So recently I was asked by another local blogger/social media ninja Travis Wright aka teedubya (on twitter) if I would be interested in doing some blogging for his new site Mobile Local Social which he was launching.

I thought about it for a bit and my thinking is hey its a great way to find other kool people out there as well as get my name/blogging out there even more on the interwebs so I agreed to do it and now I will be putting content up that I want to share with everyone that I find kool.

Wanna follow my posts then this is the link for you

http://mobilelocalsocial.com/author/jeffisageek/

Well I just wanted to let everyone know about my new gig over there and to check out the site as there is some good content over there.

If you are like me and I personally know a few who are when it comes to the status update/location based update you just have to do when you arrive at a location you will find this hilarious!

This is from a new blog/webcomic called Status This that I will be following for sure.  Jump on over there and give some comic love to them.  You can also follow the creator on twitter @AtlantaJones

[found via Status This]

So Lawrence is ready to put itself on the social media map with a huge event coming to the area April 29th and 30th, 2010 called the Free State Social.

Whitney Mathews made the big announcement at today’s SMCKC monthly breakfast about the event which will include the likes of Chris Brogan, Jeremiah Owyang, Sarah Evans, Shawna Coronado, Ellyn Angelotti.

So the announcement of the actual event has been made but the site is not up yet for the event and there is of course more info to come but here are a few bits of info that were put out today….

Speakers include: @ChrisBrogan @jowyang @PRsarahevans @ShawnaCoronado @ellynangelotti plus more TBA soon

The event will be heald at Lawrence’s new luxury hotel & conference venue: www.theoread.com

April 29 will be a full day conference with a combination of keynote sessions and panel discussions.

April 30 is half day for VIP attendees with small group discussions with each of our speakers – very unique opportunity.

The evening of April 29 there will be a community tweetup in Downtown Lawrence

Websites will be live next week. Tickets on sale within next two weeks. $295 or $395 VIP. Limited numbers.

Follow news and updates on the Free State Social Twitter account as well as using the hashtag #FSsocial

Got a little chuckle out of this video for the S.M.A.A

from stopwritingonmywall.com

Are you one of the millions of people whose lives have been ruined by a never-ending torrent of tweets, friend requests and ‘Which kind of pasta are you?’ quizzes? Then it’s time you joined the Social Media Addicts Association.

SMAA is run by reformed social media addicts who all had the courage to stand up and admit to their problem. Will you stop poking people you haven’t seen since college, and join us?

“I know she will poke me back”

One of the local social media companies here in Kansas City Spiral 16 did a blog post and had this slide show that I thought was pretty kool. 

Check it out to get some pretty amazing numbers dealing with social media and all the social media site out there today.

[from Sprial 16]

I have really enjoyed the ignite series and even posted a talk covering “The Underground World of LEGO“. 

For this episode Veronica Belmont spoke on creating a business meme and what to avoid in the process.

[more info on the Ignite Series]

local Kansas City company Spiral 16 recently did a presentation on how social media monitoring can benefit your business – and how to do it successfully. Below is the presentation they did.

Some great information and if you are a company looking to understand or get a better grip of your social media presence I highly recommend you check out Spiral 16.

I didnt get a chance to head to Big Omaha this past weekend like I wanted to but one great thing about the internet is there are always resources out there to check out a bit of the action like the Big Omaha site as well as the blog

Here locally in KC Whitney Mathews from Spiral 16 put together a kool recap video.

BIG Omaha 2009 from Whitney Mathews on Vimeo.

readwriteweb also had some coverage of the conference including some videos. [Big Omaha : The little conference that could]

Other Big Omaha resources
Shane Adams – Big Omaha
The Social Lites – Overheard in Omaha
flickr pics tagged with ‘bigomaha’
Silicon Prairie News recap

Whitney Mathews of the local Kansas City company Spiral16 recently sat down with a local blogger/podcaster Ed Roberts who runs the KC Weather Podcast and they discussed using social media when it comes to reporting or talking about severe weather

Some new features Ed has added when it comes to sever weather in the social media realm is adding a chat room for everyone to get together and interact with Ed and others as well as using the hashtag #kcstorms on twitter.

[Listen to the podcast]

Last night we had a smckc evening event hosted by Jennings Public Relations and Advertising. It was great catching up with everyone as well as meeting a few new faces to the crowd.

After some good food, drinks, and chatter we broke into groups to discuss different aspects of social media and I decided to attend the discussion on personal branding as it really pertained to me the most.

It was a great discussion hosted and facilitated by Ramsey Mohsen who is an awesome web designer/video blogger here in the Kansas City area.