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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