At our May 15 SMC meeting, Jon Lebkowsky and David Armistead will speak about The Headless Organization.
Throughout the history of the Internet, we’ve seen an explosion of new, relatively frictionless communication channels, broad access to the means of media production, and a blurring of the distinctions between professional and personal media. We’ve seen an […]

It really is a small world. When I was in Chicago last month, I met Jason Alba from Utah. When he found out where I was from, he immediately asked, “Are you part of the Austin Business Bloggers?” Turns out that Jason, founder of Jibber Jobber, helped organize the first get- together […]

It would be hard to top last month’s panel on social media and politics, but we’re going to give it a whirl. The topic this month is the love-it-or-hate-it social media press release, and SMC co-founder Cynthia Baker has lined up four experts to take us through the pros and cons, hows, whys and whens:

Kevin […]

David Neff, a member of Social Media Club Austin, is the director of online communications for the American Cancer Society. He e-mailed to ask for help in publicizing a job opening for an e-commerce manager in the corporate office here in Austin.
“As a non-profit,” David said, “it’s usually very hard to find technical people like […]

“Marketing Medic” John Moore entertained and informed the 50 attendees at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center with his presentation, Ideals to Spark Ideas. Watch a video clip (8:30) posted on the Brand Autopsy blog.
Afterward, we divided into small groups and used what we learned from John’s presentation to craft a social media strategy for […]

To point out the serious nature of popular tech blogger Kathy Sierra’s online death threats and violent sexual harrassment, many blogs are taking an anti-cyberbullying stance today. Count me among the group.
While I do not have a formal comment policy on any of my blogs, I would not hesitate to delete any comment I feel […]

If you’re interested in the video aspect of social media, you’ll want to keep tabs on the VON (Video on the Net) conference currently going on in San Jose.
Add VON07 as a Twitter friend for updates. Also check these blogs for info and video uploads: Jeff Pulver of Pulver Media; Chris Brogan of Network2.tv; […]

Last month, when we opened registration for our first meeting of Social Media Club Austin, the space available filled up in just over 24 hours, and we had to start a waiting list!
Space won’t be an issue this time, but don’t wait until the last minute to register. In order to prepare for the meeting, […]