NC Social Media and Heroes fans can rejoice this week.

Social Media Club RDU will resume starting this week. The next Social Media Club meeting is this Wednesday at iContact Corporation in Durham, NC 7:00 p.m. The topic will be: “Who Owns Social Media?” From the site:

The world we live in today, is dramatically different from the Big Media controlled information dictatorship of yesteryear. With the emergence and popularity of citizen journalism and bloggers, organizations and companies are quickly adopting Social Media in order to preserve Online Reputation, Brand Management, and to capture the attention of an entire virtual world of interconnected individuals.

For more information join the Social Media Club RDU ning network http://socialmediaclubrdu.ning.com or see the wiki http://socialmediaclub.pbwiki.com

If you’re a Heroes fan, NBC17 is hosting a Heroes season 3 premier party.
Schedule
The TV turns on at 8:00 p.m. First Hour Premiere Review
Arrival time 8:30 p.m.
Season 3 starts at 9:00 p.m. 2 hour premier
More information can be found here: http://heroesatnbc17.pbwiki.com

Reminder to check out the other events this week on http://socialcarolina.org
Java Hack Night - 6:00 p.m. Wednesday
Refresh The Triangle - 6:30 p.m. Wednesday - http://refreshthetriangle.org/

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Hello everyone, another NC workshop is schdule for the month of September. It’s called CakePHP, details below.

CakePHP Workshop, Sept 6&7, Raleigh NC USA

Event Info: Raleigh, NC (4140 Parklake Ave)
Date: September 6 + 7 (Saturday + Sunday)
Seats: max 25
Costs: 600 USD / seat (Students pay 100 USD less)
Signup: Signup page

Speakers
Garrett J. Woodworth (President of the Cake Software Foundation)
Nate Abele (Cake Lead Developer)
Felix Geisendörfer (Cake Core Developer)
Tim Koschützki (Cake Core Contributor)

More information about CakePHP workshop here.

WordCampRDU Update

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WordCampRDU is a conference organized by the NC community and the creators of WordPress for users and developers.

When:
Saturday, October 4, 2008

Where:
Edge-Office, Raleigh, NC — Map

Why
To get WordPress users together, learn from each other, figure out the future of publishing on the web, and have a good time.

Blog
http://2008.rdu.wordcamp.org/

Yahoo upcoming page
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/977680/

We’re working with the automattic team, so be on the look out for speaker announcements, space is limited!

Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina.

Thanks, now: retweet, re-plurk, re-dent, re-blog - share and be social.

I’m @Wayne Sutton and I’ll see you online!

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Hello everyone it’s been a while since we’ve had a blog post on Social Carolina but here’s a mini review and update of a few events planned to close out the year in NC. If I’ve left anything off the list, let us know in the comments and add to the google calendar as well. Speaking of the google calendar I want to thank everyone who have been adding events, but we still need more people helping out. Also some people have asked for a reminder feature added. I’ve thought about implementing http://spongecell.com/promote services but due to time I’ve haven’t had a chance, so if anyone wants to give that a try let me know. Here’s the list.

1. Blogger Bash July 30th (TODAY) Edge-Office 7:00 P.M. - FaceBook event page: http://bit.ly/zXflG Big Announcement at 7:30 p.m.

2. BarCampRDU - August 2nd - need I say more, 250 attendees, sold out!
Dave Johson has done a great job with BarCampRDU this year! http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/

http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU

3. Online Reputation Management Workshop August 7th, Sigma Xi Center, RTP, North Carolina

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/live

4. Tweetups! (Twitter meetups)

a. August 6th 7:00 p.m. Triangle Bowling Tweetup at Western Lanes Bowling Center see @DTRaleigh for updates
b. August 21st 7:00 p.m. - Triangle Tweetup 4.0 at iContact (also a plurk, identi.ca, micro-blogging meetup)
c. September 19th 7:30 p.m. - Triangle Funpark Tweetup
All the tweetups details information here: http://triangletweetup.pbwiki.com

5. Todd Warfel’s full-day workshop on effective prototyping - Monday, September 15th - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
at Council for Entrepreneurial Development
More information here on http:/triux.org
Register here: http://triupa.org/ EffectivePrototyping

6. Converge South - October 16 & 17th at NC A&T State University in Greensboro

http://2008.convergesouth.com

7. Blogher 08 - October 18th at NC A&T State University in Greensboro

http://www.blogher.com/blogher_conference/conf/3/city/3

8. iPhoneDevCampRDU - tentative date is October 4th, Raleigh, NC

http://barcamp.org/iPhoneDevCampRDU

9. dCampSouth 2008 - TBD - follow the wiki for updates

http://dcampsouth.pbwiki.com

10. WordCampRDU or NC - location & date TBD

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A WordPress dev/how-to one day conference/workshop

11. CED’s Tech 2008 (DEMO) - October 29-30th at the Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC

http://www.cednc.org/conferences/tech/2008

12. NC Faith Blogging Conference - Monday, November 10, 2008
Follow: http://twitter.com/faithblogging and http://twitter.com/mistersugar for updates coming soon.

13. Internet Summit 08 - November 19th, The Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC

http://www.internetsummitevent.com/

14. SocialMediaCampRDU - location & date are TBD but we’re looking at early November

Follow the wiki for updates: http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialMediaCampRDU

WOW! Who said the West Coast had all the fun?

Notes
I want to thank Edge-Office & @DiMambro for hosting RTP Startup Weekend along with @JessMartin and everyone who attended and helped out.

The Charlotte community is growing too, follow @93Octane, @rosebeezy and @capitalfellow for updates and announcements in Charlotte.

Be on the look out for two new coworking spaces in Carrboro and Durham:
1. Carrboro Coworking http://carrborocoworking.com

2. Durham TechShop - http://durham.techshop.ws/

Please continue to support the monthly meetups such as the Social Media Club, Triangle Net Tuesdays, Social Entrepreneur ,Refresh the Triangle and other SEO, blogging events. Also be on the look out for some upcoming MyNC Citizen Media meetups (plug)

Guest Bloggers
We’re still looking for a few guest bloggers and technology evangelist to blog for Social Carolina. If you’re interested contact us via the comments or events [at] socialcarolina dot org

Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina.

Thanks, now: retweet, re-plurk, re-dent, re-blog - share and be social.

I’m @Wayne Sutton and I’ll see you online!

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Sorry for the short notice! The next CLTweetup/Meetup will be Thursday, May 29.

Suggested Topics of Discussion:
- Twitter “connection” stories
- Twitter availability issues
- WCNC-17’s use of Twitter during the NC Presidential Primary
- Twitter usage in the enterprise
- projects you’re currently working on/problem brainstorming
- general networking

Location & Time:

6:00 PM at Fuel Pizza, 1501 Central Avenue
For pizza and discussions (see suggested topics above)

Later (8:00 PM) head to Thomas Street Tavern, 1218 Thomas Ave
For drinks, socialization and general good times. (DM @93octane if you want to know where everyone is if you’re a latecomer.)

Who should come:

- You!

Whether you’re trying to figure out how to utilize all that Twitter has to offer, not sure if it has anything to offer you and your business/network, are an avid user or just want to meet other bloggers or tech advocates in the area… This is the event for you.

Please post suggestions for the above into the comments.

Contact @93octane for more information.

Future Meetups:

We will meet regularly the 4th Thursday of each month. Locations and times may change.

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Social Carolina week in review and yes we now have video 

Also for a review of blogcarolinas take a look at the sonecast venue here: http://venues.sonecast.net/venue/blogcarolinas

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Hey all you Charlotte (CLT)-based Twitterers! The next CLTweetup/Meetup will be Thursday April 24.

Suggested Topics of Discussion:
- how are you using twitter
- best/worst uses of twitter
- projects you’re currently working on/problem brainstorming
- general networking

Location & Time:

6:00 PM at Fuel Pizza, 1501 Central Avenue
For pizza and discussions (see suggested topics above)

Later head to Thomas Street Tavern, 1218 Thomas Ave
For drinks, socialization and general good times. (DM @93octane if you want to know where everyone is if you’re a latecomer.)

Who should come:

- You

Whether you’re trying to figure out how to utilize all that Twitter has to offer, not sure if it has anything to offer you and your business/network, are an avid user or just want to meet other bloggers or tech advocates in the area… This is the event for you.

Please post suggestions for the above into the comments.

Contact co-organizers @93octane and @rosebeezy for more information.

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Hey all you Charlotte (CLT)-based Twitterers! The next CLTweetup/Meetup will be Thursday April 24.

Suggested Topics of Discussion:
- how are you using twitter
- best/worst uses of twitter
- projects you’re currently working on/problem brainstorming
- general networking

Location & Time:

6:00 PM at Fuel Pizza, 1501 Central Avenue
For pizza and discussions (see suggested topics above)

Later head to Thomas Street Tavern, 1218 Thomas Ave
For drinks, socialization and general good times. (DM @93octane if you want to know where everyone is if you’re a latecomer.)

Who should come:

- You

Whether you’re trying to figure out how to utilize all that Twitter has to offer, not sure if it has anything to offer you and your business/network, are an avid user or just want to meet other bloggers or tech advocates in the area… This is the event for you.

Please post suggestions for the above into the comments.

Contact co-organizers @93octane and @rosebeezy for more information.

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Monday
6pm The Raleigh Second Life meetup

Tuesday
7pm Ruby Meetup

Wednesday
7pm Raleigh Advanced SEO Meetup

Thursday
Carrboro Creative Coworking

See the google at http://socialcarolina.com for more local events.

Guest Bloggers
We’re still looking for a few guest bloggers and technology evangelist to blog for Social Carolina. If you’re interested contact us via the comments or events [at] socialcarolina dot org

Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina. Also remember to tag your blog post and flickr photos with socialcarolina.

Thanks, share and be Social.

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Blog Carolinas

A Conversation about Social Media in the Enterprise

• See how Social Media is impacting your Marketing and Communications Strategy
• Learn how Community can serve as a model to improve your organization’s productivity
• Meet others that are dealing with the same issues you are.
• Talk to experts in the fields of On Line Reputation, Search Engine Optimization, Web 2.0 Technology and On Line Community Building
• Experience cool new stuff

Event Details

Date: May 9, 2008
Location: (Map)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
3106 East NC Highway 54
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
800-243-6534/919-549-4691

Travel
If you are interested in finding/coordinating carpools to this event, please post in the comments your location and contact info.

How to Register
You can register for the event at: http://blogcarolinas.eventsbot.com

Blog Carolinas is a free event but is limited to about 200 attendees, therefore registration is necessary to attend.

Sessions & Format

Scheduled sessions include:

• Listening to the Conversation about your Organization
• Engage your Customers in Conversation
• How is Social Media changing PR?
• Recruiting Digital Natives
• Be Prepared, Sharing Information is a Culture Shift

All sessions will be conversational, no long boring Powerpoint presentations.

Confirmed Session Leaders include:

• Andy Beal, an internet marketing consultant, award-winning blogger, and co-author of the book Radically Transparent: Monitoring & Managing Reputations Online.
• Jim Tobin, President, Ignite Social Media
• Rob Humphrey, digital recruiting consultant and strategist
• Nathan Gilliatt, principal of Social Target, LLC, a research and advisory firm specializing in tools and practices for social media listening and engagement.

Who Should Attend

The objective of this event is to begin bridging the gulf that currently exists between the current developers/users of Social Media tools and those organizations that have not yet adopted those tools. Each group has much to learn from the other, and a conversation is the best way to begin to build that bridge. So there are really two audiences for this event:

• People that are currently familiar with Social Media, and want to see it used more effectively in professional and organizational settings.
• People that do not currently use Social Media, but have heard from friends and main stream media that it may be of benefit to their organization.

So let’s start a conversation…

More information about the event can be found at: http://www.socialtext.net/blogcarolinas

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