About the Texas Social Media Awards:
Do you know a social media rock star who lives in the Lone Star State? Make a nomination!
Nominate your favorite person, company or group, and we’ll pick the Top 25 social media winners and throw a big bash for them in March (much bigger than in years’ past). An overall winner will also be named at our awards party. All of our past winners came from public nominations, and it’s no different this year.
Guess what?
Oh, right I already told you. I was nominated! Vote if ya like.
It’s the small things in life folks.
The number of daily deal sites seems to be growing exponentially. For online bargin hunters are numerous sites that offer different deals/coupons/specials every single day.
Here are a few of the most popular Daily Deal sites
- Woot: One Deal. One  Day. the fun of woot is you NEVER know what will be up the next day. (wine.woot, kids.woot, and shirt.woot also change daily)
- Groupon: local dealsite – your neighborhood restaurants, spas, etc. if you haven’t heard of groupon you might be living under a rock.
- Living Social: local restaurants, bars, spas, theaters, and more
Deal Aggregators: Bring ’em all together
- fat wallet’s today’s best deals: might be the most comprehensive site I’ve seen of offers, limited time specials and sometimes FREE stuff
- Dealcatcher. Catch the best deals online. aggregates deals from Amazon, Dell, Overstock, the list goes on
- RetailMeNot: coupon codes and discounts for 65,000 online stores. If you know where you’re planning on buying from check here first to see if you can get a discount
- hot-deals: most gadgets and techie stuff.
- Deal of the day tracker.
- Dealsucker
- Eat Drink Deals: collection of national restaurant discounts
… that’s the text message I sent her the day her mom died after a 2 year battle with cancer. I knew it was coming soon but even still I was Not Ready.
{in participation with reverb10. today’s prompt: Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year?}
SMCDallas Charity TweetDrive and PubCrawl:Â December 8th
For December, we will deter from our usual speaker format to do some social good while enjoying some social cheer. We are partnering with Mockingbird Station for a Toy TweetDrive and PubCrawl.
Bring a Toy for TweetDrive 2010
SMC has joined forces with Holiday Tweet Drive for this event.  The Holiday Tweet Drive is a nation-wide toy/clothing drive that will use social media to give back to children who are less fortunate and spread some Holiday cheer along the way. This event will be happening in various cities nation-wide to promote social good in the month of December.
We ask that you make a minimum $10 purchase for this event on a NEW unwrapped toy for a child between the age of birth to 6 years old. We will be collecting your toys at each of our stops: Vapiano, Margarita Ranch and Trinity Hall. Please no guns, swords or weapons.
Your donations will benefit:
Check-in for Charity
For every check-in on Foursquare at this Mockingbird Station venue, Mockingbird Station will donate $1 to charity. Make sure to include #smcdallas and #tweetdrive2010
PubCrawl Schedule
We will start off the night at Vapiano in Mockingbird Station, then travel to Margarita Ranch and end at Trinity Hall. We will spend approx. 45 minutes in each venue where guests will enjoy tasty offerings from each restaurant & drink specials.
Hope to see you all there!
Mike D. Merrill
@MikeDMerrill
You are invited to the following event:
Social Media Club of Dallas Charity TweetDrive and Pub Crawl 12/8/10
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (CT)
Location: Mockingbird Station
5307 E. Mockingbird Lane
at Hwy. 75
Dallas, TX 75206
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Daddy , how was I
Born?
A little boy
Goes to his father and asks ‘Daddy, how was I born?’
The father Answers,
‘Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway!
Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo.
Then IÂ Set up a date via e-mail with your Mom
and we met at a cyber-cafe..
We Sneaked into a secluded room, and googled each other.
There your mother Agreed to a download from my hard drive.
As soon as I was ready to upload,
We discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall,
and since it was too Late to hit the delete button,
nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that
Said:
Scroll
Down…You’ll love this ….
‘You got
Male!
Sometimes a song says it all.
Have you ever …Â Closed your eyes and trusted, just trusted?
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
Have you ever looked fear in the face and said, “I just don’t care”?It’s only half past the point of no return
The tip of the iceberg
The sun before the burn
The thunder before the lightning
The breath before the phrase
Have you ever felt this way?
… the prompt for today reminds me why I’m not a personal blogger.
I like to be the question asker. My parents attempted a limit of number of questions I could ask when I was a small child. Known for being a firing squad of “ok but why” at a very young age. I don’t think I ever out grew that. When I meet new people there’s always a wonder of where they came from and why/how they got to be the way they are. Staying in the question is the best way to stumble across the best answers. And even when you think you’ve found an answer go back to the state of wonder and you might be surprised what’s after that…
{in participation with reverb10. today’s prompt: Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year?}
{in participation with reverb10: Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year.}
I’ve just recently started reading fiction books. The start of this hobby, funny enough, came when I got my iPad and thus the Kindle app. I started by reading a few of the Kindle books available for free or less than $5. I figured if I was going to test out jumping into fiction books I wasn’t ready to invest much in the event that I was just a fan of “learning” while reading.
One of the books I picked up (errr downloaded) was called A Scattered Life
“Most people have everything they need to be happy.†The words latched onto some part of Skyla’s brain. She repeated the phrase to herself while she rang up books and stocked shelves. It had a certain resonance to it, but she doubted it was true.
I tend to be a person with about 47 things going at once. When I read a blog post that recommends 3 books, I’m the type to stop mid sentence on the blog post, jump over to amazon and save that book to my to-read list, then head back to the blog to finish reading. At any given moment, twitter, yammer, and various email accounts may be dinging at me looking for attention while I’m working on something else. Pandora is usually playing in the background from my TV. This works for me most of the time. But sometimes it’s necessary to shut off all the noise, to disconnect from the world. As I write this I’m being serenaded by the dishwasher and Taylor Swift. How’s that for writing inspiration?
I picked up A Scattered Life because I’ve had people ask me, how do you keep up with all those things? blogs. apps. friends. music. social media. family. texts. emails. news. you name it. To an outsider my life may seem scattered. BUT to me it’s not. Everything works together. Having lunch with a friend can be blog inspiration, spark an idea for work or result in wanting to look up a recipe for the food we’ve had. I believe that everything in life has the stone in a pond effect.
When I read the reverb prompt for today: “Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it?”, I almost just posted “nothing and everything“. That is my short answer there isn’t anything that DOESN’T contribute to my writing but everything that isn’t writing takes time that could be allotted for writing. I however, don’t hold myself to a strict deadline of must write X number of posts a week. I write when something interests me, I share writing of others that inspires me and sometimes I choose nothing.
{in participate with reverb10}
In addition the the month long guest post series I’m running on GenPink, today is the first day of REVERB10, a month of reflection. While I’ll be managing posts from writers all over providing their insight into various categories of life, love and work, I will also be reflecting on my life and path I’ve traveled in 2010.
Reverb 10 is an annual event and online initiative to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next. The end of the year is an opportunity to reflect on what’s happened, and to send out reverberations for the year ahead. With Reverb 10, we’ll do both.
Today’s prompt: One Word
Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you?
2010: Discovery
In 2010 I…
- began a new relationship
- turned 28
- spoke in 4 conferences
- was published in a magazine
- traveled 17,784 miles
- published 200ish blog posts (personal and professional combined)
- heard 20 some odd inspiring speakers/authors present
- read fiction books for the first time since high school
- sat by my mother for 3 different surgeries
- stood by a long time friend as she began a new life with her husband
- left a job I was excelling in
- started a new job, in a new industry, working for people I’d never met
- moved to a new apartment
- cried happy tears when my friends adopted their precious daughter
- hired a personal trainer
- lost someone important to cancer
- decided to write some people out of the current chapter in my life
- paid off 2 credit cards
- discovered what’s important
2011: Development
- 2011 will be the time for things to flourish from the seeds that have been planned in 2010
- things that were new can move to a different classification
- things that are yet to happen can begin to develop
The day after Thanksgiving (can you believe that’s this week already?) has become coined as “Black Friday”, the ultimate shopping holiday. For those of you who are planning on getting a jump on your holiday shopping, I’ve created a list of free iPhone apps that will help you save money and help plan for Black Friday.
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