!

Theme for the second Social Media Breakfast: Government 2.0 (how utilities, organizations for the environment, and more work with and from municipalities and other entities using social media to achieve goals)

The second Social Media Breakfast NH (hashtag #smbnh) will be all about topics related to Government 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.

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.

‘Electric Tweets‘ - Why @psnh followers increased 1,700% in one week Public Service of New Hampshire’s Martin Murray will discuss the electric utility’s use of Twitter and other social media.

Boston Police Department is sending John Daley to discuss their web outreach efforts via Twitter and other media.

Now or Never Media’s Bill Rogers and his partners in clean air initiatives will discuss how they use social media to get the word out and reach out to municipalities for change.

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!

Join us for Toledo’s inaugural Social Media Breakfast on April 3 (7:30-9:30 a.m.) at the Elk’s Lodge (3250 Holland-Sylvania Rd.) in Toledo near Wildwood Metropark.

Our fledgling efforts in the Toledo-area center on defining trends and best practices, and highlighting new apps and experts, as we all try to stay abreast of the rapidly evolving idea of social media.

Internet Marketing speaker and author Michael Temple will provide opening comments and panel moderation. Our Toledo panel will include Damian Rintelmann, Director of Interactive Business Development at Hart Associates; Dave Rigotti, online marketer; Allen Mireles, social media marketing/PR strategist; and Victoria Kamm, teacher and entrepreneur.

Social media practitioners and others interested in communication come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, public relations professionals, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, videographers, new media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

Come share with our new community of social media users by registering for the event today.

Can’t be there? We will broadcast live on Ustream and Twittercast at #smbtol on Friday.

And we’re back . . .

Even before I can blog a recap post about our awesome Breakfast 6 with Stuart MacDonald, my co-organizers, Rob and Ryan, have reminded me that we need to announce our next Breakfast!

What:  Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 7

When:  Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 7:30 to 9:00 AM

Where:  Gowlings, 160 Elgin Street, 26th Floor, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

How:  Purchase your ticket at smbottawa7.eventbrite.com

This month, our guest speaker is Brady Gilchrist. Continue reading →

Kung Hei Fat Choy! Today is the beginning of the Chinese New Year! The traditional belief is that an individual’s personality and temperament is reflected by the animal representing his/her birth year along with its associated elements. So, by the Chinese Zodiac - it’s the Year of the Earth Ox! Traits of those born under the sign of the Ox (e.g. American President Obama) include patience and hard work - qualities we’ll all need in a year of difficult global economic conditions.

Patience and hard work have also been what we needed while programming for this new year of Ottawa Social Media Breakfasts. We’ve had some fits and starts with concerns due to a season of cold weather and transit strike related woes. But, we’re back and happy to announce our next Breakfast event! Here are the details:

What:  Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 6

When:  Friday, February 20th, 2009 - 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM

Where:  Gowlings, 160 Elgin Street, 26th Floor, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

How:  Purchase your ticket at http://smbottawa6.eventbrite.com

And who is our February Breakfast guest speaker? It’s Stuart MacDonald, CEO and Founder of Tripharbour. Continue reading →

Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 5’s recap post is authored by Melany Gallant (who is graciously helping me out given that I did not take proper notes). The item is cross-posted to Melany’s blog.

Sourcing the crowd at SMB Ottawa

Well the weather sure can put in a wrench in things (so can transit strikes but that’s a whole other story.) Bryan Person, planned guest speaker for today’s Social Media Breakfast (SMB) Ottawa event got stranded in Boston. After three flight cancellations he had to admit defeat. He wasn’t going to make it.

Disappointing as that is, today’s event was still great. Organizers rallied and brought together Joe Thornely of Thornley Fallis and ProPR.ca and moderator James Lewis (Executive Director of the Canadian Interactive Alliance) to lead a discussion on social media happenings in 2008.

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With our American friends getting ready for their Turkey Day this week and old man winter bringing us some ten centimetres of snow today, we know that the holiday season is almost upon us. So, before the end of the year, Rob, Ryan and I thought we’d squeeze in one more Breakfast. Here are the details:

Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 5: The 2008 Social Media Year in Review

Thursday, December 11, 2008 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM

At the offices of our season sponsor, Gowlings - 160 Elgin Street (26th floor) in downtown Ottawa, Canada.

RSVP at http://smbottawa5.eventbrite.com

Official event tag is SMBottawa

We’re happy to announce that our guest speaker will be Social Media Breakfast founder (and LiveWorld Social Media Evangelist) Bryan Person! Bryan will be interviewed by James Lewis (Executive Director of the Canadian Interactive Alliance) about the broad trends in social media during 2008 with a look ahead to what 2009 may have in store for us.

We hope you can join us on the 11th!

P.S. Can’t wait for the 11th for your Breakfast fix? Join us on Sixent, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Marketing guru Seth Godin has blogged that the ‘Online Community Organizer’ would be the number one job of the future:

“Somebody to create and maintain a virtual world in which all the players in an industry feel like they need to be part of it . . . Like being the head of a big trade association, but without the bureaucracy and tedium . . .

If you were great at this, I’d imagine you’d never ever have trouble finding good work.”

For Breakfast 4 hosted by our new series sponsor - Gowlings - we’ve found some Ottawa greatness for you and will be bringing together a panel of experts to talk about Online Communities:
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