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Social Media Breakfast NH Wants Your Input!

November 21st, 2010 No comments

As the holiday season approaches, all of us at SMBNH are working to build a schedule for 2011 that has even more quality speakers, the topics you want to know more about, and that makes its way to every part of the state. We’re scheduling now for SMBNH in Upper Valley, Keene, Monadnock, Nashua, Portsmouth, Manchester, and more.

Have you always wanted to be a speaker at one of our breakfasts? The best way to do that is to toss your name in the ring! Simply head over to our SMBNH Speaker Registration Form and tell us a little about yourself, and you’ll be up for consideration when we have a topic that fits. The more detail you can give us, the better able we are to select appropriate speakers for each topic. Don’t worry – we don’t share your information with anyone else.

We’ve covered a lot of topics since we started way back when, but we may not have covered YOUR desired topic (or maybe we covered it, but the information has changed and it could use a refresher). Let us know what you want to learn more about in 2011 on our SMBNH Topic Request Form. Just to reiterate – we don’t share your information with anyone else. We just use it to contact you if we have questions.

I can’t wait to see what you propose and which of you wants to speak! One note: speakers must live or work in NH – the point of SMBNH is to highlight the talent that we have right here in the Granite State.

What To Do in November for SMBNH

November 10th, 2010 No comments

We tossed about the idea of doing a unique SMBNH on the date we’d set for it, 11/19, then found out that our fellow SMB org, SMBME, was having Rob Hatch at theirs on the same day. Rob Hatch and Chris Brogan just launched a business called Human Business Works, whose first project, 501 Mission, is geared toward helping non-profits. I think that’s going to be a valuable breakfast full of information, so instead of doing our unique event in November, we’d like to suggest you attend theirs.

You can find out more about it on the SMBME site.

We’ll hold our next event on 12/10 in Portsmouth, and it will be a very hands on SMBNH – stay tuned!

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SMBNH Manchester/Concord: Social Media Policy in the Workplace

August 25th, 2010 No comments

We’re pleased to announce that immediately following PodCamp NH on October 23 and 24th, we’ll be powering through with another SMBNH, this time in the Manchester/Concord area.

Mark your calendars!

October 29, 2010
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Location: SNHU Banquet Hall
Topic: Social Media Policy in the Workplace
Speakers: TBA

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SMBNH Nashua: Handling Brand Disasters and Challenges Online

August 22nd, 2010 No comments

Register for Social Media Breakfast 15 in Nashua, NH  on Eventbrite

NOTE: THE EVENT IS ON September 17, 2010.

Ticket sales end on 9/16 in the evening. Do not confuse the Eventbrite ticket end date with the event date! 

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This month’s Social Media Breakfast is brought to you by Active EdgeUptown Uncorked and Rivier College.

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About Rivier College:

Committed to the faith heritage, intellectual tradition, and social teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, the College educates the whole person in the context of an academic community that cultivates critical thought, sound judgment, and respect for all people. This community supports the intellectual growth of all its members while offering them opportunities for social, cultural, moral, and spiritual development. The challenge to the College community is to search for truth through the dialogue between faith and reason..

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Special thanks to Diane Vautier of Active Edge for joining the state SMBNH team and her help in bringing SMBNH to Nashua on a regular basis.

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Theme for the 15th Social Media Breakfast: Social Media And Brands: Preventing and Managing Branding Disasters Online

The 15th Social Media Breakfast NH is also the first SMBNH at Rivier College! The official hashtag is: #SMBNH. 

This one will be all about topics related to managing a brand’s perception online. Once you open the door to customer and employee interaction and engagement, some problems may arise. We’ll hear from brands and brand experts on what to do if that happens, and from brands successfully preventing that from happening by managing their brand well from the start.

In this struggling economy and shifting paradigm we need to be working together to be more successful and better weather the storm. We should be pulling in all aspects of technology, new media, old media and social media to succeed. This  meeting will help us lay the foundation for a richer, better creative, education, tech and new media community in NH.  

In addition to Diane Vautier (who will be hosting and MCing instead of SMBNH Founder Leslie Poston), you will have three speakers giving three brief presentations on topics relating to the theme for the morning. 

Speakers:

Opening Remarks by  Diane Vautier of Active Edge (SMBNH team member)

Welcome Remarks by Rivier College (venue and breakfast sponsor)

Kim Gaglianardi, PR Manager for Dow Jones

TBA

TBA

Q&A session 

This is going to be a great breakfast!

Parking:

Parking is on site

Social Media Breakfast History

On seeing growing demand in this area, I decided to fill the need with a new branch of the nationwide Social Media Breakfast in NH. It isn’t that we don’t love Boston, because we do, but our neighbor to the north is rich in technology and social media, and often overlooked when events are planned. I saw a need for networking opportunities that were easier to get to for the northern tech and social media crowd, and decided to step up and fill it. Because NH itself is a diverse and scattered state, the Social Media Breakfast there will be just a little bit different than the one in Cambridge/Boston. Our first meeting was in January 2009, and was a roaring success.

What is a Social Media Breakfast?

From the official description: The Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to more than a dozen cities throughout the United States and around the world.

How will the Social Media Breakfast in NH be different?

The main difference between Social Media Breakfast NH and other SMBs will be all-inclusiveness. I do not want only social media people and companies to attend, I also want technology types, programmers, coders, tech writers, tech companies and more to attend. As a state that is rich in technology but scattered in distance, I think the best networking and connection making effect will be achieved by combined our different cultures. You never know, as a social media type you might just meet the coder you’ve been looking for to create your dream project if we all come together to connect and to learn from each other!

TO SPONSOR THIS OR A FUTURE SMBNH CONTACT LESLIE POSTON via Twitter, Email or Phone.

Let’s make SMBNH crackle with energy and success! See you there!

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SMBNH & SMBME Join For Education

August 15th, 2010 No comments

Register for SMBNH & SMBME Join for Education in Portsmouth, NH  on Eventbrite

NOTE: THE EVENT IS ON August 20, 2010.

Ticket sales end on 8/19 in the evening. Do not confuse the Eventbrite ticket end date with the event date! 

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This month, your Social Media Breakfast is a joint effort between SMBNH founder Leslie Poston of Uptown Uncorked and SMBME founder Amanda O’Brien of Hall Web Services

In NH we’ve had two Education themed SMBNH mornings (here and here), where you have heard from folks breaking new ground in education from all over the state. Now we’re bringing some of the bright minds from Maine down to collaborate and share what our neighbor is doing for social and education. 

We hope to foster a greater feeling of community between the education communities in both states, and we hope you enjoy our three speakers from our sister state of Maine and meeting our attendees from both NH and Maine this month.

Thank you to our sponsors:

a destination for people writing and reading about the role of social media in education, particularly in independent schools and colleges. edSocialMedia the company has held a Summit, a dozen hands-on social media Bootcamps around the country, spoken at numerous conferences, hired our first full time director, and expanded our services to include social media strategy and consulting.

 

WhippleHill Communications provides targeted communications solutions for independent schools seeking next-generation Web services. Our core Podium platform combines powerful content management and student data management software in a modular system designed to allow schools to add functionality at their own pace. Our Partner Ecosystem brings industry solutions to schools through Podium’s open API.  As a Software as a Service company, WhippleHill’s hosted solutions are secure and updated regularly at no additional cost.

 

Hall Tools include SERP data, Site Statistics, Conversion Data and Social Media Mentions – offering a more complete user source and traffic model

 

Providing Social Media, New Media and Digital Strategies and Business Development for Film, Music, Wine, Food, Corporations, Individuals.

 

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Theme for the 14th Social Media Breakfast: Social Media for Educators

The 14th Social Media Breakfast NH is also the first SMBNH and SMBME collaboration.

This one will be all about topics related to educators using Social Media and as our third foray into education here in NH, will feature speakers from our neighbor: Maine.  

In addition to Leslie Poston (myself), who will be your host and MC for the morning, you will have three speakers giving three brief presentations on topics relating to the theme for the morning. 

Speakers:

Opening Remarks by Leslie Poston (SMBNH founder, founder of Uptown Uncorked, co-founder of Film POP!, co-author Twitter for Dummies)

Alex Steed (ME) from Opportunity Maine is putting together a local report card for schools that is heavily social media based and will be talking about his project.

Tucker Kimball (ME) from Gould Academy will present a case study on how GA uses social media.

Richard Byrne from Free Technology for Teachers

Q&A session (we do a Q&A with all three speakers at the end. Amanda O’Brien will moderate this portion)

Closing Remarks and announcements by Leslie Poston

This is going to be a great breakfast!

Parking:

There is a huge lot at the Marriott. I believe they validate parking, but have not confirmed this yet for you. 

GPS:

The Marriott is at the corners of Deer St, Maplewood Ave and Hanover St in Portsmouth. The address in the sidebar will get you to the parking entrance but is not their official address.

Event Center:

Look for the blue awning to the side of the main entrance – that’s where we’ll be!

 

TO SPONSOR THIS OR A FUTURE SMBNH CONTACT LESLIE POSTON via Twitter, Email or Phone.

Let’s make SMBNH crackle with energy and success! See you there!

SMBNH July and August

July 18th, 2010 2 comments

July SMBNH and August SMBNH are being combined.

We are seeking a venue, sponsors and speakers now, and working on a topic. it’s Manchester/Concord’s turn to host, so please ping Leslie or Kevin or Matt if you know of somewhere suitable out there, or if there is a current topic near and dear to your hearts in those cities.

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New Logo for SMBNH!

July 14th, 2010 1 comment

The lovely Amanda Narcisi made us a logo for SMBNH. There is a red version and a white version, and you’ll see us update the blog soon.

It’s designed to be in keeping with the overall look and feel of Mykl Roventine‘s design for the national Social Media Breakfast logo (you may have seen this one around – it has a rooster crowing an RSS feed), but also individualized to fit us as a state.

What do you think?

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First Social Media Breakfast in Nashua!

May 17th, 2010 No comments

Register for Social Media Breakfast NH # 12: Nashua in Nashua, NH  on Eventbrite

NOTE: THE EVENT IS ON May 21, 2010.

Ticket sales end on 5/20 in the evening. Do not confuse the Eventbrite ticket end date with the event date!

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This month’s Social Media Breakfast is brought to you by Uptown Uncorked, DimDim, and Active Edge in Nashua, NH.

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Theme for the 11th Social Media Breakfast: Feeding Social Media

The 12th Social Media Breakfast NH is also the first SMBNH in Nashua ! We want you to be included in the state-wide conversation AND have your own tracking, so your official hashtag will be: #SMBNH #Nash so you get two points of impact. This one will be all about topics related to Feeding Social Media. In this struggling economy and shifting paradigm we need to be working together to be more successful and better weather the storm. We should be pulling in all aspects of technology, new media, old media and social media to succeed. This meeting will help us lay the foundation for a richer, better education, tech and new media community in NH.

In addition to Leslie Poston (myself), who will be your host and MC for the morning, you will have three speakers giving three brief presentations on topics relating to the theme for the morning.

Speakers:

Opening Remarks by Leslie Poston (SMBNH founder, founder of Uptown Uncorked, co-founder of Film POP!, co-author Twitter for Dummies)

Welcome Remarks by Diane Vautier of Active Edge (venue sponsor)

Anthony Liang on SF Kitchen and social media

More speakers announced this week!

This is going to be a great breakfast!

Directions:

* Take US-3 to New Hampshire Exit 5E (RT-111 E)
* From the off ramp, merge onto NH-111 E, also called KINSLEY
* At the SECOND TRAFFIC LIGHT make a LEFT onto PINE STREET.
* Go through 1 light through a 4-WAY STOP.
* DRIVE TOWARD the smokestack, getting as close as you can. You’ll see one
of the MILLYARD TECHNOLOGY PARK buildings in front of you.
* Follow the road down the hill to the left. Keep going until you are in the
LARGE (100+ cars) parking lot.

Note:

Some GPS systems don’t recognize Technology Way. If that’s the case for you,
please use Pine Street Extension instead.

Social Media Breakfast History

On seeing growing demand in this area, I decided to fill the need with a new branch of the nationwide Social Media Breakfast in NH. It isn’t that we don’t love Boston, because we do, but our neighbor to the north is rich in technology and social media, and often overlooked when events are planned. I saw a need for networking opportunities that were easier to get to for the northern tech and social media crowd, and decided to step up and fill it. Because NH itself is a diverse and scattered state, the Social Media Breakfast there will be just a little bit different than the one in Cambridge/Boston. Our first meeting was in January 2009, and was a roaring success.

What is a Social Media Breakfast?

From the official description: The Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to more than a dozen cities throughout the United States and around the world.

How will the Social Media Breakfast in NH be different?

The main difference between Social Media Breakfast NH and other SMBs will be all-inclusiveness. I do not want only social media people and companies to attend, I also want technology types, programmers, coders, tech writers, tech companies and more to attend. As a state that is rich in technology but scattered in distance, I think the best networking and connection making effect will be achieved by combined our different cultures. You never know, as a social media type you might just meet the coder you’ve been looking for to create your dream project if we all come together to connect and to learn from each other!

TO SPONSOR THIS OR A FUTURE SMBNH CONTACT LESLIE POSTON via Twitter, Email or Phone.

Let’s make SMBNH crackle with energy and success! See you there!

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Social Media Ethics: SMB NH #8

January 11th, 2010 No comments

Get your tickets now!

This month’s Social Media Breakfast is brought to you by Uptown Uncorked, Dimdim, and Girls Inc. of New Hampshire.

We’re excited to have Girls Inc. of New Hampshire donating space at their Manchester Girls’ Center.  If you’re not familiar with Girls Inc. of New Hampshire, their mission is:

Our mission and passion is to help girls achieve their personal best through one-on-one attention, leadership development, a talented staff and volunteers, a wide range of enrichment programs, and a caring family environment.

Thanks to Ric Pratte of JitterGram for helping with introductions to the venue team.

[Note: In the event Manchester public schools are closed on the 22nd, our "snow date" for Social Media Breakfast NH #8 will be January 29, 2010.]

Social Media Breakfast History

On seeing growing demand in this area, I decided to fill the need with a new branch of the nationwide Social Media Breakfast in NH. It isn’t that we don’t love Boston, because we do, but our neighbor to the north is rich in technology and social media, and often overlooked when events are planned. I saw a need for networking opportunities that were easier to get to for the northern tech and social media crowd, and decided to step up and fill it. Because NH itself is a diverse and scattered state, the Social Media Breakfast there will be just a little bit different than the one in Cambridge/Boston. Our first meeting was in January 2009, and was a roaring success.

What is a Social Media Breakfast?

From the official description: The Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to more than a dozen cities throughout the United States and around the world.

How will the Social Media Breakfast in NH be different?

The main difference between Social Media Breakfast NH and other SMBs will be all-inclusiveness. I do not want only social media people and companies to attend, I also want technology types, programmers, coders, tech writers, tech companies and more to attend. As a state that is rich in technology but scattered in distance, I think the best networking and connection making effect will be achieved by combined our different cultures. You never know, as a social media type you might just meet the coder you’ve been looking for to create your dream project if we all come together to connect and to learn from each other!

Speakers:

  • Opening Remarks by Kevin Micalizzi (@kevinmic), Dimdim Community Manager
  • Welcome Remarks by Cathy Duffy Cullity, CEO, Girls Inc. of New Hampshire
  • Social Media Ethics in Real Estate: Jay (@acemaker) & Monika (@monikamcg) McGillicuddy. NH REALTORS™ who have been rocking the social media world, and who also conduct training on how to use social media in real estate for other REALTORS.
  • Ethics of Social Media Validation: Leslie Poston (@leslie), co-author of Twitter for Dummies, is a speaker and leading authority in social networking, new media, brand and business development with a concentration in food, wine, spirits, off-beat brands, music and film. She is the Founder and CEO of Uptown Uncorked social media and business development consultancy and the Founder of Social Mic. She is also the Co-Founder of Film Pop!, a digital and new media services development agency for independent film. A firm believer in translating online relationships and successes into the offline world, she has also founded Social Media Breakfast New Hampshire, PodCamp NH, the S•Cub3d Conference and the nationwide Strong Women in Tech initiative.
  • Ethics of Social Media and Health IT: Justin Herman (@justinherman) is a digital public affairs and government innovation strategist who has diverse experience with the Departments of State and Defense, the U.S. Congress, healthcare IT, non-profits, charities and the corporate world. He is also the founder of TechAdventure and active in Social Media Club DC. He currently serves on the Planning Committee of Gov.20 Camp Los Angeles (https://gov20LA.org)

We’re looking forward to another great Social Media Breakfast NH.  Please join us!

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SMBNH is Taking December Off: Next Meeting January 2010

December 6th, 2009 No comments

Due to severe schedule constraints among our venue options this month, and among attendees and organizers, December is going to be an off month for the holiday season. I’d like to thank everyone for making this first year of Social Media Breakfast NH a great one!

See you all in January 2010, date and theme to be announced before the holidays. Stay tuned!

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