Jessica Murray - Social Media Club

LIVE on the air, noon EST (9AM PST) Januray 31, 2012

Jessica Murray serves as Global Community Manager for Social Media Club (SMC), the world’s largest organization of social media professionals with 300K+ members across 325+ chapters in 52 countries and growing. She loves working with a diverse international community and being aligned with an organization that strives to create higher standards in the social media industry.

Back in 2010, Jessica and co-organizer Ian Rhett founded Design-A-Thon Nashville, which brings together more than 30 volunteers from the digital community in Nashville for a 24-hour all volunteer website challenge benefiting a local underserved nonprofit.  Jessica previously co-founded Social Media Club Nashville before joining Social Media Club International in 2010.

Join us LIVE on Tuesday January 31, 2012 at Noon EST or 9AM PST for our first exclusive interview with Jessica. She’s promised to bring us breaking news about Social Media Club’s upcoming events for 2012 and especially on big one which is right around the corner!

You should do your best to join us in the chat room where things get a bit … out of control! Join the chat, live, here.

Adam Archer

Join us Tuesday, January 24 at noon eastern, that’s 9AM Pacific, for our very special guest. You’re going to love this interview!

Adam Archer is the General Manager of Vitrue Games and Vitrue’s Platform Evangelist. Prior to Vitrue, Adam was the CEO and Co-Founder of GamesThatGive, the charitable social gaming company that was acquired by Vitrue in 2011. He’s previously served as a software engineer at Apple and at Microsoft. He’s an experienced organic farmer, international backpacker, and mobile & social technologist. Adam has a B.S.E in Computer Engineering from Arizona State University and has been quoted or covered in TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, Fast Company, WSJ.com, Huffington Post, Inc., Forbes.com and NYTimes.

Vitrue is the leading social marketing platform, offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to help brands and agencies harness the marketing potential of social and manage their expanding and sophisticated social communities on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and emerging platforms. Anchored by its industry-leading Social Relationship Management (SRM) platform, Vitrue currently manages its clients’ more than one billion social relationships in 47 countries across 4,500 Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts. Vitrue’s stable of clients include more than 500 global brands and agencies, including iconic brands such as McDonald’s, American Express, Intel, P&G, Disney, jcpenney and AT&T.

So not so much tools but tools, methods, whatever. This is one of our favorite type shows with a team-lead round table presentation and discussion of our favorite methods of engagement in social media. Each staff member chooses their favorite tool/method and has 10 minutes each to present and discuss. Imagine, most organizations of any credibility charge $99, $149, $199 or more … we do it for free. Why? Not because the information is not that valuable and the presenters that experienced (because it is and they are) we do it because we value you as our regular listeners more than the few thousand dollars we could split. And that’s really it.

The Social Media Edge Crew: Mike, Lisa, Ken, Jason, Jeremy

Here is what you can expect:

Jason Crouch will be presenting on Blogging. As one of the most subscribed to bloggers on Active Rain and and avid blogger (with results) on other platforms Jason knows how to get the readers involved, allow them to truly experience what he writes and to develop a relationship with them as a result.

Mike Mueller will be talking about Lists. In fact he alludes to it from time to time on the show but now he is going to tell why, where and how to build lists that payoff for the small business (or big business) person looking at social media as a marketing platform.

Jeremy Blanton will be talking about video. No surprise there since Jeremy has recently been super charged by what video is and can be. He will be talking about how he uses video and how you can, too, to promote you business. Lights, camera ACTION!

Lisa Oden will be talking about Droid (as she says “of course”) and how she uses it in engaging with others, business functions and staying on top of all that will help her business and the business of those she consults with.

Ken Cook will be talking about SEO. Having been directly involved in some search engine architecture and development dating back to the pre-Google days and being a part of the Gossamer Threads project will give us the opportunity to discuss the realities of SEO and how to use real data before making the decision to do something because “it sounds like it oughta work.”

Join us LIVE on 10-Jan-2012 at Noon EST/9AM PST

If you haven’t met Cathy you must. When the title says “high speed connections” it should not indicate confusion and angst but rather perpetual engagement and an ever increasing wealth of social media friends which spills offline just as easily as ice cream melts in summer. Cathy is smooth and not in the ickey snake-oil salesman way. She’s smooth because there is nothing to hide, no huge quest for global domination and certainly no deeply hidden dark motivation. She just wants to know people and to help people know each other.

Of all the people I (Ken) have ever met online not one person has come close to equaling the amount of contacts Cathy Browne has made for the staff and me. She doesn’t do it because she expects huge checks in the mail – though I suppose if she received them she would keep a bit and share the rest. She has been responsible for at least a dozen wonderful introductions which have help Social Media Edge become a great place for information and people who have become long time connections within the industry.

She is also an accomplished photographer. You can see her photos on her Flickr stream as well as other places – and I am sure we will talk about those on the show today as there was a very well written article about her in DailyDot.com just a few days ago. Oh, there’s one thing you may not notice about Cathy’s photos: she’s legally blind.

Cathy isn’t on the show because she is a blind photographer. Although we think that is a pretty amazing feat she has something else to share with the world and that is a deep bank of community involvement and personal interaction. In fact if you own or operate a business and you don’t have the type of community Cathy can bring might I suggest you offer her large sums of money to help set you straight from your misguided or short-sighted ways?

She’s good.

Short and sweet – we’d like your nomination or drunk Santa will come back!

It’s not a big deal but it is because if we win or even just get a few votes more people will come be your victims in the chat room! Vicitms of your amazing humor and even more amazing observations that is! When you go to the link it will be a link to nominate me (Ken) but that’s the entire show not just me.

Nominate us (Social Media Edge Radio) for a social media radio award in the Shorty Awards

And by the way, if the prize is $1,000,000 we’ll have a party and you’re invited.

Ell oh ell.

By having a power user as a guest we often get to hear things and explore things we would not normally get the chance to do. For that reason today’s guest is Lana Berry. You may not have heard of her but that’s because she’s busy living life, occasionally posting or blogging about it and searching for the same answers you are in how to make social media a valuable piece of marketing. Thus the perfect guest for kicking off 2012.

For example – Lana’s 2012 New Year’s resolution is: blog more. Sound familiar?

Some of the topics today will include new tools, new ways to use old tools, new technology, and what we expect 2012 to bring.

On 20-December we’ll be talking about curation and how to use it to your advantage and to the betterment of your readers. After all, that’s what really matters.

Not familiar with curation? Enjoy this curated video:

Clint Aaron Miller March 8, 1971 – December 11, 2011

KLOUT - Megan Berry joins us live

No not Klout 2.0, this is Megan’s second appearance on the show. This time we’ll be discussing the future of Klout and you and hearing what is happening at Klout to make the experience more refined and how enterprise can use Klout in their programs.

There have been a few changes at Klout over the last months and we’ll talk about those, too. One of the more appealing changes is “Topics” and Megan has some information about those changes and how you can interact with the new Topics tools.

Join us LIVE on Tuesday, December 13, at Noon eastern (9AM Pacific) and get in the chat room where the real work is happening!

About Brian

So you have a WordPress site. Which one do you have? WordPress.com or the self-hosted version? If you have the WordPress.com version there are certainly many things you can do to enhance your installation but for $99 a year and still all the limitations … it’s really worth it to host your own WordPress installations and work with a WordPress specialist (or design tech) to make sure you’re getting what you want, and need.

On the show on November 29, 2011 we will discuss extending WordPress and getting it to do some, most or all of the things you need.

Mike Mueller’s Day Off! We will not be able to berate @MikeMueller for his pantless techy report this week but Mike will be back next week, new and improved.

Also joining us for a “test ride” will be Lisa Oden (@laoden) to see how she feels about the non-stop abuse from the rest of the panel!

Be sure to sign up for the Smokin’ Hot Social Media News to the right and tune in every Tuesday at Noon EASTERN and get in the chat room.