… 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 […]

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, […]

Chris and I spent most of the Memorial Day weekend printing welcome letters, laminating member cards and stuffing envelopes with stickers and shirts, to ensure the Social Media Club member kits were completed and shipped to their rightful owners*.
As Chris mentioned in the welcome letter sent out with the kit, we are seeing more and […]

After speaking with Lisa Padilla from Blog Talk Radio and Mike McGrath from Tacit Partners (also one of of the Silicon Valley chapter leaders) at last week’s Silicon Valley gathering, we decided to move forward with a new show for Social Media Club on Blog Talk Radio. In a short while, at 10am PST today […]

While we continue to get a few new members registering, there has not been much movement on the mailing list, on blogs or on the wiki for establishing the leadership council in earnest. The call last week was promising, but once again, the amount of activity in regards to followup has been lower then […]

Brief update on our members and co-founders call this morning.  We have created a page on the Wiki for the Leadership Council which will be the public place to stay up to date on what is happening with the organization as we move forward and evolve the organization.  It seems our work over the past […]

It is with great sorrow that I write this post today. I have been searching for a business partner to help me realize some of my visions for many, many years, and in Howard Greenstein I thought I had found “the one”. He is a bright guy that has been through this before and has […]

Just a quick note for anyone who was considering becoming a co-founder of Social Media Club as an individual or a business.  We are going to be making many announcements next week about the next phase of this experiment in organizational formation via Social Media, some very exciting and some a bit disappointing. But that […]

I am really looking forward to tomorrow’s Social Media Club meeting here in San Francisco. Raines Cohen will be leading a conversation around the topic he just wrote about on DailyKos:
“how do blogs, vlogs, petitions, podcasts, bulletin boards, email lists and forwards, chat, Content-Management Systems (CMS), and even Twitter help us communicate, organize, inspire, […]

We have been working our little fingers to the bone and are happy to announce the launch of four new SMC groups over the next 30 days:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA): March 26th
Silicon Valley (SF South Bay Area), California (USA): April 4th
Berlin, Germany (Europe): April 13th
Denver, Colorado (USA): April 17th

There are another seven cities that have been […]

On Sunday night, our friend Giovanni Rodriguez of HubBubPR, my fiancee Kristie Wells and I headed over to the Community 2.0 reception. In the car on the way over, we discovered that Kristie is a great back seat driver (so am I) and the Red Rock is about 15-20 mins from the house. […]

On Thursday March 1, 2007, Chris Heuer opened up the Revolution in Marketing Conference in Phoenix, AZ with these remarks about Social Media and Social Media Club (please note, first 10 minutes is not on this video). This conference was organized by Francine Hardaway and a great team of volunteers we met as part of […]