Social Media Club Los Angeles – SMCLA

Discover how to leverage Social Media to boost your search engine rankings at this month’s SMCLA panel on “SEO in your social media strategy:  Links and Other Tactics”.   As an added bonus, learn about Social Media ROI from Forrester Research. Our all-star panel includes SEO heavy-hitters: Tony Adam SEO Manager, Yahoo! http://tonyadam.com Barbara Bowser Social [...]

This is Max Gladwell’s third list of “10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media.” The first was posted a year ago today on Sustainablog.org, and the sequel followed five months later. If a single headline can capture the Max Gladwell raison d’etre, this is it.

Jessica Gottlieb with her husband. (Photo Credit: @wmmarc) We had the pleasure of catching up with Los Angeles’s very own #1 Mommy Blogger @JessicaGottlieb recently where we were able to dig a bit deeper into what makes this #MotrinMom tick, how she feels about pay for post, and how she expects her children to react [...]

Anne Plese from Cisco Systems weighs in on her responses to our panel questions from the 3/31 SMCLA panel on Brand Building via Social Media.  Anne’s responses represent the larger and more established brands as she focuses on Cisco’s world-wide go-to-market strategy in the data center market – a US $86B market. Cisco’s data center [...]

Hey, guess what? Blankspaces offered any SMCLA bloggers participating in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge a MONTH OF FREE WORKSPACE!!!!    If this isn’t motivation enough to take the challenge and to get on over there to work face to face, I don’t know what is.  Hey, I’m still stuck on Day  [...]

We’re joining 10,000 other bloggers around the word in a 31 day challenge to “Build a Better Blog”.   It’s not too late to register if you’re interested. Be sure to head over to http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/03/25/31-days-to-build-a-better-blog-sign-up-here/ Be sure to head over to the SMCLA Facebook Group and join the discussion with all of the other SMCLA [...]

Watch the sparks fly and the tempers flare as @wmmarc and @jessicagottlieb take on our panel of experts in this video from TechZulu: Video Link: SMCLA panel on “Brand Building via Social Media” . The event took place at the wonderful Sheraton Universal on March 31st.  Big thanks to TechZulu for grabbing this video from [...]

We’re pleased to announce our next meeting where we explore “Brand Building via Social Media“  on March 31st, 2009 7:00pm to 9:00pm For our March event, we will hear from an awesome panel of people who have successfully used social media to help build their brands. Learn about best practices, how to build strategy and [...]

In anticipation of the March SMCLA gathering to discuss “Building a Brand Through Social Media”, we thought we’d offer up a brief primer, a series of quality links, and a few questions to stimulate thought. It’s always amazing to see what this group comes up with when we all put our minds to something, so [...]

From a social media perspective, we saw very little “official” brand or broadcast incorporation of all of the tools we have come to embrace as social media fans and enthusiasts. Here are just a few ideas for how the broadcasters, the brands, and even the viewing audience can improve upon this year’s toe-dip into the Social Media broadcast experience.