I'm with Coco. I'm sure you've heard it or have seen it somewhere in the past few months. In case you haven't, it is the icon/logo/driving force of the Conan O'Brien support movement (http://www.facebook.com/imwithcoco).
This past weekend Milwaukee hosted the quarterly event Gallery Night and Day which featured 66 venues throughout the downtown Milwaukee area. It always draws a great crowd and this year Journal Sentinel asked people to help "check in" to art galleries on Foursquare to help draw attention to the local art scene in Milwaukee. What a great way to promote the event, galleries and artists as well as celebrate the first Foursquare Day. By checking in to 10 different galleries a person could also unlock the Warhol badge. People also used the hashtag #galnite on twitter to promote the event in the days before the weekend as well as for touching base with other people during the event. For more information on what you missed this past weekend check out the Art City blog.
In the coming months there are a few interesting social media events/meet ups in the area that we thought you should be aware of. Take a look and let me know if we missed any in the comment section.
Google just released it’s new social media product called Google Buzz this Tuesday for most Gmail users. We just started looking into our Stream Profile with google Buzz today and just like everyone else have questions on what are it’s capabilities and how to get started. Here’s a list of some interesting articles that seem to give a good overview for both what it is and how to use it. Please leave a comment if you have any other good resources about it and if you think you are going to give it a try, we’d love to follow you.
Here are a couple good examples of both business and non profits using social media here in Milwaukee.
I started realizing how much e-mails cause interruption in my day and I had to take an audit of how many of my e-mails are really just e-newsletters that I subscribe to rather than client e-mails. To my surprise I quickly counted over 30 e-newsletter subscriptions from anything fromGoogle Alerts, Linked In Updates, Social Media Examiner, Marketing Profs,BizJournal, etc.
