February is quickly approaching. Next week is the deadline for voting on new board members. The next SMCKC Breakfast meeting is next week on Friday, Feb 4th. An exciting happy hour is in the works for Feb 16th. Also in these coming weeks, SMCKC will be transferring over to the emfluence email platform for our newsletters.

Please mark your calendars for the following breakfast meeting on March on…

Boulevard Brewery generously opened their doors and social media…

Take a moment to cast your vote for President, Advocacy Chair and Technology Chair. Voting closes February 2nd. We will announce your new board members at the Friday, February 4th breakfast.

Click three times, enter the e-mail address you used to sign up for SMCKC and you're finished. Simple, right?

This is your club. Tell us who you'd like to see lead us through another…

Ben Smith, the Face and Founder of Social:IRL, put on an event yesterday titled: Explore and Engage.

It was in Wichita.

That meant it was a 2+ hour delightful pastoral drive into the…

SMCKC has been asked by the March of Dimes - Kansas Chapter to have an official team for this year's March for Babies on April 30th in Kansas City. SMCKC has pledged to raise $5,000 for this wonderful cause and I'll be leading our effort to meet that goal, and hopefully go above and beyond. We can raise this money through walkers, we can host fundraising events-- it's really up to us!

But I need your help! I am…

Social Media Club has partnered with …

Have you changed your online passwords lately or are you still using the same ones from a year ago? Or, even worse, are you using one or two basic phrases for everything? You may feel like you are one of the lucky ones whose accounts have not yet been compromised, but I can assure you it’s only a matter of time.  Hackers are getting smarter. And bolder.  I would like to share something with you that happened to an industry colleague just this morning. If this doesn’t strike a chord, I don’t…

@kayhaswings reminded me that I could blog on the #smckc site, so here I am! :)

I know there are a lot of IT people in #smckc, so I wanted to reach out and let you know: KC IT Professionals is having a job fair on 1/18 from 10a - 5:30p @ JCCC’s Capitol Federal Conference Center (inside Regnier Center, see campus map for more info).

There are 16 companies participating: AdvantageTech, CivicPlus, Cerner, Digital Evolution Group, DST,…

Summary

The year was kicked off with a well attended Town Hall meeting. The meeting started with with a round of announcements by attending members. Five awards were presented to recognize outstanding SMCKC members including Zena Weist and Ed Roberts into the SMCKC Hall of Fame. Lisa Qualls then presented the…

In case you missed them (but you shouldn't have) here are the Certificates of Awesomeness awarded at the SMCKC breakfast 1/7/11.

Youngest Member awarded to Jennah Brooks (aka @WombWithNoView aka @TinyJennah)

Jennah Brooks joined our club while in utero. What's your excuse for not becoming a member?

Along with her certificate, Jennah received the brilliant picture book It's A Book by…

We had a great turn-out at last Friday's breakfast but we know many of you were unable to attend and wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to review our 2011 plan. We also wanted to announce that we are now taking nominations for President and two chairperson positions, Technology and Advocacy. You can learn about more about these positions and responsibilities by reviewing our board manual. Nominations can be sent to lisa@freshid.com,…

(Big thank you to Social Media Club HQ and blog writer Susan Breidenbach for writing this great post showcasing SMCKC!)

Here is a link to the original post: http://socialmediaclub.org/blogs/from-the-clubhouse/championing-social-media-america%E2%80%99s-heartland

Too much planning leads to analysis paralysis, a fatal error in an arena…

Happy Holidays!

United Way of Greater Kansas City…