Happiness CCXXIV

Jul 11, 2008 | happiness

Planning social media get-togethers. It’s about meeting people, learning, and answering needs.

Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities 5

Jul 10, 2008 | blog

SMB-TwinCities Join us to network and chat about using social media and social networking tools in your business and careers.

Our fifth gathering will be at the beautiful Minneapolis Central Library in the Doty Board Room. They’ll be plenty of room, Wi-Fi, and lots of coffee and pastries (thanks to our generous sponsors!). What a perfect opportunity to show off your new 3G iPod!

Agenda:

  • Special guest speaker: Jon Gordon (@jongordon onTwitter, Public Radio Tech Reporter and host of “Future Tense“)
  • Special guest speaker: Paul Saarinen (@taulpaul on Twitter – talking about “How online gaming taught me everything about social media”)
  • Presentation on how Hennepin County Library uses social media by Meg Canada and Jody Wurl (@MegCanada & @Jodyth on Twitter)
  • Review of PublicRadioCamp
  • SMBMSP logo reviewOpen discussion (Anything left over from last time, or things you want to see addressed, or things you had heard in conversations on Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed, Identi.ca etc.)

Visit & join our own social networking site: http://smbmsp.ning.com

RSVP Here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/872412/?ps=7

Maps, Buses, Rail, Bikes, Parking, Directions: http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/centralmap.asp

See you there!

A special thank-you to @myklroventine and @megcanada for their work on putting this event together!

Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities 4

Jun 10, 2008 | blog

SMB-TwinCities The fourth SMB in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota is scheduled for Wednesday, June 11th.  Sure, that’s tomorrow and I coulda/shoulda/woulda posted about it a week ago, but decided to let the posts here, here & here do their work.

We’re hosting the event at Concordia University in St. Paul for the second time, as the facilities work well for our group.  Though I do believe there’ll be some suggestions to shake it up again in July.

I can’t wait to see what directions the conversation will go in this meetup tomorrow.  There are always such great ideas that the group never has enough time to really cover them all.  We’re lucky to have a bunch of outgoing people, ready to bring their opinions & perspectives to help others.  It makes the meetups more valuable that way.

Agenda? Oh yeah, we’re trying to have a little more structure – at least for starting points of conversations.

  • 8am to 15am: Meet & find seat
  • 8:15am to 8:30am: @Desaraev from Twitter will be presenting “Social Media Roll Call”
  • 8:30am to 10am: Conversation Topics
    • Co-Working (shared office/work space for web/home workers)
    • What are you reading? Social Media book recommendations (i.e. Here Comes Everybody, etc…)
    • Have you been Plurked yet? Are there too many Twitter wannabe’s?
    • Social Media Club (Minneapolis) – Connie Bensen

    • So, we’ll have another great breakfast – hope to see you there!

Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities 3

Apr 30, 2008 | blog

SMB-TwinCitiesHey everyone, we finally have concrete news on the next Twin Cities Social Media Breakfast. SMB-TC3 will be held at Concordia University in St. Paul on May 16th.

After the fantastic turnout & and small space of the last event, we’ve been looking for a better space for the next one. It seems like there aren’t a lot of places that had what we seem to need for our event. Namely, larger space for 20 or more people, WiFi, centrally located, access to public transportation, and food/coffee.

All the spaces that did have enough space were actual conference facilities that start costing real money. Since this is a free event, we have no good way of paying of a larger space.

So, luckily, a number of people offered to check with the places they work at and we suddenly had a few options. The one that worked out first was at Concordia. Jason DeBoer-Moran works in the IT department at Concordia and was able to arrange a true, full-featured conference room for us to use. It meets all the needs of the group, save the one thing that makes for a good breakfast… food.

So, we’ll be bringing in food ourselves. Anyone who would like to donate a box of bagels, doughnuts, coffee, or fruit tray is welcome to bring it with you, or contact me to coordinate making that happen. Simply direct-message me via Twitter, email me (rickmahn at gmail.com), or message me via the MSBMSP Ning site if you want to “donate-a-doughnut”.

Agenda

So what’s going on at this event? Quite a bit for sure! Since there is open WiFi, space, projection equipment, and (did I mention) space we can do quite a bit.

  • Demo of Cullect by Garrick Van Buren
  • Shared Feeds & the need for better filters
  • What exactly is Social Media – a continuing discussion
  • We’ll have a live video feed and will be include the remote folks via the overhead projection. At least we’ll try and hope it works.
  • YOUR IDEAS HERE! 🙂

Location

You can RSVP at: http://smbmsp.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2029643%3AEvent%3A1382 (requires simple registration)

We’ll be in the Library Technology Center Room 215 for the event. Here’s the location information:

Concordia University - St. Paul The Concordia University Library Technology Center is located on the north side of the campus, near Concordia Avenue and directly east of the Pearson Theater. The Library Technology Center’s physical address is 1282 Concordia Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104
Campus map:

concordia-campus-map

Get an (original) copy of the campus map at: http://www.csp.edu/AboutUs/maps/color_campus_map.gif
On this map, The Library Technology Center is building 25, and parking can be found in lots A, B, E, & H.

I look forward to seeing everyone there! Our Social Media Breakfast Network at http://smbmsp.ning.com now has 50 members and I’d love to see as many people make it in person or via video as possible.

UPDATE: Fixed the date above, the real date is May 16th. Sorry for any confusion!

SMB Twin Cities 2 – Wrapup

Apr 12, 2008 | blog

SMB-TwinCities Today was the second Social Media Breakfast in the Twin Cities. We had a great turnout for the small space that I had booked. I won’t make that mistake again, even though it worked out ok. Albert Maruggi commented awhile ago on how much talent and interest there is here in the Minneapolis & St. Paul area in social media. I have to agree as our meetups keep backing up that interest with really great, dedicated, intelligent people who want to get involved for so many great reasons.

Photo by The group here in the northland has a mix of great perspectives and intentions – I honestly am honored to be able to spend time discussing new ideas and opportunities with this group and encourage anyone interested to check out the social media site for our meetups. We’ll be hosting more meetups and I’m planning on keeping it interesting and helping the group in whatever direction it wants to go.

UPDATE: Connie Bensen had a nice recap & comments on the video feed that we set up for this event.  You can visit her post here.

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