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Social Media Club forms interim board

July 9, 2008  |  Social media  |  , , , , , , , ,  |  View Comments

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

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:

  1. We are in the process of relaunch­ing Social Media Club in South Florida ↩