Social Media Club Comes to Vancouver

Social Media Club, the amazing international association started by Chris Heuer and friends, is starting a chapter in Vancouver, and I have the great pleasure and honor of leading the charge on this one.

Social Media Club’s main purpose is sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media. This facilitation of a global conversation about building an organization and a community where the many diverse groups of people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, and learn.

There are already a very large handful of social media events in the city – everything from Third Tuesday, Net Tuesday and Blogger meet ups. The city does not need yet another event for the same people to attend. So, no, SMC604 will not hold events, for the most part. If we do – and I’m still working this out, so don’t take this as though it was set in stone – the events will be speakers from around the world, who are all leaders in their fields, who have something to share. For example, Chris Pirillo was streamed into one of Chris’ events, and there are so many fantastic people, with social media insights to share – I want to bring those to Vancouver. 

The goals and mandate for SMC604 will be to be the leading association in town for Social Media, somewhere businesses can come for advice and information. We will have a database of qualified practitioners – leaving the “experts, rockstars and gurus” in the dust. We will also have a speaker’s bureau so that the next time Third Tuesday is looking for a good speaker, they’ll have somewhere to go looking for someone. There will be more, however, this is my starting point. 

What else would you add to the chapter? What else would you like to see?