Chris and I are headed to Boston and wanted to put a couple of events on your calendar:
First stop - support our friends over at SNCR as they hold their Inaugural Research Symposium and Awards Celebration. There are a few seats left for this event and I am told if you register online at http://tinyurl.com/hqmom […]

Media Alliance is a media resource and advocacy center for media professionals, non-profit organizations and social justice activists located here in the Bay Area, and Social Media Club is proud to support their efforts and the work they do on a day to day basis.
They are celebrating their impressive 30 year anniversary with a benefit […]

I’ve attempted to take some rough notes of the meeting. As I was also actively participating, some of my notes are admittedly incomplete. Please feel free to add your own notes via the comments or point towards your blog. Also, please feel free to expand and amplify the discussion.
Meeting notes (very rough):
Introductions
Chris Heuer introduced himself, […]

Our friend Josh Hallet (Hyku) has given me an “interesting” task in helping him lead the last discussion of the day at BlogOrlando. I say “interesting” as it tough to take on the last spot when everyone is thinking about happy hour and […]

When I first saw the note from David Phillips about this meeting, I was intrigued, but after discussing the XPRL standard with more seasoned PR folks did not have high hopes honestly. People I spoke with said it was a dead but valiant effort to […]

Social Media Club Agenda
for 15 September, 2006
London, United Kingdom
@ the offices of Fleishman Hillard in Covent Garden
A. Introductions to one another (5-10 Minutes)
Your name, organization and 3 tags that describe you and your interests.
1 - Conversation about Social Media Club (<20 Minutes)
What is the purpose of Social Media Club and what great […]

This morning I shipped Chris off for two weeks to help launch the local chapters of Social Media Club in London, New York, Miami and Los Angeles. These four cities are the first in (hopefully) many with Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, and Boston to follow shortly thereafter.
Event details are as follows:
London, September 15th at 5:30pm
Fleishman […]

On the heels of its official launch, Social Media Club (SMC) formed the Media Release Working Group to begin development of the hRelease, a new standard for modernizing the traditional press release for a Web-centric world.
The Media Release Working Group will work closely with the Microformats community, while evaluating other technologies such as XPRL, XBRL, […]

September 25th finds us in Miami for the launch of the Social Media Club chapter at the TheWebLogWire offices in Coral Gables.  If you are interested in Social Media and are in Miami, please plan on joining us at 6pm for a lively discussion on developing the local chapter and digging into our first project, […]

Social Media Club is about sharing new information and highlighting advancements and best practices in our industry.  I wanted to take a moment to recognize the efforts made by Robert French recently around the Social Media Press Release (SMPR) movement.
Robert French runs InfoOpinons?, a blog that was created to help him, and his PR students […]

On September 1st we have moved into the Looksmart building in the South of Market (SOMA) district of San Francisco. Brick walls, open floor plan, and a block from the ball park. Perfect space for the Social Media Club/BrainJams collective headquarters.
While we could have continued working out of our respective […]

A look at some real-world implementations of new media releases*, introducing new members of the working group, a review of Todd Defren’s post on the key principles of a social media release, and an update on the XPRL meeting in London.
The New Media Release Podcast, episode 7 can be downloaded here (MP3, 10.6MB), or sign […]

Chris Heuer will be in London for the XPRL meeting (related to the new Media Release format for revitalizing the traditional Press Release) and will be participating in the first meeting of the London Social Media Club that takes place on Friday, September 15th at the Fleishman Hillard offices at 40 Long Acre, Covent Garden, […]

They Get It is a new show from Social Media Club that invites you to learn about social media directly from the people who really 'get it'. Each week we will be interviewing one or two of the most insightful Social Media people we have had the pleasure to meet.

In our first show, Chris […]

In this week's Podcast Chris and Howard talk about the reason for choosing the Microformat as the technology for the new Media Release standard. Most of the episode is devoted to a discussion of upcoming events and the expansion of the Club. SMC meetings will be held in London on 15Sep2006, New York […]