We love small businesses. No doubt you’ve noticed. This week’s closing of the Memphis High Point Coffee shops drove home just how much we rely on small businesses in our day-to-day life.

And, being that we work in an office, we’ve also noticed just how much we rely on coffee just to keep us going and productive.

"Hot Coffee 'City Limit'" by jimmywayne on Flickr

So we’re working on a panel of local coffee businesses and local social media practitioners, and we’re going to look into how the coffee businesses use social media to communicate with their customers and promote their brands – and help them develop new strategies to leverage those tools in the future.

We’ve got a few interested participants already, but if there’s a local coffeeshop or coffee roaster you’d love to see represented, drop them a line. Tell them how excited you are about SocialCamp, and how much you’d love to see them there. (Also, let us know, so we’ll be ready for them.)

And don’t forget to tip your barista. It’s a much tougher job than it seems.