In Review: Hawaii’s Social Media Mingle

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WOW. What a night! Smart conversation, lots of laughs and great energy filled the room at KA Restaurant on December 15, 2010. Despite busy work and social schedules, over 100 social media professionals and newbies gathered IRL (in real life) to celebrate the collective achievements of Hawaii’s social media community #HSMYIR (Hawaii Social Media Year [...]

We Want to Feature YOU at Hawaii Social Media Year in Review

Our year end event is all about you. It is a party to celebrate the accomplishments of the people and the organizations in Hawaii. We are not having a contest – we are acknowledging all of our peers for their myriad of accomplishments! (If you want a contest, submit your brilliant social media campaigns to [...]

Dec 15: Hawaii Social Media Year in Review

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As the Hawaii chapter of the international Social Media Club organization, we have completed two years of free outreach to the community of businesses, nonprofits, government, and educators. We have seen enormous change and a tremendous adoption of social media practices here in the ʻaina and we want to celebrate you. Tag your conversations with [...]

Building a social media strategy – session handouts

Aloha Social Media aficionados! We’re so excited for our Nov. 9th meeting at KA restaurant. The format for this session is going to be a little different, we’ll be putting our collective energies together to create a social media strategy. You’ll have the chance to work together, moderated by some of Hawaii’s most experienced social [...]

November 9: Building a Social Media Strategy

For our November, 2010 program, we will dive deeper into the age old question: “How?!” With over 91 million web pages dedicated to telling the world about social media, we’re pulling in local experts to give us their insights on developing a social media strategy relevant to the Hawaii market. Many times, the focus is [...]

Join Us at the Hawaii Social Media Summit! Oct 5th

Technology News Bytes is presenting their annual one-day technology expo and this year they are honoring Social Media and supporting YOU in numerous ways: There are several featured speakers (local and mainland experts) with a full day of seminars, luncheon, and exhibits. (Rob Bertholf, Dan Zelikman, Jesse Stay, Nate Riggs, Andy Beal, Simon Fiddian, Eric [...]

Social Media Club – Getting it together

Building on the momentum of the collaborative and engaged “practitioners” meeting in August, the Social Media of Hawaii (SMCHI) is beginning to take steps to deliver us onto the next phase of our growing club. Overwhelmingly, Hawaii’s social media practitioners expressed an interest in growing the club and attaining nonprofit status, which will allow SMCHI [...]

Notes from our Meeting with the Social Media Pros

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First, I would like to thank everyone for your understanding about our desire to hold a “professionals only” meeting this month. It was a very useful and informed discussion, and I believe everyone will be a beneficiary from our collective meeting and clearing of the minds! History: I launched our Hawaii chapter in October 2008, [...]

August 10: For Social Media Professionals Only

Our monthly gathering is Tuesday, August 10, 6 p.m. at ING DIRECT Cafe! We’ll be upstairs in the Ali?i Board Room It hurts a little to type out this title, but this meeting is to reach out to and support those who are in the business of providing social media services. We are upgrading our [...]

Social Media University: This November

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Our parent organization, the Social Media Club, is putting on its first ever international conference. Here is the initial scoop. We’ll keep you posted with details or you can just bookmark the Social Media University website and track things for yourself! Direct from the SMC: Social Media University is being produced by Social Media Club [...]