Portland Social Media

Social Media Custom Search Added

I added, to the top before all the posts, a Google Custom Search box. This custom search engine searches through Social Media related web sites, blogs and wikis. Leave a comment below if you’d like to be able to add sites to the search engine - it’s easy to do and it helps build out this helpful resource.

I’d also throw in Squidoo as a great place to find relevant content on niche interests - there currently isn’t a Social Media lens, anyone want to create it?

Technorati Tags: google, custom search, socialmedia

The Social Media Press Release

What would a Social Media Press Release look like?  Discontented with the traditional press release, Chris Heuer has written the post Elements of Social Media Release - the result of conversations with others in the Social Media Release Working Group.

The Social Media Release is intended to make it easier on people to identify and share the most important pieces of information with others around the globe while adding their own valuable perspective and/or editorial. It also takes full advantage of HTML, multimedia and the network effects enabled by the Internet by using structured data via the Microformat, which ultimately increases its findability by interested parties - which is ultimately the driving purpose of public relations and the press release specifically.

Reading through the announcement involves a familiarity with certain technologies and web sites - for instance, RSS, microformats, podcasts, social bookmarking, Technorati, Digg, etc.  There’s even a first-try at a Social Media Press Release template (pdf); don’t worry about the specifics though, Chris foresees (correctly) that one might able to construct these release right out of Wordpress or Moveable Type in the near future; via plugins.

If this is an area you’re interested, subscribe to the Social Media Release blog.

Technorati Tags: hrelease, socialmediarelease, socialmediaclub, chris+heuer, pr2.0

Logo Needed!

So, graphic designers; artists; the gainfully unemployed! We need a logo. So crack open Photoshop (or your trusty graph paper) and leave a comment to where we can view your logo. The chosen logo’s creator will get…a free Starbucks drink (on me, well not “on” me, but I’ll pay for it) at our first meeting.

Technorati Tags: logo, design

What’s A Wiki? Here Is A Quick Guide

With the spirit of imbuing the Portland Social Media blog with timely, and helpful content, I’m posting a link to MediaShift, titled Your Guide to Wikis. A short history of the Wiki is given as well as a high-level technological explanations.

A wiki is simply a web page that can be written or edited by the public or a group of people. What sets wikis apart from other web pages is the simple way that anyone can edit or add to an existing page, or start a new page.

Feel free to add helpful links to explaining Wikis in the comment section - I’ll update the post next week with all the links added.

Technorati Tags: wiki, faq

Welcome Everyone

Hello my name is John Anthony Hartman and I run a company called Feedia and I want to thank everyone for coming out to the Blue Moon the other day and to let you know we are actively trying to put together the next event. More on that to come. We are trying to put some structure together for this group and define the mission of what we are trying to accomplish. As I stated in the original e-mail we are loosely using the Social Media Club idea’s

“Social Media Club will bring together journalists, publishers, communications professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaborators. Essentially the people who create and consume media who have an interest in seeing the ‘media industry’ evolve for everyone’s benefit. We are more than just USERS, we are the reason the tools exist - we are the people who communicate our thoughts and ideas near and far.Join us and let’s shape the future together!”

I pose that we submit this group to the listing that is offered on the Social Media Club directory and work with other chapters “sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media” This is an amazing time in the evolution of media and I for one am very excited to be a part of it. In my day job I am doing this full time and very focused on business but I also believe that this change goes beyond business and I write about that side of things over on Feedia’s blog “Where RSS Meets Media”

I have worked with some major projects in this space including working with the co-founder of Wikipedia. Myself and others in this group have deep ties into the community and we have a depth of experience that we would love to share with those in this group. Some great projects are proliferating through this space and I plan on writing about them here to share with you my knowledge and hope that you will all contribute to the discussion. I had sent out an e-mail to the group asking member if they would like a login to this blog. I would like to extend that offer again here and now just drop us a line and we will get you a login.
I also hope we can start creating media in this space and make Portland a leader in this space.