Last week’s Social Media Club Melbourne event was a huge success we got great feedback, loads of Tweets and all learnt a bunch from the lovely ladies from Holden (Andrea Matthews) & General Motors (Annalisa Bluhm).
For those of you who didn’t make it you can check out the on the couch discussion from the night on YouTube. (Playlist embedded below, or go to http://youtube.com/smcmelb)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smcmelb/sets/72157624574722582/
New Media Beers (#NMBMelb) is a low key get together for anyone interested in digital, online or mobile to catch up.
The event’s all about getting together, talking, networking and drinking. Designers, SEO, Recruiters, Developers, Games, Journalists, PR, eBusiness, Media – anyone is welcome.
No formalities, name tags, speakers or sponsors.
Date: 9th April 2010
Venue: Lagerfield, Crown Casion
Time: 5:30pm-10:00pm
For those on Twitter use #NMBMelb
To get future invites join the Facebook group
RSVP to the event on Facebook
Lagerfield Bar website
Map/street view
It’s been a few months in the making, setting up the Social Media Club of Melbourne that is. However, we’ve done it thanks to some great work from some smashing people, @lucio_ribeiro, @nikski, @trevoryoung and @timbeveridge (plus a special mention to @katekendall). And we’re happy to announce our first event for 2010!
Our first event has three speakers from Lonely Planet who will talk about their very open business model and how social media has taken it to the next level.
Hear Gus, Venessa and Johnny chat candidly about Lonely Planet’s social web experiences, from crowd-sourcing of ideas through to user-generated content and fan engagement via social media channels and online promotions.
Event time & date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Denmark House, Level 3, 428 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne
Space is limited, so get your RSVP in quick smart RSVP here – at Eventbrite
Social Media Club Melbourne has been established to educate organisations about Social Media. We’ll be running a series of events throughout the year on various topics that relate to various types of organisations. We hope that these semi-formal events will help build greater understanding of Social Media and create a place for people to build connections.
If you’ve got any ideas for topics, speakers or styles of events that you’d be interested in attending let us know. Post a comment below, on the Facebook wall or send us a message on Twitter.
You can connect with Social Media Club Melbourne (SMCMelb) on Twitter & Facebook
You should’ve heard about it on Twitter, but incase you hadn’t we’re having another New Media Beers tomorrow night at the same place and time, all the details are below. It’s a very low key get together for anyone in digital, online or mobile to catch up, Lucio, Zac & I started it last year for some fun.
New Media Beers Melbourne
Friday 29th January / 7.00pm
The Cabinet (we’ve reserved the balcony facing Swanson Street)
11 Rainbow Alley (left off Little Collins Street heading to Russel Street) – 03 9654 0915
Please help to tell others, we do have a balcony fully reserved…
If you want to be kept in the loop of future events, join the Facebook group.
ANd for those on Twitter, #NMBMelb
http://twitter.com/#search?q=nmbmelb
UPDATE: Social Media Club Melbourne
A couple of nights ago Zac, Lucio and I had great fun catching up with some industry people. We thought it might be a good idea to give it a go on a more regular basis.
Here’s the low down, basically come along if you’re into media, marketing or comms.
New Media Beers Melbourne
Friday 25th September / 7.00pm
The Cabinet (we’ve reserved the balcony facing Swanson Street)
11 Rainbow Alley (left off Little Collins Street heading to Russel Street)New Media Beers is all about getting together, talking, network and drinking ! Designers, SEO, Recruiters, Developers, Games, Journalists, Pr’s, everyone (besides James Duthie ) is welcome
Please help to tell others, we do have a balcony fully reserved…
#NMBMelb twitter
See you there. Ps Props to Zac for the rad logo.
UPDATE: 28th Jan 2010
The details for the first New Media Beers event of 2010 are here
UPDATE: Social Media Club Melbourne
The full event review is available in the 09 April edition of Marketing Magazine, available today, 25th March.
Anytime you rock up to a free event expect that a sales pitch is coming your way, and too right, if they’re buying the drinks. This event, presented by Adknowledge was 25% sales pitch, 70% new ideas & 5% free drinks.
The day was dedicated to my favourite misunderstood term, social media, and I went away with some new ideas and insights. However, I was a little disappointed that the case studies focused on youth brands, which logically fit in social media, what about products for adults, retirees and less exciting categories? We, as social media people, need to be careful not to pigeon hole social media as a tool to connect with kids.
The first speaker, Brett Brewer, spent 90% of his time on Adknowledge and 10% on new ideas, and we thank Adknowledge for the free day.
Alistair Henderson, from OMD Fuse, has many great case studies, however, we were once again hit with the award winning V-Raw campaign. Which is a great…
…Full event review available in Marketing Magazine…
…which means? There are 28 other ways you can pay to connect with your audience.
So, listen, engage, create value and get your PR agency to start taking social media seriously.
