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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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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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Lacrosse and social media?
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 »
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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 »
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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.
To get them started, we sent them to the Social Media Breakfast Madison event which took place on March 21, 2012. I guess we figured that since it was on campus, they could get up early and then not miss any of their morning classes. All while learning about social media, what the University of Wisconsin is doing, and perhaps meeting some folks with day jobs that might need to hire them. Here is their account of the SMB Madison event:
By Colleen Reddy
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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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I can’t think of a better place for Social Media Club of Madison to have a fundraiser than the new AJBombers Madison location at 201 Gorham Street. Read the rest of this entry »
Suds N Sun with AD2 and Madison SMC
What is better than having an after work social hour with the Social Media Club of Madison? It’s having a social hour with another fun group of social media enthusiasts. In this case its the AD2 Madison organization and the location is Capital Brewery.
Join us on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 for Suds N’ Sun with Ad 2 Madison at Capital Brewery!
We’ll be in the Bier Garten and Bier Stube from 5:30 – 7 pm networking, talking social media, and imbibing with some of Capital Brewery’s nearly 16 different types of beer. And don’t forget to check in on Foursquare! Capital Brewery has started a promotion for us where you’ll receive $1 off your first pint!
As usual, we will be live tweeting, this time using the hashtag #ad2smc. We hope you can join us!
About Ad2
Ad 2 Madison provides communications professionals between the ages of 18 and 32 the networking, education and leadership opportunities they need by providing members educational and experimental programming, a variety of social activities and the opportunity to collaborate on the implementation of community service programs.
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For those of you not aware of the history of the Social Media Club, it started 5 years ago. According to the post on the Social Media Club’s website:
“Five years ago today, 16 people gathered to discuss the emerging technology known as social media, set goals and initiatives around the launch of Social Media Club (determine what a professional trade association would look like), and dig into our first project, then known as the hRelease/New Media Release (has since been renamed to the Social Media Press Release). Those 16 people included
In Person: Chris Heuer, Kristie Wells, Todd Defren, Brian Solis, Sally Falkow, Tom Abate, Seth Mazow, Tom Foremski, Mark Nowlan, Jen McClure, Pat Meier-Johnson, Russell Johnson, Shannon Clark, Lisa Chung and joining us via a conference call: Todd Van Hoosear and Jason Baptiste. ” Read the rest of this entry »
