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Last night’s Mile High Social Media Club at The Whisky Bar in Denver was quite a happening. It’s great to see repeat attendees, plus many new ones as well. And, to top it off, the panel was terrific too.

Bryan Person did a great job of moderating the conversation about community. The focus of the evening was understanding community from the perspective of a community manager of a public community (not a private branded community). TIm Poindexter, from Disaboom, and Tiffany Childs from Denver’s Yelp community gave some interesting perspectives on:

• growing a young community and making it vibrant and engaging enough for members and others to want to participate
• managing a member who is trying to hijack a discussion
• dealing with people who violate the terms of service
• how companies can stay authentic within these communities (by being honest about who you are, good advice for anyone in a community)

It’s always interesting to hear what questions people have. Being as there were many PR people in the crowd, they got a number of questions about how to handle bad reviews (on Yelp), how to pitch story ideas to community bloggers and the community managers, and how to sponsor or advertise in the community without offending the members.

Thanks to the people at Flock for the T-shirts we were able to give to each of our speakers.

Our December event is in the process of being finalized, and is expected to be a breakfast in Broomfield, possible at Sun Microsystem’s offices at Interlocken - close enough to Boulder for those of you who find driving all the way to Denver just too much.

Stay tuned for details within the next week.

November’s Mile High SMC promises to be fun, entertaining and educational:

What: Mile High SMC: Its all about Community - a panel of community managers on how to build community

When: November 19th, 2008, 5:30pm (preso starts at 6pm)

Where: Whiskey Bar in Denver

Featuring a converation with:

Moderator: Bryan Person

Panelists:

Tim Poindexter, Community Manager for Disaboom

Tiffany Childs, Yelp Denver Community Manager

Visit our Ning site to RSVP, or you can also access the Facebook event page if you prefer.

Many of you in the Denver/Boulder area have been waiting to hear the whens and whats of the next meeting of the Mile High Social Media Club. We finalized the details today. They will be updated later on the Ning site (you mean you haven’t been to the Ning site yet?), so check that to RSVP.

Mile High Social Media Club

When: October 21st, 2008, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Where: Forest Room 5, Denver, Colorado

What: This gathering will be part networking, and part learning. The learning part will be a panel on using Social Bookmarking and Social News for marketing, PR and outreach purposes. The panel will only be an hour, and will start at 6pm, so don’t be late if you want to take part in this piece of it!

Who: Panelists are:

• Brett Borders, of CopyBrighter
• Jason Cormier, of Room 214

Visit the Facebook event page to RSVP, or visit the Ning site and RSVP there.

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