We’re looking forward to bringing you an action-packed morning of presentations and discussions at our mega breakfast at SXSW at the Hyatt Regency Austin this Sunday.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction from SMB founder founder Bryan Person
• Speaker intros and Q&A facilitation from Albert Maruggi
• How Social Media and Business Thrive in Rural America: Becky McCray
• Social Media Strategy: Tac Anderson and Heidi Miller
• Managing a Successful Social Media Breakfast Community: Rick Mahn
• How Social Storytelling is Changing the Marketplace: Chris Kenton
• The Importance of Pushing the Social Media Metrics Debate Forward: Scott Lake
• Wrapup by Bryan Person

About the presenters

* Albert Maruggi | @AlbertMaruggi is an experienced journalist, senior PR advisor and technology marketer.  He is  the principal of Provident Partners and is in his sixth year as host of the Marketing Edge Podcast.

Becky McCray | @BeckyMcCray is a small-town entrepreneur. That includes an odd mix of liquor store owner, grant and project consultant, and cattle rancher. New project: TourismCurrents.com.

* Heidi Miller | @HeidiMiller is the social media manager at Spoken Communications and GotVoice. She also tweets and podcasts for Social Media Breakfast Seattle (@SMBSeattle).

* Tac Anderson | @TacAnderson is a social media anthropologist, communications strategist, business-model junkie, and director of digital strategies at Waggener Edstrom.

* Rick Mahn | @RickMahn is a social media strategist for Land O’Lakes and the founder and co-organizer of the Social Media Breakfast Twin Cities.

* Chris Kenton | @CKenton is founder and CEO of SocialRep, a social media intelligence firm based in San Francisco. He’s also the organizer of Social Media Breakfast San Francisco.

* Scott Lake | @Scottica is founder and CEO of Social Web Index (SWIX), a social media analytics tool that helps marketers track engagement metrics and ROI. SWIX is based in Ottawa, Canada.

The event begins at 10:00am, and we’ll kick off introductions at about 10:20.

Primary sponsor: Tungle.me

Our venue, food, and drink costs are being coverd by Tungle.me, “your personal scheduling page.” Here is a shoutout from Tungle CEO and founder Marc Gingras (@MGingras).

Marc and several members of the Tungle team will be making the rounds at our breakfast this Sunday morning!

Connect with Tungle.me

• @TungleRocks on Twitter
• Tungle.me on Facebook

Sponsor: H&R Block

We’re thrilled that H&R Block, “the world’s largest tax preparation business,” has also come aboard as a sponsor, picking up the costs for our audio/visual rentals.

Zena Weist heads the social media operations for H&R Block and will join us at the breakfast this weekend to say hello.

Connect with H&R Block

• @HRBlock on Twitter
• @HRBlockAnswers on Twitter
• H&R Block on Facebook

Social Media Breakfast Twin Cities organizers Rick Mahn and Albert Maruggi are roadtripping their way down to Austin for SXSW Interactive this week.

Rick and Albert departed the Twin Cities about midday on Wednesday and are expected to reach Austin Friday night. The pair have already tweeted it up in Des Moines, Iowa, and have upcoming stops planned in Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; and Wichita, Kansas.

Our intrepid travelers will be chiming in with highlights from their journey on our blog, and will add their impressions of SXSW over the weekend as well. They’ll also share some road stories at the SMB SXSW this Sunday.

Social Media Breakfast San Antonio recaps the SXSW Festival at our next gathering on Wed, March 17. Want to hear what it was all about? Or did you attend? Show up and tell us: Did you survive? Was it worth it? What hot trends, sites and strategies emerged from this intense interactive experience? Join us for our special SXSWi recap breakfast!

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RSVP

Visit our Tweetvite page to RSVP for Social Media Breakfast San Antonio on Wednesday, March 17, at The Egg & I, 830 Northwest Loop 410, Ste 107, San Antonio, Texas. We meet from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

And, join our new Facebook fan page to keep up with all of the Social Media Breakfast San Antonio goodness!

We look forward to seeing you there!

NOTE: THE EVENT IS ON March 19, 2010.

Ticket sales end on 3/18 in the evening. Do not confuse the Eventbrite ticket end date with the event date! 

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This month’s Social Media Breakfast is brought to you by Uptown Uncorked, DimDim, and Granite State Independent Living in Concord, NH.

You already know about Uptown Uncorked, since we are the breakfast maestro each month, and DimDim, who handles the periodic live casting of the breakfasts (note: this breakfast will not be live cast). Let me tell you a bit about our venue:

Founded in 1980, Granite State Independent Living (GSIL) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote life with independence for people with disabilities and those experiencing the natural process of aging through advocacy, information, education and support.

GSIL is a statewide nonprofit, service, and advocacy organization that provides tools for living life on your terms – so you can navigate your own life and participate as fully as you choose in your community, just like everyone else.

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Theme for the 10th Social Media Breakfast: Using Multi Media To Amp Up Your Social Media Efforts

The tenth Social Media Breakfast NH (hashtag #smbnh) will be all about topics related to Using Multi Media in Social Media. In this struggling economy and shifting paradigm we need to be working together to be more successful and better weather the storm. We should be pulling in all aspects of technology, new media, old media and social media to succeed. This  meeting will help us lay the foundation for a richer, better education, tech and new media community in NH.  

In addition to Leslie Poston (myself), who will be your host and MC for the morning, you will have three speakers giving three brief presentations on topics relating to the theme for the morning. 

Speakers:

Opening Remarks by Leslie Poston (SMBNH founder, founder of Uptown Uncorked, co-founder of Film POP!, co-author Twitter for Dummies)

Welcome Remarks by Granite State Independent Living

Anthony Liang (UNH) and Brendan Pelletier (Plymouth State) will be giving us the student perspective on using audio multi media and podcasting in your social media efforts

Dan Freund, Producer at Kinney Hill and master mind behind Short Stream TV, will be showcasing how to use video effectively in a social media effort

Cappy Popp, co-founder of Thought Labs and author of Essential Facebook Development, will be talking about the metrics and methods of multi media in an overall campaign

This is going to be a great breakfast!

Social Media Breakfast History

On seeing growing demand in this area, I decided to fill the need with a new branch of the nationwide Social Media Breakfast in NH. It isn’t that we don’t love Boston, because we do, but our neighbor to the north is rich in technology and social media, and often overlooked when events are planned. I saw a need for networking opportunities that were easier to get to for the northern tech and social media crowd, and decided to step up and fill it. Because NH itself is a diverse and scattered state, the Social Media Breakfast there will be just a little bit different than the one in Cambridge/Boston. Our first meeting was in January 2009, and was a roaring success.

What is a Social Media Breakfast?

From the official description: The Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to more than a dozen cities throughout the United States and around the world.

How will the Social Media Breakfast in NH be different?

The main difference between Social Media Breakfast NH and other SMBs will be all-inclusiveness. I do not want only social media people and companies to attend, I also want technology types, programmers, coders, tech writers, tech companies and more to attend. As a state that is rich in technology but scattered in distance, I think the best networking and connection making effect will be achieved by combined our different cultures. You never know, as a social media type you might just meet the coder you’ve been looking for to create your dream project if we all come together to connect and to learn from each other!

TO SPONSOR THIS OR A FUTURE SMBNH CONTACT LESLIE POSTON via Twitter, Email or Phone.

Let’s make SMBNH crackle with energy and success! See you there!

FREE RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

Atlanta Bread Company Town Center
2555 Prado Lane
(Barrett Pkwy Prado Center)
Marietta, Georgia 30066
770-420-9225
MAP

Planning on attending and have a relevant topic? Submit for consideration at http://smbatlanta.icobb.com

The main topics of discussion for this meeting will :

Leveraging Online Review Sites for Your Small Business
Building a Reach Maximized Online Presence (managing mega-followers)
Top Social Media Websites like Twitter, Posterous and Facebook
Top Social Media Tools like TweetDeck, SocialOomph
Open Discussion on Branding
Maximizing the Value of the PROFILE!

http://smbatlanta.icobb.com

The organizers for the Atlanta Social Media Breakfast are Lane Bailey and Ken Cook – the founder of Social Media Breakfast is Bryan Person of Austin, Texas.

Ken is an Atlanta native with over two decades of online networking experience and is a PHP/MySQL/AJAX developer, photographer and musician. Since November 2008 he has hosted/cohosted the top Blog Talk Radio show on the subject of Social Networking “Social Media Edge” (Tuesdays at Noon Eastern http://budurl.com/jckc) and Host of http://REtechRadio.com – a Real Estate New Media and Technology Show. He most recently spent a decade as Social Media and Operations Director of NovaStar/Novation Mortgage companies and is currently a national FHA mortgage professional. Ken may be contacted directly at 678-439-8683 found on Twitter @thekencook or Skyped at thekencook

Lane is a prolific blogger and you may have met him at any number of area events – Meetups/Tweetups and Bloggerodeo or New Media Atlanta. He travels as much as possible to other Social Media gatherings across the Southeast. Lane is a Real Estate Agent and car aficionado. Lane may be contacted directly at 678-200-5895

Reservations are required – if you RSVP and you can NOT show up please contact KEN or LANE and be nice to the shop management so the do not prepare for you. Thanks!.

Thanks again to our great speakers:

To Tom and Tiffany Bridge (@tbridge and @tiffany) from We Love DC (@weloveDC) for sharing their undying passion for this city with us and for teaching us that DC is like one of those friends you love — and when they date great people you feel happy for them but when they date terrible people you have to show tough love to let them know

Tto Amy Melrose (@amymelrose) from Free in DC (@freeinDCblog) for being genuine and for reminding us that DC is rich in culture that other things unrelated to politics, which she let’s us know about every day on her blog.

To Matt Rhoades and Luis Gomez (who was there in spirit!) from Borderstan (@borderstan) for sharing stories about their little piece of DC, where Dupont, Logan Circle, and U Street intersect; and for teaching us that blogging your neighborhood can make you (and your dog) a local superstar.

Finally, thank you you Frank Gruber (@frankgruber) and Jen Consalvo (@noreaster) for sharing the news about Digital Capital Week (@dcweek), 10 days of creative technology events, which will hit DC this summer, on June 11 – 20.

If you missed the breakfast, check out the live stream recording and a few of the pictures from the event. We hope you an join us next time!

Stay tuned for our April breakfast. Information will be posted on our EventBrite registration page: http://socialmediabreakfastdc.eventbrite.com

And another shout out to our March AND April (yay!) event partner:

Tungle.me:

Tungle.me makes scheduling meetings easy–across organizations, calendar systems, and time zones. Tungle.me is a free personal scheduling application that eliminates costly double bookings, time zone mishaps, and the endless

back and forth of finding a time to meet. Tungle.me synchronizes with leading online calendar systems and does not require registration.

We are quite fortunate to be able to take advantage of some really fantastic social media folks who are going to be in town for the Social Media Conference NW on March 25th, and we’ve invited entrepreneur James Burnes, CEO/Founder of Mobiltopia, to speak to our group the day before. James will be discussing the role of social media in your career – not as a career path. He will explore how social media is an integral skill set in the work force of tomorrow and how you can use your social media skills to advance yourself. We’re looking forward to some great discussion and insightful information, as James has a ton of experience in this area…

James brings a unique mix of talents interfacing Internet solutions with a business minded, entrepreneurial background. For more than 10 years, he has been a leader in Internet consulting, web strategy and new business ventures. He founded Project Brilliant in December 2009 as an idea factory, business consultancy, creative agency and business incubator to launch and develop new digital business ventures. The firm is launching several new enterprises in 2010 including a mobile-web and social media company. His leadership and vision help organizations embrace new and emerging technologies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and other Web 2.0 platforms to transform their organization to succeed in our highly connected, 24/7 economy. His expertise in business development, sales, innovation, product ideation, and revenue-centric thinking makes him a regular resource to corporate executives around the country to conduct business online. James is a board member of the advisory board of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s Small Business Development Centers. He is a contributing editor to The Social Media Bible (J.W. Wiley Publishing, May 2009). He is a guest lecturer to several university programs and speaks regularly for corporations, associations and seminars on how to transform your business for the Digital Age.

This month, we’re experimenting with having our ‘breakfast’ in the evening, and our event is going to be hosted by The Nightlight Lounge, known as Bellingham’s hottest nightspot and concert venue. Located in the basement of a historic building in downtown Bellingham, the Lounge quite often books nationally-known bands, talking them in to stopping by Bellingham on their way to or from Vancouver or Seattle. It’s also a great place to get to know some up-and-coming bands as well as check out some local artists.

If you’re within driving distance, we hope you’ll join us on March 24th at 6pm!

• Bellingham Social Media’s Facebook page
• @SMBellingham and #SMBellingham hashtag on Twitter
• Bellingham posts on the official Social Media Breakfast website

• Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4:00pm Eastern
• Saturday, March 6, 2010, 2:15pm Eastern

Note: The first two rounds of tickets sold out in minutes. You are urged to set an alarm in your online calendar, and then to visit the registration page on time, or early! If you don’t, the tickets will be gone.

David led Social Media Breakfast Toledo  last week in the beautiful Green Room at the Toledo Museum of Art. More than 50 other entrepreneurs, business people, and social media types gathered for a breakfast conversation.

Murray, Director of Social Web Communications for The Bivings Group of Washington D.C., said that the principles that govern online relationships are no different than the ones that govern offline ones. His talk was the seventh event in the SMB Toledo series, which began in 2009.

Social media might be characterized by a common set of actions rather than tools. Stressing about covering every platform from Facebook, to Twitter, to Flickr, to YouTube, to Ning, misses the point. Instead of shouting and interrupting, you should be monitoring, focusing, and building a conversation about you and your business.

Here’s your 4-point takeaway (in addition to breakfast):

• Create a coherent content strategy
• Build sharp, shareable content
• Find spaces to anchor and seed these messages (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
• Resist the urge to ‘proudly announce’ and ‘share special offers.’

Do great things by simply sharing useable, actionable content.