Sandy Renshaw's Page

Every first Friday, Central Iowans who are passionate about social media gather to drink coffee, eat pastry, and most importantly, network! Building contacts and exchanging stories are what it's all about. There is no formal structure to this event, so just bring yourself, your business cards and a smile!

A Social Media for Business Fair & Des Moines Social Club FundraiserAre you a business owner, sales or marketing professional, non-profit organizer, event planner or sole proprietor having a love, hate or love-hate relationship with social media but want to learn how to love it more?Want to listen to eight live conversations about different social media for business topics presented by leaders from the Des Moines Social Media Scene?Want to leave with a 2011 Resource List of upcoming social…See More

Facebook has made huge changes in their Business Pages and I want to gather the local FB fans to hack around and see what we can do. The new Facebook Pages use standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript like any other Web page so customizing them is a lot more like web development. If you haven't done any web development this might be like gibberish,  but everyone is welcome. I've spent some time and figured out the iFrame custom tab app and can share that process. If you want to walk away from this…See More

Monthly meeting of people who love social media and networking. Bring your business cards, grab a cup of coffee and meet some new people!See More

Guest speaker Wendy Townley from Omaha will cover nerdy insider tips on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and blogging. She's using all of these tools to effectively promote her new book. In Wendy's own words...Nerdy Thirty, published this spring by WriteLife, is a collection of thirteen humorous essays that recount personal experiences from my childhood, my painfully awkward teen years, a few days in college I’d rather forget, and those leading up…See More

Bring your laptop and an inquiring mind and we'll poke around the Facebook Fan Page platform to see what kind of mischief we can find.

The Social Media Club has wrangled four local businesses for a panel discussion divulging the good, bad and ugly of social media and how it's positively affected their businesses.Reid Travis from Panchero'sPhil James from Cafe di Scala…See More

How do we cut through the noise to be effective in today's social media? The first step in making this decision is to simply listen and the "Power of paying Attention" workshop will give you the tools and skills you need to listen to the conversations that matter most to you. Ben Stone of RPO Consulting will present. Space is limited to the first 20 respondents, be sure to RSVP even if we exceed that limit. More sessions may be scheduled if necessary. Prerequisite: open a Google acct if you…See More

Bring your laptop and an inquiring mind and we'll poke around the Facebook Fan Page platform to see what kind of mischief we can find.

Very informal gathering of people interested in tricking out Facebook Fan Pages. No Farmville or Mafia Wars, but lots of geekery and FBML. I'm sorta planning to do this every 2 weeks until the weather gets too nice.