I’m just glad you had priorities straight and mentioned the “social” aspects of the Social Media Club. It was fun bar hopping with you. Speaking of social, your dating advice was fairly useful until the sangrias, pheasant and tripe (yes tripe) sandwiches kicked in.
Cheers, Adam

Sorry to have missed this; I was meant to have been at the SNCR event but ended up having to go to Cali instead. Thanks for posting details.

GPC

Thanks for the write-up. FYI, the event tag is smcboston — I only mentioned it once at the event, and didn’t blog it till today, so my bad…

A few comments on points you made…

You’re right, it was a strong PR lean, and the reasons are clear: #1 – Edelman (see this post: http://bostonwtf.com/smc-boston-2006-11-02). #2 – The mandate from the agency bosses to figure this stuff out and start using it and, ultimately of course, selling it.

Not that we don’t want all us agency types at these events, as networking is important (for instance, I finally got to meet SHIFT’s Todd Defren F2F), but we also want to see more technologists and users showing up. We’ll make sure that future programs are tuned to draw those audiences as well. Send me a note at toddv@topazpartners.com (I gave up on spam-proofing my emails a long time ago) if you’d like to help plan future events.

On your point about more advanced discussions, I agree here too. Our intention is to follow this event up with more focused events that, for instance, offer two tracks (newbies and veterans) or one general and one specific topic.

Oh, the whole hThing is the legacy of hCalendar, iCard and classic geek naming conventions. Thanks for the social media release plug, though. We’re looking for input on the spec, and appreciate any and all support we can get on it.

See you at the next SMC event!

- Todd

Journalists would welcome SMPR, too, if they’re done correctly.

Thankfully, people who want to self-promote are no longer at the mercy of journalists. A well-written SMPR can attract attention quickly, and it lives on forever, unlike the traditional press releases of old that lived for about one day, or less, depending on how quickly a reporter tossed them in the wastebasket.

Amen to your post. Great night, great conversation. I look forward to the next gathering of the MediaMinds… it’ll be interesting to see the scale and breadth of the group’s influence in Boston. Cheers!