… is also being joined by the 43rd and 44th. I am very proud to report that Aaron Strout, Coach Deb (Deb Micek) and Chris Hambly were the top vote getters with 383 for Aaron, 340 for Deb and 179 for Chris (who barely edged out Maddie Grant who had 166).
Why did we decide […]

Wow! The response to our mistake has been overwhelming.  While we have much work to do, our first task is to figure out how to best harness this outpouring of energy.  We have enough work to do and projects that need help to get everyone involved who wants to be involved - particularly when it […]

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 […]

Looks like we (I) made a mistake.  I think I was looking for the number of interim board members to be 42 subconsciously, even though we only had 41 as Lloyd Davis pointed out in the comments of our interim board announcement today.  If you aren’t into sci-fi, you probably don’t know that 42 is […]

The Social Media Club (SMC), a new media and advocacy organization focused on social media, today announced that 42 well-regarded industry leaders have volunteered to form an interim Board of Directors.
The new interim board has been charted to address several key organizational and strategic deliverables, including development of membership goals, acceleration of local chapter development, […]

Keeping up with all the great posts out there is a full time job in itself. Here are a few to add to your aggregator(s).

Benn Rosales wrote a great post about getting real estate brokerages up to speed in social media.
Josh Catone at ReadWriteWeb shows how social media is being used in the […]

Chris wrote an interesting piece today that stems from some of his work being done on ‘The Social Media Playbook’ (out in 2008 or 2009 or 2010…have no idea…don’t ask…I know nothing) called Towards a More Social Organization.  It is a topic close to my heart. It is focusing the point of Web 2.0/Social Media […]

OK, I finally succumbed to the hype and got past the shiny object syndrome to see the real potential of Friend Feed when they added the new rooms feature.  I have been telling everyone I know for the past 2 years that groups done simply and done right are the real killer app - and now […]

Our good friend Debbie Landa from Dealmaker Media is offering Social Media Club members $100 off their upcoming Social Media and Entertainment event in Moutain View, CA on June 3 at the Microsoft Campus. I am hoping to be there myself as this looks like a great event. You can read more […]

Come join SMC-DC for the official Washington, DC area book launch for Rohit Bhargava’s new book Personality Not Included. Maybe you caught him at Blogger Social, or maybe at one of his other book tour destinations. But, if not, now is your chance!
Personality Not Included was recently released by McGraw-Hill and serves as a […]

It looks like we are going to have a good turn out on Thursday morning for the Social Media Breakfast, but we would love to see you there too. Jeff Pulver will be in town as our host / guest / leader which makes this quite a special event.  If you didn’t see it, […]

Alas, here’s a great story about how the Social Media Club has garnered some fantastic attention from one of the old, traditional media outlets. We’d share that coverage with you, but we did mention it was an old, traditional media outlet, right?
Business First, Louisville’s weekly business journal, has a phenomenal article about social media and […]

Last night’s SMC New York meeting featured yours truly as a moderator for a panel with Peter Shankman and Andrew Weinreich, talking about Social Networks.
(photo credit: Steve Eisenberg http://www.clientservicenetwork.biz/wordpress/wp-content/Peter_Andrew_SMC_Meeting_01.jpg)
Over 70 people attended this meeting, with some enthusiastic networking both before and after the event.
Steve Eisenberg put up this audio of the event and […]

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 […]

Join us this Thursday September 20, 2007 in San Francisco at Adobe’s offices beginning at 630pm for a fascinating look at how we are preserving our memories and sharing them with our loved ones (please register here). Social Media, emerging technologies and storytelling are changing the way we connect and stay connected with our families […]