Another way to meet new people, make friends, and have fun is by attending a Pecha Kucha.

Kenny Harper of KeyTheory.com will be hosting Pecha Kucha 13, on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011, at the 5 Points Theater, in Jacksonville, Florida.

The Pecha Kucha presentation format originated in Japan in 2003, and features creative presenters showcasing their talent or knowledge to you through 20 slides for 20 seconds a piece.

It’s a riot of fun and excitement because each presenter only has 20 slides that last 20 seconds each.

If you haven’t been attended a Pecha Kucha before, you should check it out. It’s a good time with good people.

Pecha Kucha is a FREE event

• $3.50 Beer
• $4.50 Wine
• Stick around after the show for a movie. Movie tickets available for purchase.

May 24th 2011 – Doors open at 6:00 – Presentations begin at 7:00

For more information on the event, please see Kenny Harper Web Design website.

Kenny Harper is a creative and talented, Jacksonville, Florida-based web designer and owner of Key Theory, LLC, who continues to expand his social network of friends and followers.

Kenny has over eight years of professional experience in freelance web design, website development, and social media optimization in the advertising industry.   As part of his professional work, he meet people in many different businesses and with a variety of creative skills and experience.  His Kenny Harper Design website displays his portfolio of website design and development work, and his growing list of recommendations.

Social interaction is an important part of Kenny’s personal and business life.

Many of his new clients are referred by friends, fans, or previous and current clients.  And social connections also share new, helpful ideas and concepts.  Connecting to form a large social group of friends and like-interested people provides a better opportunity for exchange and development.

Sound like a good thing?  Want to get more social?

For some examples, Kenny is active in

• Jacksonville American Marketing Association
• Jacksonville Search Engine Optimization Meetup
• Social Media Club Jax
• Toastmasters
• Pecha Kucha
  
• American Institute of Graphic Arts Jacksonville

and other groups that combine for social and business development.  Kenny enjoys being active in his community, and meeting new people and making new friends at these social activities.  A real Win / Win deal!

Kenny and a friend, Olaf Guerrero, owner of Ravenous Creations, have been helping others to improve their social presence with their Rock My Facebook services for custom Facebook pages.  A well planned custom Facebook page is another way to meet and impress new social connections for you and for your business.

There’s a bunch of people out there, who’d like to meet you and get to know you better, so get social, and that will also help your website and your business.

Michelle is a Jacksonville, Florida-based, recognized online entrepreneur, but between her talented use of the internet social platforms, and her adventuresome touring ventures, her fans and followers continue to grow in numbers.

Even though Michelle has an impressive portfolio of examples of success in helping other businesses to improve their websites, their marketing programs, their internet presence, she generously shares her knowledge with others, thanks to her friendly, cheerful, helpful personality.

She continues to engage with and increase the number of her many fans and followers through interesting, helpful, and informative interactions on social platforms like Facebook and Twitter, blog posts, and social speaking events.  For some examples, she has been a speaker on small business topics for Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce meetings, she is the organizer and frequent program contributor for the Jacksonville Search Engine Optimization Meetup.

Michelle takes social networking to new levels with http://theroamingentrepreneur.com/ where Michelle posts as she travels to varied destinations, sharing insights to interesting small businesses and their marketing ideas as she goes.

But she is discrete and doesn’t flood her social interactions with despirate plugs for her business.  She makes and builds social connections, and occasionally might mention something about her business.  Like she and others have said, social networking is for social interaction; too much business and it sounds spammy.

There’s a bunch of people out there, who’d like to meet you and get to know you better, so get social, and that will also help your website and your business.

If you like this article about social networking, check out this other Jax SEO Works article:

Better Social Networking

Fall, the time of year when we think of harvesting the crops that have been growing all through the summer.

Think of your social media networks (Facebook,  Twitter, Linkedin, reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.) as opportunities to make and grow new social connections, making new friends and participating in new communities.

Some business people confuse social media networks as advertising platforms, and attempt to SELL, SELL, SELL, with every comment.

Then they wonder why others don’t come running to buy their product or service.

Oddly, the same people will turn the volume down on their TV when a commercial comes on, or change the TV channel, or leave the room for a snack or bathroom break.

Interesting to me that they don’t enjoy hearing pushy advertising, but they expect others to like their pushy advertising comments on social media.

Not that you can’t mention your business, your product, or service to your social media connections, but that you need to be more social than focused on advertising.

You need to get to know others.  Tell them a little about yourself and what you like.  Share a helpful, positive, informative, or even funny comment.  Think of social network platforms like social functions where you are interacting with real people.  If you only talked about your business every time you went to a social gathering, you would be pretty boring to others.  You need to develop human connections before you occasionally mention something interesting about your business.

As Master search engine specialist and Internet marketing expert Michelle Chance-Sangthong said,  in her Red Hawk Strategies post Social Media as an Extension of Business,

“Are you building trust into your marketing? Do you deliver on your promises? Your social media activity should be a positive extension of your brand, of your values and of your corporate promises. It should not be a bunch of “clatter” that constantly talks about how wonderful you are.”

If you cultivate trust in your social networks, you will be able to harvest the results of your efforts socially and in your business as well.