Putting Kansas City on the social media map

April 2009 Blog Posts (11)

Congrats @JeffisaGeek on Mention in Who's Blogging What Newsletter!

SMCKC's @JeffisaGeek was cited in today's Who's Blogging What Newsletter in their Social Media Section of "The Most Useful Posts of The Week." The post cited was "Use Google To Find Out Which Of Your Tweets Are Favorites" (Jeff Is A Geek).

Here's the link to the website in case you want to sign up for the weekly newsletter --http://www.whosbloggingwhat.com/

Congrats Jeff!

Added by Tony Faustino on April 30, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Spiral16 podcast featuring Ed Roberts

On Wednesday we talked with Kansas City meteorologist Ed Roberts. Roberts is the founder of Social Media Club KC (are you going to the breakfast this Friday?) and creator of the KC Weather… Continue

Added by Whitney on April 30, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

How do you want your community newspaper to interact with you?

Obviously most of the people checking this site are pretty savvy on the Web, in media or deal with media on a regular basis. I work at the Sun Newspapers and like most papers, we are always trying to increase the way we can get our news and sites to the largest number of readers.

So for a community news organization, how do you want to receive your local news? Do you check the actual site regularly? Do you want Twitter links to send you there? Do you want story blurbs on Facebook? Will you… Continue

Added by Kurt Kloeblen on April 29, 2009 at 1:20pm — 2 Comments

Interactive/Online Marketing Specialist Needed - Overland Park

If you have the skills you can contact the recruiter Jennifer.Dehan@velocitystaff.com Keep me posted if you get the job!

Details:

Interactive/Online Marketing Specialist – Responsible for site optimization and customer acquisition initiatives for all corporate websites for both domestic and international business for logistics/transportation/financial management services organization located in Lenexa. Responsibilities include coordinating and managing all existing sites,… Continue

Added by Anne Haynes on April 29, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

How to Get the Most Out of Social Networks and Not Annoy Users

Amid Constant Deluge of Requests, Marketers Must Work Harder to Persuade People to Join Their Pages

by Emma Hall

Published: April 27, 2009

LONDON (AdAge.com) -- Welcome to social-media message overload.

The constant barrage of invites to sign up for this group or download that app are starting to wear on social-network users, presenting big challenges for the brands and marketers who are looking to use these sites to aggregate fans and cultivate… Continue

Added by Leilani on April 28, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Study: ROI May Be Measurable in Facebook, MySpace After All

Study: ROI May Be Measurable in Facebook, MySpace After All

Package-Goods Brand Earns $1.28 Million in Sales From $1 Million Social-Media Campaign

by Jack Neff

Published: April 13, 2009

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Package-goods brands are still cautious about social media, figuring that the return on investment can't be accurately measured. After all, marketing on Facebook or MySpace might generate a conversation but not necessarily a sale. Now, however, a… Continue

Added by Leilani on April 14, 2009 at 11:52am — No Comments

Chicks Who Click Coming to KC

Next month, the Chicks Who Click conference series is coming to KC. Should be a good event. Check it out.

Added by Mark Logan on April 10, 2009 at 11:15am — 1 Comment

Social Media speakers needed in May at Adobe user group KCWebCore

Some of you might know I run the local web Adobe user group, KCWebCore KCWebCore. . In May we are having a social media meeting and I posted that I needed speakers on Twitter (for those who answered me, yes please and I will get back in touch soon). Anyone else willing to speak, let me know at macwebdiva@gmail.com.

My group typically focuses on web products and technologies like Dreamweaver, CSS, Flash, web design and… Continue

Added by Dee Sadler on April 8, 2009 at 5:44pm — No Comments

Looking for someone who wants a career advancement as an SEO Marketing Developer/Manager

I'm looking for someone who wants to help grow a new division within a multi-billion dollar global company. We are looking for someone who has BOTH a strong SEO development and marketing background. Someone who likes to stay technical, but yet wants to grow their career into the Marketing Director. Someone who can code one day, and then set ROI meetings with executives the next. The position is in Topeka and we want someone who can take this new division and grow it into a team of 3 to 5.… Continue

Added by Chris Lang on April 6, 2009 at 4:41pm — No Comments

blog hop...

for a while, I was blogging true to the name... but lately is has been hard to keep up...

hopefully I can get back on a roll...

The Daily Captcha
http://dailycaptcha.blogspot.com

it is a combination of a social experiment and a creative thinking exercise.

stop by and comment...

rp

Added by rascalpants on April 2, 2009 at 1:04pm — No Comments

Growing Your Small Business – The Social Media Series

Don't know anything more about this, but thought I would share it. This is a series of four classes offered by Johnson County K-State Research and Extension. Instructors are Bill Brelsford (SMCKC member) and Bethany Spilde. Info at http://pressreleases.kcstar.com/?q=node/17609.

Added by Beth Welsh on April 1, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments