We’d like to invite you to bring a friend to the July 29th 2010 SMCUV Event “Social Medial as a Lead Generation Tool”

This is vince. He's awesome.

About Vince

Vince Blackham is as social media and search marketing addict that has been active in online marketing since 2002. He started his own marketing agency Primary Affect in 2007 and has enjoyed succes in developing viral media campaigns and driving traffic  for clients. He is currently the social media guru for SEO.com.

Vince will be presenting on ways to use social media as a lead generation tool. Your not going to want to miss this event.

The Details:

• Where: Noah’s in Lindon
• When: Thursday July 29th 2010
• Time: 6:30PM – 7:00PM Networking and Food Sponsored by Doba
• 7:00PM – 8:30PM Presentation + Q&A time

Location based social networks are the hot thing in 2010. For those of you that don’t know much about Foursquare this next meeting should be very interesting. Nigel Swaby, and WWJDinSLC along with Pounders Grill are  going to talk about  getting the most out of foursquare. Please come to the Utah Career College. and enjoy some delicious food from Pounders and a great night.

Here are the Deets.

• Date: Thursday, May 6th (no joke)
• Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Networking, Food &  Announcements, 7:30-8:30 p.m Presentations
• Place: Utah Career College Room 214

Menu*

*Food will be sponsored by Pounders Grill

We’d like to thank everyone who came out to support the April SMCUV meeting. We had a wonderful time and were so lucky to hear from such an amazing and knowledgeable presenter, Josh “Shua” Peters. This month’s meeting was held at Thanksgiving Point in the Garden Room, and we couldn’t have asked for anything better. It was beautiful and the staff made us feel welcome. We are grateful for LotusJump for sponsoring our event, which meant we were able to enjoy a delicious buffet catered by Thanksgiving Point!

Just to give you a small recap, in case you weren’t able to attend (you missed out!):

We started the meeting with introductions and were able to get to know more of our fellow Utah Valley social media lovers.

Next, we heard from LotusJump who spoke briefly on utilizing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) software that allows users to perform their own SEO. This LotusJump program compiles tasks that are categorized (buzz tasks, question and answer, content generations tasks, etc.) and teaches the user how to get the most out of their own SEO management. Small businesses and individuals can use these programs to market their products and generate traffic to their websites.

Finally, we heard from our key note speaker, Josh “Shua” Peters. Josh gave an exciting presentation on G.L.A.M, which stands for:

Goals

Listening

Actions

Measurement

We spent time on each piece to emphasize its specific importance in social media as it applies to our businesses. Our goals need to be somewhat flexible, but be in line with our mission as a business. It is important to listen not only to our customers, but what everyone on the web is saying about our company. If we listen, we will be better able to respond appropriately. Our actions are determined by setting our goals and our content is created by what we have heard after we listen. Finally, we need to measure our progress and our ROI. What did we gain, what did we profit, and what do we need to change?

Josh is also the co-author of Twittfaced, which can help further your knowledge of how to really utilize social media for your company.

Ultimately, our meeting was very successful and we were grateful to all of you for your attendance and support. We hope to see you next month!

It’s time for our April meeting.

We are excited to have Josh Peters come and Speak on social media GLAM (Goals Listening Actions Measurement). He will be discussing how they intertwine and why each factor is important for your organization. Please come and join us!

Josh Peters will present on GLAM

Josh is a social media & internet marketing consultant and author from Salt Lake City, He co-authored the book Twittfaced and has worked with Fortune 500, non-profits, single owner businesses and everything in between. Josh occasionally guest post on sites like Mashable, Utah Pulse, Utah CEO, etc. We’re honored to have him speak with us.

Here are the Deets.

• Date: Thursday, April 1st (no joke)
• Time: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Networking, Dinner, and Announcements,
• 7:30 p.m. –  8:30 p.m Presentation & Workshop
• Place: Thanksgiving Point, Garden Room

Menu*

*Food will be sponsored by Thanksgiving Point and Lotus Jump

Ignite Salt Lake

We’re rounding the bend to the end of the month, which probably means everyone is wondering what in blazes we have planned for March.

March’s scheduled SMCUV event actually overlaps with one of the coolest events of the year… Ignite Salt Lake. We decided that rather than competing with such a cool once-a-year event, we’d join forces and lend them our support.

Ignite consists of an awesome lineup of speakers who tackle a variety of subjects. Each speaker is given 5 minutes and 20 slides that auto-forward every 15 seconds.  You can learn everything from “how to survive a zombie apocalypse” to “how to see through walls.”

Basically it will be a night of fun, education and random presentations to make you think and laugh.

Ignite Salt Lake goes from 6:00 – 10:00 pm at the following address:

The Stateroom
(21+ only)
638 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT

See you there! (If you’re over 21.)

Mark your calenders for Feburary 4th, you’re not going to want to miss out on this one!

Photo courtesy of Simon Smith

Come and learn  to Get Your Message Out: How to Market Yourself Online. Our focus this month is on branding yourself, and what better way to start than with tips and tricks for effective online marketing.

We’ll have a special panel discussion with Seth Jenks, presenting: “Google is the new resume” and Enoch Chapman, presenting: “Communicating Effective Marketing Messages.”

Seth Jenks:

Seth is the worker of all things Search and Social at APX Alarm. After getting his start in social media as the online marketing director at Advent Creative in Cache Valley, Utah, he helped develop (along with @marshallt) the social media and SEO strategy for the Ogden Standard Examiner, to cope with the shifting industry.

Seth has had the pleasure of working with and consulting for business all over the nation on the topics of SEO and social media. Seth was also a guest speaker at the University of Colorado with the infamous Gwen Bell of Kirtsy fame and was recently named this years president of SMCUV.

Enoch Chapman:

Professional Technical Adviser with over 20 years experience working in marketing, systems integrations, training and education as well as various development languages. Enoch has worked with many prestigious clients including: ModusLink, Propay, IBahn, Team Everest, Agel, Novell and many others. With each company Enoch has increased revenues and productivity by thorough analysis of practices, processes and technology.

Enoch is one of the most sought after Consultants in the Utah Valley Consultancy Market.

This month, we’re also pleased to have refreshments provided by Dream Dinners of Orem, beginning at 6:30 pm. Our panel will begin at 7:00 pm, with networking from 8:30 pm to 9:00 pm. We’ll be meeting at Utah Valley University in room 213B in the Student Center.

Feel free to comment with any questions or concerns. We hope to see you there!

Image Courtesy of Despair.com

After a fantastic year of many, many volunteer hours, great efforts, and successful events, the founders of SMCUV (Jack Hadley, April Atwater and Tyler Hartle)  handed off the reigns to a brand new batch of ambitious social media aficionados last week. Without the efforts of our founders, all the exciting things  we have planned for this next year would not be possible, and we’d like to thank them graciously.

If you’d be so kind, take some time to leave a comment at the bottom of this page to let us know 3 things that you are hoping to gain from SMCUV this year.

Are there topics you would like to cover?

Are there specific people you’d like to see come speak?

Are there social media platforms you would like to learn more about?

We’re all about catering to your needs, so please help us by giving some direction in the comments at the bottom of this post.

Taking the reigns as President of SMCUV is Seth Jenks. We’ll be writing up a feature on Seth soon so we can all get to know him, his interests, and his goals for the club.

Bailey Bouchard was named the head of the publicity and events committee.

Joanie Atwater is heading up the sponsorship and facilities committee.

We’re excited to see the great things in store for SMCUV in 2010. See you in February!

Hello social media club friends. Happy new year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season!

We’re excited to get rolling again with SMCUV! We will be holding an important planning meeting THIS THURSDAY, JANUARY 7TH, AT 7:00PM, at the BELLE MONET CLUBHOUSE in PLEASANT GROVE. The address is: 581 South 2220 West, Pleasant Grove. Thanks to Seth Jenks (@sethjenks) for arranging this place for us to meet. The Tahitian Noni folks decided not to be so accommodating any more and wanted to start charging us to meet there. Too bad.

WE NEED YOUR HELP! We feel like the success of our club will depend on how many people we can get to participate in planning and carrying out club activities. Many hands make light work! So, if you think you can carve out a little time this year to help, please come to the meeting and get on one of our committees! We got some decent traction in 2009… As you know, we only started early last year. But, we would like to get a ton more traction in ’10!

So, PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR PLANNING MEETING ON THURSDAY!

If you have any questions, contact me, @jack_hadley . See you then! Or, questions about the location of the meeting to @sethjenks.

Click here for >MAP LINK

We’re helping plan a Social Media Club of Salt Lake City, Utah Valley, and Cache Valley Holiday Party & Toy Drive for December 17th! And you’re invited!

> HERE IS THE LINK to the details on the SMCSLC site!

See you there!

We have decided to NOT hold our Utah Valley Social Media Meeting this Thursday, November 5th! Please pass along the word! We want to support the Utah Social Media Awards event on Friday. Last minute news… There are still a few tickets available if you would like to go. Click >HERE for details!