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
Increasing Sales and Revenue Through Twitter
Jan 29th
WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?
Building an online presence is a great first step, but how do we use that presence and use social media to make money? Using Twitter you (and your sales team) will have the ability to increase close rates and sales by building new connections and strengthening existing connections with your prospects! It doesn’t matter if you market to farmers, stay-at-home mothers, or C-Level employees, Twitter gives you the tools necessary to connect on a deeper level with potential clients.
YOU WILL LEARN:
•The best way to design a Twitter marketing plan
•How to search and find information that will help with your sales process
•Connect with your prospects before you meet them!
•How to take online interaction to the offline environment and SELL!
•Tracking your close rates and measuring your success through social media
•5 marketing points you can implement today!
FREE ADVICE ABOUT YOUR INTERNET WOES:
The 3-hour seminar will be followed by a 1 hour Q&A session with Internet experts designed to answer questions and address issues with regards to online initiatives.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Sales and marketing executives, small business owners and entrepreneurs
REGISTRATION INFORMATION (Preregistration and payment are required BEFORE the class). Please call Debbie Albin at 812.425.7232 to get registered. Seating is limited and confirming your attendance on this Facebook page does not guarantee you a seat!!!!
Cost $30.00 (paid in advance by cash, check or credit card – MC, VISA or Discover)
Registration includes a copy of Kyle Lacey’s book, “Twitter Marketing for Dummies”.
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!
Welcome to the Club.
Jan 24th
Hi! Thank you for joining us. This might seem like a funny way to start, but this is social media–it’s meant to be personal, conversational, and interactive. That’s one of the qualities that makes social media unique.
There are a bunch of us here in the southwestern corner of Indiana who use social media for business, for community-building, or just sharing the things we’re passionate about. Until now, we really didn’t have a way to find each other or learn from each other. The Social Media Club of Evansville was formed to give our community a way to connect, socialize, and learn.
We’re not alone. The Social Media Club started in 2006 and has grown to more than 90 active chapters around the globe. We converse and exchange ideas with other Social Media Clubs, and also connect and coordinate with other state-wide organizations such as Smaller Indiana and BlogIndiana. Social media has grown explosively because of its ability to connect people across vast distances at lightning speed.
Our regular meetings are on the Third Monday of each month, in the upstairs dining room at Ri Ra Irish Restaurant and Pub in Evansville. Meetings begin at 6:30pm and our formal presentation begins at 7pm. You can look forward to a full schedule of presenters from within our community and beyond.
Connect with us, subscribe to our email list subscribe to our feed, visit our Facebook page, join us on Twitter. We’re glad you’re here, and we’re happy to connect with you.