Breaking Social Media Ground in Southwest Florida
Tonight marks a significant advance in the recognition of social media marketing in Southwest Florida.
At 7:00 p.m., the first meeting of the Social Media Club - Southwest Florida will be called to order at the Hyatt Place hotel in Estero. As I predicted, our free event is a sell-out with more than 100 reservations for a room capacity of about 75! Needless to say, we'll be moving to a larger venue next month. Tonight's agenda features keynote speaker Jason Breed from Neighborhood America, followed by a panel discussion with representation by three market sectors: Tanya Fox from Naples Tomato restaurant (for-profit), Kirsten O'Donnell from Goodwill (non-profit) and Jimmy Barfield from the City of Fort Myers (municipal). All of these companies have been utilizing social media actively to communicate with their respective audiences.
Since we've exceeded the room capacity, the meeting will also be live-streamed on U-Stream. Here's the link, in case you were not in on the early reservations, or are far away and would like to see what this conversation is all about: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/smcswfl-conference
Our local, loosely run, but fast-growing club is an offshoot of the also rapidly growing Social Media Club which founded by Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells in San Francisco, California in 2006, but now has clubs popping up throughout the U.S. and beyond. Social Media Club brings together journalists, publishers, communications professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaboraters.
Get involved! Join the conversation! The only requirement is an interest in social media. Check it out at www.smcswfl.com.
