Portland Social Media

We’re Meeting Tomorrow

The Portland Social Media group is meeting tomorrow at 5pm on the 2nd floor of the Portland Center For The Performing Arts - 1111 SW Broadway Portland, OR (this is right next door to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall). The Platform International Animation Festival is happening this week in Portland and it’s the only major animation festival in the United States.

Come and hang out with us and a gaggle of young, bright animators who are exploring the new challenges and possibilities that contemporary and future technologies bring to animation.

You can RSVP on our EventBrite page - you don’t have to pay for a PLATFORM ticket, our meeting is FREE, so come and join us!

Tuesday Night: “Problems and Solutions in Social Media Production”

For this month’s Portland Social Media meeting I (Marshall Kirkpatrick) have volunteered to be the host for the evening and have put together the following belatedly promoted plan.

Time and Place: Tuesday, May 22nd, 7 PM at Wieden and Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Ave (map).  We’d love it if you would RSVP. Feel free to pass this URL shortcut to this post to a friend: http://urltea.com/khs?pdxsocial. Email list sign-up for future sessions is here.

Theme: Problems and Solutions in Social Media Production

Agenda: A night of interviews with experienced social media producers about some problems they’ve solved in their media work and some problems they haven’t.  Each interview will be followed by a short group discussion, hopefully including ideas for solving the vexing issues brought up.  I hope that it will be a valuable, exciting night of knowledge sharing for everyone who attends.

Guests to be Interviewed:

Tim Germer, co-founder of the Portland Social Media group and the man behind the local music podcast Northwest Noise.  Tim is a high energy, lovable guy and long time local tech organizer.  He was, as I understand it, the primary force behind the Portland Podcasters’ Group - the predecessor to the Portland Social Media group.

Audrey Eschright, author of Dyepot, Teapot and co-editor of Yog’s Notebook.  Audrey is an active user of many new social media forms, a craftsperson, a sci-fi writer, a photographer and was one of the key people behind the recent Portland Bar Camp.  She is also a professional Ruby developer.

Renny Gleeson, Global Director of Digital Strategies at Wieden + Kennedy and author of Ouroboros.  Renny is a web savvy marketer at one of Portland’s leading marketing firms  (our gracious hosts) and he is a relatively recent East Coast transplant.

Hopefully (update: confirmed!) Benjamin Diggles, Sales and Web Director at local small business DB Clay and the mind behind EvilBackwards.com.

Finally, we may have a mystery guest come - though at this late date we’ll probably just have to think about other people to invite to future events.

Media:

Hopefully we’ll have both live and recorded video of the event.  If live streaming video happens we’ll set up a chat here on PortlandSocialMedia.com too so off-site viewers can participate in conversation.  We can archive recorded media in a handy SplashCast player (that’s my employer and a cool service) on a post on this site and anywhere else you’d like to share it. What other media would be good for such an event?  A twitter group?  Aggregating blog posts afterwords?  We’ll see how it goes.

I hope that the event will be fun and productive for everyone who attends - so feel free to pass this URL around (by shortcut: http://urltea.com/khs?pdxsocial ) to friends who might be interested in attending or (hopefully) watching the event on live video.  

Location:

If you attended last month’s event at Wieden + Kennedy, you probably remember that the acoustics in the room we used were less than ideal. Hopefully we’ll be in a better space this time.  Why W+K at all?  We really appreciate the company being gracious enough to host us and the people there have a strong professional interest in new forms of online media.  

If this is your first time checking out the Portland Social Media group, you might want to check out SocialMediaClub.org as well.  The Social Media Club is a very loose international association of people working on and interested in new, online social media.

I hope you’ll RSVP or just show up and join us on Tuesday for the event.

Update: Here’s a video below that I recorded to kick off the discussion before the event. I wrote about the tagging idea specifically on the SplashCast blog but haven’t been able to figure out how to keep this particular WordPress installation here on this site from stripping out a SplashCast player. So I just put it in YouTube.

Time, Date and Place for February Meeting - Note This

Things have come together for Portland Social Media’s February
meeting. We are piggy-backing on the upcoming Oregon Film’s Producing
in a New Media World conference held at the World Trade Center. The
conference starts February 22nd and runs to the next day. We will be
meeting on February 22nd at 6:30 PM at Jax Bar.

Jax Bar
2/22 @ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
826 SW 2nd Ave
Portland, OR

I’m told Thursday’s are Jazz Night at Jax, so expect the Jazz music to
kick in at around 8:30 PM, who hope that’s enough time for the meeting
to take place. If you’re interested in attending the New Media World
conference, their Event’s Calendar.

Social Media Now’s Launched

The Social Media Club, of which the Portland Social Media Group is a member of, has published their first post in the Social Media Now section, titled Social Media Now 1.13.07.  Andrea best explains the goal of the new section in the post:

As part of the exciting offerings Social Media Club is going to roll out in 2007, we’d like to introduce the Social Media Now feature. The goal of Social Media Now is to provide brief highlights of some of the important and interesting Social Media ideas, items and events happening on a regular basis. Expect to see Social Media Now about two times a week, with hopes of making it a regular weekday feature in the near future.

Subscribe to the Social Media Club’s blog to read this new, regular feature.

Social Media Boston’s Second Meeting

David Meerman Scott posts on Boston’s second Social Media Club meeting - a successful event, where much discussion was centered around the social media press release - I’d like to point you towards the Social Media Release blog by Chris Heuer; there’s only a few posts, but they excellently describe the elements of the social media release.

I’m posting this hedging my bets that there might be public relations experts or budding communicators that are just dipping their toe into areas and functions of the Internet they’ve never seen or taken part in.  There’s also a group of people that just enjoy staying on top of the latest happenings and conversations around social media.  If all this interests you, here’s a couple more links regarding the social media release.

Social Media Release Wiki
The new Social Media Release site
Google Groups mailing list for New Media Release discussion