Hi everyone! I thought I’d let you know about the upcoming Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities on December 19th. It’s a Holiday version of the event, meant to be fun and unstructured.
We will be meeting at the Lake Elmo Inn Event Center, where we’ll have a full breakfast buffet with all your breakfast favorites (including bacon!), served during the entire event. The Lake Elmo Inn has great food, and is a consistent reader’s choice winner in Mpls./St. Paul Magazine, with great facilities and excellent food.
This is a pay event and costs $20 per person. Registration will be open through Dec. 16th and there are only 60 seats available, so don’t wait! Click Here to Register
We’ll be having a great morning with the story of Ratchet, related by Katie Konrath. If you didn’t hear the story, it’s one of community, social media, and compassion coming together to make something happen. One of the great examples of our interest and commitment to social media on a personal level.
Also, we will have an “open mic†for you to share your stories from past events, or to talk about things that Social Media Breakfast has enabled for you. Tell folks what exciting new ideas you’re working on or what you do.
Along with that, we’ll have much more time to talk and trade stories on a more intimate setting, with smaller groups and less pressure to adhere to an agenda. Bring your ideas or stories and share with the folks at your table or the one next to you.
So come enjoy our most exciting event, our 10th event in Minneapolis & St. Paul, our first full breakfast, and probably the best chance to simply connect with more of the SMBMSP crowd than you’ve had a chance to previously.
I look forward to seeing everyone who can make it! If you want to make it, but don’t have a ride lined up, direct message or “@” smbmsp on Twitter and we’ll do our best to connect a some folks together
When: Friday, December 19th, 2008 from 8am to 10am
Sometimes I spend time just generating ideas for blog posts, and they make it into this list or that notebook (though you couldn’t tell by my current lack of posts ;). While I can’t claim this idea is original, I do indeed want to share this list – I’ll probably not use them in the near term and it may be inspiration to someone to write a great post that I’d love to read.
So without further rambling, here is a list of 50 blog post ideas (kinda heavy on social media), for you to take and repurpose for your needs.
Working your social media juju
Training your ninjas
How organizations can’t succeed with the social web
How organizations can succeed with the social web
Why don’t we "offshore" to middle America?
Looking for the fast buck? Try looking for fast customer satisfaction instead.
Don’t wait for your brand to succeed, make it succeed
Internet Rock Stars and other fairy tales
Like the A-List? It gets even better on the Z-List
Don’t read the news, make the news
Your time is now
Success is defined by those wishing to achieve it
Success doesn’t define you, you define success
Social media is like good BBQ, mmmm
Have a product? Build a community.
Blog your way to a better job
Yes, it’s easy to say…
It isn’t about social media, it’s about being social
Why social media isn’t about selling anything
Building a better branded you
Host an event – here’s how!
Social Media Ninja – Tools of the Trade
Wishing is good – doing is better
Walk tall, blog proud
Taking the work out of blog ideas – 100 topics for your blog
Personal Brand: It is about you
Corporations and Facebook: They do mix
Getting Buy-In from the Mail Room: Why it’s important to include people who do real work
Hosting an event? Check in with these folks.
I’m not dead, I just don’t blog
You’re Dad’s blogging – what do you do now?
Things social medians could learn from an old-time community social
Your Grandparents Were Social Media Gurus – Here’s Why
Busy? Just press pause.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.
Are you a social giver or a media taker? Here’s how to find out.
A bridge to nowhere – the promise of social media that was.
Social Media’s Red Light District – Beware
Following the white rabbit of social media
Brand identification – why your picture is important
When it rains in social media land, do you build an ark?
Giving 100 ideas away
But wait! There’s more!
Things I wish I had known when I started blogging
Things I wish I had known when I started social networking
Corporate social media and other oddities
Changing the focus of your blogs topic
There’s a blog post in here somewhere
Wishing isn’t as good as doing
Social Media Success Stories from the Road
If you don’t mind, I’d love a link back to this post or my blog if you use one of the titles verbatim, if only so I can follow up and read yours. Don’t sweat it if you don’t want to. Have fun!
What are you doing right now? Are you moving forward, stagnating or slipping backward? Why wait to launch your biz, your idea, your brand? Why wait to spend time with your family or call your parents back?
There’s no better time than the present to do something.
Right now you could be:
Building something new
Spending time with your kids
Finishing a project
Outside
Helping a friend in need
Building a website
Mowing the grass
Working on a community project
Reaching out to someone
Stimulating the economy
Supporting your local charities
Practicing your golf swing
Taking responsibility
Yielding to pedestrians
Taking your family on vacation
Applying for that position or job you want
Visiting a elderly relative
Taking the stairs
Finishing several projects
Saving money
Getting away from the computer for awhile
Fishing
Building your personal brand
Returning that phone call
Taking steps to become the person you want to be
What I really want to convey is the reality that there is no better time to do something for yourself, your family, your community, your country, or the world than right now.
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