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
April 27, 2012 By 5 Comments
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
April 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Social Media Policy Planning – Event Recap
February 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Social Media Guidance From the Trenches
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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?
January 23, 2012 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
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