The practice and pitfalls of running  promotions and games of chance through social media. Have you ever seen a promotion like these? The first 10 people who show up on Friday evening and show us this tweet get free drinks with your Pizza! Tweet why you like our company, and one of those tweets will be selected as the winner of an iPad! Everyone who Friends/Fans our page on Facebook is... [read more]

The practice and pitfalls of running  promotions and games of chance through social media. Have you ever seen a promotion like these? The first 10 people who show up on Friday evening and show us this tweet get free drinks with your Pizza! Tweet why you like our company, and one of those tweets will be selected as the winner of an iPad! Everyone who Friends/Fans our page on Facebook is entered to win tickets to the Falcons game! We see this types of posts all the time, but what are the rules, and who is breaking the law? Join Social Media Club Atlanta for a special event with guest speaker Ben Ryder from the interactive promotions agancy ePrize. We will explore the key issues and concerns in using social media to promote your business with contests, sweepstakes, and online promotions. Some of the topics we will cover include: If I want to run a contest through twitter - what are the legal issues I need to be aware of? When do I need to publish official rules, when do I need a lawyer to get involved? What are the differences between running local promotions and national promotions? What is the difference between promotions, contests and sweepstakes? What are Facebook's policies? What are Twitters? More...... Ben Ryder: Manager of Emerging Technologies with the interactive promotions agency ePrize is a member of the Social Media Club in Detroit and will visit Atlanta on Jan 27th to present this topic to the Atlanta Chapter of the Social Media Club. More information about ePrize can be found here. www.eprize.com Meeting Format: 6:00 - 7:00 Networking 7:00 - 8:00 Presentation 8:00 on......Hey, we are in a bar with our friends, stick around! More about the Social Media Club The Social Media Club's primary mission is to promote media literacy, promote standard technologies, encourage ethical behavior and share best practices. We bring together journalists, publishers, communications professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaborators. Essentially the people who create and consume media who have an interest in seeing the ‘media industry’ evolve for everyone’s benefit. We are more than just USERS, we are the reason the tools exist - we are the people who communicate our thoughts and ideas near and far. Join us and let’s shape the future together! Atlanta has a thriving social media scene and earns its ranking as one of the top cities in social media. It’s only natural that we have a strong Social Media Club to deliver programming and shine a spotlight on all the outstanding social media-related activities that take place each month in the metro area. You can also connect with us to stay abreast of the latest happenings: Facebook Group @SMCAtl on TwitterSocial Media Club Atlanta