I’m honored to be counted among the people invited to give new impetus to the Social Media Club. Through conversations with companies, organizations, local universities, and interactive agencies, I’ve experienced the growing interest in social media and the increased demand for industry practitioners. By bringing together those who have an interest in seeing the industry improve and evolve, SMC provides the much needed forum for sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy. [1. We are in the process of relaunching Social Media Club in South Florida]
The interim board will establish the guidelines of this association, to create the necessary framework before the SMC grows further on a national and global level. Once the framework is agreed on, local boards will be established with interested corporate and non-corporate members. Please read the full press release if you’d like to know more.
As we collaborate on on organizing SMC for the future, Chris Heuer, founder of Social Media Club and Partner at The Conversation Group, acknowledges that:
“Our core mission will remain the same: promotion of media literacy; support of industry standards efforts such as Creative Commons licensing, Microformats, Data Portability and OpenID; discussion and promotion of ethical behavior; and sharing our knowledge among our members and the industry community at large.”
The newly named members of the interim board, some of whom are friends and others who I look forward to meeting, include:
- Lee Aase – Social Media University, Global
- Rohit Bhargava – Influential Marketing Blog and Personality Not Included
- Richard Binhammer – RichardatDell
- Michael Brito – Britopian and Conversations Matter
- Chris Brogan – ChrisBrogan.com
- Mike Chapman – Austin Social Media Club and Every Dot Connects
- Megan Cole – MeganCole.org
- Alex de Carvalho – alexdc.org and Social Object
- Todd Defren – SHIFT Communications and www.pr-squared.com
- Serena Ehrlich – Business Wire
- Jason Falls – Social Media Explorer
- Maggie Fox – Social Media Group
- Jon Gatrell – spatiallyrelevant.org
- Howard Greenstein – HowardGreenstein.com
- Francine Hardaway – Stealthmode
- Josh Hallett – Hyku
- Annie Heckenberger – pikpr.blogspot.com and redspurs.com
- Chuck Hester – Intellicontact
- Chris Heuer – ChrisHeuer.com
- Sherry Heyl – Mind Blogging
- Tara Hunt – HorsePigCow
- Bill Johnston – Forum One
- Jennifer McClure – Society for New Communications Research
- Mike McGrath – Dogpatch Dispatch
- Jake McKee – CommunityGuy.com and Ant’s Eye View
- Gregory Narain – SocialTwister
- Lee Odden – Online Marketing Blog and TopRank
- Erica OGrady – ReinventingErica.com and Peanut Butter Media
- Jeremiah Owyang – Web Strategist
- David Parmet – Marketing Begins At Home, LLC and PerkettPR
- Jackie Peters – heavyBlog
- Doug Pollei – pollei.com
- Pierre-Yves Platini – Yoono
- Douglas Pollei – Pollei.com
- Connie Reece – Every Dot Connects and Austin Social Media Club
- Chris Saad – ChrisSaad.com
- Andy Sernovitz – Word of Mouth Marketing and GasPedal
- Brian Solis – PR2.0
- J.J. Toothman – jjtoothman.net and Red Pill
- Todd Van Hoosear – Tech PR Gems
- Des Walsh – Des Walsh dot Com
- Kristie Wells – KristieWells.com
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