8 Dec
Shani Gilchrist is the braintrust that powers www.camillemaurice.com, a blog about beautiful things ranging from interior design, fashion, food and beyond. Through her blog and her Facebook and Twitter accounts, Shani has created a personal brand that thrives on conversations with her readers.
How do you define social media?
Social media is the constant and reciprocal exchange of ideas and opinions in an environment of instant feedback.
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7 Dec
You follow them. You’re friends with them. You know and love them. Now come listen to them. Introducing Anne Wolfe Postic (@theshoptart) and Shani Gilchrist (@camillemaurice) at Social Media Club Columbia’s December meeting.
December 10, 2009
5:30 – 7 PM
The State
1401 Shop Road
Columbia, SC 29201
Anne Wolfe Postic is the creative genius behind www.theshoptart.com, a blog all about shopping, eating, and playing right here in Columbia, South Carolina. Through this blog and other social media outreach (Facebook, Twitter, and beyond), Anne has built her personal brand as The Shop Tart while inspiring our community to spend locally.
Shani Gilchrist is the braintrust that powers www.camillemaurice.com, a blog about beautiful things ranging from fashion to food and beyond. Through her blog and her Facebook and Twitter accounts, Shani has created a personal brand that thrives on conversations with her readers.
Come listen to Anne & Shani talk about why they started their blogs, how they’ve made them successful (including getting paid advertisers), and what they’ll be doing next.
24 Nov
Spirit Telecom, a technology company focused on business communication, is playing social media Santa this holiday season to one lucky professional and lots of children in need.
The company is inviting locals to voice their business Christmas wish – what one communication tool would make their work life easier - via the Spirit Telecom No Static blog and Twitter account. In exchange, the company will donate funds to Toys for Tots, a program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
To participate, business professionals in Columbia should visit the No Static blog at www.spirittelecom.com/nostatic and post a comment, answering: “What business communication tool would make your work life easier and why?” For each wish posted, Spirit Telecom will donate $10 to Toys for Tots, an organization that distributes Christmas gifts to children who would otherwise go without.
Spirit Santa will choose his favorite wish and grant it up to a $250 value. The contest begins Nov. 16 to Dec. 18. The winner will be announced Dec. 21.
Additionally, Twitterers can follow the company’s @NoStaticST Twitter account and tweet their holiday spirit. For every tweet using @NoStaticST and the hashtag #spiritsanta within the tweet, the company will donate $1 to Toys for Tots up to a maximum blog and Twitter donation of $1,000.
“We recently launched a social media campaign and we thought what better way to get it rolling than to get into the holiday spirit by helping our community through a fun contest,” says Terry Metze Jr., executive vice presidentbusiness development and strategy. “We hope Columbians really get into the idea of Spirit Santa and share their most longed for wishes, all for a great cause.”
For more information about the contest, visit the company’s No Static blog, @NoStaticST Twitter account or theNoStaticST YouTube Channel.
About Spirit Telecom
Spirit Telecom is a privately-owned South Carolina company with corporate headquarters based in Columbia, S.C. The company is owned by 13 independent and cooperative telecommunications companies all with headquarters in South Carolina. Since 1993, it has been providing local voice, long-distance, Internet and data transmissions to business and government agencies in the Southeast and has been operating its own secure and private network since 1994. For more information about the company and their technology solutions, visit www.spirittelecom.com or call 1-800-686-7671.
2 Nov
Whether you’re a computer geek, a gardening geek, a whole-foods geek or a fishing geek – social media now lets you build a following online where you can share (and sell) the stuff that’s in your head. Through social media, you can connect directly with your audience – no agents, publishers, editors or gatekeepers – and gain immediate feedback. With low start-up costs, you can affordably create your own little knowledge factory online.
Join Social Media Club Columbia and speaker Dick Carlson for an interactive workshop-style meeting all about how you can take what you know and sell it using social media.
Part I of this month’s meeting will include demos of:
In Part II, we’ll brainstorm together on how actual attendees can “Sell What’s In Their Head.”
Whether you’re looking to sell what’s in your head for money or to build your “brand” online; whether you want to boost your existing business or build a hobby into a profession, Dick Carlson’s interactive workshop can help.
About Dick Carlson
Dick Carlson is an Instructional Designer and e-learning geek. Without thinking it through completely, he moved to South Carolina because his wife found a new job there, and it was sunny. He now sweats a lot more than he did in Seattle. He’s developed software documentation, computer training labs, webinars for shy coders, and taught geeks how to speak in front of huge audiences. Some of this was done for the Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington before he escaped in 2007. After multiple surgeries, all of the mods have been removed and he’s nearly completely functional again.
28 Sep
With the tremendous surge in Twitter usage, I’m curious what Twitter client(s) you find most useful and helpful when trying to Tweet, Retweet, Bookmark and Share, etc.
Let’s move this up a few more steps. Tell me what you use on when on your PC/Mac (Web/Desktop/AIR apps), iPhone/iTouch, BlackBerry, etc.
Here’s my list and trust me, I feel as though I’ve tried them all. Continue reading
22 Sep
In October we’ll be hosting our first and most informative meeting where the future of journalism meets social media. Our panelist will consist of social media columnist Jeff Elder, professor and community journalist Doug Fisher, media futurist Dan Conover, Columbia city reporter Adam Beam, and anchorwoman Holly Bounds.
132/365: i saw it on your keyboard by isabel bloedwater, on Flickr
We’ve worked hard to collect the best and brightest from South Carolina as we navigate into the future of the field of journalism.
In the spirit of transparency, we are posting the questions that we hope our panelist will discuss. While we don’t expect to cover all of the questions here, we promise to engage in meaningful dialog and hope you’ll join us:
If there is a question that you would like to ask, you can leave your response in the comments section. If you have a question for an individual person, please identify who the question is for.
We look forward to seeing you all in October at our meeting!
Please meet our panelists:
21 Sep
Ashlie Conway originally from Kingston, TN. She attended Troy University (Troy, AL) where she received her bachelor’s degree in instrumental music education. She attended the University of South Carolina, where she was a graduate assistant for the band program, earning a Master’s degree in music education. In December 2007, she completed a second master’s degree in library and information science, specializing in music librarianship. She joined USC’s library faculty in January of 2008.
She is a member of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), the Music Library Association (MLA), and its Southeast chapter (SEMLA). She also serves as SEMLA’s archivist and chair of the public relations/outreach committee.
How do you define social media?
Librarians have a different outlook on social media. We typically don’t even call it social media…we call it web2.0, typically. To me, social media/web2.0 is any website that allows instant feedback or discussion with the author and other website participants. It can also include more in-depth levels of participation, such as subscribing to RSS feeds, Digging or Stumbling upon articles, etc. Continue reading
21 Sep
I started Thedailydigress.com a few years ago to prove to myself that my brain hadn’t gone to mush since college. I got a few free-lance jobs from there and realized I loved writing about fashion, food and beauty.
As a long-time resident of Columbia, I love the town and want to keep it exciting. I started the shoptart.com for a few reasons. Promoting locally-owned businesses is very rewarding. I also wanted to make money doing what I love. I hoped to provide inexpensive, effective advertising to local businesses without the same big budgets of chains. I love hearing about it when business owners get a new customer from the Shop Tart or sell out of an item I mentioned. I also love hearing from readers who scored a deal they read about on my blog.
My husband and I live in Shandon – walking distance from so many of our favorite places – with our three sons, ages 11, 8 and 3.
How do you define social media?
Hmmm…What separates social media from other media is that it’s interactive. Social media is personal. Continue reading
16 Sep
(Yong Lee, Social Media Club) [...]What is it that we’re trying to teach in a formalized SM curriculum?
[...] From an applied level, one of the mission statements of Social Media Club is to expand media literacy. Media literacy, as it relates to social media, has three key components:
Consumption
There is an overwhelming amount of information available, and knowing what to listen to is difficult. Earlier this week, I saw the quote: “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure.” A media-literate consumer of information will think critically about both the content and source of that information. As a new model of news distribution takes hold, this will be more crucial than ever before.Production
Adding to the community, supplying your own voice, is what separates social media from other forms of information distribution. There are many ways to do this, whether it’s through words, images, audio, or video. Knowing how to “produce your voice” and share it with others requires technical know-how, and an understanding of what medium would best serve a purpose.Search
It’s not just about adding, but using what’s already there. Search is not only thoughtful consumption, but knowing where/what to use to find specific information quickly and accurately.
There will be MANY aspects to the #SMCEDU curriculum, and there are teachers out there that teach some aspect of media literacy but don’t categorize themselves as social media teachers. Continue reading
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