Social Media Simplified was a Spectacular Event

On Monday I had the honor and pleasure of sharing the stage with several social media stars at Social Media Simplified. The event was organized on very short notice by Linda P. Taylor and the entire program was filmed live in front of a studio audience at the Ventura Technical Development College.

First up was Mari Smith, (@MariSmith on Twitter) dubbed the Pied Piper of Facebook by Fast Company Magazine. She gave a great presentation outlining 10 things you need to know and do to use Facebook for your business.

 

Next up was Coach Deb Micek (@CoachDeb on Twitter), author of the recently published book about Twitter. Deb had flown in on the red eye from her home in Hawaii and arrived just in the nick of time.

Deb wowed the audience with her energy and enthusiasm for using social media tools to engage and persuade your followers to do business with you.

After lunch it was my turn (@BlogSquad on Twitter). Naturally, I talked about business blogging and how to gain massive visibility using blogs connected with your social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Then, we had two special guests: Nancy Marmolejo (@NancyMarmolejo) of Viva Visibility and Simon Leung (@simonleung), a Google expert (he worked there for 6 years at the inception of the Google Adwords program -- he knows Google!).

Nancy and Simon gave intros to their expertise and then we moved to a panel format and did two blog critique hot seats with VIP audience members.

After the filming wrapped up, the VIPs adjourned to dinner and more networking at a very nice French restaurant in Ventura (sorry, no pics) and then it was back to L.A.

The previous night a group of locals had a Tweetup to say hi in person and get to know one another. That was a lot of fun and funny since everyone was using their mobile devices to send tweets about being at the tweet up!

If you want to see and read more here are a few links for you:

My photo stream on Flickr.

Mari Smith's photo stream on Flickr.

The twitter stream about the event. A lot of tweeting going and back and forth during and after the event.

Simon Leung's wrap up blog post.

Comments

[Simon Leung]

It was fun meeting you, Denise!
I had a blast at the event...
Thx for all your great info as well!
Chat soon on Twitter :)

[Kirstin Davy]

Denise, Great meeting you on Monday! Thanks for contributing your expertise and schlepping it up to Ventura for our event! I am so excited about the DVDs coming out, then I can sit and take notes instead of running around :)

[Angie A. Swartz]

Hey Denise, Great to see you in Ventura at the Tweetup and at Social Media Simplified. I learned a great deal from your presentation and I'm working on my editorial calendar for my blog now that you reminded me how much I really need it. I also enjoyed hearing how Suzanne Falter Barns is your client...given she's my coach! Also, thanks for featuring me in your post above (that's me tweeting in the blue shirt with the pink phone =-). I look forward to continued learning from your blog wisdom in the future! Great job on your presentation and thanks for setting a great branding example with The Blog Squad!
Angie
@aaswartz on Twitter!

[Nancy Marmolejo]

Your presentation was great Denise! I can't hear "editorial calendar" enough times. Getting together with everyone was incredible and the wealth of info shared... well, that was priceless.

I'm so happy I was able to participate.

:-)
Nancy