Social Media Club Formalizes Nationally
Social Media Club, co-founded by Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells, has announced an interim board to help establish guidelines for the association.
While the interim board will focus on charting the organization’s future direction, our core mission will remain the same: promotion of media literacy; support of industry standards efforts such as Creative Commons licensing, Microformats, Data Portability and OpenID; discussion and promotion of ethical behavior; and sharing our knowledge among our members and the industry community at large.
The formation of the board will help bring some structure to the local chapters/teams that are being formed in the U.S. and also internationally. To date their are 16 local established teams and 30 teams that are currently in the works. Once the guidelines are established and local teams grow, SMC will gain more momentum on a national level, especially with corporations and other institutions looking to bring social media into their organization.
This loose board of practitioners will be a steering committee for something seen as new today but as the standard tomorrow. I am glad to be on the board, since my goal of helping create the local chapter in Minneapolis is to bring national conversations local and local conversations national. Minnesota has many digital communities already established and collectively these groups, consultants and enterprise practitioners will help lead the charge. Locally Connie Benson, Rick Mahn, Graeme Thickens, and Greg Swann are part of the SMB/SMC committee.
Some other links to today’s announcement:
Summize.com/search?q=social+media+club
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Congrats on the appt Doug! Definitely well deserved. And thanks for inviting me to join in the MN effort.
We’re moving forward.
Hey! I see I’m on your blog roll - that’s so nice of you. I really like how you have it broken out… I may have to follow suit.
Connie