Social Media Club
A community for the champions of Social Media and those seeking to learn
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SMCEDU in Virginia: Social Media in Education Conference
I had a great SMCEDU conference call on Tuesday with Nathan Hughes and Kendall Morris of Social Media Club of Richmond, VA. There is a lot of excitement within this local chapter, and Im looking forward to working with this group of people as we reach out to local schools. It seems that were still i …
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Summer of Social Good
Social Media Club is proud to partner with the folks at Mashable and the Global Giving Foundation to support the Summer of Social Good Tweetup Tour. The Summer of Social Good is an online charitable campaign to raise funds by spreading awareness around four major organizations who affect policies th …
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SMCEDU: The First Steps
After a week of introductions, lets see how we can get the next step of our project underway: We want to teach people about social media technology, but lets not forget the social component. Although the tools we use to communicate are varied and great, nothing beats personal interaction. To that en …
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SMCEDU Kickoff Meeting
Tuesday morning saw the official beginning of the SMCEDU effort to create and standardize social media curriculum for university-level classrooms. Chris Heuer hosted the international affair, with educators and students from around the country (not to mention Sweden and Australia) getting together o …
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#SMCQ19 Paying social media forward
As SMC moves forward with our education initiative, were thinking hard on how to teach, share and encourage media literacy. Its hard to imagine now, the more immersed we become in social networking, but thinking about newcomers, as well as the next generation of social media users, its clear theres …
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Be our first TJ! Enter to win pass to Twiistup
When I was looking at the idea of doing a contest for giving away the free pass to Twiistup this Thursday and Friday July 30-31, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA I was really inspired by what the Rubicon Project did in creating a scholarship program. They did something much more meaningful then a viral cont …
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Mars brings on the SMC #sweetups
Everything is better with chocolate, right? We think so, which is why we partnered with Ms. Green and the fine folks over at Mars to send boxes filled with M&MS®, Snickers®, Twix®, 3 Musketeers®, Milky Way®, and Dove® to 20* of our Social Media Club chapters around the United States as part …
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Social Media Club NYC 7/21/09
Thanks to all who attended our Social Media Club Tweetup at Lilys at the Roger Smith Hotel last Tuesday. Wed like to thank @RSHotel for the hospitality and @MsGreen from M&M Mars for sending us the candy. Enjoy the photos of all the revelers.
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SMC SFSV Sonoma Wine Trip Was a Hit!
24 wine enthusiasts. Check. Bauer Executive limo bus. Check. Road map of Sonoma. Check. Add in a couple of ice chests full of champagne (and beer), enough snacks to feed two football teams and a bevy of smart phones charged and ready to tweet every move - and we were ready to point the bus North an …
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#SMCQ18 Whose making change happen
Earlier this week, we called out for thoughts on Who do you think is best using their social media influence to affect change for the benefit of others? Having kept one eye on the Tour de France all week, drawn in by the comeback of Lance Armstrong who returned to competition more to use his platfo …
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Welcome to our new SMB and Professional Members
We’d like to acknowledge our new Small and Medium Business Members and Professional Members here. Thank you ever so much for opening your heart, and your wallet, to support the mission of Social Media Club (SMC). SMB Members: Doug Kern (Inovis), Bruce Fisher (Hawaii-Aloha.com), Kevin Kilduff (Webe …
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Conference Discounts Available to SMC Community
Below you will find several conferences that have offered nice discounts to the SMC member community: Search Engine Strategies San Jose Conference & Expo: August 10-14, 2009 in San Jose, CA. From social media strategies to universal search to mobile search, learn the SEM techniques that will im …
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Putting Social Media Education Into Focus: A Community Proposal
For over three years, Social Media Club has worked to promote media literacy and connect people to share what they are learning about Social Media. Today, we are launching a new project to bring together the education and professional communities to further the development of social media curriculum …
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Social Media ROI: How about an increase in revenue?
Ask anyone in senior management about ROI and social media and the common response will surely be “Show Me the Money”. Unless you are Dell and selling products directly from one of their many Twitter accounts, it can prove to be a difficult task to attribute a hard ROI to just about any social medi …
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#SMCQ18 Social Media Change Makers
Who is most influential (and how to tell) is always a hot topic among those keeping track of the social media landscape. But who of those influential folks are using their solid, highly connected platform for the betterment of other lives is another topic altogether. This weeks addresses the change …
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#SMCQ17 Avoiding misteps in social media
@mydinkum: the continuing changing technology and the changing nature of how folks use the internet will keep things in flux - a good thing Last week, the Social Media Editorial Board wondered how Social Media could avoid falling into the same traps as traditional media, those traps being popularity …
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SMCQ17 Doing Social Media differently
Is Social Media doomed to make the mistakes of traditional broadcast media, favoring popularity over quality and providing a platform for relatively few points of view? So wondered The Social Media Social Media Club Chris Heuer, Dave Peck and Deborah Crooks on Friday as they discussed how to keep So …
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More Notes on Influence
Our SMC Question of the past two weeks, #SMCQ16 How do you measure social media influencers and/or influential online communities? yielded the following responses: @schmediachick: Measuring influence in social networks demand quant & qual elements. Most important is being part of conversation @e …
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The Power of Influence
“Eavesdropping isn’t influence, engaging in a conversation is”…leaked a speaker prior to the start of “The Power of Influence,” an assemblage of eclectic panelists at the Social Media Club San Francisco / Silicon Valley’s late June gathering at Eastwick Communications in Mountain View, Californi …
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Have bus, will travel…to Sonoma, CA!
This Saturday, July 11th, the Social Media Club San Francisco/Silicon Valley chapter will fill a Bauer rock star bus full of cheese, wine and a bunch of Social Media loving types as we take our first excursion out of city limits and head into Sonoma for a day of wine tasting.This trip came together …
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