SMC Global News

Submitted by SMC Republisher on Tue, 04/30/2013 - 4:29pm

The publishing industry has gone through massive disruptions in recent years from advent of online book sales, to the closing of bookstore and the growth of ebooks. We are in the early stages of a total transformation of the inner workings of publishing. Social media has transformed the way books are marketed and sold. Now social media is even transforming the way books are made, with crowdsourced teams and publishing platforms that are as easy to use as WordPress is for blogging.

We are thrilled to introduce our amazing panelists who will discuss about how these changes affect publishers, bloggers and social media professionals.

Submitted by Audrey Schroder on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 5:12pm

SMC Chicago and SMC DePaul hosted a joint event on April 18. “Personal Branding in the Digital Era” took place at Pazzo’s Cucina downtown Chicago. After guests arrived and checked in, they mingled while noshing on pizza and soft drinks, courtesy of Pazzo’s. The personal branding panel began at 6:30, which consisted of Lauri Dietz, Zach Stafford, and Mana Ionescu. SMC DePaul co-founder Ryan Zieman moderated the panel, which lasted about 45 minutes. When the panel ended, SMC DePaul presented the speakers with gifts including a DePaul bag, a silver DePaul business card holder and a book.

Mana Ionescu, Founder of Lighspan Digital (@manamica) gave us these tips on personal branding:
• “There is no privacy in social media, so think twice before you post that picture of you at that party.”

Submitted by Carl Catedral on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 11:06am

May 2013: SMC Chambana Tweetup

Place: The Quality Bar –110 N. Neil Street, Downtown Champaign

Time: 4:30-6 pm

Date: Wednesday, May 22^nd

We are excited to host our first Tweetup + Networking Mixer! Join us at the Quality Bar in Downtown Champaign on on May 22 from 4:30PM - 6:00PM. We will be introducing the newly established Social Media Club Chambana. Come and meet other social media users and enthusiasts in Chambana and find out more about our future social media events!

http://socialmediaclub.org/event/smc-chambana-may-tweetup

Submitted by Casey Kirk on Sun, 04/28/2013 - 9:01pm

Temperatures aren’t the only thing heating up in Sacramento.

More than 30 Social Media Club Sacramento (SMCSac) members gathered at the CSUS College of Continuing Education Tuesday night, April 23, to get pointers on how to “Turn Up the Heat with Social Media Marketing.”

Local social media pros gave attendees an exclusive glimpse into their own tried and true social strategies. Presenters were the California Lottery’s Digital Media Strategy Manager, Ryann Petit-Frere (@repetitfrere, @calottery), and Viralheat’s Senior Account Manager, John Boitnott (@jboitnott, @viralheat).

When Petit-Frere first joined the California Lottery team about a year ago, she said that social media was mostly “for fun” without much thought to a strategic plan.

Submitted by SMC Republisher on Sun, 04/28/2013 - 1:39pm

We will be chatting with Meredith Moore from Wonder Fair at the conclusion of their month-long city art and adventure project, The Secret Order of the Black Diamond.

Meredith will describe how Wonder Fair used Kickstarter to promote and fund this project and will share how the related events and activities unfolded throughout the month of April./>/>

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Submitted by SMC Republisher on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 7:42am

Madison, Wis. — Former Madison mayor Dave Cieslewicz will be part of a panel discussion on social media writing at the Writer’s Life Lecture Series event held May 9 at the downtown campus of Madison College. The public is invited free of charge.

Cieslewicz, whose blog, “Citizen Dave,” appears on the Isthmus/Daily Page website, will discuss his blogging life as part of the panel discussion that will include local social media journalists and social media managers. The event, focusing on how and why writers of all types use social media , will be at 7 p.m. in Room 240.

Submitted by SMC Republisher on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 7:15am

We at Connecting for Good have successfully installed 70 Wi-Fi radios on almost 40 buildings at Juniper Gardens, a 390 unit low income housing project in Kansas City, Kansas. Located at 3rd and Quindaro, Juniper Gardens is a place where the average household income is half the average of the rest of the state and where the crime rate is four times the national average.

We are working to bring free broadband Wi-Fi to every family at the complex, nearly 1,000 people a majority of whom are children under 18 years old. Internet connectivity will absolutely transform this under resourced neighborhood.

Submitted by Yasser Monkachi on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 4:22am

A J-6 de l'évènement CMDAY (Community Management Day), une interview éclair de Yasser Monkachi, co-organisateur et intervenant lors de cette journée de partage et de co-apprentissage.

Comment as-tu découvert le CM ?
En fondant par pure passion la communauté impulsion 2.0 en 2007 sur Facebook et Ning, je n'avais pas idée que cette discipline était en ébullition outre atlantique. En 2011, l'idée de lancer le social media club donne lieu à la naissance et la gestion d'une nouvelle communauté. Quand, courant cette même année, on m'a demandé de donner un cours de CM au campus de la CFCIM, j'ai dit pourquoi pas. Et c'est en transmettant que j'ai appris beaucoup de choses sur cette discipline. L’année 2013 a connu la pris en main de la communauté GBG auprès de Google et Dieu sait ce que l’avenir nous prépare !

Quelles sont les qualités d'un CM ?

Submitted by SMC Republisher on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 3:37am

@smcfred session on 'Social Photography' with @cindyalderton and Andrew Murdoch. Learned a ton! #smcfred http://t.co/ps0D1yADIu

Submitted by SMC Republisher on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 6:44pm

Thanks to everyone who showed up and got social with us [...]

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