Hey everyone.  I realize this is a bit short-notice but if you’ve been watching the tweet stream, we’re working on a happy hour gathering this Thursday at Jose’s in Springdale.  We will probably keep it pretty informal since we haven’t met in some time but please feel free to bring your speaking points.  We hope to see everyone there and DM me if you have any questions.  Here are the details:

• Where: Jose’s of Springdale – 5240 West Sunset Avenue, Springdale, AR‎
• When: Thursday, April 22nd, 5:30pm
• Why: Regroup, have fun, and plan our next moves.

Hope to see you there!

On January 12th, 2010, three of the largest social media/marketing/PR groups in Northwest Arkansas came together to share information and make new friends. These three groups are the Social Media Club of Northwest Arkansas, Network Community of Northwest Arkansas and The MACC Initiative.

During this event, money was raised for Breast Cancer and Diabetes awareness and research assistance.

(Personal Note from Eureka Janet: This is among the first few videos I’ve ever shot and edited…so it was great fun for me on several levels~! I hope you enjoy…and see some familiar faces.)

View the Video:

Three Strong Groups…One Great Evening~!

Please feel free to share your ideas and comments about up-coming gatherings~!

The Social Media Club of Northwest Arkansas (SMCNWA), Mothers and Companies Cooperating (MACC) and the Network Community of Northwest Arkansas (NCNWA) invite you to an evening of introductions, conversation, and great networking at Texas Land & Cattle, Tuesday, January 12th, from 5:00pm until 8:00.

We will give brief introductions on all three groups to let you know of the other opportunities to network both professionally and socially in the Northwest Arkansas region.

Texas Land & Cattle will have wait staff on hand to handle all your snack, meal, and beverage needs and they’ve been nice enough to offer us their back room, entire bar area, and half of the restaurant to mingle, meet, and greet.  Thanks to them for their support.

During the meeting you will hear from Autumn Manning (@a_manning) of the MACC initiative, Michael Mollitor (@NY2AR) of NCNWA, and Kyle Judkins (@KyleJudkins) of SMCNWA on upcoming events, missions, and ways to get involved.

We’ll meet in the back room at the Texas Land & Cattle at the Promenade at Pinnacle.  Please RSVP on Facebook or find me on twitter (@jaythornton000).

#SMCNWA is hanging out up north for a change. Hang out with us at Eddies, Thursday night the 12th. 6:30ish until whenever you want to go home.

Go check out the SMCNWA Facebook page to RSVP.

One of the goals of the website is to educate new members of SMCNWA about all the aspects of social media.  We have started a couple pages (as seen on the tabs up top) that house a basic presentation about social media and a few recommendations.

That is a great start, but we want to expand on this base of information to a level that we feel is good enough to fully educate new members about the space.  If you have any links, blogs, books, podcasts or anything else that you might recommend when it comes to learning about social media, please email me at kyle.judkins@lostintechnology.com.

We had a great time tonight at Hog Haus on Dickson. Thanks to everyone for showing up, bringing canned goods for the cause of the week and a HUGE thank you to @TomRedwine for making it all happen and to Hog Haus and our waiter Collin for hooking us up with the upstairs room… Baller! Take a look at the pictures, leave a few comments, and if you don’t Whrrl already, check them out at http://whrrl.com. For you iPhone users out there, download the free app from the iTunes store.

More updates to come! Have something to add? DM @jaythornton000, @TomRedwine, @ccondray, or @KyleJudkins with your post and see it here!

Welcome to the new Social Media Club, Northwest Arkansas website.  Due to confusion over where updates would be posted, where to check for new events, and what, generally speaking, is going on.  We’ve decided to centralize our efforts to this site and our Facebook page, located at http://www.facebook.com/SMCNWA.

Look here for the occasional member post, notes from leadership meetings, and steady streams of content from our various RSS feeds.  More content to come and please don’t hesitate to contact any of us with your suggestions and feedback.

~Jay