You can find us each Thursday in the Joseph F. Smith Building (JFSB), room B002 from 11:00 a.m. to Noon.

To view notes, comments, and recordings of our previous sessions, visit the BYU Online Media Lecture Series page.

See you there!

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Our presentation to Serenity…

Money was posted to the Serenity account. Our work here is done!

After reviewing the event, and counting up our contribution to Serenity I am overwhelmed with a great feeling that is the spirit of giving. I have never done anything like this before, and admittedly have to swallow back a lump in my throat as I consider how we may have helped a person in need. Maybe a bill or two, maybe breakfast or dinner, maybe a new pair of shoes, or maybe just a fun trip to a movie or museum. I hope that our contribution will help Serenity and her parents sleep a little easier, take a little break, or bring a little extra cheer. Thank you all for participating.

Mark your calendar for next year; We WILL do it again!

Official Stats and other mentions…

• Our selected charity is Serenity, nominated by Jesse Stay.
• We collectively donated $573.93 (update: $20 more!)
  
• There were 80 people in attendance at the event, and an additional 130 watchers via USTREAM.tv
• Largest confirmed single donation: $39.93 (several $30s and many $20s!)
• Thank you to Park City Mountain Resort and Doba for sponsoring the venue and food.
• Thank you to Startup Princess for your help in co-organizing the event.

Other Posts: (Tell me and I will update)

• Misty Fowler posted some comments and video
• SLC_JM posted images from the even to Flickr
• Super cool video montage by @Knite20
• h0neyb thanks me for not shuttin’ the place down; saves drunk girl

Attendees and Contributors (The following people contributed to Serenity):

• Hosts
• carysnowden
• startupprincess
• jack_hadley
  
• Sponsors
• jeremyhanks of Doba
• krista_parry of Park City Mountain Resort
  
• Panel
  
• Jyl Johnson Pattee of Mom it Forward
• Ghennipher of S|M Spin
• Krista Parry, of Park City Mountain Resort
• Jesse Stay of Stay-n-Alive
• Sinohui Hinojosa of Emerging Artist Productions
  
• Video
  
• paulhadley of Paul Hadley Photography
  
• Greeter/Streaming Vid
• h0neyb
• Saintless
• sweetlifeinthe
  
• Badges
• kittygutz
  
• Contributors Attending
• eric_hoffman
• charlieoliver
• Hsaah
• petit_elefant
• dilvie
• Hogle_Zoo
• headpigeon
• snowboardbunny
• Elisa10
• jraines
• iGoByDoc
• ThomAllen
• mentzdog
• knite20
• jordanlebaron
• makeandtakes
• cinevolve
• ashbuckles
• codella
• chrisknudsen
• robert_brady
• pincock
• rickgalan
• John_Y
• humancell
• andreol426 (?)
• michelledoodads
• bradleystaker
• stakerized
• johnnyappleseed
• efowler83 (?)
• MaryBrown
• tmcconnon
• BigBags
• jazzcat
• utahnewssource
• sarahbuler
• imcre8tive
• slc_jm
• jet_set
• justlikeavirgin
• jbluther
• Contributors by Web
  
• Gigi Thorsen
• Russell Smith
• invotus
• Cheeky and Swank, LLC
• Sandra Pannell
• Lareen Strong
• Codella Marketing LLC
• Jared Luther
• Robert Brady
• kerina
• Please Confirm Attendance…
  
• emilam
• whyisjake
• meganharris
• bitsybitsy
• fredcast
• codell
• …and a grateful nod to the many of you who joined us via the Web.

Help me out; please report if I have missed, mispelled, or mistaken.

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Our hosts:

Our Sponsors:

Our Panel:

1. Jyl Johnson Pattee of Mom it Forward
2. Ghennipher of S|M Spin
3. Krista Parry, of Park City Mountain Resort
4. Jesse Stay of Stay-n-Alive
5. Sinohui Hinojosa of Emerging Artist Productions

Our Support:

• Special Thanks to Krista Parry for the help with the venue.
• Badges? Yes, we need stinking badges. Thanks Jessie (kittygutz) for the supply.
• Thanks to April at Sweet Life in the Valley.com for posting the logo on her site.
• Thom Allen and Rob Merrill of CouchCast for the interview.
• Thanks to Michelle McCullough at More Than Doodads for posting the logo and link.
• Thanks to Eric Hamilton for the mention on Dilvie.com
• Thanks to Jeremy Hanks for writing us up at Adventures in Entrepreneurship
• Thanks to Jack Hadley for wrangling the SunTweet logo
• h0neyb and sweetlifeinthe will be greeting and badging.
• Your Name Here?

If I have missed someone, and I am sure I have, let me know at @carysnowden

SunTweet is a Charity Tweetup. Check out our growing list of Charity Nominations…

Coming? RSVP for SunTweet

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I am not sure of the official numbers, but I am certain there were a minimum of 60 people at the event, and it could easily have been 80 or so. (update: I am seeing official reports of ‘71′)

With a good mix of usual suspects and new faces, the meeting provided a great opportunity to say ‘hello’ to old and new friends alike, and to add a handful of people to my list of friends to look for at the next social media event.

A special Thank You goes to the great folks at The Summit Group for hosting the event, and providing the well-received pizza and sodas (at one point drawing applause from the entire crowd as a new round of boxes were brought in).

We started the evening with a healthy round of socializing before tuning in to Social Media Club founder Chris Heuer for a video conference via Skype. Chris welcomed us to The Club, provided an introduction and scope of the club’s structure and objectives, and then answered a couple of questions.

After listening to Chris for a few minutes we all migrated to the downstairs where we had more open space to break into smaller workgroups for a few minutes of focused discussion. There were six or so breakout groups, each with a specific area of social media to discuss. At the end of the breakout discussions a representative from each group presented some thoughts to the rest of the attendees.

Initially skeptical of the structure, I soon found myself getting involved and enjoyed hearing the insights from each of the groups. The breakouts turned out to be a great idea and enforced a sense of value for the meeting. We all left understanding that the discussion was recorded, and will be published at some point in the future. I’ll link from here when that happens.

I took a handful of photos with my phone. Here they are below…

To everyone at the event: Thank you and ‘nice to meet you’. To everyone who missed it; we’ll see you at the next one, to be held on every third Thursday from here on out. Watch the official Web site for details.

NEW: Jeri Cartwright posted this review.

I hope to see you all at the #suntweet Charity Tweetup next week!

*I meant that in the nicest possible sense of the word.

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This post will list the charities nominated for the Suntweet Tweetup (#suntweet). I will updated as often as I get nominations throughout the next couple weeks. Pass the word.

Nominate yours my writing to @carysnowden or @startupprincess.
Vote on the day of the tweetup via SocialToo. Watch #suntweet for announcement.

Here they are:

1. Serenity nominated by Jesse Stay.
2. Utah Food Bank nominated by Michelle McCullough
3. The Peace House nominated by Eric Hoffman
4. Best Friends Animal Society nominated by Jon Dunn
5. The Road Home by @lencarson
6. Utah Valley Family Support Center nominated by @invotus
7. Hogle Zoo nominated by @hogle_zoo (itself)
8. Bidder70.org nominated by Lee Hart
9. Tracy Aviary nominated by Reverend Ted
10. The Straighter Way Foundation nominated by @tamtrot
11. The Christmas Box nominated by @startupprincess (?)
12. CHARITY NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED. WE HAVE OUR LIST!
    

How Do I Contribute?

1. Bring $5 or more to the #SunTweet and throw it in the fishbowl. or…
2. Click the Donate button below to give us a couple o’ bucks via PayPal.

We’ll make sure all donations are delivered to the fishbowl, and to the winning charity.

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Coming? RSVP for SunTweet

• Donate to charity.
• Coke™ and Pizza on the house.
• 20-minute panel presentation on ‘Creating Value For Your Social Audience“.
• Cash bar.
• Birds of a feather.

Retweet.

Details:

Date: THURSDAY, January 22 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Place: 3rd floor of the Legacy Lodge, Park City, UT*
Theme: Charity Tweetup (see below)

This will be a charity tweetup. Attendees are asked to donate $5 (min) to the pot, which will be donated on our collective behalf to a local Utah charity. @startupprincess is taking suggestions for charities, and we will conduct a last minute vote over SocialToo during the event to determine who will receive the proceeds.

What is a Charity Tweetup?

‘Tis the season, of course, so here’s what we are planning: Our Sundance Tweetup will be a Charity Tweetup, meaning that whilst we are socializing amongst ourselves we are also going to be conducting a fund-raiser to donate to a local Utah charity. We’ll all feel good, for sooo many reasons. Here’s how it works:

1. Send your charity nominations to @startupprincess;
2. Bring $5 or more to the #suntweet tweetup;
3. During the tweetup, we will conduct a poll via SocialToo.com;
4. At 8:50 p.m. we will announce the winning charity, and the amount collected.

Spread the word, and use hashtag #suntweet to find us on Twitter.

Our evening will also feature a 25-minute panel discussion featuring five prominent panelists who will share how they have built value for their social audience, and how that has helped them grow their following to monumental levels.

Panelists:

1. Jyl Johnson Pattee of Mom it Forward
2. Ghennipher of S|M Spin
3. Krista Parry, of Park City Mountain Resort
4. Jesse Stay of Stay-n-Alive
5. Sinohui Hinojosa of Emerging Artist Productions

Tell everyone! This event is being announced solely via social media.

*Resort Plaza / Park City Mountain Resort / Legacy Lodge / 1315 Lowell Avenue / Park City, UT 84060

The event is listed on upcoming.com at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1488500/

Want to help? Contact @carysnowden, @startupprincess, or @Jack_Hadley for sponsorships, questions or offerings.

Accolades and Appreciations:

• Special Thanks to Krista Parry for the help with the venue.
• Badges? Yes, we needed stinking badges. Thanks to Jessie (kittygutz) for the supply.
• Thanks to April at Sweet Life in the Valley.com for posting the logo on her site.
• Thom Allen and Rob Merrill of CouchCast for the interview.
• Thanks to Michelle McCullough at More Than Doodads for posting the logo and link.
• Thanks to Eric Hamilton for the mention on Dilvie.com
• Thanks to Jeremy Hanks for writing us up at Adventures in Entrepreneurship
• Double Thank You to Jeremy Hanks and Doba for Sponsoring #SunTweet!

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Have at ‘em…

Click the title to view their presentations:

• Accounting Strategies (Kent Thomas, Utah CFO)
• Wellness in the Workplace (Rich Hart, Elevate)
• Women in Business (Kelly Anderson, Startup Princess)
• Brand and Messaging Strategies (Jack Hadley, ClarityWorx)
• Business Banking (Fred Bernhardt, Zions)
• Public Relations Strategies (John Pilmer, PilmerPR)
• Search Engine Optimization (Bryan Phelps, Orange Soda)
• Social Media Marketing (Cary Snowden, Social Hat)
• Preparing for Investors (Brock Blake, Funding Universe)
• Personal Success (Kip Kint, Mission Ignition)

Crunch Lunch™ is a production of Social Hat. Presentations are distributed by Crunch Lunch with permission from the authors. All materials are copyright of the author and all rights are reserved.

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A tweetup is an event where people who Twitter come together to meet in person. Normally we connect with our friends online after we have met them. At a tweetup you meet the people you might only otherwise know virtually. Like finally putting a name to a face, a tweetup is a great opportunity to really connect with the people in your network and share just a little more than 140 characters at a time.

I stopped by the Salt Lake Brewing Company tonight to tweetup with Salt Lake City tweeters. Another great meeting in the bag, and a few more friends to follow. Nice to meet you all, here’s the photo, and what a tweetup looks like in real life…

Click image for the Big Kahuna. Sorry @DMX for cutting you off.

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Ash Buckles was one of our expert panelists at the CoWork Utah Tweetup last week.

After inadvertently implying that the other panelists may have put our audience to sleep, Ash Buckles settles in with some solid advice on how to use Twitter in daily activity. What he follows, and why he unfollows. He uses Twitter to promote activities, promote work, and speaking events in which he is involved. Ash was both hired and fired in Twitter (lost a contract). He talks about building trust on Twitter, and credits networking for his successful roll in social marketing leadership.

Ash Buckles has become an icon in the Utah social media scene. His interests are in SEO, blogging, web development, mobile, art, and social media. Ash Buckle’s is passionate about new technologies and spends his free time keeping up with the latest marketing and application techniques. A graduate of BYU in Information Systems and Business Management, Ash is an avid Twitter user, as his followers already know. You can find Ash Buckles online at his blog at http://www.ashbuckles.com/

You can follow Ash Buckles on Twitter at: @ashbuckles

Don’t forget to follow Social Hat on Twitter for occasional updates on social media marketing, more videos and some awesome interviews.

Wash. Rinse. Retweet.

Special Thanks to Paul Hadley for recording the event, editing, and posting to YouTube.
Social Hat is Jack Hadley and Cary Snowden. Follow us on Twitter.

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Janet Meiners Thaeler was one of our expert panelists at the CoWork Utah Tweetup last week.

In her introduction, Janet Meiners Thaeler commits herself as a Twitter Addict. She uses Twitter as her own personal news room, and uses it to get traffic to her NewsPaperGrl blog. Twitter has opened doors for her, including getting her a job. She shares a story about her Twitter profile picture, and has purchased artwork online via Twitter. She has achieved success through Twitter and shares some examples of the connections she has made.

Janet Meiners Thaeler’s passion is online PR and social media. She is an internet marketer and writer specializing in SEO online press releases and blogging—writing for Marketing Pilgrim and OrangeSoda’s blog. She has freelanced for newspapers, City Search, & Connect Magazine. “Why newspapergrl?” she says… “I’ve always been a fan of newspapers. I like reading them (preferably offline) and have freelanced for a few.” You can read all about it at http://www.newspapergrl.com

You can follow Janet Meiners Thaeler on Twitter at: @newspapergrl

Don’t forget to follow Social Hat on Twitter for occasional updates on social media marketing, more videos and some awesome interviews.

Wash. Rinse. Retweet.

Special Thanks to Paul Hadley for recording the event, editing, and posting to YouTube.
Social Hat is Jack Hadley and Cary Snowden. Follow us on Twitter.

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