Tim PIazza
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Our Next Event: Monday, August 16th, Brian Bennett of Social Life Marketing
Jul 20th
We’re proud and excited that we’ve been able to draw a great line-up of speakers from across the region to Evansville, but we don’t want to turn our backs on our own local talent. This month, the Social Media Club of Evansville is pleased to bring to you one of our local social media rock stars, Brian Bennett.
Brian Bennett is the owner of Social Life Marketing, a local social media company that represents over 40 local, Midwestern and national clients…with a Facebook fan base of over 150,000 people.
Brian graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a degree in Advertising and PR. He was a director of advertising for a multi-state retailer and worked for AT&T Advertising for 10 years. He has received 5 national and 2 midwest awards for graphic design as well as 3 summer league men’s softball championship trophies.
Learn the ups and downs about social media, the do’s the don’ts and maybe a few secret tips of the trade about what your business should really be doing with social media. Come enjoy this one of a kind, dynamic speaker and leave with a fresh approach to your social media presence.
Our Next Event: Monday, July 19th, Krista Neher of Boot Camp Digital
Jul 14th
Please join us on Monday, July 19th, at 6PM for our fourth Social Media Club of Evansville event. One of the best received presentations at BlogIndiana 2009 was by Krista Neher and we’re pleased to bring her to Evansville.
We tried to bring Krista to you in May, but a travel snag prevented her from getting to Evansville on time, and she has graciously offered to join us for our July meeting.
Krista has over 10 years of marketing experience with 5 years of digital and social media marketing. Krista learned brand building at one of the world’s best marketers – P&G – where she worked on some of the biggest brand initiatives. After leaving P&G Krista was the VP of Marketing for internet start-up Photrade which effectively grew to 40,000 users 4 months after launch leveraging Social Media marketing. Krista is now the CEO of Boot Camp Digital, which specializes in social media and internet marketing consulting, training and execution.
Krista Neher is a sought after speaker due to her educational and informative style combined with her energy and enthusiasm. In addition to keynotes and public speaking opportunities, Krista is a trainer who has provided training to corporations and individuals including Fortune 500 companies. Krista also blogs at The Marketess, where she covers the marketing industry.
As we do every month, we’ll gather for a social mingle at 6PM upstairs at Ri Ra Irish Restaurant and Pub in Evansville, and the formal presentation will get underway at 6:30, wrapping up by 8PM. After that, some of us will move downstairs to enjoy company, and perhaps a meal. There is also table service during the meeting, so you don’t have to wait if it’s been a long stretch since lunchtime. Please register for this FREE event on EventBrite so that we can make sure enough seats are available. We’ll see you then!
Change Happens…
May 18th
We learned just hours before our event was ready to live that our guest speaker, Krista Neher, was a victim of the airline industry’s characteristic carelessness with their customers’ schedules. These things happen, and we took it in stride. After all, we’re a club, admission is free, it’s a social event where we learn and interact. We can view change as a disruption or as an opportunity. Our choice was opportunity.
Instead, we created a forum event where the topic of discussion was “Social Media and Privacy–Where Do You Draw the Line?” The discussion was engaging and active–sometimes hyper-active, and the result was at the end of the night, nobody was ready to stop talking. We stumbled upon a very good recipe for engaging the members at our meetings and a new format for some of our presentations.
Out of this meeting, expect to see a few changes in the club. We will continue to bring guest speakers to join us, and we will plan to bring Krista to Evansville as soon as we work out the date. But we’ll also develop more opportunities where you have a voice as well, and can share your insights through forums like last night’s meeting.
We will also add a Member’s area to the website, where those who would like to be listed can have their name, and social media accounts listed for connecting with others.
The last change will be a form on the website where you can submit topic ideas, questions, and comments about the meetings, that won’t be published automatically to the website. You can make suggestions or ask questions in private, or you can submit comments to posts here, on Twitter, or on Facebook. It’s your call.
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s Social Media Club of Evansville event. It was a huge success, and in some ways, our best one yet!
Our Next Event: May 17th, Krista Neher, CEO of Boot Camp Digital
May 7th
Please join us on Monday, May 17th, at 6PM for our fourth Social Media Club of Evansville event. One of the best received presentations at BlogIndiana 2009 was by Krista Neher and we’re pleased to bring her to Evansville.
Krista has over 10 years of marketing experience with 5 years of digital and social media marketing. Krista learned brand building at one of the world’s best marketers – P&G – where she worked on some of the biggest brand initiatives. After leaving P&G Krista was the VP of Marketing for internet start-up Photrade which effectively grew to 40,000 users 4 months after launch leveraging Social Media marketing. Krista is now the CEO of Boot Camp Digital, which specializes in social media and internet marketing consulting, training and execution.
Krista Neher is a sought after speaker due to her educational and informative style combined with her energy and enthusiasm. In addition to keynotes and public speaking opportunities, Krista is a trainer who has provided training to corporations and individuals including Fortune 500 companies. Krista also blogs at The Marketess, where she covers the marketing industry.
As we do every month, we’ll gather for a social mingle at 6PM upstairs at Ri Ra Irish Restaurant and Pub in Evansville, and the formal presentation will get underway at 6:30, wrapping up by 8PM. After that, some of us will move downstairs to enjoy company, and perhaps a meal. There is also table service during the meeting, so you don’t have to wait if it’s been a long stretch since lunchtime. Please register for this FREE event on EventBrite so that we can make sure enough seats are available. We’ll see you then!
Our Next Event: April 19th, BlogIndiana and Robby Slaughter
Mar 31st
If you are using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn to promote your business, establish and maintain relationships, or just to communicate with colleagues and family, you probably have worried more than once that you are spending too much time with these tools. Our guest, Robby Slaughter, will cover effective techniques for maximizing productivity with social media without losing hours of your day online.
This is a special BlogIndiana regional event, and will be webcast live at blogindiana.com/tv
April 14th: Citizen Voices: Social Media’s Impact on Conventional News and Customer Care
Mar 30th
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that Tamara Wandel will present the sixth and final Andiron Lecture of the 2009-10 academic year. Wandel is an associate professor of communication at the University of Evansville. She holds a 2009-10 Fellowship with the Society for New Communications Research, a global think tank focused on advanced studies of new media and communications. Wandel’s most recent publications include a co-authored essay in Facebook and Philosophy (an Open Court publication due out later this year), a chapter in Social Communities, and an article regarding bereavement and online communities in the Journal of Public Relations Research. She teaches media writing, news copy editing, strategic public relations, and advanced reporting.
From participatory journalism to consumer-generated content, the landscape of citizen voices has been altered forever due to social media. The impact and immediacy of disseminating information is at once impressive and unnerving for media outlets and corporations. This lecture will discuss the results from two original research projects. The first focuses on a study undertaken to examine the frequency of use and preferences for social media by journalists. The second captures information on consumer usage of social media to learn about and share both positive and negative customer care experiences. Also examined is the impact customer care via social media has on corporations and organizations working within the context of an uncontrolled environment.
The lecture begins at 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Room 254, Eykamp Hall, Ridgway University Center, University of Evansville
A social gathering with beverages begins at 3:45 p.m.
For further information, call the series coordinator Dale Edwards at 812-488-2645
or the College of Arts and Sciences at 812-488-2589
SMC Event March 16: Growing Your Business With Social Media
Mar 4th
Please join us on Monday, March 15th, at 6PM for our second Social Media Club of Evansville event. Our featured speaker will be Internet Marketing Professional Jay Lane of Jay Lane Media sharing with us his presentation “Growing your Business with Social Media.” Jay promises to give us steps that you can immediately put to work to boost your business, no matter how large or how small.
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Jay is a former web projects leader for companies like Toyota, General Electric, and La-Z-Boy Outdoor. He teaches internet marketing at the University of Louisville and Bellarmine University, speaks locally and regionally about social media, and teaches small and medium-size business owners how to harness the power of the internet to grow their company and win more customers.
Tim’s Kickoff at SMC Evansville – What Is Social Media, What Will It Become?
Feb 16th
We started the SMC as a way to bring together people from the business community, the public service community, and the creative class in Evansville and the surrounding area. Simply put, when you bring people together around a common interest, it sets the stage for big things to come.
Social Media is new, and not so new at the same time. Communities have been forming online for decades, but it has only been in the last few years that companies have been creating tools that help people to connect to each other in pretty sophisticated ways and then giving those tools away for free.
Anybody can benefit by participating social media. You can be a business with a lot of passion for what you do, but little money to spend on radio and TV advertising. You can be a wheelchair-bound kid with dream of sending bicycles to the Congo and use Social Media to talk to people, get them excited and involved, and build an ad-hoc organization that makes the dream happen. More >
Our First Event is February 15th
Feb 12th
The Social Media Club of Evansville has 50 confirmed attendees for our first meeting, 51 followers on Twitter, and 113 members of our Facebook group, and we’re just getting started. You know this is going to be big. This Monday, February 15th, we’re bringing Erik Deckers to town and he’s going to share his 7 Secrets that Skyrocket your Social Media Presence. Really, how can you miss that?
The Social Media Club of Evansville meets on the third Monday of each month at Ri Ra Irish Restaurant and Pub, 701 Northwest Riverside Drive in Evansville, IN. Come down and join us! We start at 6PM and we’ve got the entire upstairs reserved. There will be a bartender on hand, and we’ll make sure the evening is both social and informative. Invite your business associates and tell your clients. Show them that you’re on the forefront of what’s happening in online marketing.
To keep up with what’s going on, sign up for our newsletter and follow us on Facebook or Twitter. Help us plan our seating by registering for this Monday’s event by signing up at EventBrite.
I hope we’ll see you Monday!
Tim
About the Social Media Club
The Social Media Club of Evansville brings together bloggers, technology experts, business leaders, artists, and community advocates to socialize, and to discuss and learn about social media in a casual context. The club meets at Ri Ra Irish Restaurant and Pub every third Monday evening starting at 6PM and wrapping up at 8PM in the upstairs lounge. Visit us at http://smcevansville.org
Social Media Club of Evansville Inaugural Meeting Feb. 15th at Ri Ra
Jan 24th
Please join us at Ri Ra Irish Restaurant and Pub for our very first meeting of the Social Media Club of Evansville. Plan to socialize, discuss, and learn!
Our guest speaker will be humor columnist and professional blogger, Erik Deckers, presenting “7 Writing Secrets that Skyrocket your Social Media Presence“. Erik is the VP of Operations & Creative Services for Pro Blog Service. He has been blogging for more than nine years (even before it was called blogging), and has been a published writer for more than 20 years. He has written humor newspaper columns, business articles, stage plays, radio theatre plays, and is currently working on a novel. He helped write Twitter Marketing for Dummies, and frequently speaks on blogging and social media.
Check-in starts at 6PM and we’ll start with an introduction to the club and spend about 15 minutes for a general question and answer session. Then we’ll launch right into our presentation for the evening, followed by questions for our speaker.
If you want to learn how to use social media for your business or organization, make sure you don’t miss this terrific opportunity!