Where is Social Media Club?
January 11, 2007 by Chris Heuer
Howard has been working on a Powerpoint pitch to tell people the story of the club, explaining why we think you should join us in making more of a formal community for Social Media practitioners and seeking financial support for our efforts in the form of paid memberships. He will post the complete ‘deck’ online after he has a chance to talk with our good friends up in Boston tonight at the SMC gathering there, but this slide really struck me.
In addition to the 13 cities that already have had events and are starting to convene regularly, we are in talks with people in Australia, Germany, Amsterdam, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Toronto, Montreal and numerous other cities around the states and around the world. Of course, it feels a bit like we are racing in the 24 hours of Daytona and building the car while we drive it, but that will change soon as more paid memberships translate into some full time staff, more basic infrastructure and the online tools we really need to create the world’s leading knowledge market for Social Media. (there is that phrase again, knowledge market - hmmmm, what does that mean)
So if you want to start a chapter in your local community, please do contact us and let us know you exist, share your thoughts on what you would like from us and we can work together towards making it happen for everyone’s benefit. You can leave a comment here or reach us through the contact page on this site.
To all of our friend’s out there, and especially the members who have given us their financial support, thank you for bearing with us through this stage of our growth. We are very blessed and thankful to be entrusted to this role in the community and are working hard to make SMC the sort of community organization in which you will be proud to claim membership. Every day I wake up excited about the potential we have to do great things together and inspired by the kind words of encouragement we continue to read about in blogs and in our inboxes!
The membership link needs some attention… it’s missing its “hip”.