Can You Help us bring Social Media Breakfasts to Toronto?

Bringing Social Media Breakfasts to Toronto

Social Media Breakfasts are coming to Toronto.

We have the organizers. We have the will. We have the network to reach out to and attract great speakers. And we know we have a lot of people interested in attending.

Now, we need help with two final essentials.

Can you help?

We need help finding a location in Toronto where we can hold the Social Media Breakfast. Do you have a meeting room or open concept office that could accommodate up to 100 people for a 7:30AM to 9AM meetup? If so, would you consider hosting the first breakfast?

Even if you can’t host the event, would you be able to help us by sponsoring the breakfast or sound system?

What can we give you in return for hosting or sponsoring the Social Media Breakfast? Recognition in blog posts, on the Social Media Breakfast Website and at the event itself. And the sincere gratitude of a large and growing social media community.

About the Social Media Breakfast

The Social Media Breakfast was Launched first in Boston in 2007 by Bryan Person. Since then, it has spread to cities throughout the United States and elsewhere. The concept was brought to Canada earlier this year by Simon Chen, Rob Lane and Ryan Anderson, who organized Social Media Breakfast Ottawa.

Social Media Breakfasts provide people interested in social media and Web 2.0 with an opportunity to network and hear from business leaders and thought leaders.

Who is behind the Social Media Breakfast in Toronto?

Social Media Breakfast Toronto is being initiated by the people who organize Third Tuesday Toronto. The Third Tuesday Toronto community has grown to over 1,000 members who meet once a month after work to hear social media thought leaders talk about the newest developments in social media, online communities, Web apps, marketing and public relations.

We’ve decided to organize a Social Media Breakfast series to meet the needs of Toronto social media enthusiasts who want to network and discuss the latest developments in social media, but who find that mornings are better for this than evenings after work. And for the most committed social media enthusiasts, we can go to both events. :-)

Over to you

If you can help or know someone who can help us with a location or sponsorship, please leave a comment on this post or send a direct message to “thornley” on Twitter or an email to joseph.thornley [at] gmail.com.

More about the Social Media Breakfast

Recap of Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 1

Mark Blevis podcasted the Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 1

Andrew Alexander’s Flickr photos from Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 1

Simon Chen talks about bringing the Social Media Breakfast to Ottawa

Highlights of Overlay.tv CEO Rob Lane’s presentation at Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 2

  • http://davefleet.com Dave Fleet

    Sounds like a great idea to me, Joe. I’d be happy to help out.

  • http://rickmahn.com Rick Mahn

    Joseph,
    I’ve been organizing the SMBs down in Minneapolis/St. Paul since February last winter and have a couple venue tips to get started.

    Since venues are hard to plan for initially, take a look at a larger public library. We recently had a great event with 68 folks at the Minneapolis Central Library which had great facilities and didn’t cost us anything.

    Another early venue that worked very well was a local university (Concordia University in St. Paul) let us use a large conference/classroom for no charge.

    Both had WiFi and overhead projection systems and sound systems at the library. This let us spend the small initial sponsor funds on the food/beverage for the breakfast.

    It’s worked well so far – feel free to check in on our upcoming 6th event next Friday morning via the web feed (http://www.mogulus.com/smbmsp), and feel free to contact me directly if you’d like more information on some things we’ve done with ours (@rickmahn on Twitter or email: rick [at] rickmahn.com)

    I’m looking forward to reading of your impending successes at SMB Toronto!

  • http://www.propr.ca Joseph Thornley

    Rick, Thanks for the great suggestions. The library hadn’t occurred to me. We’ll check that out. And I’ll check out the Webfeed for your next event to see how you do it in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

  • http://dailygrind.brandinfiltration.com Jacquelyn

    Definitely interested in helping out. Our crew of infiltrators was really impressed with SMB Ottawa and had been hoping to group up with some organizations interested in doing the same in Toronto.

    Very interested in coming up with a way to work together!

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  • http://prkeener.blogspot.com Kerri Birtch

    Hi Joe,

    I was thinking maybe Ryerson would be a great place to hold it? There are a number of large conference rooms and with their PR, Marketing, New Media and Journalism programs it could be a great fit.

    I know CSME did a lunch event at Oakham House, which has at least 2 spaces that would be large enough to accommodate this size of a group.

    -Kerri

  • http://www.propr.ca Joseph Thornley

    Kerri, Thanks for the suggestion. Ryerson would be a good fit.

  • http://www.adlounge.ca Trina Boos

    Interesting. I’d love to come to this.
    Richtree in BCE place holds a few breakfast events. Might be interesting to look into. Not sure about if they’ll be able to hold 100, but at least 50-75 I would imagine.

    As a last resort, I am happy to offer up my condo’s party room. It’s used a fair bit for events of this nature, and it will hold more than 100. It’s at King/Bathurst area.
    If it’s a true breakfast event, we’d have to get someone to sponsor it for food. One of the beighbouring restaurants would be more than happy to cater for it.

    Just some ideas that I thought I’d throw out there.

    -Trina

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