Category Archives: Resources

Blogging for Fun and Profit

By Jessica Petersen, SMC of SLC member In March 2009, I sat in a room full of SXSW attendees listening to food bloggers discuss their love for food and how they have made their success. One of these bloggers was Salt Lake City local, Kalyn Denny of Kalyn’s Kitchen. Now admittedly, I don’t recall specific…

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Social Media Summit: Building Trust in a Connected World

by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt, SMC of SLC member The Utah Social Media Community is excited to welcome a social media summit, Building Trust in a Connected World, to Salt Lake City on May 11. The summit features Chris Brogan, Julien Smith, and Mitch Joel, three New York Times bestselling authors and thought leaders in social media marketing….

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Social Media Minute – You Should Be In It!

Every week UtahPulse educates and enlightens Utah’s business leaders about social media through the “Social Media Minute.” Since members of SMC of SLC are on the forefront of social media, our members write the Minute! As we head towards 2010, we’re looking for a variety of folks who would be interested in contributing to the Minute next year. It’s…

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SMCSLC Members: $100 Discount on 2-Day, Intensive Social Media Workshop

Be sure to use the SMC of SLC discount code, SMCSLCdc09, when registering!! * * * Date: Wednesday, December 9 & 10, 2009, BetaLoft (357 West 200 South, Suite 201, 84101), downtown Salt Lake City, UT. Instructor: Josh “Shua” Peters: social media author, active SMCSLC member, and consultant who has worked with Fortune 500 companies, non-profits,…

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Member Profile: Josh “Shua” Peters

It is the SMC of SLC’s pleasure to highlight member Josh “Shua” Peters: social media strategist, amateur artist, and  *major* horror movie fan. Josh is also the brand new co-author of the book Twittfaced. Josh describes himself as a “very analytical, strategic, and detail-oriented person.” Read on to learn even more about Josh. (Oh, and the next time you…

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UtahTalks connects Utahns on Twitter-like platform

Social Media Club of Salt Lake City members have yet another tool to stay connected. This one’s just like Twitter, but it’s specifically for Utahns. It’s called UtahTalks. It’s a microblogging service assembled by Stay N’ Alive Productions (@jesse). If you really need to know, it runs on the free Laconica microblogging software. We encourage…

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Poken lets you exchange social network info

As many of you know, I spent last week in Las Vegas participating in the 2nd Annual Social Media for Communicators conference. On Friday I gave a presentation on the importance of maintaining an online newsroom as a one-stop-shop for the media and a search placement tool. I’ve got a whole notebook full of notes….

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Social media case studies

I recently ran across this great list of examples of social media put to use by companies and organizations, large and small. The list is from the Interactive Insights Group and it’s titled Social Media Case Studies Superlist – 19 Extensive Lists of Organizations Using Social Media (posted 12/3/08 and updated since then). This is…

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