14 August 2009 2 Comments

Follow Friday Founder Talks Twitter Memes, Online Fundraising and Surviving Networking

Micah Baldwin has been working with social media since before it was cool.  (Remember BBS?)  Since then he’s created multiple start-ups, helped universities start online fundraising programs, and written for Mashable.  Oh, and he created twitter’s most famous meme #followfriday.
In advance of his talk at Gnomedex, he talked to Jennifer Cabala about influencing people online, [...]

14 August 2009 0 Comments

Founder of SMC Chris Heuer Talks Social Media

An interview with Social Media Club (national) founder Chris Heuer, by SMC Seattle Board Member @jennifercabala. Chris talks about how he came up with the idea for Social Media Club and what his goals are for the next year. He also talks about resources for those just getting started and some of the tactics he [...]

13 August 2009 0 Comments

Social Media for Social Good: Key Takeaways from SMCSeattle Education Session

Social causes tend to go nowhere if they are individual efforts. It’s a community that makes change. Is it any wonder then that nonprofit organizations see such promise in online social networks? The new tools of social media offer them inexpensive opportunities to rapidly increase the reach of their messages and have the potential to [...]