Social Media Alliance of Chattanooga (SMAC) is seeking a few college interns who are sincerely interested in gaining real-world social media and event planning experience.
SMAC hosts monthly events, year-round promotions, and engages in community partnerships and outreach.
We are looking for a few talented individuals that can commit and contribute at least 8 hours a week.
You will learn and participate in:
Social media strategy for business
Social media implementation
Event planning and management
This is an unpaid internship. We do guarantee a professional contact reference, letter of recommendation and linkedin recommendation for all interns who participate for a minimum of 90 days.
Interested? Send an email to, apply@nooga.org and let us know why we should pick you as an intern?
Last fall we started our one-hour workshop series, and asked for an optional donation for school supplies for the United Way of Greater Chattanooga’s Stuff the Bus Campaign, which brings much needed school supplies to children in the area. Since Stuff the Bus is a year-round initiative, and our programs and events are mostly educational, we’re expanding our efforts to help continuously fill the bus for United Way. Most of our events are free, and we believe it’s a fair trade off for the value that attendees receive from our programs. Donating an item(s) to attend is not mandatory, but is extremely appreciated. A Stuff the Bus bin will be at every event for you to drop in your donation. This ongoing effort will start in April, 2012 with our Arby's luncheon at the United Way headquarters downtown.
Strat Parrott, a local entrepreneur and owner of Juncture, a marketing company in Chattanooga, joins the Social Media Alliance Board of Advisors. Strat will be leading a committee for Afterhour meetups and special events. This is a critical role, as SMAC moves forward as the authoritative social media business group with a distinctive local interest.
The Social Media Alliance of Chattanooga will be in booth #817 on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at the Chattanooga Convention Center, Halls A and B.
We are grateful to the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce for allowing us a little face-time with the local business community and with many of our followers and friends. If you are attending or exhibiting, please stop by and say, “Hello.” The exhibition is open from 10 AM to 4 PM. Use the hashtag, #EXPOchatt on Twitter to follow, or tweet about all of the EXPO happenings in real time. Also, download the Truexpo app for the iPhone and Android smart phones for extended information about the EXPO.
It’s true that Social Rocks! really doesn’t require a special or set criteria other than, “Hey you! Yes you … awesome effort!” But when we make the commitment to print the poster, we also want to make clear why a recipient was chosen.
SMAC is an advocate of social media best practices. We want to encourage businesses, organizations and public services to embrace a more social culture with their operations, public relations and marketing efforts. Top Flight, Inc. is a very good example of a local company that has found value in leading a consistent social media strategy and building a digital footprint to help better connect and communicate with their customers and prospects. It’s clear that they realize that it’s not all about selling notebooks and folders, but encouraging relationships and putting a personality on their brand and products. It also reinforces their stated dedication to the customer.
Top Flight, Inc. has also proven by example that social media is not...
Late last week, I was contacted by Jason Falls and the Social Media Explorer. Some of you might remember that Jason and Erik Deckers were good sports and did a promotional video for us last year.
Jason and the Social Media Explorerhas generously extended to our SMAC family a 50% discount to Explore Nashville on April 13th at the Embassy Suits Nashville Airport in Nashville, TN. This is an additional $50 savings over the early-bird pricing. Details, links and the exclusive SMAC promotional code can be found below. I'm really excited about this—Explore Nashville is an exceptional value, considering the high quality line-up of social media movers and doers. ...
Gaining Ground is an area nonprofit and part of a growing movement of local growers, sellers and others who are committed to increasing the production and consumption of local food in the Chattanooga region. They provide funding and support to increase the production of, awareness of, and access to local food in Chattanooga.
Gaining Ground has reached out to SMAC to help them with educating local farmer’s market managers during a workshop on Thursday, March 15th from 6:15 PM to about 7:45 PM. We’ll be offering basic one-on-one how-to’s on the new Facebook page timeline design and Q & A's about basic Facebook usage and fan engagement techniques. We’re seeking 5-6 members of the SMAC community with intermediate to high Facebook page skills to lend a hand to this valuable organization. Laptops will be provided, or if you’re more comfortable using your own, wi-fi is available. We will provide supplemental printed...
