I recently posted this ethical issue question that was brought up during the kick off meeting of SMC Los Angeles and received some interesting feedback. This responses below have been shortened, to read the responses in their entirety, please check out the original post for the top half, the others came via Twitter responses.
What is [...]

Fellow Board Member Jackie Peters makes the case for a new term, and I like it.
heavyBlog » Making the Case for Social Communications
I would like to posit the idea that rather than trying to fit a round peg into a square hole, we need to carve out a new hole. The term I am [...]

… is also being joined by the 43rd and 44th. I am very proud to report that Aaron Strout, Coach Deb (Deb Micek) and Chris Hambly were the top vote getters with 383 for Aaron, 340 for Deb and 179 for Chris (who barely edged out Maddie Grant who had 166).
Why did we decide [...]

Wow! The response to our mistake has been overwhelming.  While we have much work to do, our first task is to figure out how to best harness this outpouring of energy.  We have enough work to do and projects that need help to get everyone involved who wants to be involved - particularly when it [...]

Just a reminder tomorrow, Saturday, is the start of the seven (7)city Social Media Camp U.S. Tour coming to Seattle (7/12), SanFrancisco (7/15), Los Angeles (7/18), Austin (7/30), Miami (8/2),Boston (8/5) and New York (8/7).

The events are all free to attend, open to anyone interested in the tools (beginner, intermediate or advanced) and will range [...]

Social Media Club NY member and Organizational Development consultant Jenny Ambrozek asks for help on the following issue:
21st Century Organization: Facebook Groups in Business: Call for Best Cases
Should Businesses Be Friends with Facebook?
While our investigation provided insight into the dynamics of 10 Facebook Groups by tracking activity [...]

Looks like we (I) made a mistake.  I think I was looking for the number of interim board members to be 42 subconsciously, even though we only had 41 as Lloyd Davis pointed out in the comments of our interim board announcement today.  If you aren’t into sci-fi, you probably don’t know that 42 is [...]

The Social Media Club (SMC), a new media and advocacy organization focused on social media, today announced that 42 well-regarded industry leaders have volunteered to form an interim Board of Directors.
The new interim board has been charted to address several key organizational and strategic deliverables, including development of membership goals, acceleration of local chapter development, [...]

Here are some interesting links we’ve come across in the past week. Have you got some favorites to pass on? Share them in the comments section!
John McQuaid is thinking about hyperlocal in his post ”The Big Die-Off, And The Long Tail Of Hyperlocal”.
Josh Bernoff discusses the benefits and drawbacks when politicians delve into [...]

We love hearing about the various ways folks are using Social Media tools, and this special ‘Tweetup’ happening tomorrow (Thursday, July 3rd) is one we just had to share.
The Austin (Texas) Tweetup Blood Drive.
This event is the brainchild of Michelle Greer and David Neff, who are using Twitter, various blogs and other media outlets to bring [...]