Description: Our committee met, the NYC based members, including two of my 3 Co-Chairs - for a productive and fun Social Media Lunch on 7-17-08 at 648 Broadway. I asked members to give me some input on what we discussed - so far, Elena did, and this is what we have, so far: First of all, great seeing you and meeting members of our committee as well as Leticia who appears to be a great asset. I also want to re-thank you for giving me some time space--I've been very busy and of course getting into the NYC scene of meetups (mostly around non-profits and technology for non-profits). Committee Activities: 1. Implement my "seed the network" plan for the WAA social network. That will get quick content into the network. 2. Send an email out to all WAA members inviting them to the network and giving them some ideas for what to do. 3. Partner with the techsoup, and netsquared communities in order to host an event on our social network wherein vendors represented in the WAA present in chat rooms on their products to any non-profits that attend. Create interest in this event by publishing a WAA Social Media Committee article or two on each publication. Advertise on their sites. Possibly buy a list of non-profit technology officers or heads and send a targeted email blast to them announcing the event. 4. Publish a few whitepapers and/or social media measurement tips and tools--maybe on your blog and the WAA blog? In any case, I think we should be placing some short articles in different pubs and blogs to build our reputation as an expert group soon as it will benefit us when we have our for-profit arm. To increase participation by committee members, we will need to assign tasks to them via Maurizio's monthly email. I would need the committee list and we would simply assign people tasks and deadlines. As long as tasks are simple and deadlines are clear, we should get what we need. ------ For-Profit Arm: We need a consultant heading up the for-profit arm. Since it is my idea and I'm obviously well connected with the social media committee, it makes sense for me to head it up. My reticence in pushing this forward has been that I know just how much work it will be. I can make the time, but I have to be clear here, I absolutely cannot commit the time if I'm not being paid for it. It would be far far too much work to do as a volunteer. You brought up payment at lunch, which was immensely reassuring and realistic. I know I can do it--especially if we have Virtual or a delegated, paid, part-time person there to help me coordinate the work, i.e. follow-up with people on the committees, make calls, schedule things, etc. You said you'd had Virtual write up a job description? Is that true, or did I imagine that? I'd like to see what they recommended in terms of staffing and coordination, look it over, possibly modify. Clearly we have to talk about this further and soon.

Groups: Social Media