Social Media Breakfast NH

Welcome to SMBNH: Circles of Influence: Google+ and How Social Media Empowers Users to Unite, Grow and Shape Communities

With a focus on large scale communications and communites as well as small scale, we explore how social media has helped nations topple, companies grow, politics change, local movements get off the ground and more. Whether it’s news regarding Libya’s conflicts or supporting a local talented artist by creating community and communication, these flexible tools help make it happen.

This month we are being hosted by Phillips Exeter Acedemy in Exeter, NH.

From their Mission page:

“Exeter seeks to graduate young people whose creativity and independence of thought sustain their continuing inquiry and reflection, whose interest in others and the world around them surpasses their self concern, and whose passion for learning impels them beyond what they already know.”

Some of our brightest stars have attended Phillips Exeter Academy and benefitted from their philosophy.

This month’s focus brings us a well rounded group of speakers as well.

The morning begins with an address from Phillips Exeter Academy, then seques into our three speakers, starting with

Leslie Poston, Founder of Magnitude Media and co-author of Twitter for Dummies, contributor to the Social Media ProBook and author of the Grande Guide to Social Advertising, as well as (coming in 2012) Social Media Metrics for Dummies, will address some of the privacy concerns faced by educators and others when building communities. Then moving on to

John Herman, Media Literacy Educator and Founder of NH Media Makers, author and polymath as well as a very special guest from Google will talk to you about building community, applying media literacy best practices and other topics related to Google +, and will demonstrate several of the Google + capabilities live during the talk.

We’ll then be closing the morning with our featured speaker:

Grant Sanborn, Director of Interactive Marketing for HCA Healthcare. Grant will speak about the challenges and best practices he’s experienced in building an online community around a 17 hospital group, including Portsmouth Regional Hospital.

There will also be a one hour campus tour of Phillips Exeter Academy immediately following the breakfast as well. We encourage you to take part.

All of us at SMBNH look forward to seeing you all there.

Follow Leslie, John, Grant, Phillips Exeter Academy, SMBNH on Twitter before the breakfast for up to the minute updates.

Circle Leslie, John, or Mike from PEA on Google + to get in the spirit of the breakfast.

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.