Join me June 19 at Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley

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Well, I had planned to do a “soft launch” of all the content for the inuagural Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley this week while Patrick Boegel and I scrambled to find a second sponsor. I set up the Facebook group, Twitter account, event registration page and a page on this site (see the SMB-TV link above) and figured I’d publish everything to test it out and then let it sit dormant until I nailed down a co-sponsor and was ready to start promoting.

Hah! Not so much. The registration site was quickly found out and within the first 24 hours of the registration site going live, almost half the seats are gone! Apparently there’s a lot of interest in the Capital Region in learning more about social media.

I’m truly excited to bring this event to Tech Valley. We have a trio of outstanding panelists lined up for the first event: Stuart Foster, Mike Germano and Rhea Drysdale are all extremely knowledgeable in the social media space and I’m sure they’ll give us lots to think about. It will also be great to meet and network with other social media enthusiasts in the area. I hope you’ll join us Friday, June 19, from 8-10 am at the BluStone Bistro in Colonie.

If you’re interested in attending, grab a seat now! They’re free, thanks to our sponsorship from All Over Albany, but seats are limited. Guess we’ll have to get a bigger room for SMB-TV #2!

*We’re still in need of a co-sponsor for this event! Please contact me if your organization is interested in partnering with us and co-sponsoring SMB-TV #1 with All Over Albany.

UPDATE: SUNY Cobleskill has agreed to not only sign-on as co-sponsor for SMB-TV#1, but they are also committing to being involved as a sponsor for SMB-TV#2. Thanks, SUNY Cobleskill!

Here’s my “I’d like to thank the Academy” speech: I’m very grateful to Arik Hanson for putting the bug in my ear and encouraging me to take this on. Thanks to Bryan Person, SMB founder, for offering his thoughts and advice on how to get this started in Tech Valley. Many thanks to Patrick Boegel for being a great sounding board and helping with the planning. I’m so appreciative of Greg & Mary at All Over Albany for their sponsorship and to our three panelists for agreeing to be SMB-TV guinea pigs. And I’m thankful to everyone who’s attending the event! Looking forward to the first of what I hope will be many great breakfasts!

2 thoughts on “Join me June 19 at Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley”

  2. I sound like a broke record saying this so often lately, but it bears repeating (without sounding too “fatherly”): I’m so proud of you. The initiative, drive and commitment to pull something like this together is huge. Just ask my friend Rick Mahn up here in MN. Congratulations, Amy. I’m so happy you’ve done the heavy lifting to get SMB off the ground in the Albany area and that many folks will soon know what I’ve known for some time now. You are a rock star.

    Keep it up.

    @arikhanson