Social Media Club Forms Interim Board To Chart Strategic Direction and Advance Its Goals
July 9, 2008 by Chris Heuer
The Social Media Club (SMC), a new media and advocacy organization focused on social media, today announced that 42 well-regarded industry leaders have volunteered to form an interim Board of Directors.
The new interim board has been charted to address several key organizational and strategic deliverables, including development of membership goals, acceleration of local chapter development, increase in adoption of industry standards and implementation of a new legal structure to enhance future growth.
New interim Board Member and Adjunct Professor of Social Media at University of Miami Alex de Carvalho said “Social Media Club is an important industry organization that has been working to establish social media standards and ethics. The voluntary participation of such noted industry leaders to further its mission is a clear indication of the Social Media Club’s value and contributions. I look forward to collaborating with the new interim board to progress the Social Media Club from being a ‘big idea’ to serving the community as a prominent agent of change.”
According to Chris Heuer, founder of Social Media Club and Partner at The Conversation Group, “The Social Media Club is honored to have so many accomplished and well-regarded industry evangelists come forward to lead the organization. While the interim board will focus on charting the organization’s future direction, our core mission will remain the same: promotion of media literacy; support of industry standards efforts such as Creative Commons licensing, Microformats, Data Portability and OpenID; discussion and promotion of ethical behavior; and sharing our knowledge among our members and the industry community at large.”
Co-Founder and Social Media Club President Kristie Wells added, “We are grateful to have received so much support from around the world over the past two years. With nearly 200 paying members and over 500 open members - we are deeply appreciative of the volunteer efforts to make the Social Media Club a success. With leading corporate members, such as Business Wire and SHIFT Communications, as well as dedicated individual professionals, the Social Media Club will continue to gain momentum and serve the greater needs of the industry while sharing our lessons learned along the way.”
The board will also focus on increasing its research efforts and strengthening relationships with other organizations such as the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) and the International Association for Business Communicators (IABC). The interim board’s work will be completed once the club reorganizes as a new entity, and holds an election amongst its members for a formal Board of Directors.
The newly named/appointed members of the interim board are leading social media analysts, bloggers and business leaders, and are as follows:
- Lee Aase - Social Media University, Global
- Rohit Bhargava - Influential Marketing Blog and Personality Not Included
- Richard Binhammer - RichardatDell
- Michael Brito - Britopian and Conversations Matter
- Chris Brogan - ChrisBrogan.com
- Mike Chapman - Austin Social Media Club and Every Dot Connects
- Megan Cole - MeganCole.org
- Alex de Carvalho - alexdc.org and Social Object
- Todd Defren - SHIFT Communications and www.pr-squared.com
- Serena Ehrlich - Business Wire
- Jason Falls - Social Media Explorer
- Maggie Fox - Social Media Group
- Jon Gatrell - spatiallyrelevant.org
- Howard Greenstein - HowardGreenstein.com
- Francine Hardaway - Stealthmode
- Josh Hallett - Hyku
- Annie Heckenberger - pikpr.blogspot.com and redspurs.com
- Chuck Hester - iContact
- Chris Heuer - ChrisHeuer.com
- Sherry Heyl - Mind Blogging
- Tara Hunt - HorsePigCow
- Bill Johnston - Forum One Networks Forum and Online Community Report
- Jennifer McClure - Society for New Communications Research
- Mike McGrath - Dogpatch Dispatch
- Jake McKee - CommunityGuy.com and Ant’s Eye View
- Gregory Narain - SocialTwister
- Lee Odden - Online Marketing Blog and TopRank
- Erica OGrady - ReinventingErica.com and Peanut Butter Media
- Jeremiah Owyang - Web Strategist
- David Parmet - Marketing Begins At Home, LLC and PerkettPR
- Jackie Peters - heavyBlog
Doug Pollei - pollei.com(whoops - duplicate)- Pierre-Yves Platini - Yoono
- Douglas Pollei - Pollei.com
- Connie Reece - Every Dot Connects and Austin Social Media Club
- Chris Saad - ChrisSaad.com
- Andy Sernovitz - Word of Mouth Marketing and GasPedal
- Brian Solis - PR2.0
- J.J. Toothman - jjtoothman.net and Red Pill
- Todd Van Hoosear - Tech PR Gems
- Des Walsh - Des Walsh dot Com
- Kristie Wells - KristieWells.com
About the Social Media Club
The Social Media Club centers on the sharing of best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy with a focus on the emerging discipline of Social Media. The Social Media Club brings together journalists, publishers, communication professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaborators who create and consume media and have an interest in seeing the industry improve and evolve. The Social Media Club provides a forum for diverse groups and individuals to discover, connect, share and learn about social media and to play a role in its future evolution.
To find out more about the opportunities in social media and connect with other practitioners, visit: http://www.socialmediaclub.org
* Photo by Fabrizio Sciami, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License
Good stuff Chris. Congrats on a powerhouse lineup!
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Congrats with a few thoughts …
Great, but what are the chosen 42 going to do? Why are they Interim and for how long? Sorry, but it all reads like a standard press release (which it is) with some interesting tags.
I love the Social Media Club, Boston chapter (which Todd and I helped found). It puts on killer content with much help from Liz, GregPC, Melanie, Sandy, Brian Cavoli, others and sponsors. The chapter works because it puts on great monthly events in convenient locations and does it usually for free - folks put the events on their calendars and speakers beg to get involved.
So, it seems like you and your partners realize new ideas and directions are needed. Great! Make a difference - but don’t forget that until now many have felt that SMC is confusing, disjointed, sometime too loud and sometimes too quite. However, most also recognize an energetic organization that deserves to be followed and supported.
IMNSHO, simple goals, humility and some (better yet, many) worker bees will be the only way for the organization to remain relevant and grow.
Make it happen. As The Clash said “The Future is Unwritten.”
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SMC has been a labor of love for Chris (Heuer) and myself, which sometimes has gotten the care it deserved, and sometimes it hasn’t - so Adam has hit on the main points as to why we are doing this now, to get people together to accomplish our main goals and to move us forward in the right direction.
Several local chapters, such as; Boston, Austin and Paris have been successful, as they have been able to rally local support to help maintain it. This has not been the case for the ‘national’ portion so we are hoping to offload the ability to take action to a larger group of people and ‘make a difference’.
As for how long the interim BOD will exist, that hasn’t been determined yet, but it shouldn’t be more than 4-6 months until we can host an election of a formal board amongst paying members.
And yes, the post does read like a press release as it was written as a press release to reach a wider group of people - not just those in social media.
Lastly, while 42 on the SMC BOD might seem like overkill, there is a long list of goals, so an army is needed to push it all forward. As Chris noted in an earlier tweet, the SMC board will not need consensus on every little item, we will be split into working groups with different responsibilities.
Thanks Adam - been getting some great input from a few critical thinking folks like yourself who care. I will be writing a more detailed followup later on tonight with more details, but wanted to acknowledge your input and say ditto to my wife Kristie… We have a great idea, that has been ‘emergent’ for too long - with some great things and some not so great things that have come out of it.
We are now looking to harness the energy of the good will and relationships we have developed and take this club to the next level - having all these great people involved will ensure that happens. We also have some 200 or so paying members and 500 open/free members and have had several thousand more people attend our local meetings around the world - so we hope this interim board is able to funnel all their efforts in the right direction too - it is going to be all of us together that makes it happen, but we need a few who are willing to follow through on their commitments if it is to work at all.
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Excuse my ignorance but are Doug Pollei and Douglas Pollei two separate people? and if not - who’s the missing 42nd?
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yaaay!! congrats to all of you, and looking foward to read more about initiatives and excellent stuff you guys can do.
Best wishes!!
That seems like a crazy amount of people to coordinate, and I wonder, how effective a board can you have with that size?
What are the goals? Why not have a board of 5 and crank out some real work? I think it’s sounds nuts and overwrought. I don’t expect you to get anything done, other than advisory board level recommendations.
We’ll hold the fort in DC. Keep on rocking, Chris et al.
Chris Brogan & Lee Odden on board? Okay, I’m sold - I signed up as a member….Waiting on the free tshirt
Very nice stuff. Can’t wait to take advantage more of this organization. I’m trying to get social media and professional networking started within commercial real estate, and I have a feeling I’ll be leaning on the expertise of people in this group.
Good luck!
Nice to see a great group coming together, I too wonder how it will all function. Standards are good, I hope they don’t hinder any progress at the same time. I’m a new SMC member, but not new to social media. Looking forward to what’s to come!
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Wow… What a great list of folks!
Congrats on assembling some killer minds for the interim board.
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A 42 member board?!?!?
Chris,
I emailed Kristie that I’m interested, if you still need another nominee for the Board. I just caught the tweets in the late afternoon, so I need to catch up on the process—does this count as submitting my name? You know where to find me.;-)
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Great start!
How international is the lineup?
Is it representative?
Congrats the interim board. I’m sure great things will be done and I look forward to hearing more from the club.
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Congratulations Chris and Kristie (and btw - happy anniversary a few days late).
This group of individuals have been blazing the way in social media for a very long time. The passion, hard work and commitment of all of us in this space is something I am very proud of.
For the last 10 years I’ve been blessed to work with smart cool people. This line up is representative of that high standard. I’m so glad to call many of the Board Members.. friend and colleague!
Look forward to supporting you guys in any way I can!
Best,
Stephanie
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I nominate Chris Hambly, the instigator behind Social Media Mafia in the UK.
I moved to the UK just over a year ago and stumbled over SMM who have integrated me quickly and smoothly into the UK scene. I think Chris has local connections that would be useful to you and a killer attitude. He also speaks Italian.
Looking forward to the next installment.
Jo
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