Author Archives for Howard Greenstein

Help a research project - Facebook Groups in Business


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 […]

Social Media Club NY Meeting, 12/11/07


Last night, Business Wire hosted SMC New York for a panel on “What Worked and What Didn’t in Social Media in 2007.”
I moderated a panel with Jack Myers, Founder and CEO of Myers Publishing, Joel Smernoff, President and COO of Paltalk, and Peter Himler, Founder and principal of Flatiron Communications LLC. Being moderator, I couldn’t […]

Social Media Club Blog named to Top 100


According to Tom Pick, Virtual Hosting Blog has picked the Top 100 Social Media and Social Networking Blogs for 2007, and SMC was one of them. (I can’t confirm this as Virtual Hosting blog is having an error on that page at the moment.)
Lots of credit to Chris Heuer, for setting this whole deal up […]

Social Media Club NYC - July 18th Meeting Notes


Tonight’s Social Media Club meeting is at PR Newswire - thanks to those folks for hosting. Thanks to Steve Eisenberg, Laurence Koret and Jeff Keefer for getting this meeting organized.
John Havens is talking about the Transparency Manifesto. John is working with Shel Holtz on this project as well.
He has just retold the story of what […]

Congratuations, Chris and Kristie


I thought it appropriate to take a moment from the business of Social Media to wish co-Founders Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells all the best on the occasion of their wedding.
I won’t link to their personal page here, but public photos are available on Flickr if you search for “chrisandkristie”.
I’m sure I speak for all […]

Noneck Noel Hidalgo leaves on 7/7/07


Follow his journey :[In] seven months, he will traverse the seven continents, dive into the
seven oceans, and attempt to visit the seven ancient wonders of the
world.
Have great trip Noel. Wish him luck!
Better yet, contribute to his journey via chipin.

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SMC Members Discount to Green Communications Case Studies Event


BDI and PR Newswire have extended a discount for Social Media Club members to their upcoming New York Event:
On Tuesday July 24th, Business Development Institute and PR Newswire have partnered to produce a half day conference that specifically addresses the questions, issues, and opportunities facing corporate communicators and marketers and their involvement with green […]

“I am not a Web Guy”


Patrick Ruffini at TechPresident.com riffs on what Zack Exley wrote on his blog. When do we stop making the distinction between being an “Internet Strategist” and a “Strategist” or an “Internet Communications Director” or a “Communications Director”?
I’m guilty of this as well. Looking at my business card, it says “Social Media Strategist.” But what I […]

Social Media Club New York, 5/31


Last night’s Social Media Club meeting in New York hosted Craig Newmark of Craig’s List. The 65 or so attendees saw Craig speak of the list, building online community, and his other interests in philanthropy (see Craigslist Foundation) and journalism that takes on powerful interests. He mentioned politics several times, and specifically called out Tech […]

Stepping down as CEO of Social Media Club


On May 1st, after I had a conversation with Chris Heuer, he wrote “Conversations take time, managing them takes energy.”
This is true in so many ways. In fact, Chris captured this critical fact:
“… we have had to expend so much energy in managing the Club to host conversations about Social Media, that we have little […]

Don’t write off Podcasting


My colleage Jason made a comment at the end of his Web 2.0 for Adults article regarding Podcasting. He noted the Pew survey data indcate 7% have “ever done this” - meaning downloaded a podcast. He suggested if podcasting were a stock, he’d “short it.”
But this Pew data is contradicted by Pew’s August 2006 […]

Social Media Workshops


Today, Social Media Club will announce “Starting the Conversation,” our first series of day-long business workshops, at SocialMediaWorkshop.com. The first will be June 11 at SAP headquarters in Palo Alto. Then we move to New York City on June 19th; Boston, June 21 and Austin June 26.
Consultant-writer Shel Israel, co-author of […]

Quick Recap of the NYC Social Media Club Meeting 4/23


This month’s meeting was held in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Social Networking meetup. Thanks to Brett and Peter for making us feel welcome.
This wasn’t a typical NYC Social Media Club meeting, which is good. It is useful to have meetings to see product/company pitches, especially local companies in the Web 2.0 space. There was […]

Speaking in Westchester County, NY


I’m privileged to be speaking on a panel at the Westchester Association in White Plains this coming Thursday, April 19th, at lunchtime. Apparently the online registration is closed but there is still room for walk-ins. Or, you can contact the woman mentioned on the page. I’m looking forward to helping people understand Social Media and […]

Social Media Club, NYC, 3/27/07


A fascinating Social Media Club meeting in NYC last night, covered well by Jason who led the discussion after Jay Rosen’s discussion of NewAssignment.net. Thanks to Jay for coming and for sharing what’s going on in this groundbreaking experiment.
I don’t have much time to do a full recap, but thanks to posts by Joshua Mack […]

Howard Greenstein

Howard Greenstein is a co-founder of Social Media Club. He has been online for nearly 20 years, co-founded the WWWAC group, served on the board of NYNMA and is program director of the NY Software Industry Association, NYSIA.