SMC San Francisco/Silicon Valley Chapter Seeks New President/Team Lead

It has been a good ride over the past three years, but the time has come for me to resign as the president of the San Francisco/Silicon Valley chapter*, and hand the baton on to someone who can really devote the time and attention needed to ensure the chapter continues to serve the needs of the local community.

My current time commitments – president and acting COO of the global Social Media Club organization, my contract with Ribbit and helping to manage our Agency, AdHocnium, are requiring more of me these days, which leaves little time for anything else. I want to stay involved, but in a much lesser role (see below) – note, we also need a Production Director.

The local chapter has been loosely run, with a fairly large group of 15+ people volunteering as time allows. I think going forward, it would behoove the new local president/team lead to reduce the core organizational team to six people, each focused on one main task, and then have a larger group of ‘general managers’ supporting these six roles to ensure things run smoothly.

• President/Team Lead – Event project management, locks in schedule and ensures events actually happen monthly, works with Directors to complete projects assigned. Oversees all accounting records. Fills in where needed. Open position
• Programming Director – At the heart of the Social Media Club is great interactive events. The Programming Director manages all aspects of the activity calendar for the San Francisco /Silicon Valley club by determining topics to be discussed and speakers to present. Confirmed: Jennifer Lindsay with support from Chris Heuer and anyone else who wishes to submit topic ideas and/or speaker suggestions
• Production Director - Securing venue for each meeting, managing on-site signage, video, audio and lighting, working with Partnership Director to coordinate food and drink with event sponsors and/or venue, ensure supplies are provided at each event (name badges, pens, markers, etc.). Open position
• Digital Scribe(s) - Responsible for recording the discussion and producing a blog post/video/podcast that will be posted to the socialmediaclub.org website within one week of the event. Confirmed: David Libby, could use 1-2 more volunteers here.
• Promotions Director(s) - Managing the local chapter calendar postings on the socialmediaclub.org blog, wiki, Facebook group, Upcoming and other related forums. Confirmed: Janet Fouts and J.J. Toothman
• Partnership Director - manages the relationships with the national Social Media Club parent organization, other important related organizations (both national and local), as well as with local businesses and organizations interested in sponsoring or hosting upcoming activities. Confirmed: Kristie Wells (also acting Secretary/Treasurer)
  

When the work is distributed as noted in these roles, I would imagine each role would require, between 1-4 hours per month administrative plus 2-3 hours the night of the event.

If you are interested in taking on one of these positions, please let us know as soon as possible – either leave a comment below or shoot me an email to kristie [at] socialmediaclub [dot] org. Fall programming is in full swing, we need to lock this new team in and start making plans for 2010!

*P.S. We have been alternating meetings each month – one in San Francisco, the next in Silicon Valley. San Francisco events see between 75-150 people each month, Silicon Valley between 50-75. There was talk of splitting the group up and forming two chapters again, but I would love to see it continue as one…at least through the rest of 2009.