Elizabeth Cawein, long-time friend of the Social Expedition, loaned us some of her time from Memphis Music Foundation to speak at our August Breakfast. She shared with us some of the ways in which social media is helping Memphis musicians grow and thrive. Besides the usual Facebook and Twitter, Elizabeth also recommends artists utilize sites [...] [...more]
The Expeditionaries spent their Cinco de Mayo morning talking social at the monthly breakfast meeting of the Social Expedition. Dave Barger of LunaWeb spoke with the group about new Facebook features and online privacy.
(Fun fact: it was Dave’s 62nd presentation in the last two and a half years on social topics, to more than one [...] [...more]
May is just around the corner, and we’ll be celebrating Cinco de Mayo with our Social Expedition breakfast. LunaWeb’s Dave Barger will be speaking this time around, and if you’ve wondered about any of the changes or features Facebook has rolled out in the past few months, you won’t want to miss it. He’ll be [...] [...more]
The weather outside was frightful, but the breakfast was so, well, you know the rest. Expeditionaries braved the chilly rain this morning to welcome Dr. Kris Markman to the December Social Expedition Breakfast. She offered up some insight into the hard numbers of social media use and just a taste of the academic research currently [...] [...more]
Though it’s only been eight months since Dr. Kris Markman last spoke to the Social Expedition, so much has changed in the social media realm that we could spend 10 tweet-ups just catching up.
And while we might not have that kind of time, we were able to pencil ourselves in to Dr. Markman’s 7:30 to [...] [...more]
Since its launch in March of this year, MemphisConnect.com has been viewed by people in more than 1,300 cities across the globe. It’s an impressive figure, and even more so when you consider that 50 percent of those 1,300 are municipalities outside the region. So instead of the Forbes Most Miserable list, those thousands of [...] [...more]