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Meet: Second Thursday of each month
When: 6:30pm - 8pm
Where: Jobing.com, 4747 N. 22nd Street (between Indian School and Camelback) in Phoenix
Cost: FREE to attend.
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Social Media Club is a fledgling association of humans being organized for those interested in producing, consuming and engaging with one another through Social Media. Its membership consists of those who believe in the power of conversation - as a path to common understanding, as a gateway to knowledge, or as our Cluetrain friends have correctly posited, as the basis of markets. Social Media is conversational media in all its interactive forms including text, video and spoken words - whether face to face, over the Internet, over the airwaves or via mobile technologies such as iPods and cell phones. Social Media Club is intended to be a place where amateurs and professionals can come together to learn from one another, to understand each other and to work together on the things that make meaning in their lives - their personal passions, their professional endeavours and their noble pursuits. The Club hosts conversations and participatory conferences around the world that utilize best practices in social learning techniques that provide everyday people and practicing professionals with the knowledge they need to make the most of the tools that power the "Web 2.0" and "Social Media" Revolution. In short, it empowers people to engage with one another regardless of geographic location or ideological leanings.
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Originally uploaded by hardaway
I had the good fortune to attend Mark Rukavina's presentation of iMemories tonight at Social Media Club SF. Speaking is Chris Heuer, and the woman in black is Kristie Wells. The event was held at Adobe's San Francisco office.
Milan Scoble, day 2
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The little Scoble looks exactly like Maryam. But when his eyes are open, they have Robert's intellectually curious and all around fun look :-)
The next two meetings of the club, by popular demand, will be about:
October: User-generated conference formats like Podcamps and Barcamps. How to organize them and why they are becoming popular
November: VSocial and"white lable" social networks for the enterprise.
After last night's Social Media Club meeting, a reporter asked me how Pownce and Twitter could be used for business. One of the attendees, Bill Swartz, thought they would eventually become enterprise services.
Here's what I came up with. Please help me expand my perspective.
Pownce is a great way to publicize events, and also to send large files to customers and business associates. Tools like these grew from larger trends like outsourcing, free agency, and collaboration.
Let's assume you are a German engineer designing a bridge in China. You are working with, perhaps, a German team, an American team of financiers, and the Chinese government. Use Pownce to send the drawings or link to where they are posted on the web in a private space. Also use Pownce to post events and get people to attend. You can limit your "friends" to members of your team, and make your posts completely private.
Pownce is an excellent business tool. Twitter is less so, because you can't send files through it, and it doesn't have a way to announce events.But if you are at a conference, and you want to meet someone there, you can tweet: "meet me in the hallway outside the meeting and lets talk about the deal."
Both Pownce and Twitter are good for inter-office and cross-team communication. In business now, many people who work on project are not seated in the same room, same country, or even same time zone. They need every communication tool they can get, and Pownce is excellent for distributed teams like that. So is Twitter. As communication tools, they communicate to revenue indirectly by facilitating communication.
There's a great post about Pownce on Mashable.
Comments? Elaborations? Help.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_are_americas_rich?utm_source=embedded_video
The Onion's video on the difference between the rich and the super rich.
Don't forget the meeting tonight,
