It’s very befitting that the kickoff event for Charleston’s Social Media Club is a panel with local media professionals. After all, the roots of our blogging community stem from local media’s efforts to reach out to local bloggers all the way back in April of 2006. The founders of that effort, Dan and Janet (Edens) Conover, will be on the panel, along with Ken Hawkins from TheDigitel.com, Andy Owens of the Charleston Regional Business Journal, and Raymond Owens, a producer at WCBD Channel 2 who was well ahead of the curve by being the first broadcast media presence in Charleston to do newsgathering via Twitter (well before WCBD’s station-wide push into social media earlier this year).
Social Media Club Charleston has been in the works for a few months now. Jeff Webster and Nick Tompkins kicked off the effort just before the 2008 holiday season. Heather Solos of Lowcountry Bloggers and Home-Ec 101, local social media/PR pro Lyn Mettler, Blackbaud’s Chad Norman, and yours truly rounded out the initial leadership group and has been laying the groundwork for this launch over the last few months. Thanks to help from The Graduate School of the College of Charleston, we’re able to put on this event for you. It’s stating the obvious to say we’re ridiculously excited to bring SMC to Charleston.
Between the rockstar panel and the wonderful opportunity to meet lots of new people, tonight should be a lot of fun. Tweet your thoughts using the #smcchs hashtag, and we hope to see you there. The event will be at Maybank Hall on the College of Charleston campus at 6:30. (Here’s a map to Maybank Hall.)
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Social Media Club launches in Charleston tonight! Check out the event details at http://is.gd/1a8Ng. Looks like a great panel discussion.
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Big day. We’re launching Social Media Club in Charleston tonight: http://tr.im/smcchslaunch #smcchs
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We’re helping with the launch. Will you be there?RT @jaredwsmith: We’re launching Social Media Club in Chs tonight http://tr.im/smcchslaunch
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Looking forward to tonight’s SMC journalists panel in Charleston: http://tr.im/smcchslaunch #smcchs
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Join the CofC Grad School tonight for the launch of the Social Media Club Charleston from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. http://tr.im/smcchslaunch #smcchs
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Join the CofC Grad School tonight for the launch of the Social Media Club Charleston from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. http://tr.im/smcchslaunch #smcchs
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Congrats to everyone involved!