Golfsmith to try Facebook Exclusive Real Life Event

“National Golf Day Sponsored by Nike Golf. The event is on June 26th nationwide and is from 10am – 6pm. BUT from 4:30-6pm Facebook fans are invited to attend and will be eligible to get a free sleeve of nike one vapor golf balls, special discounts and a Guess your drive contest. There will be a local winner at each store as well as a national winner. The national prize is a nike driver of your choice valued at up to $399.”

Per a Golfsmith ecommerce department staff member, they plan to use this initial test to gauge the need/possiblity for more such Facebook exclusive events.

Facebook Fan Exclusive – Nike National Golf Day Event

Calendars.com Celebrates Every Day in May

That’s right, the Calendars.com team is celebrating something every day during the month of May. We, along with folks from our parent company Calendar Club, danced the chicken dance this morning.

Here’s what we’ve done so far:

May 1st – Happy May Day!

May 2nd – Happy Baby Day!

May 3rd is Lumpy Rug Day!

May 4th is International Respect for Chickens Day

May 5th is Cinco De Mayo!

May 6th is National Nurses Day

May 7th is Bird Day!

Happy No Socks Day! (May 8th)

Happy Mother’s Day!

Clean Up Your Room Day (May 10th)

May 11th is Chair Day = New Chairs For The Office!

Happy National Receptionists Day – May 12th

Frog Jumping Day – May 13th

It’s not all fun and games at Calenders.com, but you can see more fun and learn a few things by visiting our blog The Daily Grid.

New Social Technographics Ladder

Source:http://wearesocial.net/blog/2010/01/social-technographics-ladder/

Austin’s Dave Evans to Help Indians

DAVE EVANS TO FOCUS ON STRATEGIC ADVICE TO INDIAN CLIENTS

PARTNERS WITH 20:20 FOR SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING CONSULTING IN INDIA

Other then being an all around cool guy, Dave is also known for his book “Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day“.

Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Summit 2009

The 2nd annual Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Summit, scheduled for April 27th – 29th right here in Austin, Tx, appears again be an extremely informational event.

Get all info needed here: http://budurl.com/BazaarSummit

Social Media Usage Up

Just got an email from http://www.glg.com/ with this interested bit of social media info:

“Social Media Up
Sixty percent of Americans interact with companies on a social media Web site, and one in four interacts more than once per week. These findings are from the 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study. Ninety-three percent of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media; 85% believe a company should not only be present but also interact with its consumers via social media.”

Here Comes the Sun(-Times) Doo Da Doo Doo

Austin-based social media service company, Pluck, should be announcing a partnership with the Sun-Times News Group later today:

Pluck Brings Social Media To Sun-Times News Group

Link List ilLumination #2 – AdGabber

“AdGabber is a social network for like-minded individuals in advertising, marketing and media.” This is a good site if you want to check-out industry events and they typically have a few job listing featured as well. This site is a spin-off of AdRants. (More on then at a later date.)

Link List ilLuminations are posts where I shed a bit more light on the people, companies, and etc that are part of my link list.

Social Media Camp Austin 7-30-08

SocialMediaCampAustin

When:

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 from 10:00 AM – 04:00 PM (CT)

Location:

The Thistle Cafe
300 W 6th St # 103
Austin, TX

Click for Details and Registration Information

The Social Side of Sears

Sears looks to social network for back-to-school campaign