This month's Social Media Breakfast is brought to you by Uptown Uncorked, DimDim and Granite State Independent Living.

You already know about Uptown Uncorked, since we are the breakfast maestro each month, and DimDim, who handles the live casting of the breakfasts. Let me tell you a bit about Granite State Independent Living:

Founded in 1980, Granite State Independent Living (GSIL) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote life with independence for people with disabilities and those experiencing the natural process of aging through advocacy, information, education and support.  We offer the tools and resources so that individuals can participate as fully as they choose in their lives, families, and communities. The organization provides a wide variety of services, including employment, peer groups, transportation, personal care, access modification and benefit counseling.

Thank you to Susan Ware Flower who helped facilitate the GSIL sponsorship for us!

Location: GSIL Facility (see sidebar)

Parking Notes from Susan:

1)      21 Chenell Drive can only be accessed from Regional Drive.  Some maps show Chenell Drive as a through street, but it is a dead end. When the road was being constructed, rare butterflies were discovered next to our office, so the road was interrupted and the area protected by the state.

2)      Street parking is fine- except in front of the post office across the street. Homeland Security prohibits anyone from parking in front of a federal building. Cars parked there will likely be towed.

Social Media Breakfast History

On seeing growing demand in this area, I decided to fill the need with a new branch of the nationwide Social Media Breakfast in NH. It isn't that we don't love Boston, because we do, but our neighbor to the north is rich in technology and social media, and often overlooked when events are planned. I saw a need for networking opportunities that were easier to get to for the northern tech and social media crowd, and decided to step up and fill it. Because NH itself is a diverse and scattered state, the Social Media Breakfast there will be just a little bit different than the one in Cambridge/Boston. Our first meeting was in January 2009, and was a roaring success.

What is a Social Media Breakfast?

From the official description: The Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to more than a dozen cities throughout the United States and around the world.

How will the Social Media Breakfast in NH be different?

The main difference between Social Media Breakfast NH and other SMBs will be all-inclusiveness. I do not want only social media people and companies to attend, I also want technology types, programmers, coders, tech writers, tech companies and more to attend. As a state that is rich in technology but scattered in distance, I think the best networking and connection making effect will be achieved by combined our different cultures. You never know, as a social media type you might just meet the coder you've been looking for to create your dream project if we all come together to connect and to learn from each other!

Theme for the fourth Social Media Breakfast: Marketing 2.0 

The fourth Social Media Breakfast NH (hashtag #smbnh) will be all about topics related to Marketing 2.0. In this struggling economy and shifting paradigm we need to be working together to be more successful and better weather the storm. We should be pulling in all aspects of technology, new media, old media and social media to succeed. This  meeting will help us lay the foundation for a richer, better education, tech and new media community in NH.  

In addition to myself, who will be your host and MC for the morning, you will have three speakers giving three brief presentations on topics relating to the theme for the morning. 

Speakers:

• Opening Remarks by Leslie Poston, Uptown Uncorked

• Welcome Remarks by GSIL CEO

• Collaborative Presentation featuring Mark Haddad of Zingr Communications and Ric Pratte of JitterGram on Mobile Marketing

• Christian "Cappy" Popp of ThoughtLabs on How to Maximize your Marketing 2.0 spend: using Facebook, Twitter, and your existing Web site to syndicate content

• Jay Duchin of Duchin Productions on How to Brand your Video: Simple, quick, free ways to maximize the exposure of your products and services through video

This is going to be a great breakfast!

TO SPONSOR THIS OR A FUTURE SMBNH CONTACT LESLIE POSTON via Twitter, Email or Phone or purchase a sponsor ticket above.

Let's make the new SMBNH crackle with energy and success! See you there!