An Evening with Tim Hayden: In Pictures and Tweets

What a treat to spend the evening with Austin’s Tim Hay­den of Blue Clover.  You might know him by his for­mer twit­ter han­dle @GamePlanHayden.  He has a new job and a new twit­ter name: @TheTimHayden.  If you aren’t fol­low­ing him on twit­ter — please do so NOW.

I liked Tim from the first time I met him.  He doesn’t come in preach­ing the gospel of social media.  He ques­tions.  He pro­vokes.  He teases.  He ridicules what he sees as mass media hype.  Yep, I like him a lot.

So, here’s how the evening went:

Jeff Can­ton from Meals On The Move

Meals On the Move was our food spon­sor of the evening.  They deliver from a bunch of dif­fer­ent restau­rants in the Dal­las area.  From sin­gle orders to large cater­ing events, they can bring what you want right to your door. I love that!

For our soiree, they catered from Dodie’s in Addi­son: Jam­bal­aya, Salad and Bread Pud­ding. Their team was super nice and they handed out $10 off coupons to our mem­bers. SCORE!

They are wel­come back anytime…

“@momde­liv­ers! thanks for din­ner at #smc­dal­las. I’m going to have to visit Dodie’s soon! Great food!”, tweeted @KatFarmer.

Yummy New Fla­vors from Paciugo

Paci­ugo Gelato co-owner, Cris­tiana Ginatta

It was a huge BONUS to also have Dallas-based Paci­ugo also on board, serv­ing us a sneak peak of their 4 new Sum­mer flavors:

• Choco­late Chipo­tle But­ter Pecan
• Roasted Banana Cashew-Heath Crunch
• Durian
• Organic Maple Caramelized Bacon.

@FrankLogic tweeted, “With bacon ice cream does it mean we can eat ice cream for break­fast finally?”

@Orangecast com­mented, “Food at #smc­dal­las excel­lent. How can u not love #paci­ugo

The Crew from Magic Logix

After the Cajun fest was over and peo­ple were try­ing to undo the top but­ton on their pants with­out any­one else notic­ing… Our first speaker was up:

“Has­san Bawab of Mag­i­cLogix talk­ing about page rank and SEO… (they) are able to help w/ caching & com­pres­sion, DNS, JavaScript etc.”, tweeted @FriscoStyleMatt.

After Magic Logix’s pre­sen­ta­tion, Pre­cise Agency added their two cents to the conversation.

“Accord­ing to @Pre­ciseAgency Face­book is aver­ag­ing 15k new users per day”, tweeted @Elysa

They also dropped a cool sta­tis­tic that there are “15000 new users a day on foursquare”, said @StratfordX.

Finally, our fea­tured speaker was ready to take the floor.

SMC Atten­dees with Tim Hayden

@FriscoStyleMatt tweeted, “Going to throw gadgets/tech under bus and talk trends, behav­ior, says @TheTimHay­den http://twitpic.com/1pinyr”

@OhSoCynthia tweeted, Tim just threw out a Gary Vanyn­er­chuk quote, “Con­tent is King, but Mktg is Queen. And the Queen rules the house.” Y-E-S.

“What makes peo­ple excited about liv­ing and shar­ing? It’s con­tent above all else.” tweeted @AGar­dina.

“Three points of engage­ment — live, mobile, online. All two way com­mu­ni­ca­tions.” tweeted @LevelTen_Colin.

Mike Mer­rill gives SMC swag to Tim

“90% of word of mouth takes place offline — and mobile is going to make that even higher. Get out of the cube.” tweeted @AGardina.

Did you know that “Only 40% of Amer­i­cans have smart phones?” tweeted @FrankLogic. I found this an inter­est­ing statistic.

I really liked this Tim tid­bit that @AGardina tweeted, “Look at humans and know what they want. Use the tech­nol­ogy to match that — don’t let the tech­nol­ogy dic­tate what you do.” This is why Tim is so fan­tas­tic at what he does. he GETS it.

Tim gave us some social media predictions:

1. The His­panic mar­ket is mov­ing into the mobile mar­ket faster than any other demo­graphic.  Tar­get them there.
2. Twit­ter is going to slow up or “fiz­zle”. Peo­ple don’t have time to sit and look at Tweet­Deck all day (AMEN!) It needs to inte­grate into a more usable plat­form or the masses will not adopt it.
3. The real oppor­tu­nity for the iPad is not with the con­sumer base, but in the B2B mar­ket. Think med­ical, restau­rants and retail. What can you develop for that?

Inter­est­ing obser­va­tion from @CatherineKaram, “The major­ity of peo­ple (here) are with an agency — maybe shows how many brands are scared to try social media on their own?”

And @YoBlake summed it up by com­ment­ing, “I think they are going to rename @TheTimHay­den the “Chuck Nor­ris of Social Media” after his #smc­dal­las event tonight. Great job!”

I con­cur.

A huge thanks to our won­der­ful spon­sors for mak­ing tonight such a fan­tas­tic experience:

• Magic Logix
• Kick­Apps
• Meals On The Move
• Paci­ugo
• Moroch PR
• Fire­host
• Blue Sky Factory

We couldn’t do this with­out you!