Social Media Club is excited to be hosting Social Media Camp during Internet Week NY this year.  Given the current economic situation, we wanted to really focus this camp on helping small businesses learn how to use Social Media as an alternative (and cost effective) option to traditional marketing and communications.  So rather then just focusing on bringing social media 'insiders' together to talk in our special jargon filled language, how can we make Social Media more accessible and useful to everday people.

Additionally, we are going to focus on teaching social media skills that can help you land a new job if you are unemployed and how to use soial media to land tha job.

While other sectors of the economy are surely down, Social Media is one of the few that contnues to see a rise in spending.  So if you are unsure about whether social media will help your business or career, this is a great opportunity to come find out what all the commotion is about, learn how it can work for you and pick up some valuable skills that will make a difference for your business and your career.

This will be a traditional open space camp event where people who work with small businesses, job seekers, and even those people in bigger businesses who do marketing and communications will come together to learn from each other.  Everyone who attends is a participant and hopefully a teacher too.  In the morning, we will come together in a big group to plan out the majority of the sessions that will be taught throughout the day.  In addition to the participant lead sessions, Social Media Club is offering a special Social Media for your Small Business 'track' that is designed for the small business person who is just beginning to explore social media.  We will have some of the leading social media marketers in the world in NYC during Internet Week, and several of them, including Chris Heuer and Howard Greenstein will be teaching these classes.

So if you want to teach or you want to learn, please join us for this great day of open learning and collaboration.

The cost for the day is $25 which covers lunch and a t-shirt.  We are seeking multiple participating sponsors to offset the costs.  We do not yet have our venue, but it will be in Manhattan in an easily accessible location.  If you are buying a sponsorship here, we will be in touch with you to get your logo for the web site, t-shirt and event signage. If you have a venue to offer up, please contact us via camp@socialmediaclub.org

Our heartfelt thanks to the fine folks over at the Roger Smith Hotel who have provided the venue for the day's events and big love to HubSpot, Marketwire and BizSpark for their support of Social Media Camp. Want to add your company to the 'those we love with all our heart' wall? Simply click the Sponsor or Donor tickets above.