Last night’s Social Media Club Melbourne (#smcmelb) event with a panel made up of ProBlogger aka Darren Rowse, Duncan Riley of the Inquisitor, Pip Lincoln aka Meet me at Mikes and MC’d by Yvonne Adele aka Ideas Culture went off pretty smoothly! We landed a Swarm badge on FourSquare and had a super rapid stream of tweets coming through on #smcmelb, thanks to a great turnout of 130-140 people, just the right amount for the venue. Brent, in conjunction with Cath, have already posted a great summary of the event, pulling out their key takeaways. Brent’s post covers the following topics:
- Making money with blogs & blogging success
- Multi-person blogging and sharing the load
- Targeting your blog audience
- Video Blogging (Vlogging)
- Blogging Ethics
- Growing your blog following
- Being master of your domain
- Beginning
Here’s the video for those of you who want to see the whole event.
Thanks to David Neiger for video production.
The tweet stream was thick and fast and this word cloud gives you a taste of what was discussed. 
Here are just a select few of the tweets
@amcal: Yes 'cause you meet interesting people with similar interests RT @aaronroach #smcmelb can running a popular blog pull you chicks?
Jun 8, 2010 @ 11:55 AM from web Powered by Tweeted
@haikugirlOz: #smcmelb yay @meetmeatmikes pip suggests tagging & categorising your posts so peeps can find my librarian heart went pitterpatter!!
Jun 8, 2010 @ 09:32 AM from Echofon Powered by Tweeted
@kylielewis: @problogger: use email subs to drive blog traffic and loyalty < totally agree! Worked for me too (feedburner great for this IMHO). #smcmelb
Jun 8, 2010 @ 09:30 AM from Twitter for iPhone in reply to problogger Powered by Tweeted
@tonyprysten: Why treat bloggers differently to say magazine publishers when it comes to 'selling out'? These guys have a right to earn #smcmelb
Jun 8, 2010 @ 10:04 AM from TweetDeck Powered by Tweeted
@laramcpherson: Cynics who think social media will stop people from communicating with each other should be @24moons tonight witnessing #smcmelb
Jun 8, 2010 @ 10:08 AM from Twitter for iPhone Powered by TweetedUPDATE: Some more event reviews have started popping up
June 10th, 2010 on 6:17 pm
Great collection of resources!
And thanks for the mention
June 13th, 2010 on 5:35 pm
Simon, thanks for editing the videos and publishing.
Brent and Cath – Thanks for the post. Very good summary and takeaways
August 21st, 2010 on 5:19 pm
Hi Simon,
Cheers for the mention! I heard the Video for Online SMCmelb event went off with a success too, looking forward to reading your write up.
Hope all is well in Melb.
Chloe