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A little over 2 years ago, Mortgage Broker, Ken Cook and I started an event called Social Media Breakfast Atlanta (smbATL). It was actually in July, 2009. Ken was (and still is) the co-host of a show on Blog Talk Radio called Social Media Edge (it used to be called Twitter Tuesday). And I had the idea that it would be fun to get together a with a bunch of local small business owners to talk about better ways to leverage social medias.
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When we started, Twitter was all the rage. FaceBook Pages were brand new, and a lot of people hadn’t heard of them. Google Buzz and Wave hadn’t been released yet. And we hadn’t even had an inkling about Google+. In the last two years, we’ve learned more about those platforms, as well as things like Posterous, Get Glue and a PILE of tools.
We have also split the events so that there is one in Cobb County and one in Gwinnett County each month. Cobb’s event is generally the 3rd Thursday of the month and Gwinnett’s is the 4th Thursday. In Cobb, the usually take off a couple of months in the summer… in Gwinnett, we take off for the Holidays.
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For August, we have a special guess at the Gwinnett County smbATL event. Jennifer Jones of Anderson Jones PR will be talking about Social Media leveraging for small business. She has case studies and all sorts of solid reasons that we (as small business owners or principals) should be involved with Social Media. But, even better, she will be fun!
And, as usual, we will all get to socialize and meet some new folks. That’s why Ken and I started this over two years ago… to meet some cool new folks and learn some cool new tips, technologies and techniques. And we have.
You can check us out on FaceBook (1st link), and we’d love for you to join us on August 25th at the Atlanta Bread Company on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd and Satellite Blvd. We’ll be meeting there from 9:00am until around 10:30am.
