Social Media Training, a 2010 Priority

Social Media is no more of a passing fad than websites and email. It is a key element to many business marketing plans; and will become more of a focus for businesses who need to find new ways to promote their products and services in 2010. When we introduced our first Social Media series back [...]

Creating New Value for Members

The last six months have been some of the most exciting in my long (almost 20 year!) Chamber career. I’ve had a chance to research and implement new ways for the Chamber to serve its members through Social Media. Here’s what we have accomplished in that short period of time. 1) Created a Chamber Blog [...]

What an Incredible Response!

We’ll it’s almost 4:00pm and I’m just getting finished working on all the post-event excitement caused by this morning’s extremely successful “Introduction to Social Media” seminar presented by Bridget Ayers of Get Smart Web Consulting. Bridget made a very compelling case for the need for our business community to use social media as part of [...]

A Great Case Study on the Power of Twitter

This morning I sent out a brief notice through Twitter to announce that the Chamber is accepting registrations for its “Social Media for Business” seminar series. The “tweet” went out through the Chamber’s Twitter account (@OsideCAChamber) which has a modest number of followers -274 as of this writing. At first glance, that doesn’t seem like [...]

Our Social Media Series is Set to Go!

It finally all came together this week! For the past couple of months, we have been working on putting together a series of workshops to help our local business community learn how to effectively use Social Media. We talked about the idea at our Membership Services Committee, researched what other chambers had done and followed [...]