We did it! Social media enthusiasts gathered at MacDougall’s Thursday night to celebrate the launch of Social Media Club Columbia. It was not surprising that the 40 + who attended represented very different walks of life — Internet marketing, home real estate, higher education, and even *hypnotism! Trey Pennington of ShowCase Marketing, and founder of [...]
Archive for February, 2009
19 Feb
Preview of SMC Columbia LAUNCH with speaker, Trey Pennington
Social Media is many things to many people. As we gear up for next weeks launch of Social Media Cub Columbia, we invited Trey Pennington, PR professional and leader of Social Media Club Greenville to come down and help kick us off and tell us what social media means to him. Trey Pennington is the [...]
11 Feb
The Big Story: New Member Site Coming (finally)
The following is a cross-post from http://www.socialmediaclub.org/ We have been hard at work rethinking what it means to be an association in the era of ad-hoc groups, smart mobs, tweetups, barcamps and other group activities that don’t require any institutions. To this end, we have developed a plan for our online membership community that brings together [...]
7 Feb
A note about hashtags (#)
The hashtag (#) symbol provides an easy way to segment and monitor conversations in Twitter. Here’s what hashtag.org says: Hashtags was designed to accommodate the real-time news community. Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create [...]
6 Feb
Social Media Club Columbia LAUNCH event!
We’ve met as Social Media friends online, now we’d like to meet you in person. The Columbia Social Media Cub launches Thursday February 26, 2009. Trey Pennington, PR professional and leader of the Greenville Social Media Club will kick us off. Our goal is to provide ways to connect, edcuate, and build our business using [...]
