BestBuy to Host Social Media Conversations – Things are Happening in Minneapolis
Social Media Breakfast Twin Cities and Social Media Club of Minnesota have aligned for selected events in order to push forward the digital community discussions and connections here in the Twin Cities. Better things happen when you come together. This coming Friday at 8AM, BestBuy continues their openness to discussions on new media and social media with local practitioners in Minneapolis by hosting a breakfast in their main auditorium. Rick Mahn, founder of the local chapter of Social Media Breakfast, is leading the charge and has brought together a great lineup. Julio Ojeda-Zapata, journalist for Pioneer Press (main paper in the Twin Cities) will talk about his upcoming book “Twitter Means Business - How microblogging can help or hurt your company.” Julio opened up live-writing on a chapter to the new book on Twitter before the event and he will share some of the collections at BestBuy on Friday.
Also at the event, there will be a live remote update from Noah Kunin of TheUptake.org from the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO. Noah will be demonstrating how social media, specifically mobile video, is being used for citizen journalism. You are able to watch remotely via the Mogulus video channel on Mogulus: www.mogulus.com/smbmsp. Attendance to the SMB/SMC events has been steadily growing, and the goal is to keep attendees around 80-100 simply because real interactive discussions can’t take place as the numbers get too large. The goal is to keep it interactive.
After BestBuy, the following three events in September and October are in the planning phase and will be hosted at Minneapolis Fortune 500s. Minneapolis is special because of the large business that exist here, including 3M, BestBuy, Target, General Mills, United Health Group, and Medtronic. These companies are big slow ships, but hey they are massive behemoths that are making strides to incorporate social media and build communities internally and for their customers. Some have had a few bumps along the road but at least they are willing to discuss it. Back in May, BestBuy’s Gary Koelling (Blue Shirt Nation) sat on the panel hosted by Social Media Club and MIMA and brought some fresh air to the conversation on who controls social media in the enterprise. More news will be coming out of Minneapolis as these large companies are developing and putting into practice new services for massive amounts of customers and employees.
Be sure to tune in on Friday August 22nd at 8AM Central.
More details: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/991607/?ps=6 -
Social Media Club of Minneapolis
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Hey Doug. This looks like a great event - thanks for bringing this stuff to MN.
Also…I believe you meant Friday September 22nd up there.