There's been many Social Media Clubs, Social Media Breakfast Clubs, especially propagating from Facebook - where I've received invites (and fail to hear about others).
An event like this happened in Boston last night (I missed it but will be in the Boston area next week for a few days attending Monster.com trainings) Social Media and Politics: Beyond November 2008, published in Social Media Today, a collection of blogs on Social Media I subscribe to (and you should too).
Interestingly, Social Media is not something that can be just "created" on-demand, say, like an advertising campaign because it's not a one way conversation - it takes two, and it's interactive. Kyle Flaherty writes in Social Media Today:
"...Often times social media is looked at as a way to ‘launch’ a product. I can’t tell you how many beta invites I’ve gotten for sites through social media engagement and never heard from them again, not even to tell me it is GA. Social media is not a project that can be wrapped up at a particular time, it is organic, two-way and engaging through its nature. Those traits make it the perfect platform to continue a conversation, whether it is between two customers or 100 million voters. Engaging your audience using social media and then letting them go after you get what you need is tantamount to tele-marketing."
By the way, now we're sorta almost in a de-facto recession - maybe the worst we've had in a generation, as Paul Krugman mentions in a "Long Story"
with.....
"...The problems now facing the U.S. economy look a lot like the problems that caused the last two recessions — but this time in combination.
On one side, the bursting of the housing bubble is playing the role that the bursting of the dot-com bubble played in 2001. On the other, the subprime crisis is creating a credit crunch reminiscent of the crunch after the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s, which led to recession in 1990."
...it's important to keep in mind that Social Media is Recession Proof -according Forrester Research.
By the way, I'm the new writer for Social Riots and you may know my writing from the various blogs I write, including www.Webmetricsguru.com, a Know More Media Blog.
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