SMCHI Announces Changes To Educational Events

When SMCHI started over 3 years ago, social media was an emerging trend, and today its a full-blown phenomenon changing the lives of businesses, nonprofits, governments and touching the lives of individuals. As social media grows, so does SMCHI. We’ve held or helped plan over 50 events in that time. We’ve had generous volunteer speakers from [...]

Time-Saving Social Media Tools Workshop on May 14

#SMCHI Event: May 14, 2012

Save the Date! Time Saving Social Media Tools Workshop with #SMCHI Join us at Amuse Wine Bar for a hands-on workshop with Social Media Club Hawaii on May 14th at 6pm. There is an abundance of social media management tools, but how do you know which one will work for you? We’ll answer your questions [...]

#DaBusHNL App Launch and Tweetup Case Study

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In the early months of 2012, Code for America fellows swept into Honolulu. For those unfamiliar, Code for America is a nonprofit organization who seeks to technically support cities who are looking to harness the City 2.0 concept: blending community with technology. Suddenly, at all kinds of tech and social media events, you could count on seeing [...]

SMC Book Review: Get Bold by Sandy Carter

Social Business “embeds social in all its processes, connecting people to people, people to information and data to insight. It is a company that engages its employees and clienst in a two-way dialogue with social  tools, is transparent in sharing its expertise beyond its four walls and is nimble in its use of insight to [...]

Social Media Policy Planning – Event Recap

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WOW! We kicked 2012 off in style with the help of some great panelist and an awesome and engaged audience, both in person and on the live stream. We gave away the book Get Bold from Sandy Carter to @libz. I am in the process of reading this book and I highly recommend it; we’ll be [...]

Mobile Content Spans Multiple Screens

The Nielson Company’sThree Screen Report found 57% of Internet users use TV and Internet simultaneously at home–and since then the iPad and tablet computers have surged in popularity. The rise of mobile media is causing one of the most significant changes to consumer behavior since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Today’s smartphone users are [...]

Social Media Guidance From the Trenches

Social Media Guidance From the Trenches

On any given day, I post 3-4 times on 6-8 different Facebook pages, send out 50-60 tweets under 6-8 accounts, participate in an hour-long tweet chat, upload a YouYube video, publish a blog, respond to 20-30 emails all while monitoring and responding to questions or mentions for all of these accounts. That was a mouth [...]

SMCHI BOD Kick Off Meeting 2012

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WOW. Get five energetic, creative people in a room, mix in a Google Hangout, add a little beer, some pupus and what do you get?  Insane brainstorming, problem solving and ideas. Your BOD this year is ALL in and I think its going to be an exciting year. It goes without saying that so many [...]

Social Media Bootcamp for Hawaii HR Professionals

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Social Media “Boot Camp” for Hawaii Human Resources, Recruiting & Staffing professionals JOIN US FOR A HALF-DAY WORKSHOP & LUNCH BUFFET Friday, February 10, 2012 – 11:30am to 5:00pm Lunch & Learn at Amuse Wine Bar Cupola Theater in the Honolulu Design Center Learn how new trends at the intersection of human resources & social [...]

Creating a social media policy for business – what, how and when?

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As more and more businesses immerse themselves in social media, the need for a company-wide social media policy becomes more and more apparent. Because social media impacts so many areas of a business including marketing, customer service and human relations to name some more obvious examples, creating a policy can present some unique challenges for businesses. Whether [...]