Social Media Camp #IWNY Wrap-Up

Social Media Club’s Social Media Camp was a great success thanks to the over 120 people who participated! Social media Camp was held in the Roger Smith hotel last Thursday, June 4 2009 during Internet Week New York. The camp had over two dozen sessions throughout an eight hour day, with well known social media professionals, small business folks, professionals and corporate communications teams learning from and teaching each other. There has been some great feedback from those who attended and a good amount of sharing from the people at the camp too.

Some of the comments on Twitter

• VegasBill @pepsico The info packed sessions @ #smcamp 4 #iwny look amazing. @ChrisHeuer is a dynamic social media role model. Have a great time:)
• stevecherches RT @MellieBe: Check out our top social media marketing tips from Social Media Camp#smcamp http://tinyurl.com/l7dqm3 (Great post)
• deanmeistr @danzarella bummed I couldn’t do graphic recording of your talk at #smcamp - I dig the concepts/content of your talk–maybe next time!
• LesBlatt Smart idea seen at #smcamp yesterday: some attendees put their Twitter names on their conf name badges. Made it easy to follow them.
• chttrbx99 please retweet - Thanks to @howardgr & @chrisheuer for a great day at #smcamp NYC yesterday some great conversations
• SocialSteve @chrisheurer and @howardgr did a great job on #smcamp (Social Media Camp) at #iwny. Check them out at socialmeadiacamp.org
• Amver @chrisheuer Not only did I find #smcamp valuable I would love to join SMC. Hopefully our paths will cross again.
• SocialSteve Last week’s participation in #smcamp (Social Media Camp) and #iwny (Internet Week NY) has spawned tons of activity.
• craige @chrisheuer et al: Thanks for a fabulous event! I feel so inspired after attending #smcamp.

Differing slightly from a typical BarCamp, Social Media Camp not only offered open space for participants to create their day together, but also a “Social Media 101″ series planned out in advance to allow for those who are new to Social Media to learn some of the basics. These sessions were all streamed live and are available as an on demand episode from Livestream, a partner for Social Media Camp. This 5 session series was lead by Howard Greenstein and myself, Chris Heuer.  The links below take you to the blog post about each session, along with the SlideShare presentations used during each session.

1. What is Social Media Session
   
2. Creating a Digital Identity
3. Social Media Tools, Services and Networks Session 
4. Using Social Media for Job Searches Session
5. Marketing Through Social Media Session

Dean Meyers did some great visual notes, capturing the concepts and resources from the Social Media 101 Sessions. It was a lot of fun. More importantly, it seems we help many and created more questions in a few, so overall a success, but definitely just the beginning of the conversation and the process of learning how to use social media. The complete schedule for the day from the Open Space sessions is available on the blog.

 

Some of the other topics that were discussed were power of suggestion on Twitter, basics of strategy in social media marketing for businesses, social media tools, measurability, and marketing through social media. One session in particular struck a lot of conversation. Social Media Marketing triggered thoughts upon building relationships with the market, the importance of trust in marketing/branding and how companies are using social media to market their businesses products and services. 

“Companies in general don’t value social media marketing as much as they should. They’re afraid of it; they don’t understand it; and therefore, they just don’t do it. Yet it’s the most cost-efficient way of marketing there is.” - Ayelet Noff, Blonde 2.0.

Many different tools and tactics were taught, then they were put into play. One of the most compelling part of the sessions was the group involvement and peer to peer knowledge exchange. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, and were not scared to interact with one another. Among the ideas and information exchanged, relationships were built.

“I just love social media and Web 2.0…. I really want to thank the Social Media Club folks for having such a great event: Howard Greenstein, Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells…. The last session was really interesting. The topic was retweets on Twitter. Dan Zarrella from Hubspot crunched some numbers that gave a bit of insight on how people are behaving on Twitter.” - Regina, Volunteer at SMCamp

Well, we love doing it too, and Howard and Kristie and I are blessed to be able to do this sort of work and so happy to help people.

Other blog posts and photos from the event are below, please share yours in the comments:

• PepsiCo Blog
• expatJane’s Blog (Volunteer)
• Les Blatt’s Rambles
• SMC New Haven Blog Post
• DMDInsight
• ReadWriteWeb

Social Media Camp Photos:

• SMCamp room kickoff
• Social Voice from Livewworld
• Flickr from Courtney Crosslin
• Flickr from Howard Greenstein
• Flickr from Chris Heuer

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How Can We Use Social Media To Foster Voter Education?

Educating yourself on the various initiatives hitting our ballots today can be a daunting task as you try and  cut through the emotion and muddied language around each issue. The standard voting guides do a decent job trying to share the pros/cons of each initiative, but more times than not, I find myself asking people around me - in my online and offline network - what their opinions are, to help bring more light to what that initiative actually means TO ME and to those I care about most.

It begs the question - what else we can do with the technology of today to capture those conversations and help inform others asking the same questions?

Join California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, on Wednesday, May 27th at 7pm in San Francisco, CA for a brainstorming session where we dig into this topic in an effort to find new ways of engaging and informing voters using Social Media.

Contribute your thoughts ahead of time on socialvoter.org (use the form on the right sidebar to contribute), or you can tweet/blog your thoughts using the #socialvoter tag.

There is no fee to attend but they would like you to register so they know you are coming. Simply click ‘Attending‘ on the Facebook event. We plan to live stream the event for those who cannot participate in person. We will also be capturing some of the conversation on our SMC San Francisco Twitter account if you would like to follow along that way.

I am happy Social Media Club can play an active role in government 2.0 discussions. Earlier this month, our San Antonio chapter was asked to participate in covering the mayoral race using the Social Media tools at hand. There are several programs in the works, locally and nationally, where we will be extending this dialogue - so stay tuned!

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SMCQ11: How do we educate the younger generation to prepare for the modern workforce?

Not so long ago, Social Media didn’t register as a factor in the professional world. Fast forward to today, and social media has become a valid sector of the communications industry. Marketing, business and how we interact across and within our various personal and professional communities have undergone a huge overhaul, but whether education is keeping up is subject to debate. The Social Media Club editorial board convened last week to mull the current educational landscape for social media. How would you go about developing a curriculum to teach social media business and communications practices? And given that the field is so recent, who is qualified to teach and mentor students? Do you have any ideas on how to educate our youth? We gladly welcome your thoughts, creativity and considerations on this weeks question:

#SMCQ11 How do we educate the younger generation to be ready for the modern workforce?

Please tag your comments, posts and Tweets on the matter as #SMCQ11 and stay tuned for a report later in the week.

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Social media is like building a bridge

A couple months ago I was emailed the following as an insight for the day:

The Thread of a Dream

When I was researching the history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge as a major illustration for the ideas of success and motivation, I became engrossed with the story of how the first bridge was built over Niagara Falls. You see, to build a bridge over a giant gorge, first you have to get a line over the canyon, from one side to the other. Easier said than done at Niagara Falls.

The engineers couldn’t cross the falls in a boat to take the line from one side to the other because the boat would go over the falls. And the airplane hadn’t been invented yet. The distance was also way beyond the bow-and-arrow range, which had been a common method at the time of getting the first line across to build a bridge.

The designing engineer, Charles Ellet, pondered the question until he came up with a revolutionary idea. He decided that, while solving the problem, he would also have some fun and generate some publicity for the project. Ellet sponsored a kite flying contest and offered five dollars to the first person who could fly a kite across the gorge and let it go low enough to the ground for someone to be able to grab the string. In 1849, five dollars was a prize similar to a small lottery today. The boy who won the prize relished his accomplishment until his death, nearly 80 years later.

It all began with an idea and one thin kite string. The kite string was used to pull a cord across, then a line, then a rope. Next came an iron-wire cable and then steel cables, until a structure strong enough to build a suspension bridge was in place.

I’m struck by how that string is like a single thought. The more vivid and clear the thought, and the more you come back to it, the stronger it becomes — like the string to the rope to a cable. Each time you rethink it, dwell on it, or layer it with other thoughts, you are strengthening the structure on which to build your idea, like building a bridge over Niagara Falls.

But unlike a kite, there is no string attached to how high and how far your goals may take you. They are limited only by the power of your imagination and the strength of your desire.

— Denis Waitley

I share this story in its entirety because Denis does a better job of telling it than I could, and I wanted to give him credit.

But my take away from this, for whatever reason, was focused on social media (perhaps because it seems like I eat, sleep and breathe it).

This story exemplifies what I think is an appropriate approach to engaging through social media. It’s like taking baby steps. It’s like the string, then the rope, and finally a cable in this story.

You should engage first as an individual. Test the water. See what tools work best for certain activities.

Slowly you build a social network, a group of virtual friends.

As you give something of yourself and contribute to the conversation, everyone benefits.

Social media builds upon itself. A video posted on YouTube only goes ‘viral’ after enough people have seen and shared it.

After experiencing the benefits of social media as an individual, you’re in a better position to counsel your employer, client or colleague on what tools to use for which circumstances. You can help them build a virtual network and become part of a larger community.

Using the Internet as a tool, social media allows us to be more connected in faster, more efficient ways than ever before.

Just as our forbearers built the Niagara Falls Bridge with ingenuity, patience and hard work, we can build and contribute to online communities.

Your Turn

How do you think The Thread of a Dream story represents an effective approach to engagement through social media?

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Social Media Club Workshop Series

On April 25th we are kicking off the first in a series of Social Media Workshops to help you understand why Social Media is such a hot topic, and what your organization should be doing about it.

Social Media Club’s Founder and Chairman, Chris Heuer, will be traveling to five* cities in this first leg and is pulling together a team of industry leaders and Social Media practitioners in each locale to develop sessions for the workshop(s). Each city will have a slightly different focus and flavor, depending on the practitioners chosen and on the specific needs of the local community. You learn from lectures, conversations and interactions and walk out of the workshop with a full understanding of what Social Media can do for your business, and an actionable plan that you can then implement into your marketing program.

The six cities in this first leg are:

• Birmingham, AL (USA): April 27, 2009
• Miami, FL (USA): May 2, 2009
• Hamburg (Germany): May 8, 2009
• London (United Kingdom): May 12, 2009
• Paris (France): May 15, 2009

Early bird discounts apply to all events, so book early and save a little cash.

After these events, we are heading to the Northeast USA and the Midwest USA in June, and will be in the land Down Under in November - so stay tuned, as there will be more dates added soon…

We are also looking for sponsors for individual workshops, as well as the entire workshop series (17 workshops being held in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific Rim detween April and November 2009). Please contact us for details on the various levels of sponsorship available.

UPDATE: * The Raleigh workshop has been moved to June due to scheduling conflicts.

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‘Coopetition’ in Action: Responses to SMC Question of the Week 1

Social Media Club’s Question of the Week kicked of 3/15/09 with the question “How can we best support our social media community and our peers knowing full well we’re often competing for the same clients and client money?”

We were pleased to have our social media community respond with a variety of comments, tweets and posts. True to form, members called for a combination of professionalism, collaboration and social innovation. We’ve highlighted some of the responses below.   

“Sharing what has worked and admitting where strategies have been punked is invaluable to our collective knowledge base,” @mollyrobben

“The only way to advance the profession is through collaborative efforts by social media professionals.”  — Pete Codella, http://www.petecodella.com

“If you look for a natural fit; a totally symbiotic relationship - it isn’t competition so much as finding what’s right.” @hhotelconsut

“So, if we are to pursue our individual passions and interests we need to know who else is doing neat things. The active use of social media in this regard leaves the other options in the dust. Without interaction we’re only as good as our individual thinking,” wrote Anthony Power at http://apowerpoint.blogspot.com. “Social media has one confounding problem,” he also noted. “it’s not only a tactic we can apply to client, it’s also the vehicle by which we communicate with one another.”

“After all, social media is a set of tools. I use them. I may help others learn to use them. Why should I even think of myself as competing with my colleagues? There are about 25 million small businesses in the United States alone, all of whom can benefit by learning to use social media. I will never reach them all.” —Francine Hardaway, http://blog.stealthmode.com 

Listen in Sunday, March 22, to hear the Social Media Club Editorial Board refine the second Question of the Week and check infor a post on the call so you can comment, blog and tweet your thoughts. After all, as Leslie Hawk at Life is Better with Lipstick wrote:

“Sometimes I find that if I am in a project too long, I only see what I want to see. I might miss a new angle or new avenue that we could explore that would benefit our clients. If I ignore what is being said about my project, client etc in the social media world, I am limiting myself as to the heights I can reach. I would say then that cooperation fosters competition - it breeds success!” —http://lifeisbetterwithlipstick.blogspot.com/

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Social Media Buyers Guide Survey - Please Contribute

Last month we began work in earnest on the Social Media Buyers Guide project by starting to collect information, ideas and questions on the Social Media Club wiki.  Last week we hosted our first podcasts. Today we are beginning to seek contributions to our formal Social Media Buyers Guide Survey that will be the basis for our presentation at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Friday April 3 at 2:40pm. Next week we will be hosting another series of podcasts with technology vendors on Monday at 10am PST and Thursday with service providers at 11am PST (to make up for tech troubles we had this week).

Our mission is, as I have been ranting incessantly, to help companies stop selling and shift the focus/intention to helping their customers buy.  Never before have we been able to leverage the tools with such broad, global access to each others’ insights and lessons learned.  Never before has the business climate been so open as to encourage this type of sharing.  Its interesting that so many people have asked “what do you mean, help people buy?” - we are so indoctrinated into being sold, its hard for some people to make the mental shift to examine what advice we can share to help others make the right vendor and service provider decisions.  But that is our goal, and we have some great insights already captured.

Now we need your help: please share this with your colleagues.  Please retweet the link.  Please contribute to the Social Media Buyers Guide Survey yourself, sharing as much or as little information as you can (the survey could take between 5-30 minutes based on how much, or how little you want to write.  This is also an opportunity for you and your company to be featured as a case study, or you can submit the information anonymously. If you are an agency, you should also reach out to your favorite clients and encourage them to complete the survey. If you are an organizational buyer who contributes to the survey and are in town for Web 2.0 Expo, you may be selected for helping present the findings, and your case study, during our panel.

So what are you waiting for, go ahead and complete the survey now. Then please share and invite others to contribute too… [ RT @socialmediaclub help us help you! Take the Social Media Buyers Guide Survey so others can learn from your experience http://bit.ly/InWra ]

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Buyer Be Heard! Social Media Buyers Guide on Blog Talk Radio March 4, 2009

**Updated: The Service Providers and Technology Vendors podcasts are rescheduled for the week of March 9. See below for details.**

Social Media Club is hosting three podcasts next Wednesday, March 4, 2009 for the purpose of gathering supporting research for the Social Media Buyers Guide Project.

Join SMC Founder Chris Heuer and E-Storm CEO William Gaultier as we interview several leading social media technology vendors, services providers and organizational buyers. We will be talking about their lessons learned and the most important advice they have for other organizations evaluating and purchasing social media. Guests will also be asked to share the three most important questions they recommend asking any social media consultant, agency, vendor or solutions provider before signing a contract.

Visit the show pages linked below to listen in on the web. If you have relevant experiences you would like to share or questions you would like answered, please feel free to join the call via the phone numbers below. We would also ask that you take some time to help us with the project, by completing the Social Media Buyers Guide Survey. Of course, we would be remiss if we didn’t ask for your help in spreading the word, by pointing your colleagues to this post.

The podcasts are on Wednesday, March 4 at the following times (PST):

• Social Media Buyers Guide: Insights from Technology Vendors, UPDATED: Due to technical difficulties, the show is rescheduled to Monday, March 9, 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM (PST). [was 9:00 - 9:45AM March 4]. You can listen on the web or call: (347) 308-8038
  • Special guests to be announced
• Social Media Buyers Guide: Insights from Service Providers, UPDATED: Due to technical difficulties, the show is rescheduled to Thursday, March 12, 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM (PST). [was 10:00 - 10:45AM March 4]. You can listen on the web or call: (347) 308-8038
  • Special guests to be announced
• Social Media Buyers Guide: Insights from Organizational Buyers, 11:00 - 11:45AM You can listen on the web or call: (347) 308-8038
  • Special guests include Christopher Barger from GM and others to be announced

Other guests are being confirmed as we write this, so this page and the show pages will be updated as they confirm.

Project Background

The Social Media Buyers Guide is a project of Social Media Club, a nonprofit working to improve media literacy and the sharing of lessons learned amongst social media practitioners. The project was developed to help organizational buyers of social media services and technologies make better decisions. For more details, check out the blog post announcing the project, contribute your thoughts on the project wiki, and complete the survey. It is our desire to ultimately serve the individuals in large corporations, small businesses, nonprofits and government agencies who are tasked with being social media champions inside of their organizations.

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Recognizing the Service Contributions of Unconferences

This past weekend when contemplating today as a national day of service, it occurred to me how much value many of you have been contributing to our society by sharing your knowledge and insights.  In particular, it struck me that the volunteers, speakers and organizers of unconferences have received great local recognition for their work, but not enough as they truly deserve.

So I wanted to take a moment to thank all the great people who have tirelessly supported the unconference cause, bringing insights, knowledge, comraderie, problem solving and so much more to the world around us.  Unforutnately, when looking through the BarCamp Wiki, as well as some of the site’s from events we have previously put on, I realized that the record keeping around these events is so inconsistent, that this was impossible to do as an undertaking of any well meaning (albeit poorly funded) organization on its own.

Impossible that is, until I realized we could tap into the DIY spirit that made these events possible and ask for your help in compiling a list of everyone who has contributed to making an unconference possible.  If you have ever been a part of an unconference in any of the leadership roles, please take a few minutes to complete this form so we can recognize your contributions properly.

Though it is going to take several minutes to complete, and probably some research on URL’s, I think it will be worth your while to promote your service to the community.  As the nation turns its focus on being of service to the community and each other, its important to recognize those of you who have been participating in bettering society in this important manner.  Please also take a minute to retweet this URL, blog about it, tell your friends/colleagues who contributed previously and thank an unconference organizer today.

If you want to retweet or share the URL to just the form, you can use http://bit.ly/unconferenceform

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Got Social Media Video?

Would you like us to add it on the Social Media Club website in our feature videos section? ———–>

We are always on the hunt for something entertaining -and- educational to share our our community, and would love to know if you created one or came across one that you think our members would enjoy.

If so, either post the link below in the comments and confirm if you are the original owner (or not) -or- you may send the link to chris [at] socialmediaclub [dot] org and we will work to get it up on the site.

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Social Innovation Camp: Changing the World One Weekend at a Time

Last weekend in London, I witnessed what I would call a series of miracles that soon could be a part of our everyday waking lives, or at least the lives of my friends in the United Kingdom.  The Social Innovation Camp hosted by The Young Foundation was a barcamp/startup weekend sort of event for social entrepreneurs, people looking to do good and make enough money to be sustainable.  If what I saw was as indicative of the scene in London as I believe, this is perhaps one of the major epicenters of transforming the world into the better place that we all know it can be. There is a really great write up of the whole weekend over on the SI Camp Blog.

Besides meeting tons of brilliant people like, I learned a lot about how to facilitate these sorts of events, how to empower better team collaboration and the deep seated desire that so many people the world over have to engage in what I call The Noble Pursuit.  I also confirmed that London is still one of the best cities in the world, and perhaps the only other city I would actually live in other than San Francisco.

I hope to work with a foundation or two in the Bay Area, along with my AdHocnium colleague JD Lasica to bring this sort of event to my home soon.  We are working on several great ideas I hope to tell you all about very soon that is related to our work with AdHocnium and JD’s work on Media Innovation Camp.

As I sat there last Sunday afternoon, I was impressed by the final presentations of the seven social startups created oer the weekend.  Each one progressed in dramatic ways from where they were at the prior Friday night when things got underway.  I personally had a chance to sit in on parts of the discussions on almost all of them and contribute little bits here and there, in an advisory sort of role.  As an outsider, I didn’t want to get too deep, but I did want to be a ‘useful visitor’, which is actually the team I spent the most time with and hopefully the one I contributed the most real value to.  I hope to continue to advise them over the years ahead to ensure it is successful.  It is something that I would surely use, as I suspect you would too.

A full write up on the process and the judging talks further about the prizes. Our Useful Visitor team came in 2nd place behind GoodGym. Their concept is interesting and has potential, but there are some security concerns.  The idea is that this service can enable people to do good while running, walking or biking by pairing them up with people who need help, companionship or support.  Recruit people staying healthy to run errands for people and just stop by for a visit.  Kind of like Big Brothers, but perhaps its more like BigRunners Will share some more thoughts on them in the coming days.

The other teams were We-Need, OwnGrown, AccessCity, Carbon Co-Op and PostPost. I will write up something on each of them next week along with some recommendations / advice but you can read more about them, see their presentations and check out the web sites they built by clicking on their names above.  In the meantime, I thought I would hand out some of my own awards.  This isn’t an attempt to make sure ‘everyone feels like a winner’, especially since I didn’t get to see everyone closely.  Rather this is just my appreciation of what I saw as some really great accomplishments that should be recognized.

Awards

• Most Prepared: We-Need
  Craig came in with a ton of planning diagrams and ideas - he really understands the problems faced by the people he is trying to help at a deep level and it showed.
• Best Research: GoodGym
  The team went out during the weekend and interviewed runners as to whether they would use the service… they actually signed up 10+ volunteers!
• Best Name Change: OwnGrown
  Prior to the weekend, this startup was called Vegsy - clearly, OwnGrown is a multi million dollar brand.
• Best Web Site: PostPost
  The UI is simple simple, the site looks fantastic.
• Best Team: Useful Visitor
  Well, this is a bit self-serving, but I really do mean it - with such a big team, to execute as well as we did and work so well together, I am really proud of everyone.
• Best Presentation: GoodGym
  Ivo Gormley was the epitome of dry British comedy and his presentation was superbly crafted.  Bravo.
• Best Post Presentation Q&A: Useful Visitor
  OK, again a bit of self interest here, but I didn’t see many other people get an applause line for their responses in Q&A so I was impressed…
• Most Easily Sustainable: OwnGrown
  I agree with the remark of one of the judges, this should be a real business.  I think it is perhaps a co-op as well, but it is surely a market.  If people don’t pay on the transaction level, they should at least be paid members.  Who doesn’t want locally grown produce at a reasonable price?
• Best Presentation Stunt: OwnGrown
  Towards the end of the presentation, they brought in a huge tray of vegetables because ’someone in the room ordered them’
• Most Needed: We-Need
  I can’t overstate this point - we need, We-Need.  There are too many people who need help from the system which is unable to connect with them properly.  Please support this effort in any way you can.
• Most Important / Biggest Impact: Carbon Co-Op
  One person can make a difference, but a village of people, working together to change the local energy consumption rates can make a huge difference.
• Most Valuable Player(s):The Young Foundation
  There are some really great people here doing important work.  This would have not happened without them opening their minds, their hearts and their offices - thank you so very much.

All in all, this was one of the most gratifying things in which I have participated in a long time.  Big thanks to The Young Foundation, Dan, Kati, Anna and all my new friends for welcoming me into your space this past weekend.  Hopefully we can find ways to work together again in the future.

PS - more of my photos from the weekend are available on Flickr.Technorati Tags: sicamp, social innovation camp, barcamp, social entrepreneurs, social startups

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Using Social Media for Good Causes

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The Bigger Tent

Wednesday, 9/24 in NYC, Social Media Club is going to welcome Dan Patterson, a blogger, podcaster, and professional journalist, and Ann Cooper, who teaches at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Ann has worked as a reporter for newspapers, magazines, and National Public Radio, and was the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Recently, Ann published this article at the Columbia Journalism Review:

CJR: The Bigger Tent

And so it went for a few years, bloggers versus journalists; a fight over much more than semantics, a fight to see whether the big tent of American journalism would become a bigger tent to accommodate the newcomers and their new ideas. Who belongs in that tent, and who gets to decide who’s in it? Put another way: Who is a journalist? It’s a tantalizing question, but it’s hardly worth asking anymore.

This is the subject of our meeting tomorrow night. There are journalistic acts happening everywhere online, by bloggers and journalists alike. How do we know the difference, when is the difference important, and who decides?

On a side note, I’ve been blogging for 10 years, but not until I got picked up by a mainstream business publication did I start getting offers of “press passes.” So it seems the lines are still pretty blurry.

UPDATE: More food for thought from Max Gladwell:BlogWorld 2008: The Line Between Blogging and Journalism 
This is an important question, and I hope you’ll attend if you’re in NYC, and support our chapter there.

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Social Media RoundUp

I put a request out on Twitter earlier today asking for recommendations of the ‘must read’ articles that have been penned over the last week that focused on the use of Social Media tools.

You fine folks answered with the following:

• 5 ways to use Social Media to reach people who don’t use Social Media: by Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web 
• 50 ways to take your blog to the next level: by Chris Brogan
• Are you conversationally tone deaf: by Connie Reece
• Disruption of cascading conversation: by Jay Deragon
• Growing use of Social Media Technologies in Businesses: by peopleperhour.com
• How Barack Obama Is Using Web 2.0 to Run for President, by Daniel Nations at About.com
• How to Use Yahoo Answers for your Social Media Campaign, by Vine at primaryeffect.com
  
• IBM’s Beehive social networking community: by Toby at Communitelligence
• Limiting, and watching, what children watch: by Lisa Guernsey at New York Times
• Twits on Twitter: by Rob Sellen
• Using Twitter for business: by John Jantsch
  
• You can do your job without Twitter: by Chris Brogan
  

Interesting tool found: flibfarb

Other: Collection of live streams by loremcast

Thank you to everyone who submitted an article to share with the community. We greatly appreciate your input and will start collecting these regularly to help spread the word about interesting conversations happening around the world.

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Stand Up To Cancer, Virtually

Tonight in the US at 8Pm EDT and PDT, all three major networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS will show a program promoting Stand Up To Cancer, a non-profit dedicated to wiping out Cancer in our lifetimes.

Today is the day for the Virtual Standup.  Tweet it, blog it, Facebook it, shout it. Please help make people aware of this cause.

More info on my blog as well.  Thanks for reading.

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