Join us for the next Sacramento Social Media Club meeting: 

Government 2.0 & Social Media

The panel will discuss and take questions on how local government leaders and community activists are effectively incorporating Web 2.0 and social media technologies into their organizations. We'll consider the benefits of developing a social media strategy and share ideas and solutions to help
participants deal with the unique challenges and potential obstacles that arise when trying to integrate these new technologies within government agencies.
 
Scheduled Panel Participants Include:

Rob Quigley is a Sacramento website developer who specializes in creation & management of political, government, and non-profit websites. He currently serves as the New Media Director for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rob is on Twitter (http://twitter.com/RobQuigley) and LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/robquigley2)
 
Bryan Merica founded ID Media (www.idmcommunications.com), co-founded Fox and Hounds Daily, (www.foxandhoundsdaily.com), a blog covering business and politics in California and will serve as a “founding professor” for the soon-to-be-launched, National Institute of Politics, an online educational resource for communications and political consultants.   Before starting ID Media, he worked as a senior strategist for enterprise software, management consulting and startup technology companies.  Merica graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of the Pacific.  You can follow him on Twitter athttp://twitter.com/bmerica or find him at Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/113/240
 
Marilyn Clark is the Manager of Online Communications and Services at the California Public Employees' Retirement System where she oversees web communications strategy and user experience design for all CalPERS web products and services.  She is also a member of the Federal Web Managers Council's Social Media Subcouncil. The Social Media Subcouncil is a group of government web managers at the federal, state, and local levels bringing together social media best practices and other resources for the benefit of government agencies.  You can follow her on Twitter @marlinex or find her on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/marilynclark.

Barbara Z. Haven -  works at California’s Department of Technology  Services in their Policy and Planning Division. There she contributes to a Web  2.0 working group, a “Green IT” team, web governance, and an intranet  redesign. She has a background in web development, user-friendly design,  technical communication, and systems programming. She graduated from the  University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Even before graduating  she started working on computers and spent many years at diverse computer  companies. She has three sons who are now attending UC Riverside, UC Davis and  Stanford University. You can follow her on Twitter and find her  at LinkedIn.

Kim Mack - A sixth generation Californian born in the state’s capitol and raised in Redding, CA, Kim is the mother of a 25 year old son, Robert Fortune, and married to Vince Mack.  Kim and Vince currently live in Sacramento. Upon high school graduation Kim served for three years in the US Army as a military police office in Washington DC and Frankfurt, Germany.  She has worked as a police dispatcher, EMT, retail shop manager, campaign manager and now works as a facility manager for the County of Sacramento. Kim worked as a Regional Field Director for the Barack Obama Presidential campaign and functioned as the Executive Chair of Sacramento for Obama, one of the largest grassroots Obama groups in the country.  Kim now works in the same capacity for Organizing for America – the grassroots support arm of the Obama Administration.  Throughout the Obama experience online tools have been used extensively to organize, fundraise and motivate.

The first 15 minutes of the meeting will also include a Social Media basics/101 topic of discussion. 

There is no cost to participate, but we request attendees to register as space is limited to 60.
      

Light appetizers and drinks will be provided.

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Social Media Club (http://www.socialmediaclub.org) brings together journalists, publishers, communications professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaborators. The Sacramento chapter was founded in 2009 by local users of social media.