How to Rawk SMCDallas

With tonight’s event only hours away, I thought I’d pass on a lit­tle insight on how to make the best of tonight (and future) SMC­Dal­las events. First, if you’re won­der­ing Rawk* was directly stolen from a panel I attended at SXSW ’09. *I accept no respon­si­bil­ity for steal fun spellings of the word rock.

10. Stalk­erific: I am an advo­cate of social media stalk­ing, but only in the non-creepy way. Fol­low the con­ver­sa­tions through­out the days (and weeks) prior to the event to see what’s being said.

9. Dress to Impress: If you don’t have a SMC Dal­las shirt yet, bring $20 … end of dis­cus­sion. There’s a cool kids club, price of admis­sion one very awe­some shirt designed by Alyssa Gardina.

8. Get your hand­shake on: Fig­ure out before the event who you must meet at the event. If you’ve sharp­ened your stalk­ing skills you will have already twit­ter stalked at least the lead­er­ship team. I’m just sayin’.

7. Do what yo mama taught you and say Thanks: Be sure to give a shout out to our fab­u­lous spon­sors. They also like Yelp reviews and for peo­ple *ehm YOU* to buy their products.

6. Bring bacon for Mike: or let us know your “how to rawk SMC” tip … you decide

5. Spread the love: Tweet, Face­book, Blog, scrib­ble on your mole­skin your favorites from the event and be sure to pass the word.

4. Geekup Tweetup: The after­party, be there

3. Buy Aaron (insert all future speaker’s names) a drink: If I have to spell this one out for you …

2. Busi­ness Cards — we all haz them: Please for the love of Chris Bro­gan don’t go shov­ing busi­ness cards in people’s face.

1. Come back next time. Reg­is­ter early!

Dis­claimer: My advice is 87% jok­ing — there may have been caf­feine, lack of sleep and inside jokes used in the mak­ing of this blog post. Hey if you can’t laugh with your social media nerd friends who can you laugh with?

PS: Mike added on Twit­ter: Don’t for­get to check in on Foursquare at Moroch!

We want to hear from you … how do you rawk SMC Dal­las?