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It is human nature for our brain to be constantly in need of new information. Social media delivers just that. It is an excuse when you’re bored. An easy way to stalk your best friend. The leading cause of procrastination. But most importantly, it is an addiction. Read the rest of this entry »
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Time to get out and vote! We have provided bio, info, twitter handles, and LinkedIn profiles for Madison SMC members to research each nominee before voting. Members are defined as one of the 566 people on our current mailing list as of Friday May 4, at Midnight. Some of the offices, you may note, are uncontested. There will be space for write in candidates for all offices except for president. As you may note in a prior post, the presidential nominees must have already been on the board to pursue the president position.
Look for your email that gives members the link to vote. This will be a unique link to each member. If anyone else uses your link, there vote will override the prior vote. Read the rest of this entry »
Compliments of our Intern team of Sasha, Adam, kevin, Colleen and Xi
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If people ask you what kind of Social Media you are actively using, your answer may probably be Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. But those are only part of my answers. Four years ago, I came to the U.S. for my college degree and that was when I started to know more about the most popular social media in the U.S. or probably around the world.
Facebook has more than 845 million active users around the world as of February 2012, while Twitter has 140 million and LinkedIn has 150 million. Read the rest of this entry »
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As part of the Wisconsin Men’s MCLA lacrosse team, I’ve seen first-hand the impact social media has on connecting teams with their fans. My lacrosse team has both an active Facebook fan page, as well as a twitter account (@badgerlacrosse). Read the rest of this entry »
The official position postings are, well, official. They are named according to what non profit organizations are required to have by law and the national SMC bylaws. Our chapter will be no different. We are getting serious. As such, this is a pretty long post with all the details of each position. This is a starting point and the activities have been gleaned from the Social Media Club and various other clubs across the nation that have set up official chapters. Feel free to send any more questions to madisonsmc (at) gmail (dot) com. Read the rest of this entry »
Social Media Cafe (Photo credit: Cristiano Betta)
Guest post from Adam Moscherosch, one of our student interns:
I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t always been the quickest to adopt new social media trends. I never had a MySpace, I didn’t join Facebook until the end of high school, and Twitter was just an afterthought. I had nothing against them but I had no real use for them either. That all changed when social media was adopted by the sports world. Read the rest of this entry »
We are all herders.
I have a beautiful Samoyed named Birdie [Please, spare your jokes about the name]. If this was Siberia circa 1800 Birdie would be busy pulling sleds for her explorer master, keeping him warm during bedtime and herding reindeer all day long.
Fridtjof Nansen, a famous polar explorer, took the role of the Samoyed to a whole new level. Social history explains how Nansen fed his weaker dogs to the stronger ones as he plunged down the treacherous trails of the expedition. As you may imagine, few dogs remained as he arrived at his destination.
As we chart new territory in the social media landscape we have all done our share of herding. Herding people to our tweets. Herding people to like our FB post. Herding people to join our social media club. Herding people to come to our events and post blog entries. Herding [AWESOME] sponsors to put us up for the night and give us free cupcakes and such. Herding enough interested parties to help us achieve the goal of becoming a national chapter. Herding interns to help us do the herding…
Thankfully, our expedition comes with appropriate shelter from the elements.
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President’s Note: Madison SMC has the help of 5 college students for the next 6 -8 weeks to help with a number of chores. They are working with us to set up our election, organize the events to celebrate and perhaps learn something about how a small group of people can get something (or nothing) done.
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Waking up early is not easy for us college kids. Our clocks are biologically altered to second shift. But I must say, I am glad I rolled out of bed last week for SMB Madison. The coffee was hot (and unfortunately the room was too) but the people were energetic and inviting. The lead speaker was John Lucas from the Office of Communications and Marketing on campus to tell us how they have connected to an estimated 1,000,000 people in total fans, followers, and friends.
#UWSocial has been able to leverage the awesome campus community to engage a network much broader than their current students by meaningfully engaging followers in what they call “inspired goofiness”. They love to tell stories about the amazing people and events at UW and they do so in a fun and exciting tone. I think that the key to their success is really the so-called “echo chamber”. It requires collaboration and the sharing of stories that users want to hear so they retweet or repost to show support and affiliation.
Those of you reading this were probably in attendance, so I won’t bore you with repetition, but from a first-time attendees point of view, SMB is pretty awesome. It’s an informal way of connecting, networking, and learning. They meet every 3rd Wednesday of each month, but you know they’ll be tweeting if something changes! Thanks to the presenters and #SMBMad.
-C
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It’s an election year and Social Media Club of Madison wants to get in the game! We are applying to be a full chapter of Social Media Club. That means we have raised the necessary $1000 in funds and in professional membership fees to do so.
As part of the suggested Bylaws offered by the National Social Media Club, Social Media Club of Madison (MadisonSMC) must hold an election for a 2012 Board. In order to do so, we must have a call for nominations for the positions open. And this is it! Our official chapter application is now in the mail to the national Social Media Club leader Kristie Wells. Read the rest of this entry »
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