Chris Olson and Vickie Sceifers at Sept 2011 Second Saturday event

Welcome to episode 005 of the New Media Cincinnati podcast. Thanks to Don and Vickie Sceifers and Chris Olson for moderating the September Second Saturday event! Don and Vickie also provided the audio from the event, which is here in this episode.

This episode was recorded on Saturday, September 10, 2011.

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Questions From A Hat! NMC Sept 2011 Second Saturday – New Media Cincinnati Podcast

Running time: 1:19:40

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Intro and outro music is “Surf Babe” by Alamantra

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Rapid changes to social networking platforms have occurred recently that can leave your personal brand a bit naked on the web.  This month we focus on Facebook Privacy Settings and the steps you can take to apply a “digital fig leaf” (thanks Don Sceifers!) to your online brand.  Facebook rolled out some changes in December 2010 that capitalize on the prodigious use of photo-sharing and the interconnections of each person’s social graph.

Facebook users upload thousands of photos/month which are affected by the following new releases:

• New Profile Layout
• Facial Recognition Tagging in Photos

New Profile layout for personal pages includes a series of five photos across the top of the page below your name and any personal information you have shared (city, schools, birthday, etc.). While many have seen the new profile in action as the release continues to roll out, what you might not realize is that the pictures selected are the last five tagged pictures of you.  So in other words, one of the first things that people will see, are five pictures that are connected to you that you may not have even uploaded.

Facebook is employing facial recognition software to suggest tags (individual names) for people present in uploaded photos. This becomes a feature automatically for all users as the roll out progresses and you must opt-out of the service to prevent friends from using this feature on photos of or about you.

What you can do to edit privacy settings for each of the new releases:

1. Go into Account Settings

2. Choose Customize Settings Option

3.  Go to ‘Photos & Videos I’m Tagged In’ and edit each accordingly

4.  Choices include: Only  Me, Friends, Friends of Friends, Everyone & Custom edit by individual friend

5.  Next go to ‘Suggest Photos of me to friends’ and disable if it is live on your profile

Auto-tagging with Facebook Facial Recognition Features

Michelle Beckham-Corbin, Owner, C3: Creating Connections Consulting

A couple weeks ago we put out the call for nominations for the New Media Cincinnati Digital Awards. You still have time to get your nominations in! We’re accepting nominations until Wednesday, November 5, 2010 at 5 PM Eastern time. Email daniel at newmediacincinnati dot com. UPDATE: Nominations are now closed. I received one additional nomination, for Kevin Dugan, which I’ve included below. Voting is now open – register here.

Below are the nominations received so far. I’ve also included the text – where provided to me – that others have used when nominating.

NMC Digital Native Award

Mike Boehmer

• “I believe Mike Boehmer deserves to win the NMC Digital Award. I know from personal experience that Mike spends so much time reading books and searching the Internet to learn the latest trends. And he is always on his Droid and uses other tools to practice what he knows… And he generously shares his knowledge with others through networking, personal contacts and his blog. Mike has become known around the city as someone who not only knows social media; but actually practices it.

  “Here is a list of talks and services he has given free of charge to help promote digital literacy and community building over the past year:

  • Bold Fusion by Cincinnati USA Chamber of Commerce in 2009
  • Clermont County Chamber of Commerce Social Media Bootcamp
  • Cincinnati PRSA chapter
  • Ohio Job and Family Services IT directors in Columbus
  • Ohio Job and Family Services county and state agency directors in Columbus
  • New Thought Unity Center community training session
  • Hamilton County employees training
  • Applesiders (Apple users) group
  • Arkansas Department of Human Services
  • Served as the first social media chair of the Cincinnati Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. Tweeted and/or blogged from many of PRSA’s events this year
  • Was named Hamilton County Employee of the Year for Innovation in 2009 (to help improve communication with the community after the agency’s  cutbacks)
  • Social media work at Hamilton County JFS has been detailed in several national government journals
  • Served as guest blogger at BlogWell and guest Tweeter at Bold Fusion 2010.
  • Always tweeting/blogging from events such as the Digital Non-Conference.”

Michelle Beckham

• “… for her inspiration and leadership in delivering for our community Social Media with a servant’s soul.”
• “I would like to nominate Michelle Beckham for the Digital Native Award  She has been helping the community with presenting & teaching classes for New Media over that past year.”
• “This is the hardest one, because I feel like it described so many of our members. I would like to nominate Michelle Beckham-Corbin because I feel like she has a reach beyond the online community and is able to help non-natives feel comfortable and see the benefits of social media.”

Daniel Johnson, Jr.

• “I nominate Daniel Johnson, Jr. No one else is out as early and often as him.”

Christian Sheehy

• “I am nominating Christian Sheehy for the Digital Native Award. Christian is the manager of the TechCenter in the main public library downtown. Since he was hired into the position, he increased the quantity and quality of free classes, enabled TechCenter staff to develop new classes, and has taught countless people skills from using a mouse to connecting with people over LinkedIn.

Kevin Dugan

UPDATE: Kevin Dugan has asked to be removed from the list of nominees so that others may receive the spotlight. More details here.

• “I would like to nominate Kevin Dugan for the Digital Native Award. Kevin goes above and beyond to bring best-in-class business examples of digital/social media tool implementation to the surrounding community via the many touch-points that carry his digital signature:
  • @prblog on Twitter
  • Strategic Public Relations Blog
  • Co-Founder of Cincinnati Social Media (CincySM, Inc.)
  • Moderator for the CincySM LinkedIn Group Community
  • and multitude of other spaces.

Kevin is the tireless face that is pushing the message about the great things that are happening in Cincinnati; whether it’s P&G’s Man of the House Blog, The Brandery, or United Way’s social media campaign to raise awareness and donations. His efforts are contributing to Cincinnati’s development as a digital hub. Kevin volunteers his time and expertise as a speaker at many local events/conferences like SummitUp. He is the real deal talking about how the rubber in social media meets the road and makes an impact on business results.

NMC Digital Giving First Award

Michelle Beckham

Vickie Sceifers

Christiaan Todd

• “I’m nominating Christiaan Todd for the Digital Giving First Award. He is the go to guy when it comes to techy stuff.  He is always sharing apps for my phone or computer that make life simpler and fun.  He analyzes and knows the best tools to get the job done.  He has been very active on LinkedIn, FB,Twitter, YouTube, his company’s blog, and our NMC group.  He loves to take pics to promote the NMC group.  He is always giving advice on forums, suggesting phones to use, processes to follow. People are always calling, DMing, posting, and asking how to do “this is or that” when it comes to communicating through New Media – and he loves to share the cool tools he knows.  I’m always amazed at the information he knows.  He just gets it and he doesn’t mind helping others.  Maybe one day I can convince him to start a blog sharing the cool tools and tips he knows (actually Michelle Beckham suggested this recently and I think it is a grand idea).”

Crystal Thies

• “Crystal Thies was the first person I thought of here. She is so willing to share her knowledge, and I know her help has had an impact on many members of NMC, and the greater community as well.”

NMC Digital Go the Distance Dedication Award

Tom Rockhold

• “I nominate Tom, the heavy duty tech guy who lives in Reynoldsburg, Ohio and comes down to almost every meeting we have in Cincinnati.”

Daniel Johnson, Jr.

• “I’m nominating Daniel Johnson, Jr. for the Digital Go the Distance Award. Daniel not only founded the group but has kept it going.  He has not only kept it going but kept it interesting and fun.  His knowledge and innovativeness are very inspiring. I love when people come up with great ideas and he is full of them.”

Don and Vickie Sceifers

• “I want to nominate a team for this one, if that’s allowed: Don and Vickie Sceifers! I know they don’t technically travel extraordinarily far, but the resources they’ve used to help the community, with video and Ustream, etc, have been awesome (especially when I’ve been sick and had to miss a meeting!)”

Earlier this month we met for the first time at Molly Malone’s in Covington and talked about the need for a Steering Committee to help move the group forward.

Please join me in congratulating the following people, who stepped forward and were accepted by the group to be the inaugural New Media Cincinnati Steering Committee.

They are listed in no particular order, except how I’d written them down (links to their Twitter accounts):

• Mary Beth Dunn
• Anne Castleberry
• Don Sceifers
• Margo Rose
• Michelle Beckham
• Sue MacDonald
• Crystal Thies

Last Thursday a number of us got together at TalkShoe to talk about New Media Cincinnati. We’ve been holding these planning conference calls since May 2009 as a way to share thoughts and set expectations for the upcoming Second Saturday event.

Many thanks to Don Sceifers, Vickie Sceifers, Anne Castleberry, and Michelle Beckham for joining me for the discussion.

On this call we talked about what it was like having the first event in Northern Kentucky at Lazer Kraze. Check out this video that Chris and Anne put together:

In addition, we heard Don, Vickie, and Anne share about Podcamp Ohio/Wordcamp Columbus, which happened at The Ohio State University earlier this month.

Next New Media Cincinnati will be at Molly Malone’s Irish Pub in Covington on July 10, 2010 from 3-5:30 PM. Are you signed up to get an email invitation?

We wrapped up the discussion with some ideas on what the Steering Committee for New Media Cincinnati might look like (more on that in a future blog post). Don let slip a fun, fantastic idea for an upcoming Second Saturday event, and Anne plugged the Digital Hub Nonconference and related events around that.

Music from Drew LaPlante: “I Believe In You”

Last week we spent some time chatting about the upcoming New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday, which will be on February 13, 2010. Direct download (mp3, 57:27, 51.7 MB).  Many thanks to all who participated live on the call, whether you were able to dial in or not. We played music from local artists, recapped our time together in January, and discussed some ideas for the February event and some ways you might be able to participate.

Music

Special thanks to Michelle Beckham-Corbin for connecting us with The Honneycombs, another band from the Cincinnati area. I’ve enjoyed listening to their music in the background while working.  Check them out at the Leo Coffeehouse on March 7, 2010 for their CD release party.  With their permission, we played three of their songs:

• “Live a Little”
• “In Bed with Victor Hugo“
• “Big Magoo”

Bumper music used at the end is “Surf Babe” from Alamantra as found on Mevio’s Music Alley. Thanks again to them for letting us use their music on this program.

Social Media Event Calendar

• Breanna Gaddie keeps a great calendar of networking events on her Networking with Passion blog
• New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for February 2010: February 13, 2009 from 4-7 PM at The Pub at Rookwood Mews. Details and RSVP coming shortly.
• Cincinnati Social Media group:
  • Check out the LinkedIn group and via prblog
  • Get on the Cincinnati Twitter List
• Cincinnati Women Bloggers: Check out their website and via cinwomenblogger

Discussion

• Don Sceifers joined me on the call and mentioned that it was useful to have Chad from Outerwoven present to bring the group up to speed on 2009 changes to the tax laws.
• Other chatroom/call participants:
  • Michelle Beckham
  • Christiaan Todd
• January Second Saturday:
  • We were definitely encouraged that so many people came out to the January Second Saturday event. Recap post: Seventy Social Networkers in a Patio at The Pub.
  • A great number of people had come to New Media Cincinnati for the first time.
• February Second Saturday:
  • Twitter will be the main vehicle for communication: #newmediacincy
  • New Media Cincinnati will broadcast links to UStream to Twitter.
  • Topic – we discussed a number of topic possibilities
    • Valentines Day theme – social media tools you love
    • Related: What’s on tap for you in 2010? What projects, tools, etc. are you passionate about in 2010 so far?
    • 5-minute JOLTs from different people
    • Questions from a Hat – questions organized by general topic beforehand
    • Some combination of the above
• It’s time to delegate more tasks to people interested in helping with the group.
  • Some ideas:
    • Guest hosts
    • Event check-in (nametags, etc.)
    • Setting up/tearing down/clean-up
    • Content curation (photography, other video, audio podcast posts)
    • Guest blogging at newmediacincinnati.com
  • Get in touch if you have strengths and desire in any of these areas to help out, or any other suggestions as to where you can contribute

Next Steps

• Sign up at the master list: http://budurl.com/NMCEmailSignup
• Look for the Eventbrite invitations for New Media Cincinnati via e-mail and at the website in the next day or so.
• Contact me if you’d like to be added to the list.
• Make plans to attend the next Second Saturday event for 2010 on February 13, 2010!
• Get ready for another great discussion and some great open networking.

[photo credit: Librarian by Day]

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We had a good time chatting about the upcoming New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday. Direct download (mp3, 57:27, 52.5 MB).  Many thanks to all who participated live on the call, whether you were able to dial in or not.  Please check out the twitterstream from the chat.

Music

Special thanks to Dayton-area singer/songwriter and New Media Cincinnati friend Rich Palmer for giving permission to play his music. You can follow Rich on Twitter: @richpalmer.

• “Don’t Tell Me Any Lies” (unreleased, played through special permission)
• “Avatar Girl” (via Mevio’s Music Alley)

Bumper music used is “Surf Babe” from Alamantra as found on Mevio’s Music Alley. Thanks again to them for letting us use their music on this program.

Social Media Event Calendar

• New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for November 2009: November 14, 2009 from 4-7 PM at The Pub at Rookwood Mews. Details and RSVP coming shortly. This is the last meetup for 2009!
• Cincinnati Social Media group:
  • Check out the LinkedIn group and via prblog
  • Get on the Cincinnati Twitter List
• Cincinnati Women Bloggers: 4th Saturday of the month. Details coming soon at their website and via cinwomenblogger

Discussion

• Special thanks to Carole Hicks for the idea for having a simultaneous meetup at the recent SummitUp in Dayton. She set up the New Media Dayton twitter feed for news about the group.
• Bryan Suddith will be the host for the New Media Dayton event.
• Other chatroom/call participants:
  • Jeanne Bernish
  • Jeff Hertlein
  • Don Sceifers
  • Bill Green
  • Jim Sutter
  • Michelle Beckham
  • Chris Celek
  • Jim Farley
  • Jennifer Mitchell
  • Margo Rose
  • Vickie Sceifers
  • Sara Carbaugh
• Don Sceifers talked about how UStreaming of events has developed throughout 2009 to the quality it is now.  We have wireless microphones and portable speakers, and Don and Tom Rockhold have been doing a great job managing this aspect of Second Saturdays.
• October Second Saturday review:
  • Branding/ice-breaker exercise was well-received.
    • Name tag with a word you use to describe yourself
    • Smaller tags to write down words to describe others you’ve had conversations with
  • We were able to meet and talk with just about everyone
• November Second Saturday:
  • Twitter will be the main vehicle for communication (#newmediacincy, #NMD)
  • New Media Cincinnati will broadcast links to UStream to Twitter.
  • We will look for a link to what New Media Dayton will do.
  • Depending on the technology used, we might be able to “cohost” one another’s streams.
  • Don Sceifers is the point person for New Media Cincinnati UStream. Dylan Combs might also be a resource.
  • Topic – since this is the last meetup for 2009, we’ll be talking about
    • What we’ve learned in 2009
    • How we’ve changed in 2009
    • Everyone shared some really inspiring stories on the call
    • Looking forward to more on the 14th

Next Steps

• Look for the Eventbrite invitations for New Media Cincinnati via e-mail and at the website in the next day or so.
• Contact me if you’d like to be added to the list.
• Make plans to attend the last Second Saturday event for 2009 on November 14, 2009!
• Get ready for another great discussion and some great open networking.

[photo credit: Librarian by Day]

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Yesterday was another great New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday, in which people in the area passionate about social media and networking came together.  We held the event again at The Pub at Rookwood Mews in Cincinnati.  Based on the attendee list, about half the people who RSVP’d were attending for the first time. Do check it out to connect with people if you haven’t already done so.

Colleagues or Competitors?

Probably one of the least technical discussions we’ve had in some time, the topic I moderated was “Colleagues or Competitors.” Below is the series of videos from the UStream channel. See how many people you can recognize. As the host, I kept wondering if the topic was intriguing enough because people kept going back to their devices. It turns out they were just updating Twitter. Do check out the Twitterstream, following the #newmediacincy hashtag.

Extra Credit

Extra special thanks as usual go out to

• Don Sceifers for running the UStream channel and making sure levels were okay
• Tom Rockhold for bringing equipment to help make the audio in the room sound the best that it has ever been
• Amy Hicks for making sure the other wireless mic was able to get around to everyone who contributed in the discussion

Intro and announcements

Part 1 of the UStream videos (direct link, 3:43)

Social Media Calendar, Other Professional Groups, and ‘Coopetition’

Part 2 of the UStream videos (direct link, 29:45)

How people are making it work

Part 3 of the UStream videos (direct link, 15:56)

Looking Ahead

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the discussion, whether on the video or online or otherwise. You why this group is so valuable to our community and why it’s a pleasure to lead.

I’m sure pictures and other content will soon be showing up on Facebook, Flickr, and in other blog posts elsewhere.

Stay subscribed for details about the upcoming New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for October 2009. It’s our 2-year anniversary! Should we plan something special? We’ll talk about this and more at the upcoming community planning call, to be held in the coming weeks.

We had a good time chatting about the upcoming New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday. Direct download (mp3, 1:01:16, 56.1 MB).  Many thanks to all who participated live on the call, whether you were able to dial in or not.  Please check out the twitterstream from the chat.

Music

Through the magic of post-production, I added two songs from The Lions Rampant:

• “Let Us In! (Come On)”, The Lions Rampant
• “Cryin’ All The Time”, The Lions Rampant

The theme music used at the beginning and end is called “Surf Babe” from Alamantra as found on Mevio’s Music Alley. Thanks again to them and other artists for letting us use their music on this program.

Social Media Event Calendar

• New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for September 2009: September 12, 2009 from 4-7 PM. Details and RSVP coming shortly.
• Cincinnati Social Media group:
  • Check out the LinkedIn group and via prblog
  • Get on the Cincinnati Twitter List
• Cincinnati Women Bloggers: 4th Saturday of the month. Details coming soon at their website and via cinwomenblogger
• Amy Cribbs is organizing Cincinnati Reds outing:
  • September 20, 2009 1:10 PM
  • Tickets: $9 and are available
  • Section 529 reserved, near cheap hot dogs/soda/beer
  • Free Cracker Jacks for everyone!

August 2009 Second Saturday Review

• Thanks to Don Sceifers and Eric Marschall for joining in on the call.
• The Questions from a Hat format really works well for this group because we’re able to tap into the collective knowledge that each person attending has.

September 2009 Second Saturday Format

• New Media Cincinnati. Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). American Marketing Association (AMA). Business Networking International (BNI).
• Groups such as these and many others are made up of people in similar professions and backgrounds.
• How do individuals and businesses in these organizations engage one another?
  • Do we come to events to solicit business from other attendees?
  • How should this be done amicably, if at all?
  • Should/do organizers of events get any remuneration from this type of business being done?
  • What if someone wants to promote something to the group that will mean income for them?
  • What makes you as a potential customer pick one person/colleague over another?
• Get ready for a great discussion.

Next Steps

• Look for the Eventbrite invitations via e-mail and at the website in the next day or so.
• Contact me if you’d like to be added to the list.
• Make plans to attend the next Second Saturday event.
• Get ready for another great discussion and some great open networking.

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