Social Media Club Phoenix

Twitter in Plain English (Video)

Tagged

Sally Strebel tagged me to contribute to best practices in social media. She, of course, had been tagged herself. And I'm going to tag some of my favorite social media Phoenicians, James Archer, Brian Shaler, Justin Crossman, Derek Neighbors, and Kathy Jacobs.

My best practice for social media:
Politeness. If you want to rip somebody a new one, do it privately, not on their blog or Twitter.

July Meeting of SMC Phoenix

Derek Neighbors presents to SMC Phoenix on July 10.

Social Media Club Announces Interim Board

The Social Media Club announced today it’s newly formed interim Board of Directors. The board boasts a roster of highly-regarded industry leaders; a truly amazing group of people that I am honored to be a part of.

As connected as we all are, it’s sometimes a challenge to get organized amidst all of the clutter. I think it’s vital at this juncture to have a central support network for those of us involved in Social Media to share resources and ideas, build community and contribute to establishing best practices and standards in the area. The Social Media Club is a part of this support network, alongside other organizations and standards efforts including Creative Commons, Microformats, Data Portability, OpenID, the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), the International Association for Business Communicators (IABC) and many others.

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, increase in adoption of industry standards and implementation of a new legal structure to enhance future growth.

The newly named/appointed members of the interim board are leading social media analysts, bloggers and business leaders, and are as follows:

* Lee Aase - Social Media University, Global
* Rohit Bhargava - Influential Marketing Blog and Personality Not Included
* Richard Binhammer - RichardatDell
* Michael Brito - Britopian and Conversations Matter
* Chris Brogan - ChrisBrogan.com
* Mike Chapman - Austin Social Media Club and Every Dot Connects
* Megan Cole - MeganCole.org
* Alex de Carvalho - alexdc.org and Social Object
* Todd Defren - SHIFT Communications and www.pr-squared.com
* Serena Ehrlich - Business Wire
* Jason Falls - Social Media Explorer
* Maggie Fox - Social Media Group
* Jon Gatrell - spatiallyrelevant.org
* Howard Greenstein - HowardGreenstein.com
* Francine Hardaway - Stealthmode
* Josh Hallett - Hyku
* Annie Heckenberger - pikpr.blogspot.com and redspurs.com
* Chuck Hester - iContact
* Chris Heuer - ChrisHeuer.com
* Sherry Heyl - Mind Blogging
* Tara Hunt - HorsePigCow
* Bill Johnston - Forum One Networks Forum and Online Community Report
* Jennifer McClure - Society for New Communications Research
* Mike McGrath - Dogpatch Dispatch
* Jake McKee - CommunityGuy.com and Ant’s Eye View
* Gregory Narain - SocialTwister
* Lee Odden - Online Marketing Blog and TopRank
* Erica OGrady - ReinventingErica.com and Peanut Butter Media
* Jeremiah Owyang - Web Strategist
* David Parmet - Marketing Begins At Home, LLC and PerkettPR
* Jackie Peters - heavyBlog
* Pierre-Yves Platini - Yoono
* Douglas Pollei - Pollei.com
* Connie Reece - Every Dot Connects and Austin Social Media Club
* Chris Saad - ChrisSaad.com
* Andy Sernovitz - Word of Mouth Marketing and GasPedal
* Brian Solis - PR2.0
* J.J. Toothman - jjtoothman.net and Red Pill
* Todd Van Hoosear - Tech PR Gems
* Des Walsh - Des Walsh dot Com
* Kristie Wells - KristieWells.com

About the Social Media Club
The Social Media Club centers on the sharing of best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy with a focus on the emerging discipline of Social Media. The Social Media Club brings together journalists, publishers, communication professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaborators who create and consume media and have an interest in seeing the industry improve and evolve. The Social Media Club provides a forum for diverse groups and individuals to discover, connect, share and learn about social media and to play a role in its future evolution.

To find out more about the opportunities in social media and connect with other practitioners, visit: http://www.socialmediaclub.org

Not Sure I Agree with Om

In a post called "Social Media Gets a Sanity Check," Om Malil comes down on social network sites as having run their course, citing plateauing user numbers, I'm sure Comscore is right about that, because most of my early adopter buddies have finished with Facebook and MySpace, and I can't even stand to visit my own MySpace page, much less anyone else's.

But I don't think this is the end of social media, I think it's an evolution. That's where I agree with Om. Social networks are evolving, with people going to smaller networks or distributed networks..

I think the "conversation," as we social media people are fond of calling it, is decentralizing and finding itself. Although Om cites Dogster as an example of that, I joined Dogster, but I don't hang our there either. I hang out on Twitter, Seesmic, and Friendfeed, where my friends are. We all tend to go where our friends are.

But judging from the fact that I keep getting friended by former classmates and old friends that are just discovering Facebook, I think people (especially older ones) are still signing up, even as people like me take their attention (if not their profiles and log-ins) elsewhere.

The big sites are churning users. As a social media newbie, you start with MySpace and Facebook, and then move on to something smaller and more manageable. But MySpace and Facebook still have their places as Social Media 101 tools for a long time to come. They're gonna have to adjust their overhead --as any ongoing business does--to reflect their maturing business models. Advertisers are going to have to crank in a different demographic of users in their media buys. But they won't go away any time soon.

For Twitter Fans...

For those of you wondering what's wrong with Twitter or how to fix it, here's Scoble's interview with Ev and Biz.

SMC Phoenix May Meeting: Big and Snarky :-)

We had the biggest crowd ever at Social Media Phoenix tonight: almost fifty people to hear the Maricopa Partnership for the Arts present its crowdsourced web site idea for acquainting prospective Maricopa County residents with the wonders of greater Phoenix.

And there was another special guest: Buppy the Buppy, whose blog " The Personal Blog of Buppy the Puppy" is becoming a favorite in the canine blogging world.

Next month, the club will discuss mobile social media.

If you know of someone in the Phoenix area whose company specializes in mobile social media, do let @hardaway or @brianshaler know. Brian is going to be running the club this summer while I am in California. I expect to be streaming in :-)

And yes, I know the photos are sideways. I don't have iPhoto anymore since my hard drive crashed, and Image Capture seems to do something to them when I download them off the phone to make them upload to the web rotated wrong. C'est la vie:-)

Charlene Li

The Future Of Social Networks

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Presented at Graphing Social Patterns, March 3, 2008 in San Diego. Theme: "Social networks will be like air".

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Highlights from the February Meeting

In which Chris Pirillo tries, through a few audio and video snafus, to tell us how he makes money through social media.

Surprise guests include Robert Scoble and Rocky Barbanica of Fast Company. Chris lives in Seattle. In this glorious example of eating our own dog food, Chris is livestreaming , while Scoble is phonestreaming on QIK.com, Rocky is intermittently taking still photos and playing with Wicket the dog, and thirty of us are in Phoenix at Jobing.com watching and asking questions.

Jody Gnant Next Week

If you are planning to come to Social Media Club Phoenix on January 10, you will be happy to know that local life-streamer Jody Gnant, @jodyg on Twitter, is going to be our presenter. Do sign up in advance at Eventbrite, please.

update: first post said January 13. My mistake and thanks to Kathy Jacobs for pointing it out.