Social Media Breakfast Recap
June 6, 2009
We’re eating our own dog food and trying to keep up with this marketing consistency thing that we’ve been talking about by holding the 3rd New North Social Media breakfast this week. We started out with about 11-13 people and have grown to over double that. I know that some of the ‘large city’ groups like Minneapolis are drawing upwards of 100, but they’ve also had 15 breakfasts…who knows what will happen by then! (by the way, our 15th breakfast will likely be on June 3rd, 2010…in case you’re wondering…)
Anyway, in light of the wonderful coverage that we received in the Appleton Post-Crescent entitled “Appleton’s Social Media Breakfast shows how businesses can ‘tweet’ their marketing“, we decided (meaning, as I put together the agenda the night before the event) to focus on Twitter.
Greg and Abby at the Weidert Group put together the venue, which was a wonderful place, save for a few hiccups by doubling the group size in a space setup for a group half the size.
When people ask about the group and what it does, I’m going to rely on a comment that someone posted in response to the article in the post crescent. Their words capture this so much better than mine.
Social media breakfasts are a simple & economical way to bring together an online community in person & on a regionally-based model. Once these online “Social Media Friends” meet face-to-face there’s historically almost an immediate bond w/people they’ve only “seen” online. Meeting in person, many times, strengthens these relationships & helps grow new business partnerships & alliances.
I think that about covers it, don’t you?
Anyway, if you’re interested in joining us at the next New North Social Media Breakfast, it’s going to be held on Thursday July 9th at a TBD location in the Green Bay/De Pere area where our focus will be on ‘social media toolkits’ and doing (finally) a proper presentation of what people use to ‘get their social media stuff done’.
Join us on LinkedIn or better yet, become a member of the NNSMB Ning group.
