Meeting Notes: 28-Jun-10

Attendees: Karen Mousseau (Proj Mgmt), Al Green (Mid-Sr. Sales / Mktg), Gus Siegmund (Graphic Artist), Mary Williams (Elec. Control Drafter), Patricia Stewart (Admin), Heather Coleman (Training Facilitator, FCC), Joanne Scharick (Writer/Librarian), Kim Beebe (Const. Proj. Mgmt), Maggie Forbes (Healthcare), Alex Hardesty (Paralegal student)

Agenda:
1. Introductions

2. Social Media:
i. http://www.linkup.com/ Is limited to companies hiring and is not an aggregator like Indeed.Com;
ii. New format for LinkedIn discussion groups;
iii. Participation is key to making Social Media valuable;
iv. Companies are using social media for connections to weed out un-innovative individuals (inadaptable?)
v. Blogging basics
vi. Ways to use SocMed (tweet announcement at specific people [@TwitterUser] so they will see it and can send it along to their followers)

3. Heather announced new workshops:
i. Employee or Entrepreneur? July 23, 2p;
ii. Social Media for Small Businesses. July 28, 2p;
iii. Blogging, coming in August.
iv. Experienced Worker group meets at 10 a Wednesdays at Coffee Beanery in Berkley, north of Catalpa on west side of Woodward.

4. Leadership:
i. The managers of the LinkedIn group have become unavailable due to jobs or changes in personal situations;
ii. Alex Hardesty was asked to take notes and put out group announcements and will continue to do so,

Note:
We are pretty informal, so while I picked the planned topic (Monday's was "How Do You Stay Motivated?") another relevant discussion develops and the planned one will be put off until another day.

Are you interested in meeting July 5th, after the holiday?

Alex Hardesty