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/
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:
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
Our third event is now up and away, we’ve changed venues to increase capacity and improve the general experience!
A very special Social Media Club Melbourne evening where we will be privileged to chat with two globally recognised bloggers (…who also happen to reside in Melbourne!)
When: Tuesday 8th June, 6-9pm
DARREN ROWSE (@problogger) – a legitimate ‘rock star’ of the world of blogging, Darren has been making a full-time living from blogging since 2004/05 and is sought after as a speaker at major international events such as SXSW (Austin, Texas) and BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. His Problogger and Digital Photography School blogs attract numbers most of us can only dream of! This is a story you won’t want to miss!
DUNCAN RILEY (@duncanriley) – an original part of the team that put together the b5media company, in 2007 Duncan joined TechCrunch, one of the world’s most popular tech blogs. In recent times he has devoted his energies to a start-up website called The Inquisitr, which was founded in May 2008 and has grown from humble beginnings to become one of the world’s most popular blogs (Top 100 according to Technorati.)
MC for the evening will be Yvonne Adele (aka @IdeasCulture), a popular blogger and prolific Twitterer who also happens to be one of Australia’s most sought-after speakers on the subject of ideas generation.
This will be a great night – BOOK NOW AS SPACES ARE LIMITED! Register your ticket here
LOCATION
24 Moons
AC/DC Lane (off Flinders Lane)
Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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Thanks for your interest in this event from the SMCMelb committee @lucio_ribeiro, @nikski, @trevoryoung, @simontsmall and @timbeveridge Follow us at @smcmelb
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.
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