Not only will the October event be a great one but we’ll be announcing another great one in November! There will not be a December breakfast but the January event will be awesome including a couple of very special awards: a couple of people will be presented with awards from the following categories:

January Kick-off and Awards

Grand Contributor - chosen for their level of contribution and assistance in perpetuating and growing SMB Atlanta
People’s Choice – selected by you, the attendees, as the one person who stands out as a favorite presenter, participant
Most Engaged - Google will help choose this person as will a couple of other third party Eigenspace analyzers
Most Dependable – the person who has been most consistent in their attendance and support

There will be a couple of other categories announced as well and at least one you can “compete” for in the months of November and December.

OCTOBER 2010 Laura Scholz
http://laurascholz.com

Laura Scholz

Laura Scholz runs. She runs her social connections with true care. She runs her blog with gusto. She runs her Public Relations business with passion. She runs her fight against cancer with focus and, according to her tweet at 11AM on Saturday morning she just ran 16 miles. I can’t drive 16 miles.

Any visit to Crave Atlanta will deliver Laura’s pointed discoveries and color commentary – always stated with class and elegance. In fact Laura is the third speaker for Social Media Breakfast Atlanta who is a contributor to crave. She joins Maura Neill of 365 Atlanta and Taryn Pisaneschi of Women Intelligently Networking.

http://thecravecompany.com/atlanta/

Laura’s blog is filled with enough great content to create an entire Lifetime series. The people she admires, the work she loves, the experiences she has, and even some very personal glimpses like the passing of a friend, her occasional bouts with depression and the celebration of life are just part of the seasoning in her masterfully created word stew. Through her blog I have run with her, smiled with her, cried with her, and my heart has warmed when she writes about a friend with admiration such as her story about SXSW and my friend Sarah Evans creator of #journchat.

http://laurascholz.com/blog

According to Laura’s Twitter stream we do a lot of the same things, share many passions and stay up too late watching sports … especially the Braves. She is also a good facilitator of connections and I appreciate her multi-handshake tweets. Our shared Facebook connections are a mashup of some really great friends and people I simply enjoy following. If you are connected with Laura already it’s not a news flash that she is amicable, personable, engaging and inspiring. Her Twitter profile says a lot …

“PR 2.0 advocate/agency owner. Connector. Writer. Pretend foodie. Marathoner. Cancer hater. Cheese dip addict. Red wine lover. City mouse. Natural blonde.”

Join us on October 21, 2010 at 8AM to meet Laura in person and hear her deliver what is bound to be an inspiring speech and engaging presentation.

Register for FREE at Eventbrite http://smbatl15.eventbrite.com/

SPONSORSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE:

There are three ways to sponsor

1. Event sponsorships are available for $50 each, there are two slots. This includes being able to address the attendees for 5 minutes just prior to the keynote speaker. You will also be mentioned in the “thanks to these sponsors” in the next invitation for the next event.
2. Title sponsorship is available for $100 and obviously there is only one of these. We will change the “title” of the event to Atlanta Social Media Breakfast with “Key Note” presented by “Your Name”. Your information will also be added here on the website (as well as at Eventbrite) and your information will be included in the next invitation – up to 200 words, an image and a link.
3. Donation sponsorship – depending on the relevance and value of the item presented for a door prize, tech evaluation or other. Contact Ken at 678-439-8683 to make arrangements.

7:30 – 8:00AM pre-meeting encounters – feel free to pass out cards or your information to others
8:00 – 8:20AM ordering breakfast – you’re on your own but the menu is vast and affordable
8:20 – 8:30AM charity talk – the importance of giving
8:30 – 9:00 AM Tools, Tips and Tricks – as many as 10 tools to use in online (and off) network building
9:00 – 9:20 AM Laura Scholz – PR 2.0 and social advocate
9:20 – 9:30 AM Q&A
9:30 to end social engagement and elevator presentations from attendees

What is Social Media Breakfast Atlanta?

We are all business professionals who use online networking to meet new people, establish and develop new alliances, plan events, provide resources and much more. Our regular attendees include graphic artists and bloggers but also includes insurance agents, chefs, small business owners, real estate agents, bankers and much more. The only reason not to attend is that you just already have enough friends!

We start the meeting at 8AM but networking begins as early as 7:30. At 8AM we are eating, sipping coffee (please support the venue by buying at least a coffee or tea), and spending one on one time with one another. Generally we have one or two presenters who take about 10 minutes to share about their success with online networking but we also have people who can explain why colors are important, how choosing the right logo for your business can make all the difference in the world, and even people who can tell you how to network with a blood drive. Not joking!

Community Giving

Starting with this August event we are going to be raising money every meeting to go to a specific charity and our charity this month is MUST – Marietta United in Service and Training. Ken Cook, founder of the NW Atlanta SMB, has volunteered with MUST in the past and believes in what they do. One of the project we can really get behind is their making sure school aged children in their program have food, clothing and school supplies. Your donation here will go into the pot and we will present a check to MUST either at or shortly after the event. We will present at the event if we raise enough to make it worth their time to come.

Itinerary

7:30 – 8:00AM pre-meeting encounters – feel free to pass out cards or your information to others
8:00 – 8:20AM ordering breakfast – you’re on your own but the menu is vast and affordable
8:20 – 8:30AM charity presentation to MUST if representative is present (need to raise at least $200 for this)
8:25 – 8:45AM Tools, Tips and Tricks – as many as 10 tools to use in online (and off) network building
8:45 – 9:15AM presenters – this month’s presenters will be announced soon
9:15 – 9:xx 60 second elevator presentations from attendees
until 10AM open networking

Social Media Breakfast Atlanta April 15, 2010

Just in case you missed us we had a fantastic event at the Atlanta Bread Company on Prado Lane in Marietta (Town Center) on April 15. About 22 people showed up for the event and we enjoyed our normal great breakfast and coffee and each other.

James Ball spoke about what it means to make money from your online experience. Much more than a “Twitter 101″ session James talked about the self-less hours needed to be dedicated to your online presence, the need to engage and promote others and the way many people fail to understand how improbably it is to “buy your way to the top”.

“Paying me to do it for you [engage] is like using pay-per-click advertising”, James says, “once the budget runs out it’s over.”

Good stuff on "doing it for real"

We were also joined by a lovely family of sweet potato pie bakers who also distribute soul seasonings. They were picked on often by many present as the perfect type of business to take social for profit. One of their party, Ed Montgomery, was psyched when he left and obviously ready to hit it! Remember, Ed, if you have enough true friends you’ll never have to sell anything.

Attending today was Desiree Scales of Bella Web Design who joined us for the first time. A repeat visit from Steve Moore proved as helpful as always and so many others were on hand as well. Let’s just say it was certainly one of the best Social Media Breakfasts in Marietta to date.

Chris Foster from Georgia.com joined us as well and I’m looking forward to much more from Chris with the relaunching of that fantastic user driven site. I’ll see Chris at the Atlanta Steeple Chase very soon!

Next month you have GOT to be there! Two great speakers I am really looking forward to. Kevin Glowacki – The Atlanta Wine Guy?http://atlantawineguy.com and Taryn Pisaneschi W.I.N. ? Women Intelligently Networking?http://tarynp.com/

This week’s event was sponsored by:

Social Media Edge – social media and online consulting

Small Biz BarCamp Atlanta – all about small business and technology not just social media but legal, advertising, insurance, accounting, payroll, benefits, licensing, and much more!

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Atlanta Bread Company Town Center
2555 Prado Lane
(Barrett Pkwy Prado Center)
Marietta, Georgia 30066
770-420-9225

Want to address the group?
Planning on attending and have a relevant topic?
Submit for consideration at http://smbatlanta.icobb.com/speak

Special Guest Presenter – James Ball

James is the mind behind http://noteasytoforget.com andhttp://hellonorthgeorgia.com to name a couple. James will be presenting his marketing experience, what inspired him and what still inspires him. I know we’re really going to enjoy everything James brings to us so make sure you don’t miss this event!

James can be found on Twitter at @noteasytoforget and @HelloNorthGa

Topics for open discussion will include:

Foursquare – using it for longtail search marketing and community advocacy. Also the fear(s) – both real and imagined – about using geolocation services to interact with social media.

Blogging – is it dead? Dying? If so can that trend be reversed and does it need to be? Ken Cook has published over 3000 blog posts just in the last decade but also uses open engagement as a mainstay in community building.

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! Spring is in the air and we’re going to have a fantastic season of sun here in Atlanta. Lane, Thom and I are looking forward to organizing a great string of events and want each of you to play a major roll in the upcoming schedule.

The organizers for the Atlanta Social Media Breakfast are Ken Cook (Northwest), Lane Bailey (Northeast) and Thom Abbott (Perimeter/Intown) the founder of Social Media Breakfast is Bryan Person of Austin, Texas.

Ken is an Atlanta native with over two decades of online networking experience and is a PHP/MySQL/AJAX developer, photographer and musician. Since November 2008 he has hosted/cohosted the top Blog Talk Radio show on the subject of Social Networking “Social Media Edge” (Tuesdays at Noon Eastern?http://socialmediaedge.com) and Host of http://REtechRadio.com a Real Estate New Media and Technology Show. He most recently spent a decade as Social Media and Operations Director of NovaStar/Novation Mortgage companies and is currently a national FHA mortgage professional, blogger and trainer. Ken may be contacted directly at 678-439-8683 found on Twitter @thekencook or Skyped at thekencook

Lane is a prolific blogger and you may have met him at any number of area events Meetups/Tweetups and Bloggerodeo or New Media Atlanta. He travels as much as possible to other Social Media gatherings across the Southeast. Lane is a Real Estate Agent and car aficionado. Lane may be contacted directly at 678-200-5895 especially if you are in northeast Atlanta (Lawrenceville/Stone Mountain) and he can be found on Twitter at @LaneBailey as well as at one of his blogs http://LaneBailey.com

Thom Abbott is an Intown marketing practicioner learning to apply many social media tools to his years of experience in building his network and he is the facilitator of the Perimeter/Intown Social Media Breakfast events. He can be found on Twitter at @ThomAbbott and can be reached on his cell phone at 770-713-1505

SPONSORED BY:

Social Media Edge Radio – http://SocialMediaEdge.com every Tuesday at Noon eastern
AHK East Cobb – http://ahkeastcobb.com

Next month (May 21) join us for speakers Kevin Glowacki -?The Atlanta Wine Guy http://atlantawineguy.com and Taryn Pisaneschi W.I.N. – Women Intelligently Networking http://tarynp.com/

Join us at 7AM on August 26th at:

Atlanta Bread Company Town Center
2555 Prado Lane
(Barrett Pkwy Prado Center)
Marietta, Georgia 30066
770-420-9225
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RSVP here http://smbatlanta2.eventbrite.com/