**Please note venue change: SMCATL -- PechaKucha style -- will be held in the "big room" at Manuel's Tavern** On March 30th, we are going to try a little bit of an experiment - and have our SMCATL meeting PechaKucha or Lightning Talk style. For those of you who have never heard of PechaKucha or Ignite, it is a simple, unique, and fast paced presentation style where a presenter... [read more]

**Please note venue change: SMCATL -- PechaKucha style -- will be held in the "big room" at Manuel's Tavern** On March 30th, we are going to try a little bit of an experiment - and have our SMCATL meeting PechaKucha or Lightning Talk style. For those of you who have never heard of PechaKucha or Ignite, it is a simple, unique, and fast paced presentation style where a presenter shows 20 images or slides, each for either 15 or 20 seconds each. The images advance automatically, and the presenter speaks along with the images. (So each presentation is between 5 minutes and 6 minutes 40 seconds long!).  Also used by Ignite, and Lightning Talks, these fast paced presentations are fun, exciting, and can inspire. PechaKucha started in Tokyo, as a way for designers, architects, artists, and other creatives to get together and share their ideas, works, and thoughts in a unique and fun way. It's very social, and very fun.  To learn more about PechaKucha, please visit www.pecha-kucha.org. To learn more about Ignite, please visit http://ignite.oreilly.com/ YES!! WE WANT YOU TO DO A PRESENTATION!Well, OK...not all of you. But anyone who wants to. All I need for you to do is email me the title of your presentation, and a one sentence description of the topic. All topic submissions will be due by March 15th, and I will announce the final selections shortly after. Here are topics that have been submitted for this evening: Title:  SXSW InfluencersDescription:  No panel at SXSW was complete without talking about influencers. Now it's your turn. Presenter: Candace Kemp McCaffery, Director of Interactive Services & Social Media, Cookerly Public Relations Title: It's Hip to be Square!Description: The QR Code RevolutionPresenter: Kathlene Hestir, Social Media Manager, Case-Mate Title: Twiterns - Good or Bad?Description: Finding the balance between skills and lack of experience when bringing that GenY intern onto your team.  Presenter: Olivia Patrick, Social Media Analyst, Coca-ColaTitle: SXSW POVDescription:  1 day in the life of a SXSW attendee, POV style.Presenter:  Brian Rudolph, Digital Platforms, Coca-ColaTitle: Reasons to Take Your Brand OFFLINEDescription: Blogging online is great, but how do you humanize your blog & brand by building a face-to-face community? Presenter: Denise Quashie, Socially PlannedTitle: The Social Insights PlaybookDescription: 10 ways to use social media data to help research, optimize and measure awesome social media campaigns.Presenter: Jared Degnan, Social & Digital Media Manager, Brandware Public RelationsTitle: Disaster ResponseDescription: TBAPresenter: Ryan Taylor, AIA  President, taylor28design LLCTitle: We went to SXSW w/o leaving ATLDescription:Save your sky miles and green paper, and learn how we experienced SXSW for FREEPresenter: Stephanie Havlik, Interactive, wp-st.com | Amanda Vance, Social Media Coordinator, BrightWave Marketing Title: "5 Social Media Lessons from Istanbul's Grand Bazaar" Description: What the world's oldest marketplace taught me about social media Presenter: Garrett Kuk, Social Media Strategy Consultant, Speakeasy Media  See you on March 30th! Brian RudolphProgramming Chair, Social Media Club Atlanta - - - - - - - - - Meeting Format: 6:00 - 7:00 Networking 7:00 - 8:30 PechaKucha Presentations 8:30 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