For those of you that remember the SeaWorld Summer Nights event, Social Media Club along with Social Media Breakfast and a few other local groups have been invited to be the special guest of SeaWorld San Antonio once again for their Howl-O-Scream event. As we approach Halloween, SeaWorld has a bevy of thrills and frights in store for all their guests and we’ve been invited to get a behind the scenes look at everything they’ve got planned.
Also, hear about our plans for social media for the rest of the year. The SeaWorld social media team will be on hand to answer any questions.
Come join us for a night of enlightened and scare-worthy fun.
RSVP HERE (RSVP by September 25th)
Host: Kami Huyse
Location:
SeaWorld San Antonio
10500 Sea World Dr
San Antonio, TX 78251
When: Thursday, October 1, 6:00PM to 10:00PM
Phone: 210-683-6776
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Well we’ve hit the first of what is sure to be many milestones, our first year in the city of San Antonio and we’ve had the pleasure of meeting a great many new people and we’re honored to have them and all of our regular favorites share in this experience with us.
Can you believe it’s been 1 year since San Antonio joined the Social Meda Club family? In that amount of time we’ve seen our club grow from the early-adopter geek crowd to include business, non-profit and media types.
We’ve got a great speaker planned for this event who will share with all of you the key points to social conversion. Brian Massey who is otherwise known as the “Conversion Scientist” will be joining us as our amazing guest speaker for this big event and we’re hoping that Brian can help you figure a way to turn that community of yours into something big. Brian’s topic: “Social Conversion Rate” is sure to be as informative as it is entertaining.
You can also catch Brian’s amazing wisdom over on his website The Conversion Scientist, but don’t blame us for your success!
Time: September 10, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: C4 Workspace, 108 King William, San Antonio, TX 78204
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I am curently seeking two online content creators (blogging, video, audio, photo) to cover an event in Amsterdam. Locals only, and two tickets are provided for two people to cover the event utilizing as many coverage tools as possible to include:
- interviews with panelists
- photos of the event and the expo
- live blogging
- video coverage of as much as possible
Not requirements above need to be met, but candidates that can provide as many of those mentioned will be considered first.
The event is June 2nd, WiMAX Forum Global Congress 2009
Send your information HERE for consideration. Please include equipment you have to cover the event, availability, and links to blogs and other content you’ve created that highlight the work you’ve done.
Another month has come and a lot of things are happening. Come join the professional media group that is looking at changing the way the city of San Antonio does things professionally and personally. This meeting is sure to be a can’t miss.
Join us at Lion and the Rose Pub located at the corner of IH-10 and Blanco for a night of great discussion and Q&A. We’re hoping everyone comes ready to discuss some vital issues affecting our city and we’ll look at what SMC is going to do locally to help the professional community jump on board.
The meeting starts at 6:00 p.m. and ends at 8:00 p.m. Join us as we make new introductions and plan for the amazing future that is in store for our own local chapter!
Park North
842 NW Loop 410 (Park North Shopping Center)
San Antonio, TX 78216
ph: 210.798.4154
If you have any questions, please contact me at 210.782.4439 or Jennifer at 210.483.3025!
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Social Media Club has been assisting the city of San Antonio as well as SA4Mayor, and other media entities is providing online coverage and new distribution for one of the hottest election season to date. Our talented media professionals are honored to be a part of his amazing process and look forward to providing you extensive coverage for those tuning into the various online reports that will be shared with our online community.
*NOTE: be sure to follow hash-tag #SAvotes on Twitter for San Antonio community involvement.
*Taken from the offical press release
2009 Mayoral Election Coverage!
What: Live coverage of San Antonio’s mayoral election
When: 5-9 p.m. Saturday, May 9
Where: sacurrent.com, IGoSA.com, and uStream.tv
Join the Current, IGoSA, NewTek, the Social Media Club, and 24 Hour Entertainment for live coverage of San Antonio’s May 9 municipal elections online at sacurrent.com and igosa.com. Using the NewTek Tricaster, Skype, a little kismet, and approximately 5 rolls of duct tape, the Current and 24 Hour Entertainment news teams will provide up-to-minute election returns, live reports from mayoral candidates’ parties, guest commentary from political pros past and present, plus live music by some of San Antonio’s best musicians, including Marcus Rubio, the Hawks of Holy Rosary, and the Swindles.
Readers can watch the broadcast live via sacurrent.com, igosa.com, or on their iPhones, using the free uStream iPhone app. Live-chat windows and the Social Media Club’s Twitter and blogging teams will whip the viewing public into a political frenzy. Local glam icon Jade Esteban Estrada will drop by the offices to offer his take on this year’s political follies, and former Councilmen Chip Haass and Roger Flores will provide perspective on their old districts’ races, as well as the challenges facing the next mayor and council. JP and political blogger Steve Walker will … well, he’ll just be his usual entertaining, informative self.
“For Social Media Club San Antonio, this is a phenomenal opportunity to showcase all of the online tools and the ease of access for anyone and eveyone to connect — whether its business, government, non-profits, whatever,” said SMC’s Jennifer Navarrete.
Current Editor Elaine Wolff says last month’s successful mayoral debate webcast demonstrated that live, interactive events are an important tool for engaging the public. “We’re excited about getting better and more creative at using these new technologies to build open forums for San Antonio,” Wolff said. “Technology such as the Tricaster, Twitter, and Skype can make government more accessible, more open, and more fun — which never hurts when you’re trying to increase civic participation.”
24 Hour Entertainment’s Kaye Cruz says he “loves the new opportunity to work with traditional media in deploying original creative content for the online world to witness. San Antonio is becoming a new hotbed for Cyber-programming ideas.”
Expect raw, unfiltered commentary, political insight, and a ton of fun as this new-media consortium brings you San Antonio’s first live election cybercast, online mayoral forum.
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An amazing opportunity for new and established bloggers has just come my way. A globally recognized technology news agency is seeking talented writers and media enthusiasts to assist them with coverage of the latest and greatest in all manner of formats.
Biz-News is quickly rising as the go-to site for consumer electronic news in the field of HDTV, Smartphones, Storage, and and VoIP. The readership of the site extends across all professional markets specializing in said categories. This is an excellent opportunity for writers and bloggers to be featured on the site and gain international exposure as the expert in your field on behalf of Biz-News. Credit and bylines will be given to the writer, from time to time, passes to exclusive conferences and seminars for industry professionals will be granted for you to cover the event on behalf of the site.
Interested writers are asked to submit a portfolio of work to establish social proof and existing presence in the blogosphere. Interest in these fields is always a plus, and commitment to producing quality content is key. Biz-News focuses on high quality writing in order to maintain its established reputation amongst the numerous industry professionals that gather on the site. If you’re writing is not online, but you’ve got a body of work that includes printed articles in newspapers, journals, or magazines you are not excluded from this all call for writers.
The position does not offer any financial compensation, but does offer the following:
- inclusion into the established professional writing team of Biz-News
- FREE passes to major conferences worldwide as they become available for events in your area
- exposure and experience in writing for a globally recognized consumer electronics news site
- byline and attribution to all work done for Biz-News
Biz News is a platform of expression. We are eager to let the writer’s voice provide valid, informed, independent and relevant information in our columns.
If you’re interested, please send inquiries HERE.
San Antonio is proud to be the hotbed for so much activity. From the popular buzz at SXSW for the amazing start-ups locally to the involvement of local media experts in one of the hottest mayoral races to date. Coming off the heels of the recent presidential race, local candidates have not wasted time in incorporating social technologies as just one of many tools to reach out to prospective and current supporters. With so much buzz on networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and other chat forums, it is no surprise that San Antonio has been thrust into the spotlight of yet another ground breaking event, the SA4Mayor initiative.
Begun as a passion and labor for love, the project has catapulted into mainstream media by highlighting the mayoral leaders for this highly contested position. While each of the candidates has held their own townhall meetings, SA4Mayor plans on bringing the candidates into one room for what is sure to be an amazing night of discussion, debating, and progress. This ground breaking event will cover this race both live and online to ensure that all supporters have alternatives in experiencing this event.
“Our goal is to open the door to everyone. We want to go beyond traditional candidates forums, and complement the richest of local media,” says Patricio Espinoza, Emmy award winning journalist and Founder-Managing Editor of SA4Mayor.com. “We have built an online 24/7 stage, they – the people – are coming, and now it is up to the candidates to meet the challenge.”
Social Media Club San Antonio has been asked to participate in this event, and take lead in bringing together top caliber bloggers, tweeters, and other online community members who look to share their voice, opinions, and concerns with the direction of this amazingly progressive city. There is no doubt, that when the dust settles it will be the voice of the people that will come out on top, so the candidates must be at the top of their game.
Join us for this historic townhall event to be webCast LIVE Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 6:30-7:30pm CST. To reach the broadest audience possible, SA4Mayor.com has teamed up with the Current, San Antonio’s award-winning alternative news-weekly.
Kudos to everyone involved in proving that San Antonio, TX is more than just the Alamo!
SA4Mayor Press Release
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The financial industry is just one of many utilizing the popularity in social technologies. As the medium becomes more popular we will see its integration into mainstream business more often. Already the adoption rate is rapidly increasing, and that is what we will be looking at in the meetings to come.
This week Social Media Club San Antonio kicks off Spring with a presentation by Frank Wisehan. An integral part of all our lives is the fact that finances is the root of everything we do. Whether we’re buying a house, a car, shopping for groceries, or even planning our retirement, finances are something that we come across on a daily basis. It’s hard to exist in this global economy without having your life touch the concept of money, and as such it’s wise that we are all on board with how to use it, how it make it work for us, and how to get the most out of it. Frank represents Mass Mutual Financial Group, a company that understands the community’s need to manage their money.
Mass Mutual Financial Group has undertaken a complete change in the way they do business with the introduction of social technologies. This new world of online interactions has been an opportunity for them to make connections with users on the other end with more care and understanding and less of a salesman approach. The company understands that in order to develop relationships you have to have trust. Frank leads a team that goes out and fully utilizes these tools and he and his partner will share their experiences, and how they’ve benefited. Surely along they way there have been rough patches and as a business it’s important to overcome those tough spots or fade into non-existence.
We’re honored to have Frank share his experiences both personally and professionally with the integration of social technologies and look to our members both new and old to engage in a dialogue in their experiences as well.
This week’s meeting is being held at Luca Ristorante attached to the beautiful Fairmont Hotel in Downtown San Antonio. Located across from Hemisphere park this upscale restaurant will play host to San Antonio’s social media leaders as the professional community converges to share their ideas, concerns, and implementation of new online technologies to help their own brands marketing efforts.
Dress code is strictly enforced for this event and is business casual. If you have questions regarding the attire, please contact either Jennifer Navarrete at 
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or Luis Sandoval at 210…. Please make sure you reserve your spot as space is limited for this event. Reservations can be made at the Eventbrite page here ! Share with your friends and others in the community. Professionals in Downtown San Antonio are highly encouraged to join us on this night as we look to learn more about the professional diversity that has grown tremendously in our city.
We look forward to seeing and meeting all of you
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or Luis Sandoval at 
