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A brief "state of the union" update for DC’s Social Media Club.

It’s already been a great year for DC’s Social Media Club (SMC-DC). We kicked off with our September meeting on Social Technologies in Associations and Non-Profits. Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation LLC moderated and Fleishman-Hillard hosted the event.

Our October meeting brought us some insight into government agency use of Web 2.0 technologies. Brian Giesen planned the event and John Bell moderated. The entire Ogilvy Digital Influence 360 team hosted.

Thank you so much to everyone who has participated and brought together great panels and content for members. If you’re not already following the SMC-DC conversation on Twitter, check out the  hashtag #smcdc for additional updates. Also be sure to follow @socialmediaclub for more information about the national organization.

Upcoming 2008-2009 Meetings

NOVEMBER 2008

Date and time: November 12, 2008 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Location: National Press Club

Description: How to Apply Local Search, Social Media Search, and Trusted Networks to your Web Marketing and Outreach

**REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE – CLICK HERE**

Special thanks to Jared Goralnick of AwayFind & Technotheory for organizing and moderating this event, and we greatly appreciate Beth Shankle and the National Press Club for kindly providing the venue.

DECEMBER 2008

Date: December 10th, 2008

Location: TBD

Description: Clearspring’s Justin Thorp will be talking about how, if you want to get your content or Web app seen, you need to have a distribution/sharing strategy that will help to get it out into the marketplace, where people spend their time online.

More details to come, but should be a great discussion with Justin!

JANUARY 2009

Date: January 14, 2009

Location: TBD

Description: Government 2.0: Part II. We’re still finalizing details, but this follow up to October’s meeting will feature government agency and social media experts Mark Drapeau, Associate Research Fellow, National Defense University; Steve Field, Media Relations Manager, Ground Systems at BAE Systems; and Chris Dorobek, Federal News Radio co-anchor, The Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris and former FCW Editor-in-Chief.

2009 and Beyond

We’re still looking to plan meetings in 2009. If you know of interested individual keynote speakers, panelists, have other ideas for meetings or looking are to get involved with SMC-DC, then please let us know! Venue and sponsorship opportunities also available. Please e-mail your inquiry using the subject line SMC-DC 2009. Contact information below.

In other exciting news, next year the SMC-DC Chair position will be turning over. If you have a love for event planning, social media, and our DC community of professionals, then consider putting your name or organization in the running. More details to come, but the position will turn over in May 2009.

Our final event for this year will be BlogPotomac 2009. Save the date now for June 12, 2009. Last year was a great success, and we’re looking forward to planning another great event for 2009. More details to come!

Questions, concerns, confessions?

Please CONTACT Larissa Fair at larissa@livingstonbuzz.com or on Twitter (@LYF108) for more information.

Connect with others on the SMC-DC Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2419741913