You met the right person, at the right time and you’re ready to spend the rest of your life with him or her.  The proposal is a big deal, and you want it to be unique.  Well, good luck with that.  You have to compete with the skydiving,  Twitter, and rock concert proposal standards already set before you.  And don’t even think that you can beat the Internet Meme Proposal. So, what unique proposal medium…

Connecting for Good is the recipient of a $10,000 donation from the small company winner of the 2012 Social Madness Contest presented by The American City Business Journals and Capital One Spark Business.

The winners were…

Check out my post and interview with Fox 4 KC on the Chick-Fil-A gay marriage dustup, along with the implications of social media on my blog.

Feedback could be hard to come by even with the best social media strategies. Simply implementing an internal social media team isn’t a magic bullet solution for company outreach. Updating a Facebook page or composing clever tweets may work for some companies and not others. Jon Bird, Creative Manager for Social Media at American Airlines, spoke at the Feb. 3 SMCKC Breakfast. Bird presented the necessary social media strategies @AmericanAir uses to interact with their…

     Exploring the different aspects of social media, and not just using it as a personal communication tool, shows the multifaceted uses of different social media platforms. The Social Media in the Corporate World event with @Boulevard_Beer, @AMCTheatres, and @HRBlock discussed how social media can be used to reach new customers…and how to explain the importance of social media to coworkers who may not be as into…

(There will be a series of posts including recaps created by members on their respected blogs...a big thanks for allowing us to re-publish them here on the smckc.com site!)

Eric Melin and Mike…

(There will be a series of posts including recaps created by members on their respected blogs...a big thanks for allowing us to re-publish them here on the smckc.com site!)

Have you seen the 2012 Ford Focus Doug campaign? The integrated social mediacampaign with an orange sock puppet named Doug driving around…

Hello.

First, I sincerely thank each of you who supported my re-election to the board of SMCKC as Communications Chair.

Those of you with more tenure in the club might be familiar with the course of some of my initiatives. With this new opportunity to build on what has come before, I’ve again engaged a team of some of the most talented writers and communicators in our community to assist me in raising the bar in communicating timely, relevant and meaningful…

 …

Boulevard Brewery generously opened their doors and social media…

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…

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…

We received an update today from the National Chapter announcing Social Media Club membership has achieved a HUGE milestone...100,000 members! What is also exciting is the shout-out they give to the SMCKC chapter in their blog post...cool stuff! If you haven't yet, please take this chance to visit the new National website and learn a bit about all of our growing sister chapters across the globe. We expect…

Hi everyone. I'm Neil. I'm new to this group and somewhat new to Web2.0 stuff. I need some help to learn social media as quickly as I can. Is there anyone with the SMC-KC that can sit me down and "learn me some tin" about how to get started. I'm think I'm a fairly quick learner. And I will pay a freelance hourly rate. It shouldn't take too long to learn the basics so that I can get started with my own site www.touchpollkc.com.

CAN…