Just want to take a quick second to thank Shauna Causey, Joann Jen and the rest of the SMC crew for allowing me to grill three esteemed panelists for 45 minutes Tuesday night about Social Media topics.  I wish we had had more time for Q+A from the crowd, though I think the topic was so wide, we could have gone another hour and still not covered everything.  

A few follow-up notes for the record, in response to the #smcsea Tweetstream from last night. 

• No disrespect to Whrrl.  I usually say, “Foursquare, Gowalla and Whrrl.”  Not sure why I left them out yesterday.  
• I do believe GeoLocation and hyper local are key.  However, I wanted to surface some issues with them past the hype, which is why I asked Matt to take a devil advocate’s role.  For example, I still don’t understand how a major advertiser can deploy a hyper local campaign as painlessly as buying a TV spot. 
• I don’t think you need to have a Twitter account to have Social Media expertise.  Social Media is about connections, deep and shallow.  Choosing not to engage in thousands of shallow conversations, doesn’t mean you don’t have knowledge about particular aspects of this medium.  (Yes I know that is too many negatives in one sentence.)
• Thanks @Chex_mix for dropping in and watching the stream via Ustream.  Good to have you be part of the conversation.
• Thanks to anyone who said nice things about the panel and/or moderator.  No offense, I’m just not going to get around to sending @replies to everyone.  But I do appreciate the kind words.
• Ustream archive link is here.  Panel starts about an hour in.

See everyone at the next event.