Atlanta Media Bloggers

Attention Atlanta Bloggers!

Jon Gos has launch his bloggers meetup which I wanted to let everyone know about.
http://blog.meetup.com/375/calendar/5471619/

RSVP for Ethics and Social Behavior Online

Sunday, March 4, 2007, 7:00 PM

Where:

Sapporo Japanese Restaurant
1401 Johnson Ferry Road
Marietta , GA 30062-6495
770.565.7018

Description:

What are the ethics of Citizen Journalism?  Are there any?  Should there be? 

Anonymity seems to bring out the worst in some people. If you haven't noticed just take one look at the comments section of your favorite blog. This is a characteristic of human nature that we can't completely understand in one meeting but we can meet-up to discuss it over Japanese food!

 

Registration is now open

February 9th and 10th Kennesaw State University will be hosting the premier social media mash up. You can view the jammed packed schedule of events here.

Thanks to the many passionate people who invested their time, energy, and resources, this event will be free, however registration will be limited, so register now!

Other events...

Savannah bloggers are gathering for a mixin' and minglin' on Jan 26 and 27th to discuss ideas, strategies, trends, and such. I will be leading a discussion about how to set effective goals and measure your success when embracing social media. Josh Hallet will be leading a discussion as well, which is not to be missed. Josh was the first person I saw speak in depth about blogging and I guess you can say he inspired me...

This event is also free, so sign on up...

If podcasting is more your thing or you want to learn more about what all the hype is, Atlanta has Podcamp coming to you on March 16th and 18th.

And a little later down the road, CRMA (Customer Relationship Management Association) will be hosting a 2 day conference, April 17th and 18th. I will be on a panel with Jeff Hilimire from Spunlogic and Lisa Aloisio from AutoTrader.com titled "Embracing Web 2.0 – The New Way to Interact With Customers." More details to follow soon.

Lunch is served!

Lunch will be provided by PayPerPost.

Big thank you to Art Hall for making the introduction to Ted Murphy.

BTW they are looking for a VP of Business Dev. I have the job description posted at my site.

Breakfast is served

James Harris from ListenShare has stepped up to provide breakfast for the conference.

update already on the Atlanta Media un-Conf

Wow! I give you people an action plan and you start acting.

We have a date, Saturday, February 10, 2007
Time 9:00am to 3:00pm

We have had SEVERAL offers and suggestions for venue, but I am going with
Kennesaw State University. I like the idea of the college setting.

We have the gang from Greensboro ready and willing to help - thank you so much!

I have some ideas for speakers that I will reach out to - let me know if there is any particluar interest.

Need food sponsored, I think a few people are on top of that already.

and here we go...

Atlanta Social Media Un-Conference Action Plan

Hi Everyone,

Kevin Howarth, Andrew Lunde, James Harris, Amber Rhea, Rusty Tanton and I had a great visit to Greensboro, NC for ConvergeSouth 2006. ConvergeSouth attracted about 200 people, all bloggers, mostly from the area but also from as far as Baltimore. They had really great discussion leaders such as Elizabeth Edwards and Robert Scoble. Breakfast was provided by Edelman, Lunch was provided by PayPerPost and the A&T University provided the facilities. The event was free for everyone. After the event, there was a sign up for hosted dinners, which was paid for by each person.

I got to speak with one of the organizers who happens to be from Atlanta (grew up down the street from Martin Luther King Jr) and she is more than willing to provide any guidance for our Atlanta Un-Conference.

James Harris and I discussed some of  things that need to happen to get more momentum going to make this work. We made a few decisions that needed to be made.

The conference will be held on Saturday, February 10, 2007 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
At this time we are setting the attendance to be 100 people

We need a venue - let me know who you know that we can contact that will be willing to provide a space.

We need sponsors to provide breakfast and lunch - who do you know?

We need to nail down who to invite as discussion leaders. I would like to see topics about online community building, RSS, podcasting, streaming video, social networking spaces, Enterprise 2.0 and virtual worlds (any other ideas?)

We will need to raise a little money to provide accommodations for any speakers.

We need PR (that sounds like a committee)

Please email me with your ideas and suggestions at sherryheyl[@]gmail.com

Mark Your Calendars for the September Meeting

September 21, 7:00-9:00 PM - Leonard Witt, Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University will lead the discussion on:

Reinventing Journalism * A Do It Yourself Guide For Independents or for Mainstream Media.
See his paper at First Monday:
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_6/witt/index.html

Also, WE WILL BE MEETING AT A NEW LOCATION!!!!

Big thank you to Armchair Media for offering their space.

Directions are here.

New day for Atlanta Media Bloggers Group

Great meeting on Thursday! Big thank you to Dan Greenfield from Earthlink for leading the discussion.

Personally, there were some eye opening ideas for me of why corporations are still hestitant to consider blogging and what obstacles they are facing and need to work out. I actually was able to integrate some of what we discussed at client meetings the next day!

We took a loose vote and decided that the third Thursday of each month works best for everyone. So go ahead and mark your calendars for Sept 21 at 7:00. Also please email me if you would like to be on the evite reminder list - sherryheyl[@]gmail.com

We may also have a new location for the meetings so stay tuned.

Meeting Announcements and a New Blog

Hi Everyone,

Reminder that the Atlanta Media Blogger's Group will be meeting this THURSDAY, August 17 at 7:00 PM at The Loop Pizza Grill and not on Wednesday. Dan Greenfield of Earthlink will be leading the discussion. I will get there earlier in the day to try put a fan in the loft in the attempt to ensure that it is usable.

Also, please mark your calendars for the Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum lunch meeting at the Cobb Galeria. The discussion is on Intellectual Property Rights on an Open Web. Steve Wigmore, an Attorney from King & Spalding will be presenting. We could use some enlightened questions from this group.

Finally, I just launched the Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum blog. The online forum for Fortune 1000 companies and other organizations to discuss best practices for electronically conducting business with their customers, suppliers and distributors. Check it out and please help me in building this community. Thanks

Attacking Citizen Journalism

Hey Jim Stroud, Didn't you recently find an article that stated that bloggers had the same rights as Journalist?

http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2006/08/03/feds_jail_blogger/

Feds Jail Blogger

In the first known case of a blogger being jailed by federal authorities, freelance journalist and blogger Josh Wolf was jailed Tuesday after refusing to turn over video he took at an anti-capitalist protest in San Francisco and for not testifying before a grand jury examining whether crimes took place at the protest, writes the New York Times.

...But he refused to hand over the tapes to investigators, arguing that he had the right as a journalist to shield his sources