The Social Media Club Member Badge++
November 18, 2008 by Chris Heuer
I am very excited to publicly announce this great new member benefit, which we produced with Chris Carfi and his excellent team from Cerado. Chris calls it a “Ventana” but I think of it as a “nano-site”, being about the size of an iPod Nano, but also being smaller then what you would call a “mico-site”. Some other folks think of it as a “site in a widget”. However you think of it, we think you will call it cool.
As a benefit for Professional Members and business members, we are able to use this new member badge to help promote you. In particular, we go through all of the blog posts written by members each weekday to select the most relevant posts on social media related topics, which then get featured inside the badge.
We also have included a members directory of professional members and above with links to each members blog. In essence, it is a blog roll of our members, helping drive traffic to those who are working to support our common missions. If you have been holding off on joining as a Professional member, now is a great time to join us and help Social Media Club become the foremost organization of Social Media professionals and those seeking to learn.
Perhaps of greatest interest is the addition of our Social Media Club Events Calendar in which members can feature any social media related event you want to promote by simply filling out the form offered on the bottom of the events calendar page.
Finally, we are also featuring books written by our members along with a few other very important social media books that we believe every social media professional should read.
This is just the first of many more member’s benefits to come, and we think it is a terrific one that is right in the spirit of what we have always tried to do, work together to promote the good works of each other.
So if you want to stay up on all the latest and greatest from Social Media Club and our members, simply check out their sites. Or if you prefer, you can read the best blog posts from our member’s each day on your iPhone by visiting http://iphone.socialmediaclub.org/
Members, please note, if your name links to an incorrect blog, please send us an updated address to socialmediaclub [at] gmail.com so we can correct - simply reply to the email I sent you last week with the correct info, or leave it here in the comments - this is why I asked for your current address a short while ago.
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I know the colors of the widget reflect the branding scheme for SMC but I would be more likely to embed it into my own site if I could alter the colors. Any possibility we can do that?
Good call Gretchen - wish we could do that - we are working on another version that will be a bit more advanced for JAN or so - will talk to Cerado about what we might be able to do in that regards later…
Do you have any suggestions for a more acceptable color palette for other blogs?
hey there, thanks for getting to this so quickly, Chris. I would personally love to see a black and gray version, that might work well for many sites.
Thanks for educating us Chris and we are anxiously waiting for the new version and black and gray would definitely look great
Black gives a good look; but gray may make it look dull. If you want to have black, add it with some pastel color combination. Looks real good!
Is the badge color changeable>??
Hi! I am a new (free) member. Was wondering if there are any non-widget badges available to show support/affiliation? (My sidebar’s kind of maxed out on feeds!)
Thanks!
Hi Faryl,
First, thank you for your support! We are working on a few items that will be rolled out in January to show affiliation - stay tuned!
Awesome! Thanks so much!
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