Comments on: Social Media Club Benefits Victoria’s Online Community

By: Mitch Baldwin

Mitch Baldwin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:17:35 +0000

Thanks Catherine, I agree with your statement about Social media Club ranking high. We would love to have you come for a visit. I’ll keep you posted with events as they are planned. We have some top people on board and our first sponsor and plan to hold first event in January. I will also be coming for a visit to a SMC Victoria meeting sometime in the new year.

By: Catherine Novak

Catherine Novak — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:26:00 +0000

That’s great news, Mitch! There are a number of ways that people can meet up and discuss social media, but Social Media Club ranks very highly with me because they have set high standards for the organization – and still kept it a largely grassroots movement. I’ll be sure to come and give SMC Vancouver a visit in the new year.

By: Mitch Baldwin

Mitch Baldwin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:20:46 +0000

Hi Catherine,

With regard to Social Media Club Vancouver

Actually, Social Media Club Vancouver has existed since 2006.
Yes it is true that the group is currently not holding events.
A group of leaders including your friend and mine Raul Pacheco-Vega, myself and others are reworking the Vancouver group. We will be re launching in early 2010 with many of Vancouver’s Social Media Leaders and anyone else that is interested in Social Media Club.

Best Regards,
Mitch

By: Jack Reynolds

Jack Reynolds — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:50:05 +0000

Business Networking and Social Networking have a great deal in common. The web technologies used to support collaborative computing, applications that facilitate/enable work from home and workflow applications in general, are the same as those used to implement Social Networking capabilities.

Both will continue to grow.

By: Catherine Novak

Catherine Novak — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:31:30 +0000

Wow, lots to consider in your comment! Glad I was able to point out some of the places offline where the online community meets. I don’t have time to go to everything, so I can’t speak about the demographics of each group, but Social Media Club in Victoria, which is pretty heavy on the Twitter-philes, has had a range of around 19 – 65 and certainly the average age would be 30-something. The Meetup202 group of affiliate marketers was late 20s-early 30s. Open Coffee was a broad range – 20s to 50s. People come from all walks of life – though in Twitter there are probably more small business people than government workers. Maybe that’s because the government workers really aren’t supposed to use Twitter during the day! And small business owners have found it to be an effective way to converse with their audience.

What do I take away? The best, most thought-provoking conversations I’ve had in years, tons of new friends and acquaintances, practical tips for managing time and measuring effectiveness of social media tools, techie hints, a full social calendar… and on and on. What’s the “one thing” I’ve learned? People want to be listened to, and want to connect. We don’t have a lot of time and opportunity for that but deep down, we are the same kind of people as those who gathered around the campfire in the pre-industrial era. Tell me a story that makes me trust you, and learn about me.

Hope to see you on Sept 22nd at the next Social Media Club, Dave. And there’s Twestival this Friday, too. Local musicians – give it your review in your blog!

By: Dave Bain

Dave Bain — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:10:36 +0000

This is great to hear that the club/meet-ups are having great success. I have yet to be to one, or have really heard of them before this post. I am curious to what you bring away from these meet ups? maybe that’s a bit to general what is the one thing you have learned about SM that has helped you the most?

I am also curious to what the general demographics of the meet ups are? 20-35 years of age? 40-60 years of age? Independent contractors? Freelancers?

Again though great to hear that SM is taking off in Victoria.

By: Janis La Couvée

Janis La Couvée — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:34:52 +0000

I don’t know how I did it, but within one day of landing on Twitter, I found not only Catherine Novak, but Social Media Club.

To say that my life has taken an amazing new direction would be a slight understatement.

I appreciate the conversations at Social Media Club, in particular those involving the use of social media for social change, and best practices. Like Catherine, I agree that meeting face to face amplifies the discussion and reinforces the notion of the community we are in the process of building.