SocialMedia Business School
May 29, 2008
SocialMedia Networks is hosting several one day conferences, focusing on passing on real information about what’s going on with social platforms for advertisers and developers.The next one will be held in Los Angeles on June 5th and will feature deep talks on analytics, marketing, brand advertising, performance advertising, and business planning. The conference will leave you with a real sense of the latest information on how the platforms work and techniques for success.
If you are developing applications for Facebook, OpenSocial, etc - this is a must attend event. Tickets are now available and we hope to see you there!
There will be Business Schools in Seattle, New York City and London as well coming in June. Check the SocialMedia Networks website for more details.
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May 27, 2008
There’s a New Conversation
Thursday, May 29th - Palo Alto, CA
Looking back over the past ten years we have learned a lot about what happens when mass markets adopt collaborative online communities, and it is time to revisit the Clutrain Manifesto as it played an important role in starting a new conversation about what it means to be a marketer. What have we learned? What was right and wrong? What was left out that we should have been thinking about? What should we be thinking about for the next ten years? Join
PRSA Silicon Valley Presents: Guerilla PR Technology Practices & Working With Social Media
Friday, May 30th - San Jose, CA
Join us for a two-hour workshop covering hot issues on guerilla PR technology practices and covering strategies and tactics of using Blogs/Wikis/Social Networks, campaigns and programs, audio/video and optimizing the press center with RSS. You will also hear real world case studies, tips on evaluating and measuring success and Crisis communications & reputation management.
SMC-DC: Now is Gone "2.0"
May 27, 2008
The DC chapter of Social Media Club will meet at 6:00 pm on Thursday, June 5 at Barnes & Noble in Clarendon to have a book discussion featuring the authors of Now is Gone, Geoff Livingston and Brian Solis. They will share their insights on this wonderful world of social media. If you missed the official book launch party in November, this is a great time to meet with both authors and also get your copy signed!
Books will be available for purchase on-site at Barnes & Noble. There is ample garage parking, some metered street spaces, and the store is metro accessible at the Orange Line’s Clarendon stop.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please feel free to join us for an informal dinner and drinks gathering at Whitlow’s on Wilson from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Hope to see you there!
BOOK SIGNING & DISCUSSION
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble – Arlington
Clarendon Market Commons
2800 Clarendon Blvd. Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22201
DRINKS AND DINNER
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Whitlow’s on Wilson (beach bar, to the left in the back)
2854 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
RSVP
Please RSVP to Larissa Fair via larissa@livingstonbuzz.com no later than Tuesday, June 3.
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19475921561
Sphere: Related ContentJoin our Friend Feed Room, kill a mailing list!
May 24, 2008
OK, I finally succumbed to the hype and got past the shiny object syndrome to see the real potential of Friend Feed when they added the new rooms feature. I have been telling everyone I know for the past 2 years that groups done simply and done right are the real killer app - and now this addition just might kill Twitter (though they are doing a pretty good job themselves).
Since I started using it for real as part of my continuous parallel attention, which has been limited by deadlines and travel this week, I finally got it. Not only are the comments and thumbs up (like) features cool, but ‘get a room’ has taken on a whole new meaning.
If blogs replace email as a way for communications and collaboration, Friend Feed Rooms replace the mailing list. In that Mike McGrath, Janet Fouts and I were talking about building up the SMC mailing list finally, I realized we would just make a Friend Feed Room instead. So come join me there and lets start really sharing with one another…
Sphere: Related ContentUnder the Radar Social Media & Entertainment
May 24, 2008
Our good friend Debbie Landa from Dealmaker Media is offering Social Media Club members $100 off their upcoming Social Media and Entertainment event in Moutain View, CA on June 3 at the Microsoft Campus. I am hoping to be there myself as this looks like a great event. You can read more about it on their blog or simply go register following this link for the $100 discount.
The Fireside Chat… Breaking Down the Door to Madison Avenue - Hear from R/GA, JWT, AKQA and GLAM MEDIA
PRESENTING COMPANIES:
33Across - Identifies influential online users
Animoto - Create personalized, professional-quality videos from images and music, offering a new alternative to traditional online photo slideshows
AudioMicro - Stock music and sound effects licensing platform
Aviary -Suite of web-based applications for people who create and a marketplace to sell that content
BigStage - Animate yourself with cutting-edge virtualization technology
Comedy.com - aggregated comedy entertainment site
CrowdSPRING - crowdsourcing of creative talent.
Curse - MMO gamer community.
Dizzywood - A virtual world that allows kids to dress up 3D avatars, play games, explore worlds and meet new friends in a safe environment
ffwd - Organized, multi-platform, video content delivered via a browser, with social network awareness, and predictive recommendations.
GumGum - A licensing and distribution platform for online content
Hollywood Interactive Group - A mass casual mmo based on reality TV concepts and Hollywood stardom.
Jacked - Browser-based “second screen” for TV viewers, which provides synchronized content and a real-time interactive experience that complements what they’re watching on TV
Jygy - Mobile social networking with SMS
Keibi - Moderation and classification of user generated content (UGC)
Kontagent - Next gen social analytics
Kosmix - Categorization engine that crawls billions of Web pages in a unique manner to create algo-generated home pages
Lil’Grams - Tracking your babies memories in real time.
Loomia - Social recommendations bridging established social networking sites with media websites
Loud3r - Aggregating and publishing semantically searched content
MediaForge - We’ve got widgets comin’ out our ads
Mochi Media - Provides independent game developers with analytics, distribution, tools and monetization while providing advertisers with turnkey opportunities to reach the one in three Internet users who play online games.
MovieSet - Platform that brings behind-the-scenes filmmaking online, giving fans authentic access through its proprietary toolkit for Producers.
Mytopia -Social gaming community for Web, Mobile, Smartphone and TV
Nesting - Organizing family activities; scheduling, networking and more
Overlay.tv - video commerce platform that overlays contextual information directly onto online video content
Pikum - A new kind of betting game
PluggedIn - Enjoy stunning, broadcast-quality music videos from your browser
PutPlace - Media storage all the way from Ireland
SocialMedia Networks - enables developers of social media applications to monetize their traffic
Sometrics - Social Analytics and Social Ad Platform
Verismo Networks – High quality video over broadband without a pc.
Vivaty - Brings together your friends, photos and videos into a personal virtual scene, in your browser
Vusion - HD Quality Video over the internet
Wetpaint - Wiki powered websites
Xumii - Take all your contacts from your social networks with you — on your phone!
JUDGES:
Jack Kennedy, EVP Strategy & Corporate Development, Fox Interactive
Bradley Horowitz, VP Product Management, Google
Dan Schiappa, GM - Strategy & Business Development - Entertainment & Devices, Microsoft Marty O’Keefe, Director - Business Strategy & Development - Entertainment & Devices, Microsoft Joshua Newman, Director - Digital Media, Twentieth Century Fox
Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal/All things D
Charlene Li, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Dave McClure, Startup Advisor & Angel Investor, 500 Hats
Lewis Henderson, SVP, William Morris Agency
Peter Chane, Group Business Product Manager - Open Social, Google
Scott Sangster, Director of Strategic Planning and Development, Walt Disney Internet Group
Jason Oberfest, VP of Business Development, MySpace
Rob Hayes, Partner, First Round Capital
Robert Scoble, Editor, Scobleizer
Chad Kinzelberg, Partner, Scale Venture Partners
Rick Bolander, Partner, Gabriel Venture Partners
Vineet Buch, Partner, BlueRun Venures
SMC Discount for Search Marketing Expo Advanced, June 3-4 Seattle
May 8, 2008
Search Marketing Expo – SMX Advanced, June 3-4, Seattle
Social Media Club Member discount – receive 10% off registration with this code: smx10smc
Seattle in June – with leaders in search and interactive marketing – and no box lunches –that’s SMX Advanced.
SMX Advanced is a two-day conference for search marketers who want to stay ahead in the fast changing world of search. The conference is organized into several tracks: Organic SEO, Paid Search Advertising, SEM Business, and SMX Developer Day (June 4.) See the complete SMX Advanced agenda here.
There will be two keynote sessions: Kevin Johnson, President of Microsoft’s Platform and Services Division will discuss the company’s aspirations in search and online advertising; and Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, will take questions from the audience in the ever-popular “You +A” session at the end of the day.
At SMX Advanced you’ll find that speakers from one session will be your peers in another. We’ve designed the conference to encourage as much interaction as possible, including carefully planned networking events. At SMX conferences, we know why you’re there, and we’ll take care of you — right down to lunch on plates, with real silverware.
Register now - Last year’s show was a sell-out, so don’t wait! “SMX Advanced was a resourceful and engaging conference consisting of intelligent speakers and an intelligent crowd.” — Julie Sun, Senior Manager of SEO, MTV
SMC members take 10% off the prevailing rate when you use this code: smx10smc
Sphere: Related ContentSMC Austin Presents The Headless Organization
May 7, 2008
Join us for an evening of discussion and getting to know your fellow social media users/creators in Austin, Texas. Pizza and drinks at 6:00; program starts at 6:30.
NOTE: The meeting is free, but we ask you to register because space is limited.
The Headless Organization
Throughout the history of the Internet, we’ve seen an explosion of new, relatively frictionless communication channels, broad access to the means of media production, and a blurring of the distinctions between professional and personal media. We’ve seen an ascendance of many to many communications resulting in “out of control” communications, flatter hierarchies, and the emergence of new, agile forms of social and political organization. The rise of networked communications and the appearance of robust platforms for social networking has been accompanied by an increasing tendency for groups to self-organize – and the proliferation of entities referred to as leaderless or “headless” organizations. In May’s SMC presentation, we’ll consider how these headless organizations have evolved, discuss some examples, and talk about challenges, limits, and potential future developments.
Jon Lebkowsky and David Armistead are principals of Social Web Strategies, an Austin business consulting company that focuses on the social web and its impact on business transformation.
Sponsored by Datran Media
SMC Seattle Meeting Tonight
May 1, 2008
The Seattle Chapter of the Social Media Club is having an event tonight, May 1, 2008 at the Text 100 office in downtown Seattle. The meeting starts at 6:30 and refreshments will be served.
Here’s the skinny-
A Published Stream of Consciousness:
Do Business and Micro-blogging Mix?
Micro-blogging services such as Twitter are continually growing in popularity, but many business people are asking how this fits into their professional life. Announcing to friends that you’re “exhausted from a late Saturday night” or “going to buy tickets to the TP concert…anyone interested?” seems far removed from anything co-workers (much less your boss!) wants to know.
While Twitter is great for personal use, many companies are using micro-blogging to enhance their business communications as well.
Join the Seattle Social Media Club to discover how you can use micro-blogging services to enhance your personal brand, grow and strengthen your business network, notify customers, promote your blog and more.
Randy Stewart, social media strategist and Senior Product Manager of Boxbe will be presenting short introduction to Twitter and microblogging followed by an interactive forum designed to help you get the most out of your micro-blogging feed.
Sign up here to let us know you are coming.
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