Social Media Club
A community for the champions of Social Media and those seeking to learn
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Social Media Camp #IWNY Wrap-Up
Social Media Clubs Social Media Camp was a great success thanks to the over 120 people who participated! Social media Camp was held in the Roger Smith hotel last Thursday, June 4 2009 during Internet Week New York. The camp had over two dozen sessions throughout an eight hour day, with well known so …
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#SMCQ13 Is social media the new socialism?
Just like the ant-communist Red Scares of the early part of the century, Republicans today are throwing about socialism as the great Blue Scare, noted Chris Heuer, during the Social Media Club Editorial Boards weekly discussion. The comment was inspired by one of the more compelling surveys of Soci …
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Conversation 12: Empowering the workforce with social media
Last week, the board asked for examples of companies using social media to empower its workforce. While its ever more common for companies to fold social media marketing tools into their customer communications kit, how transparent the workplace is in terms of its use of Social Media by employees is …
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SMCNYC Meeting on ROI for Social Media 6/17/09
Title: SMC New York Location: PR Newswire, 380 Hudson, NYC Link out: Click here Description: Social Media Return on Investment Start Time: 18:00 Date: 2009-06-17 End Time: 20:30 Social Media’s Return On Investment - When will we get buy-in? On June 17th, members of the Social Media Club of NYC will …
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Toby Moores on the Perfect Storm for Change
This is a cant miss interview with some of the best insights on what is happening in the world right now and why this is perhaps one of the most important times to be alive. I met Toby Moores (aka sleepydog ) at Amplified 09 Cambridge in May and knew right away we were kindred spirits. In this inter …
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It takes all of us…
According to Ghandi, In order to bring about the change we all desire in the world, we must be the change we want to see. Each individual, acting on their own accord can create change, and we can do so one person, one moment at a time, but to create the change we really need, it takes all of us, wo …
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SMCQ12 How are companies using social media to empower their workforce
Last week, the SMC Editorial board focused on how to best provide education toward preparing for the workplace of the future. This week, we realized, much of that future workplace is happening NOW. And many companies, comprised of employees representing several different generations of the education …
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SMCQ11 Preparing for the workplace of the future
SMC members and readers had a far ranging response to the topic of educating toward a future workplace we can only begin to example. From teamwork to new media tools, online training to new models of socializing youth, its clearly a topic ripe for discussion and innovation. One common denominator am …
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Noded! The Way We Work
This is an interview with Jaan Orvet from Noded about his book and the model behind their Noded business network. Rather than working in hierarchically driven organizations or in a distributed team, Jaan and his colleagues each work as nodes within a trusted network. Each are free to bring work in, …
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Social Media Coverage Opportunity in Amsterdam
I am curently seeking two online content creators (blogging, video, audio, photo) to cover an event in Amsterdam. Locals only, and two tickets are provided for two people to cover the event utilizing as many coverage tools as possible to include: interviews with panelists photos of the event and th …
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How Can We Use Social Media To Foster Voter Education?
Educating yourself on the various initiatives hitting our ballots today can be a daunting task as you try and cut through the emotion and muddied language around each issue. The standard voting guides do a decent job trying to share the pros/cons of each initiative, but more times than not, I find …
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SMCQ11: How do we educate the younger generation to prepare for the modern workforce?
Not so long ago, Social Media didnt register as a factor in the professional world. Fast forward to today, and social media has become a valid sector of the communications industry. Marketing, business and how we interact across and within our various personal and professional communities have under …
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SMCQ10: Free content, friend or foe? The jury is out
Last weeks question, #SMCQ10 Is the EASE with which we are able to share content — be it music, words, pictures, etc. without payment — hurting creative industries or ultimately, helping advance society? By what measure does this matter? and the responses it generated, demonstrated that its simply …
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“SOLD” In 50 Hours using Social Media!
IN 50 HOURS using Social Media? – What? How? Are You Kidding? Is your home NOT selling? It’s no surprise that the majority would answer “yes” to all of those questions. One would have to be living literally under a rock down by the river not to realize that the economy has impacted a homeowner’s …
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#SMCQ10 Free for all: Is easily available content advancing society?
Our Social Media Club Editorial board convened this Saturday to discuss perhaps one of Social Medias more sticky subjects: free content. To both our pleasure and consternation, music, news, film and other media is now readily available without payment, giving us increased access to almost any form o …
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SMCQ9: Network overload? No way
Earlier in the week, we asked readers if they thought the accelerated use of Social Media for networking was changing our society for the better or worse. For all Social Medias power to link us together, the board wondered it was reprogramming our brains or perhaps, leading us to operate on a shallo …
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Online Community Unconference: SMC Member Discount
The Online Community Unconference is a gathering of online community and social media practitioners - managers, strategists, developers, business people, tool providers, investors - to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online communities and social media. Those invol …
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A tale of two brands
Here’s an example of how two different brands are using and not using social media. Tale One A few weeks ago, some good friends of ours stayed several nights at the Peery Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City. They parked their car with the hotel’s valet service and found out the next night that their ca …
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Requesting the end of Auto DMs
This is a post I have been trying to write for two months. Typical me wanted to do some research, poll our community, do more research and then write this really thoughtful piece about the pros and cons of auto DMs, and I finally realized today…I just need to get it out there. It won’t be perfect, b …
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May Social Media Club Meeting
Another month has come and a lot of things are happening. Come join the professional media group that is looking at changing the way the city of San Antonio does things professionally and personally. This meeting is sure to be a cant miss. Join us at Lion and the Rose Pub located at the corner of IH …
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