http://smcphoenix.com/2009/06/10/top-5-best-worst-of-valley-social-media/ If you get it, share it Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://smcphoenix.com/2009/06/10/top-5-best-worst-of-valley-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Kristie Wells Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:44:08 +0000 http://www.smcphx.com/2009/06/10/top-5-best-worst-of-valley-social-media/#comment-2 Jeff, These are all great ideas, and what we like to see happen in every SMC chapter. A couple of tips from what we do in San Francisco: Group dynamic - Our participants do range from very new to Social Media to those who have been blogging, videocasting and building communities for 10+ years. Their backgrounds are as diverse too: We have professionals from Marketing and PR, Technologists, Educators, Government workers, Lawyers, Pharma/Health advocates,e tc. We are working to reach out local organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Administration to bring more folks in and contacting local schools (Journalism and Marketing departments) to see if they wish to join us. Build a nice diverse mix of folks in Phoenix. I would just encourage the newbies to SM to be able to ask their introductory questions - maybe designate one 'more experienced' person per month to hold a 15 minute Q&A before/after the event. Format - we alternate each month. We have one speaker, then a panel. Last month it was a world cafe styles event where everyone broke into groups. I say play with the format, mix it up a bit. We also stopped the intros at the beginning of the meeting and instead host a happy hour/mixer 30-45 minutes before each event *and* have people mingle afterwards. While I love knowing who is in the room beforehand, it just started eating up too much of the event time. We find people like the mixer and can meet 15-20 people easily before the event even starts (maybe open doors at 6pm?). Hope some of this helps. Excited to see what you do with SMC Phoenix this summer and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to kristie [at] socialmediaclub [dot] com! Jeff,
These are all great ideas, and what we like to see happen in every SMC chapter.
A couple of tips from what we do in San Francisco:
Group dynamic – Our participants do range from very new to Social Media to those who have been blogging, videocasting and building communities for 10+ years. Their backgrounds are as diverse too: We have professionals from Marketing and PR, Technologists, Educators, Government workers, Lawyers, Pharma/Health advocates,e tc.
We are working to reach out local organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Administration to bring more folks in and contacting local schools (Journalism and Marketing departments) to see if they wish to join us.
Build a nice diverse mix of folks in Phoenix. I would just encourage the newbies to SM to be able to ask their introductory questions – maybe designate one ‘more experienced’ person per month to hold a 15 minute Q&A before/after the event.
Format – we alternate each month. We have one speaker, then a panel. Last month it was a world cafe styles event where everyone broke into groups. I say play with the format, mix it up a bit.
We also stopped the intros at the beginning of the meeting and instead host a happy hour/mixer 30-45 minutes before each event *and* have people mingle afterwards. While I love knowing who is in the room beforehand, it just started eating up too much of the event time. We find people like the mixer and can meet 15-20 people easily before the event even starts (maybe open doors at 6pm?).
Hope some of this helps. Excited to see what you do with SMC Phoenix this summer and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to kristie [at] socialmediaclub [dot] com!

]]> http://smcphoenix.com/2009/06/10/top-5-best-worst-of-valley-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Kristie Wells Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:44:00 +0000 http://www.smcphx.com/2009/06/10/top-5-best-worst-of-valley-social-media/#comment-415 Jeff, These are all great ideas, and what we like to see happen in every SMC chapter. A couple of tips from what we do in San Francisco: Group dynamic - Our participants do range from very new to Social Media to those who have been blogging, videocasting and building communities for 10+ years. Their backgrounds are as diverse too: We have professionals from Marketing and PR, Technologists, Educators, Government workers, Lawyers, Pharma/Health advocates,e tc. We are working to reach out local organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Administration to bring more folks in and contacting local schools (Journalism and Marketing departments) to see if they wish to join us. Build a nice diverse mix of folks in Phoenix. I would just encourage the newbies to SM to be able to ask their introductory questions - maybe designate one 'more experienced' person per month to hold a 15 minute Q&A before/after the event. Format - we alternate each month. We have one speaker, then a panel. Last month it was a world cafe styles event where everyone broke into groups. I say play with the format, mix it up a bit. We also stopped the intros at the beginning of the meeting and instead host a happy hour/mixer 30-45 minutes before each event *and* have people mingle afterwards. While I love knowing who is in the room beforehand, it just started eating up too much of the event time. We find people like the mixer and can meet 15-20 people easily before the event even starts (maybe open doors at 6pm?). Hope some of this helps. Excited to see what you do with SMC Phoenix this summer and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to kristie [at] socialmediaclub [dot] com! Jeff,
These are all great ideas, and what we like to see happen in every SMC chapter.
A couple of tips from what we do in San Francisco:
Group dynamic – Our participants do range from very new to Social Media to those who have been blogging, videocasting and building communities for 10+ years. Their backgrounds are as diverse too: We have professionals from Marketing and PR, Technologists, Educators, Government workers, Lawyers, Pharma/Health advocates,e tc.
We are working to reach out local organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Administration to bring more folks in and contacting local schools (Journalism and Marketing departments) to see if they wish to join us.
Build a nice diverse mix of folks in Phoenix. I would just encourage the newbies to SM to be able to ask their introductory questions – maybe designate one ‘more experienced’ person per month to hold a 15 minute Q&A before/after the event.
Format – we alternate each month. We have one speaker, then a panel. Last month it was a world cafe styles event where everyone broke into groups. I say play with the format, mix it up a bit.
We also stopped the intros at the beginning of the meeting and instead host a happy hour/mixer 30-45 minutes before each event *and* have people mingle afterwards. While I love knowing who is in the room beforehand, it just started eating up too much of the event time. We find people like the mixer and can meet 15-20 people easily before the event even starts (maybe open doors at 6pm?).
Hope some of this helps. Excited to see what you do with SMC Phoenix this summer and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to kristie [at] socialmediaclub [dot] com!

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