Kaldi’s in Kirkwood on May 31st at 3:00pm

Please RSVP through our Ning network.

Ok, so I’ve undeservedly neglected SMCSTL. In my defense I did just become a daddy. Anyway, it’s time to get serious about this club.

It’s become abundantly clear that we need structure and I could use some help maintaining the club. So without further adieu ado (thanks Reem), here is an idea for organizing the group.

The plan is to position volunteers as knowledge leaders in each segment of social media. This way we could track new strategies and technology in the space much more effectively. The following list is one suggestion for segmenting social media:

• Blogs (blogging, blogger outreach and blogging technology)
• Social Networks (Facebook, Myspace and other niche networks)
• Social News Aggregators (Digg, Mixx and Reddit)
• Social Bookmarking (StumbleUpon, Delicious and Furl)
• Social Media Analytics (Blogpulse, Yahoo Pipes)
• Micromedia (Twitter, Pownce and Utterz)
• Answer Portals (Askville, Yahoo! Answers)

We could also use volunteers in various administrative roles:

• Recruitment
• Event Planning
• Speaker Acquisition
• Education Director
• Webmaster
• Group Manager

I see no reason we can’t have more that one person in each position, so if one (or more) of these positions strikes your fancy please call it out. Please feel free to voice your opinions and suggestions as well.

UPDATE: We have a network set-up on ning as discussed at our last gathering.

The people have spoken!

Kaldi’s in Kirkwood on February 23rd at 3:30pm

I called both Clayton locations, and both seem to think the Kirkwood store is best suited for our gathering because of it’s size. I’ll be there around 3:10 to try and reserve a couple tables.

Looking forward to our first gathering!

Please RSVP in the comments so I can get an idea of how many tables we’ll need. Thanks.