I’ve had a lot of guilt lately about the lack of posts. WalkingSpree is booming and it’s taking up even more of my time on top of normal life. Yet, I know there will be lulls again and I think there’s a need for this information. So I’ve requested for other writers to help collaborate with me on the blog. I have a few that have come forward. If anyone else is interested in sharing with posts, please contact me.

On another note, We had our Third Tuesday Social Media Meetup in Fredericton recently. Generously sponsored by LearnNB and OrangeSprocket hosted the venue for us at their very trendy office space. radian6 had managed to arrange to have a question/answer session with social media expert Chris Brogan via the web. Chris Brogan is not only informative, we also discovered that he has a wonderful sense of humour.

Congratulations to Kira Award winners this year of which Spheric and radian6 both took away awards.

Finally, I’m in Moncton this week at AIM (Atlantic Internet Marketing Conference). I’ve already met some really interesting people and look forward to the talks tomorrow.

Last week, Third Tuesday held it’s third meeting in Moncton. Dan Martell and crew did an amazing job with promoting the event and we had a whopping attendance of approx. 120 attendees. The crowd was diverse with people from IT, marketing, business, tourism, health, and entrepreneurs. I would have to say that studio 700 was a fabulous venue.

We were fortunate to have a couple of mentions in the TJ and T&T over the last couple of weeks. Although I have to admit, that I find the mix of cybersocials and Third Tuesday in one article a little odd. However, it’s good news for everyone in the IT industry that there is more involvement and participation from all fronts. I’d also like to make sure that David Alston from radian6 is credited as the co-founder of the Third Tuesday NB group.  And I feel a need to qualify my old boy’s club statement from the article;) I was referring to how social media breaks down barriers like those that exist in the “old boy’s club”. That we can communicate with everyone on the same field from IT to business leaders to media moguls. Those of you participating understand how rich the collaboration is within social media.

You can read comments about the events and join Third Tuesday NB meetup if you haven’t already;

http://publicrelations.meetup.com/99/

This ensures that you’re on the mailing list for new events as they happen. We’re preparing out next meetup for Fredericton in April.

Lisa, Dan and Chris

And yes, we’re holding a Mac Air, courtesy of Dan. It truly is as thin and light as they say.

Rick Segal (The Post Money Value) is making his way east to do a series of roundtables for startup entrepreneurs to meet an experienced VC and ask questions.  Raising capital is an important part of a startup, so this would be a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to take advantage of. The seats are limited, so I would recommend signing up asap.

April 14th – Halifax  (8a – 10:30a) Sign up here

April 14th – Moncton ( 5p – 7p) Sign up here

April 15th – St. John’s (5p – 7p) Sign up here

Sorry for the hiatus lately. A slew of illness, work and life threw a wrench in things for a bit. But I’ve spent the last few weeks getting caught up on what’s going on in the Social Media space and now it’s time to get back to blogging.

It’s time for our next Third Tuesday Social Media Meetup. This time it’s going to be really big and Dan Martell from Spheric is leading the charge drumming up enthusiasm from every corner of the web. For the first time I’ll be doing a demo of WalkingSpree and I’m looking forward to showing an example of a commercial niche private social networking site. We have a great group of presenters and this will be a group of people with the cutting edge information on what is happening on the online media space. You definitely need to be there.

ONLINE MARKETING EVENTLet’s get social! Listen to Atlantic Canada’s top online companies share their passion and experience around online social media.

Just picked this up from propelSJ.

Impact of New-Era Technologies on Society & Business presented by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Tuesday, Feb. 5, 4:00 - 6:00 pm.
Saint John Trade & Convention Centre, One Market Square, Saint John NB

Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 4:00 p.m. — 6:00 p.m.
Delta Halifax, 1990 Barrington St., Halifax, NS

The topic of area that interests me is:

ampliflection* a new type of Internet-based marketing; adaptive mashups

It’s free, but registration is required.

For more info, see propelSJ