Talking Socialnomics with Erik Qualman

Unless you’ve been liv­ing under a rock, you know that one of the hottest social media videos around is “Social Media Rev­o­lu­tion” by Erik Qual­man. It has received over 2,000,000 views since it debuted in July of 2009.

So, call it good karma that we booked Erik to speak and mere weeks before his sched­uled appear­ance, he released an updated ver­sion of his smash viral hit called “Social Media Rev­o­lu­tion 2 (Refresh)”

We had a lot of new­bies a this event, thanks in part to Erik’s national expo­sure. It was great to see some fresh faces in the room!  Erik’s appear­ance also brought out a few of our local super-stars, like Cali Lewis and Gio­vanni Galluci.

Thanks to Colin Alsheimer for this pic­ture inside the Mag­no­lia Theater.

Becky Pearce tweeted, “Really excited to have met @CaliLewis in per­son tonight. I was a bit star struck. Should have asked for a pic but didn’t.”

Next time, please ask! She’s very approach­able… promise.

Theodore Kim tweeted, “Stand­ing room only tonight at #smc­dal­las. That young pro­fes­sion­als are knock­ing down this club’s doors should tell us something.”

My spe­cial thanks goes to Vic­to­ria Har­res who tweeted me a shout out to say, “The coolest kid at #smc­dal­las is @ohso­cyn­thia who has a cosmo on the podium as she speaks.” What can I say… that’s just how I roll.

Adam Robin­son tweeted, “Pretty amaz­ing vibe at the #smc­dal­las event w/@equal­man”

Thanks to Andy Law­son for the picture

The first thing you notice about Erik Qual­man is that he is tall. I mean, really tall. Like bas­ket­ball player tall.  No offense, but you don’t see a lot of men in Texas over 6’2″.

Erik kicked off his talk with a naughty car­toon that got Elysa Rice to tweet, “I think @equal­man just started new trend. All #smc­dal­las events should start with car­toons & music!”

Here are a cou­ple of points from his talk , taken from tweets sent dur­ing the event:

“Accep­tance: the num­ber 1 need for humans. Social engage­ment thrives social media.” @AmandaHawk

“Social media has over taken porn as the #1 activ­ity on the web accord­ing to @equal­man”  @JoyHays

“Key to long life? Be socially and men­tally engaged.” @RoryEllis

“How to go viral w/ videos? 1) music 2) keep under 5 min­utes 3) don’t push your mes­sage it’s not about u 4) help oth­ers” @ChrisYates11

“What is social­nomics? In short — Word of mouth on dig­i­tal steroids” @KirbyRenee

“Wannabe a super­star? Put together a one pager of aggre­gated SM data around your co on a weekly basis. Then show it to your CEO.” @Andy_Lawson

“Don’t beg, bor­row, and steal. Beg, bor­row, and make bet­ter!” @JenWinn

“How big is social gam­ing? Green Giant sells veg­eta­bles that come with free Far­mville cash.” @MichaelMolinar

Thanks to our awe­some volunteers!

“78% of con­sumers trust peer rec­om­men­da­tions. Start the con­ver­sa­tions in your com­mu­nity and watch it spread word of mouth.” @RunningCouple

“Again what an amaz­ing #smc­dal­las event tonight. Erik Qual­man really is a must see speaker. Can’t wait 2 dive into his book #social­nomics.” @YoBlake

And I think Jeana Plas summed it up best with this tweet, “#smc­dal­las is the BEST net­work­ing group I have ever been to! Every­one is fun!”

We hope to see every­one at our July 22 event!