Social Media Breakfast San Antonio recaps the SXSW Festival at our next gathering on Wed, March 17. Want to hear what it was all about? Or did you attend? Show up and tell us: Did you survive? Was it worth it? What hot trends, sites and strategies emerged from this intense interactive experience? Join us for our special SXSWi recap breakfast!

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RSVP

Visit our Tweetvite page to RSVP for Social Media Breakfast San Antonio on Wednesday, March 17, at The Egg & I, 830 Northwest Loop 410, Ste 107, San Antonio, Texas. We meet from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

And, join our new Facebook fan page to keep up with all of the Social Media Breakfast San Antonio goodness!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Guest Speaker: Jeff Vaughn, KENS 5 Eyewitness News anchor
(@Jeff Vaughn)

Join us as we welcome our guest speaker, Jeff Vaughn, to San Antonio and Social Media Breakfast. Jeff is KENS 5’s new anchor and he’ll discuss the role of social media in the changing landscape of news delivery.

Journalists are now using avenues like Twitter and Facebook as sources for stories, but there is also another layer. In the past, the relationship you had with a reporter was based on watching, listening or reading. Now the relationship is a two-way conversation. Reporters are interacting directly with their audience, and it’s having a significant impact on the development of the story as well as on how the audience interprets it.

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Visit our Tweetvite page to RSVP for Social Media Breakfast San Antonio on Wednesday, February 17, at Absolutely Everything Catering, 3915 San Pedro Ave., San Antonio, TX 78212. We meet from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Our venue this month, Absolutely Everything Catering, will provide a breakfast taco buffet including three choices of tacos, coffee and juice for just $7. Social Media Breakfast is free to attend but please consider enjoying this reasonably-priced buffet to show our appreciation to the venue.

We look forward to seeing you there!

What can mobile applications do for you and your business?

Magaly Chocano, owner and CEO of Sweb Apps (@SwebApps), will talk about the ever-expanding world of mobile apps, how companies are integrating them into their marketing strategies and how you can build them inexpensively.

Sweb Apps and their innovations have been covered by several new and traditional media outlets including: Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, BusinessWeek, ABC News, USA Today, Time Magazine, and Tech in Twenty. And, it’s a San Antonio-owned business!

Join us and Magaly Chocano as we explore the power and possibility of mobile applicatons at the next Social Media Breakfast San Antonio.

Additional speaker(s) TBA.

RSVP
Visit our Tweetvite page to RSVP for Social Media Breakfast San Antonio on Wednesday, January 20, at The Egg & I, 16668 San Pedro Ave. (Park Oaks Shopping Ctr. on corner of 281 and Thousand Oaks), San Antonio, TX 78232. We meet from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us as we pull back the curtain on How to Create A Facebook Fan Page. We’ll give you step-by-step guidance to get you started. And, bring your laptop. Madhatter’s offers free WiFi. You can start building your Facebook Fan Page right away!

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Visit our Tweetvite page to RSVP for Social Media Breakfast San Antonio on Wednesday, December 16 at Madhatter’s Tea, 320 Beauregard Street, San Antonio, Texas 78205, from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. We look forward to seeing you there!

Foursquare, one of the hottest social networks, is now in San Antonio. That means you can use your mobile device to “check in” when you visit various places around town, connect with your friends, and compete to see who can rack up the most points each week. Is @foursquare all fun and games? Sure, but there are potential business applications for it too.

Join us for Social Media Breakfast San Antonio on Wednesday, November 18 at 7:30 a.m. for an open discussion about Foursquare. We’ll also be talking about mashups so join the conversation and tell us about your faves and your favorite ways to bring information together make it all more useful and fun.

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Visit our Tweetvite page to RSVP for Social Media Breakfast San Antonio on Wednesday, November 18 at Holiday Inn Airport from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. We look forward to seeing you there!

Social Media Breakfast San Antonio takes place on the THIRD WEDNESDAY of every month. Starting with October we’ll begin rotating our location between two favorite San Antonio breakfast eateries. In October you’ll find us downtown at Madhatter’s on Beauregard. In November we’ll be back at The Egg & I on 281/Thousand Oaks at Park Oaks Shopping Center. And that means in December we’ll be back at Madhatter’s for our last Social Media Breakfast San Antonio gathering of the year.

Social Media Breakfast San Antonio #10:
Healthcare & Social Media

With the talk in every U.S. town these days focusing on healthcare reform it’s only fitting that we discuss the important and growing role of social media in healthcare. This month we’ll hear from three people on the front lines of incorporating social media into healthcare in a myriad of different ways:

Beverly Ingle with Guerra DeBerry Coody (@GDCinspires)

Beverly will discuss GDC’s participation in The  Third Rail of Healthcare: Cost, an event that took place on August 29th in Nashville, Tennessee. While hundreds of people participated at the actual event, over 700 viewers from across the U.S. and the world also participated via webcast. She’ll share social media’s role in turning this event into a global townhall meeting.

Shelley Cook with KCI (@ShelleyRae)
Shelley is an enthusiastic and tireless champion of social media. She’s conducted research on both the legal and ethical challenges healthcare companies face when engaging in social media. Fresh from her recent trip to the Social Media Healthcare Conference in Washington D.C. Shelley will be a veritable fountain of healthcare/social media information and we’re excited and fortunate to have her share her experiences from the conference with SMBSA.

Jay Evans, Avante Practice Management (@AvantePM)
Jay is the owner of AVANTE Practice Management where he assists physicians with practice start-ups, business development, clinic operations, marketing and promotion, managed care contracting, billing and A/R management. Jay will share his experiences of using social media to connect with physicians and the community at large as he promotes his business and learns how he can help his clients use social media to further theirs.

RSVP

Visit our TWTVite page to RSVP for Social Media Breakfast San Antonio on Wednesday, October 21 at Madhatter’s from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. We look forward to seeing you there!

San Antonio’s SMB5 event details:

When: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 7:30-9am
Where: Brasserie Pavil,  1818 N. Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, TX 78248 (Google Map)
Cost: Event is free; breakfast is available on your own.

Menu
Each selection below is $15 which includes drinks, tax and tip.
1. Omelet of the day
2. Eggs Benedict
3. Crepes of the day
4. French toast

Our guest speaker will be:

Luis Sandoval (@Pandaran), co-founder of Social Media Club San Antonio

Managing your Social Media Tools
In a world where we are constantly connected–receiving messages on our phones, in email, on social networks and from other inboxes–managing our various means of communications can be extremely challenging. Luis will share tips on managing the informaton overload and shed some light on amazing tools that can streamline your processes and free up some time. Whether it’s for personal or business use, we can all use a little extra time in our day!

Seating/eating capacity is limited, so reserve your seat now!

The San Antonio Social Media Breakfast is organized by Jennifer Navarrete and Jennifer Milikien; it brings together social media experts, newcomers and enthusiasts, for a morning of eating, meeting, sharing, and learning.

Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, videobloggers, podcasters, students, new-media enthusiasts, Twitterers, community managers, recruiters, and online social networkers are all welcome.

San Antonio’s SMB3 event details:

• When: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 7:30-9am
• Where: Madhatters Tea Room, 320 Beauregard, San Antonio, TX 78204 (Google Map)
• Cost: Event is free; breakfast is available on your own

Our guest speakers will be:

Ryan Kelly

Jonathan Dickey

Patricio Espinoza

(more speakers TBD)

Seating/eating capacity is limited, so reserve your seat now!

The San Antonio Social Media Breakfast is organized by Jennifer Navarrete and Jennifer Milikien; it brings together social media experts, newcomers and enthusiasts, for a morning of eating, meeting, sharing, and learning.

Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, videobloggers, podcasters, students, new-media enthusiasts, Twitterers, community managers, recruiters, and online social networkers are all welcome.

The event itself is free to attend, though attendees pay for their own food and drink (coffee, tea, breakfast tacos, pastries, etc.).

Featured discussion:

“Social Media and the San Antonio Mayoral Race”

The 2008 U.S. Presidential election was a watershed event with social media racing to the forefront of the most successful campaign strategies. Candidates created Facebook and MySpace pages, established Twitter profiles and communicated with constituents via Web sites chock-full of live-streaming video, podcasts and more. Now you can get a more local perspective and look at how social media is impacting the 2009 San Antonio Mayoral Race. What role are these now-well-known tools playing in the local campaign? You’ll hear from the experts managing the social media presence for some of the top candidates in the race, as well as an independent expert who’s covering them all.

Speaker bios:
Ryan Kelly is a chief analyst with Pear Analytics and serves as a social media expert for the Trish DeBerry-Mejia Mayoral campaign.

Jonathan Dickey serves as the social media expert for the Diane Cibrian Mayoral campaign.

Patricio Espinoza is a social media specialist and managing editor of SA4Mayor.com.

* Waiting on confirmation from the Julian Castro campaign, among others.

LtoR: Jennifer Navarrete, Joe Ruiz, Donna Tuttle, Jennifer Milikien, Elaine Wolff, Bryan Person, Penny Muckleroy, Laura Lorek

In February, Social Media Breakfast San Antonio’s topic was, “The Media in Transition”. We had representatives from the San Antonio Business Journal, San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio Current and KSAT 12 News. Donna Tuttle, Laura Lorek, Elaine Wolff and Joe Ruiz shared how Social Media has changed not only how they gather news, but also how it has impacted their industry.

We captured the conversation on the Social Media Breakfast San Antonio Ustream channel.

The conversation began with stats for the respective publications and broadcasts. It quickly transitioned to how Social Media is changing journalism. There was a lot of energy and excitement around the increased accessibility of news sources and breaking news. At the same time there was the fear factor and monetization discussion. Given the online push, there is a disconnect between ad dollars in print distribution vs. ad dollars in web distribution. How journalists, newspapers and television broadcast news are making the transition along with the real discussion of how to continue to generate revenue.

It would be fair to say that the overall consensus was that journalism as we know it has changed. While it is an exciting time to be part of the “traditional media”, there is a huge shift in how the industry will continue. The distance between news happening in the world and the time it takes to report the news shrinks. The news media are not the only ones being affected by this transition. Education, big business, government and the non-profit sector are all dealing with the fast pace of the internet coupled with the slowing of the economy. These are topics we will be addressing at future Social Media Breakfast San Antonio events.

SMBSA photo courtesy of Joe Ruiz , Live streaming video by Leslie Baldwin aka Springanew,  A special thanks to Social Media Breakfast San Antonio intern Penny Muckleroy for facilitating this month’s event.

Speakers

• Donna Tuttle (@writeontime) of the San Antonio Business Journal

•  Laura Lorek (@lalorek) of the San Antonio Express News

•  Elaine Wolff (@emwolff) of the San Antonio Current

•  Joe Ruiz (@joeruiz) of KSAT Chaennel 12

Social Media Breakfast San Antonio

Update: Due to a last minute venue complication we are meeting at:

Apple Annie’s Tea Room MAP

• Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
• Time: 7:30-9am
• Place: Apple Annie’s Tea Room The Magnolia Pancake Haus (210-496-0828)
• Address: 555 West Bitters Road 606 Embassy Oak, Suite 100 San Antonio, Texas 78216 [map]
• Registration: Register on Eventbrite, as tickets are limited

Questions about this event? Contact Jennifer Milikien or Jennifer Navarrete.