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SMCJoCo Launch Party

Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM (CT)

Leawood, United States

SMCJoCo Launch Party

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Social Media Club of Johnson County Officially Launches 

Overland Park, KS (Evans Media Group) 8 July 2010 – Mark your calendars for the official launch party for the Social Media Club of Johnson County (SMCJoCo). The kickoff event and official launch celebration will be held on July 15th at 6:00pm at the beautiful Aloft Hotel at Park Place in Leawood (11620 Ash Street, Leawood, KS 66211). Come network and engage with Johnson County’s best and brightest digital socialites in the modern WXYZ Bar and spacious patio overlooking Park Plaza. Register for the event at smcjoco.eventbrite.com

All are welcome to the party, but you must register for a free membership to the Club at www.smcjoco.com and be present to win any of the prizes, including weekend getaway packages from the Aloft Hotel and more. Be sure to bring your fully charged mobile phone as there will be opportunities to win prizes via mobile applications and SMS at the event.

The Aloft Hotel, one of Johnson County’s premier venues, will play host to the SMCJoCo Launch Party, holding the festivities in the chic WXYZ Bar and suspended patio area overlooking Park Plaza (learn more about the venue here: http://bit.ly/bQSDP2). With music, dancing, prizes, and the chance to meet some of the most influential social media users in Johnson County, this party is not to be missed.

While at the launch party, be sure to take the chance to meet members of the SMCJoCo Executive Board, including:

  • Kelly Scanlon - Publisher of Thinking Bigger Business Media/KC Small Business Magazine and Local Radio Host
  • Herb Sih - Co-founder of Clickspeed and ClearVox, Founder of Think Big Partners and the Think Big KC event
  • Eddie Kennison - Former Kansas City Chief and owner of several Johnson County businesses
  • Kris Ketz – First News Anchor KMBC-TV / KCWE-TV
  • Julie Cortes - Founder of the Freelance Exchange, Copy Writer and copy editor of flourish! Magazine
  • John Epperson - President of Ruxter Mobile
  • Laura Wynn - President of Black Widow Enterprises and Founder of Linking Leawood
  • Doug Richards - Social Media Evangelist at Centriq Training
  • Kelly O'Hagan - Marketing Manager for The Overland Park Convention Center
  • Michael Burns - Manager of Proposal Development at Perceptive Software
  • Free membership to the Social Media Club can be obtained by visiting www.smcjoco.com. Join the club today, and we’ll see you at the party!

 

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11620 Ash Street
Leawood, 66211

Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM (CT)


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Still need a ticket to the event? No worries! Email events@smcjoco.com or call 913.735.4168 to get registered!

See you in a few hours!

SMCJoCo Events Team

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Aloft Hotel Leawood

The day has arrived! Our official launch party is in less than 12 hours at the Aloft Hotelin Leawood. Everyone is welcome, and here are a few tips to help make your experience a success! We have a lot of stuff going on! If you plan to attend the event, here are some things to do before arriving:

RSVP through Eventbrite.  Once you have registered, there will be an option to print a paper ticket. You canforgo this as you will be checked into the event through the Eventbrite mobile app for efficiency and environmental friendliness.

 

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There will be over $16,00 in prizes prizes given away approximately every 15 minutes between 6 and 8 pm at the event. In order to win, you must have signed up for free membership at www.smcjoco.com and opted in to mobile alerts from SMC JoCo by texting SMCJOCO to 63636. Why? All winners will be notified via text message through randomly selected numbers. You can also sign up on the widget on the home page of the SMC JoCo website.

Dress for the event is business casual, though Booker T Brown Photography will be on site snapping portraits free for all attendees. So dress your best if you want to walk away with a new professional portrait to promote your business.

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Be sure to check in on Foursquare and let’s try for the swarm badge, or even the super swarm badge (150+) people.  The venue to check in on foursquare can be found by checking at this venue.  [Hint] There might be an award out there for the first 50 people to check in.

Don’t forget to bring your iPhone, iPod or MP3 player to contribute to the music selection for theevening. All music will be crowdsourced from attendees that bring their music and present it to our DJ from Wolo Events, Austin Berke.

Bring your appetite as the event will be catered by RA Sushi located downstairs. They will be open for dinner following the event if you just can’t get enough of their signature sushi dishes.

Stop by W XYZ bar and ask for one of the signature social media cocktails. The cocktail darling of the evening  is the Twittertini, blue in color and fully twitpic worthy!

Be sure to snap some pictures and 12 second videos and share them on Twitter tagged with #smcjoco, post them to our Facebook page, share them on our website and send them to us if you want us to post anything on ourYouTube channel.

Yours,

 

SMCJoCo Organizers

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