Above you will find the link to a video post I’ve prepared (if anyone can send me a tip on how to actually embed the video in this version of Wordpress I’d be eternally indebted – can’t figure it out) in lieu of a giant write-up quickly recapping the first ever SMB Montreal (held Feb.17th), as well the official announcement of Event# 2 – A Social Media Conversation with Mitch Joel (President of Twist Image and author of Six Pixels of Separation) – set to go off on Thursday April 1st, 2010 at B-Side Bar & Lounge in Downtown Montreal.
Please check out the registration, ticket and event details here: Event Registration.
La Bistrote and Chef Dana Elsliger will be handling the food again, and the venue has moved to a bit of a larger space, which has kindly been donated by the B-Side Bar & Lounge’s Carlo Campisi. Thanks to my good friend Big Worm for the introduction. You can find them at 3616 St.Laurent in Montreal and stop in for drinks and dancing into the early morning.
Fortunately we’re breakfast people, so the space is available – although those in attendance are welcome to bust out some moves should the feeling strike!
Technical (read “unpreparedness”) difficulties prevented us from getting the event up on UStream Live the last go around but we fully intend to correct that foible and run the event here : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/moesass, as well as post highlights to this blog as well as on the Heelatch blog.
Join Social Media Breakfast Seattle on Wednesday, March 31 as Jim Benson, CEO of Modus Cooperandi, shares stories from the CIA as well as other organizations in the intelligence community to explain how companies can use Social Media to connect the dots, gleaning profitable knowledge through filtering, collaboration and real-time value creation.
In this session you’ll learn tips on how to:
Convert information into knowledge and actionable insights using social media techniques and agile practices;
Design practices within your organization to ensure that individuals and teams communicate and work effectively with one another and across the enterprise; and
Apply the Personal Kanban thinking to improve workflow and cross-team collaboration.
We look forward to seeing you on March 31. Get your ticket now to reserve your place as our previous events have sold out.
If you can’t make it in person, join us online as we livestream the event or join the Twitter commentary using the hashtag #smbseattle.
About Jim Benson:
Jim Benson is a collaborative management consultant. He is CEO of Modus Cooperandi, a consultancy which combines Lean, Agile Management and Social Media principles to develop sustainable teams. Clients include the United Nations, World Bank, Microsoft, and NBC Universal.
Cost: $13.50 — Oh come on! This is a No Brainer because you get to fill your mind and your belly
Event tag: #SMBEB4 (yes hash browns and has tags!)
The San Francisco East Bay is proud to host another Social Media Breakfast at The Buttercup Grill in Oakland on Tuesday, March 23. It will be a great casual gathering designed to deliver spirited discussions, good food, and some great networking.
Our featured speaker is Jen McClure. She is the founder and executive director of the Society for New Communication Research. She will talk about some of the social media research results recently compiled and some of the studies underway. Knowing this group, this should kick off an energetic discussion of repercussions and meanings. If you don’t know who Jen is, you should and you will (see her bio below).
The San Francisco EAST BAY Social Media Breakfast is being organized by Shel Holtz, Kenny Lauer, and JD Lasica. It brings together all kinds of folks: social media experts, newcomers and enthusiasts, for a morning of eating, stimulating dialog, sharing, and learning. Did I mention eating?
Ok who is welcome? See if you fit into one of these: Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, videobloggers, podcasters, students, new-media enthusiasts, Twitterers, community managers, recruiters, and online social networkers.
The fun will last for 2 hours, focusing on people meeting each other, and our guest speaker telling a story to spark conversation and discussion.
Agenda
* 8:30-9:15 am Breakfast, Drink, “Hey How are ya” ?
* 9:15-9:45 am Presentation and discussion with Jen McClure
* 9:45-10:30 am Networking, mingling, and We’re done! Great Start for your day!
Speaker bio: Jen McClure, President of Society New Communications Research (SNCR)
Jennifer McClure is a communications professional with 20 years of experience.
Her career includes work in all facets of professional communications, including journalism, market and media research, media relations, public relations, publishing, strategic communications and web site content development. She was co-founder and CEO of Albrycht McClure & Partners, a strategic communications firm. Prior to that, she was PR manager for Ziff Davis Events. She also worked with Ketchum Public Relations, and was a business reporter for the Hudson Valley Business Journal and a co-producer/co-host of a weekly community affairs radio program in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
From 1990 – 1992, Ms McClure was vice president of research and publishing for New Electronic Media Science (NEMS), a media/marketing research and consulting firm, and was managing editor of the firm’s newsletter, “The Marketing Pulse” which explored such topics as audience segmentation, HDTV, interactive media, etc.
Jen was the recipient of the 1993 and 1994 Eclat Award for Marketing Excellence; is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, holds a certificate in nonprofit management and a masters degree from Stanford University.
SNCR is always involved in some amazing research. Jen will bring to the breakfast table some of the latest social media research results recently compiled and some of the studies underway. You don’t want to miss it!
Please attach the #SMBEB4 tag to any tweets, comments, or uploads.
Questions?
Please Contact: Kenny Lauer at klauer AT gpj DOT com
We’re looking forward to bringing you an action-packed morning of presentations and discussions at our mega breakfast at SXSW at the Hyatt Regency Austin this Sunday.
Agenda
Welcome and introduction from SMB founder founder Bryan Person
Becky McCray | @BeckyMcCray is a small-town entrepreneur. That includes an odd mix of liquor store owner, grant and project consultant, and cattle rancher. New project: TourismCurrents.com.
* Tac Anderson | @TacAnderson is a social media anthropologist, communications strategist, business-model junkie, and director of digital strategies at Waggener Edstrom.
* Rick Mahn | @RickMahn is a social media strategist for Land O’Lakes and the founder and co-organizer of the Social Media Breakfast Twin Cities.
* Chris Kenton | @CKenton is founder and CEO of SocialRep, a social media intelligence firm based in San Francisco. He’s also the organizer of Social Media Breakfast San Francisco.
* Scott Lake | @Scottica is founder and CEO of Social Web Index (SWIX), a social media analytics tool that helps marketers track engagement metrics and ROI. SWIX is based in Ottawa, Canada.
The event begins at 10:00am, and we’ll kick off introductions at about 10:20.
Our mega breakfast at SXSW this Sunday, March 14 has stayed free thanks to the generous support of our two sponsors.
Primary sponsor: Tungle.me
Our venue, food, and drink costs are being coverd by Tungle.me, “your personal scheduling page.” Here is a shoutout from Tungle CEO and founder Marc Gingras (@MGingras).
Marc and several members of the Tungle team will be making the rounds at our breakfast this Sunday morning!
We’re thrilled that H&R Block, “the world’s largest tax preparation business,” has also come aboard as a sponsor, picking up the costs for our audio/visual rentals.
Zena Weist heads the social media operations for H&R Block and will join us at the breakfast this weekend to say hello.
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.
The main topics of discussion for this meeting will :
Leveraging Online Review Sites for Your Small Business
Building a Reach Maximized Online Presence (managing mega-followers)
Top Social Media Websites like Twitter, Posterous and Facebook
Top Social Media Tools like TweetDeck, SocialOomph
Open Discussion on Branding
Maximizing the Value of the PROFILE!
The organizers for the Atlanta Social Media Breakfast are Lane Bailey and Ken Cook – the founder of Social Media Breakfast is Bryan Person of Austin, Texas.
Ken is an Atlanta native with over two decades of online networking experience and is a PHP/MySQL/AJAX developer, photographer and musician. Since November 2008 he has hosted/cohosted the top Blog Talk Radio show on the subject of Social Networking “Social Media Edge” (Tuesdays at Noon Eastern http://budurl.com/jckc) and Host of http://REtechRadio.com – a Real Estate New Media and Technology Show. He most recently spent a decade as Social Media and Operations Director of NovaStar/Novation Mortgage companies and is currently a national FHA mortgage professional. Ken may be contacted directly at 678-439-8683 found on Twitter @thekencook or Skyped at thekencook
Lane is a prolific blogger and you may have met him at any number of area events – Meetups/Tweetups and Bloggerodeo or New Media Atlanta. He travels as much as possible to other Social Media gatherings across the Southeast. Lane is a Real Estate Agent and car aficionado. Lane may be contacted directly at 678-200-5895
Reservations are required – if you RSVP and you can NOT show up please contact KEN or LANE and be nice to the shop management so the do not prepare for you. Thanks!.
We are quite fortunate to be able to take advantage of some really fantastic social media folks who are going to be in town for the Social Media Conference NW on March 25th, and we’ve invited entrepreneur James Burnes, CEO/Founder of Mobiltopia, to speak to our group the day before. James will be discussing the role of social media in your career – not as a career path. He will explore how social media is an integral skill set in the work force of tomorrow and how you can use your social media skills to advance yourself. We’re looking forward to some great discussion and insightful information, as James has a ton of experience in this area…
James brings a unique mix of talents interfacing Internet solutions with a business minded, entrepreneurial background. For more than 10 years, he has been a leader in Internet consulting, web strategy and new business ventures. He founded Project Brilliant in December 2009 as an idea factory, business consultancy, creative agency and business incubator to launch and develop new digital business ventures. The firm is launching several new enterprises in 2010 including a mobile-web and social media company. His leadership and vision help organizations embrace new and emerging technologies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and other Web 2.0 platforms to transform their organization to succeed in our highly connected, 24/7 economy. His expertise in business development, sales, innovation, product ideation, and revenue-centric thinking makes him a regular resource to corporate executives around the country to conduct business online. James is a board member of the advisory board of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s Small Business Development Centers. He is a contributing editor to The Social Media Bible (J.W. Wiley Publishing, May 2009). He is a guest lecturer to several university programs and speaks regularly for corporations, associations and seminars on how to transform your business for the Digital Age.
This month, we’re experimenting with having our ‘breakfast’ in the evening, and our event is going to be hosted by The Nightlight Lounge, known as Bellingham’s hottest nightspot and concert venue. Located in the basement of a historic building in downtown Bellingham, the Lounge quite often books nationally-known bands, talking them in to stopping by Bellingham on their way to or from Vancouver or Seattle. It’s also a great place to get to know some up-and-coming bands as well as check out some local artists.
We’re releasing two more rounds of tickets for our upcoming Social Media Breakfast SXSW this week. Here are the times that registration will open:
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4:00pm Eastern
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 2:15pm Eastern
Note: The first two rounds of tickets sold out in minutes. You are urged to set an alarm in your online calendar, and then to visit the registration page on time, or early! If you don’t, the tickets will be gone.
We welcome SMB attendees from around the country to attend our mega Social Media Breakfast on Sunday, March 14 in Austin, TX, during this year’s SXSW Interactive!
Our first batch of tickets will be released at 2:00pm Eastern on Friday, February 26. Additional tickets will be made available throughout the week of March 1.
Event overview
Date and time: Sunday, March 14, 2010, from 10:00am-noon
SMB SXSW is free to attend, but you must RSVP in advance to reserve a spot and gain entry. You do not need an official SXSW badge.
We’ll provide the food and drink for the first 150 people. To get your hands on the grub, make sure to arrive early!
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Information about our speakers and other surprises will be shared on our Social Media Breakfast Facebook Page. Connect with us there, and Become a Fan!
Sponsorship by Tungle.me
Our venue, food, and drink costs are being coverd by Tungle.me, “your personal scheduling page.” Here is more about Tungle.me:
Making online media or tweeting about the breakfast? Please use the #SMBSXSW hashtag on Twitter and SMBSXSW on Flickr and other sites.
About the Social Media Breakfast
The Social Media Breakfast series was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 and brings together social media practitioners and enthusiasts for mornings of eating, meeting, sharing, and learning. SMBs are now held in some 40 cities around the world.
Questions?
Please e-mail SXSW – AT – SocialMediaBreakfast – DOT com
Jennifer McClure is a communications professional with 20 years of experience.
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