Cleveland Social Media Ventures Workgroup

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Comment by Barbara on March 6, 2009 at 5:06pm

I'd like to learn more about this group and explore if I might like to join.

Comment by Kelley Drumm on February 23, 2009 at 8:54am

I missed the meeting Saturday. My morning commitment ran into the afternoon. How did the meeting go?

Comment by Kelley Drumm on February 20, 2009 at 5:12pm

You guys all seem to have a good handle on this. I'm looking forward to our meeting tomorrow. I may be a few minutes late, because of an earlier commitment, but I will definitely be there.

Comment by Michael DeAloia on February 20, 2009 at 4:52pm

Hey, I got a link to the State of Ohio for the Federal Stimulus money. The state wants proposals for this Federal money. I will share with everyone tomorrow.

Comment by Douglas Craver on February 20, 2009 at 2:28pm

I think it should be the blueprint for initiatives like this. I know it will be for the projects I work on.

Comment by George Nemeth on February 20, 2009 at 2:14pm

Thanks for the plug. Anyone interested in "Instructions from the Cook" can download a free PDF of it here:
http://sn.im/cbcps

Comment by Douglas Craver on February 20, 2009 at 2:07pm

I suggest everyone working on this project read George's book written with Jack. This is the approach we should be taking since it isn't dependent on this crazy crap. PLEASE...need to be educated on social media...isn't that the main problem? Should we really need to do that? What rock have they been hiding under? The Moses Cleaveland statue? In this economy I think we need to push social media ventures in addition finding new ways to get things like this off the ground and using social media apps to do just that.

Comment by George Nemeth on February 20, 2009 at 1:55pm

Ultimately the State of Ohio/Third Frontier fund may not be the right group to be pitching this to (especially if we have to spend our limited time on educating them re: social media), but at the least we've gotten our thoughts down in a collaborative way.

Looking ahead, who else should we be talking about this to? Is there federal money (Congressman Ryan's Tech Belt Initiative)? Venture Capital? Angel investors?

Comment by Michael DeAloia on February 20, 2009 at 1:48pm

I am cautiously optimistic that TechLift will help. But this is a new technology and industry to them and they may not see the ultimate benefit of it. We have greate momentum on our side. Seems Twitter and Facebook and others are in the news daily (both good and bad). We need to take this time with TechLift to educate them and educate them well.

Comment by Douglas Craver on February 20, 2009 at 1:48pm

I say if we can't get regional cooperation we find a way to go directly to Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher who is supposed to oversee OH economic development.

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