Social Media Blog by Michael Brito
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If you have nothing else to do on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 6:00 PM, please join us at Rosie McCanns at Santana Row. It’s for a great cause for children who need our help. You can purchase tickets here (they are cheap); and even if you can’t make it, you can always give up a latte for the day and donate some coin. Janet Fouts and Shel Israel will be singing their respective books, Twitterville and Social Media Success. Books will be for sale at the event.
… at least in my little corner of the world in Silicon Valley it doesn’t. I often get pinged by recruiters, headhunters and various friends of mine about open positions, jobs and consulting opportunities they are looking to fill. Usually, they ask me if I know someone who is looking for a new opportunity (which is also an indirect question for me too; but sorry, I am taken). It’s not because I am special or anything like that; but I really do like to help people. In fact, that’s one reason why I started Silicon Valley Tweetup; to connect people that share common interests. At the end of the day, this brings me joy.
And, I guess this makes sense, right? With reports and data like this, this, this and this; it’s no wonder why so many companies/agencies are ramping up to hire good people; [...]
I had the opportunity to present at the Social Media World Forum earlier this week. I talked about Actionable Listening on the Social Web and highlighted a few case studies; one from Starbucks and the other from Intel. Christine Tran did an excellent job capturing notes from most of the conference including my twenty minutes. I was definitely not on my game when I presented. The audience was a little quiet and didn’t laugh when I tried to crack a joke. Whatever.
I also had the opportunity to chair the next day and also serve as the moderator for several panels, mostly about mobile and social gaming; two topics I am not too familiar with. It was a long day, but it was definitely fun.
For me, the true value of attending conferences is meeting people, as well as seeing old friends. As usual, it was great to catch up [...]
I am sure someone else has already thought of this but the idea came to me after I ousted @Mediaphyter from her mayorship of 24 Hour Fitness on Arques in Sunnyvale. It would have been awesome to walk through the doors prepping for my work out and see something like this staring at me on the wall:
