Social Media Club
A community for the champions of Social Media and those seeking to learn
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#SMCQ16 On Measuring Influence
Earlier this week, the SMC Editorial Board posed the question How do you measure influencers and/or influential social media platforms? having wondered aloud which combination of measurement and know-how equaled influence. As the community response demonstrated, influence is equal parts quantitative …
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#SMCQ16 How do you measure influence?
Metrics, popularity, comment counts, network buzz or simple word-of-mouth credibility? There are a huge number of factors that go into determining the influence of a blogger or online platform, but how can you tell who or what truly influences both individual and community behavior. What does true i …
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#SMCQ15 On truth-finding
This weeks SMCQ15: How do you know who to trust within the social media environment? was especially pertinent given the dramatic impact Social Media had amidst the election and protests in Iran. The online conversation and direct responses we received pointed out the need for self responsibility an …
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A new social media song and music video by Pete Codella
A couple months ago, as I was returning home after presenting at a social media conference in Las Vegas, I had an idea: what if I took a fun, popular song and changed the words to tell a story about social media? My idea came to reality with the help of my wife and some great friends these past few …
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#SMCQ15 Who to trust? Verifying social media information
Receiving retweeted information that doesnt have a clear source, mail from hijacked email accounts and coming across yet another poorly fact-checked blog post represent the down side of the instant information age. How does one determine the accuracy of information found online? And how do you verif …
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New Chapters Forming
We continue to see requests for SMC in cities around the world, and are happy to report the following ‘active’ and ‘in the works’ chapters. Please note the list below is subject to change, so it is best to check the SMC Event Calendar for real-time meetings: MAY Chapter Launches: Houston, TX (USA) …
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Welcome to our 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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The Corporate Social Media Ecosystem
It’s an interactive evening at the Social Media Club, San Francisco / Silicon Valley, at Citizen Space. HP alum Ravit Lichtenberg of Ustrategy ignited the event presenting before dozens of the social media digerati on “The Corporate Social Media Ecosystem.” “What are you?,” she asks. An expert, agen …
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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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