SMCEDU: Local Chapters Sprouting Up

Recently, I wrote about SMC-DC and Georgetown University working together to create a student chapter of Social Media Club with the intention of promoting #SMCEDU in the area. The #SMCEDU group would work with the affiliated school and local businesses to create opportunities to meet, network, and learn.

Renee Goldman of Georgetown University wrote and posted a charter (thanks, Renee!)  for a student SMC chapter at her school.

The charter (which can be found here) and wiki page are to be used by the newly formed SMCEDU-GU organization. The group, sponsored by Booz Allen social media lead Steve Radick, looks to lay down a blueprint for other chapters around the country (and eventually, the world) to follow. As more #SMCEDU groups are created, we’ll try to keep everyone connected so that a uniform approach to accomplishing our goals for #SMCEDU will be maintained.

The D.C. area is just one hotspot for getting #SMCEDU rolling. In Australia, Jenna Langer is working to get another group going in Sydney. I’ll try to speak with Jenna in the coming days and share their exciting plans with the rest of the community.

Also, it’s the eve of the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C. Social media is playing a larger role in business, and will (hopefully) help transform government. This is by no means a political forum, but I believe you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone involved in politics who wouldn’t agree that improved efficiency and clearer, more accurate communication with more representation wouldn’t be welcome. Social media can help government at both the local and national levels to achieve that…just another reason why teaching social media will be more important than ever.

As always, we ask that any instructors that are teaching any aspect of social media to add their name to our directory, and please share any information on your curriculum in our repository. This is one area of the project that I think could be especially beneficial to other instructors around the country and world. Even if the material you are teaching is not a “social media” class per se, please let me know what aspect you’re touching on…it will help to collect as much information as possible!