Social Media Club in Austin 4/16/09 notes

This month's session topic: Old media rises from the grave.

Very quick introductory notes this time. Announcements:
  • Follow @IA09 for an April 27th Interactive Marketing event. Social Media Club members recieve discount, cost with discount is $130.
  • New Media Labs is having a social media workshop on May 15th, contact @conniereece for more info.
All of the panelist, except one, works in a traditional media environment (newspaper or news station). The other was a news blogger. Panelists: @robquig @elisewho @chelseabot @elis and @omarg. Newspaper affiliation was the Austin American Statesman (@statesman), KEYE and KVUE (@KVUE). Favorite quote of the night, "Journalism is now a conversation, not a lecture." @elisewho Check out my post for the SMC Austin meeting on 2/19/09 tagged with Yammer, Social Media and Twitter.