I've spent my entire professional life as a television network publicity and corporate communications executive at such places as Fox, GSN and Lifetime TV. I get a rush dealing with live broadcasts, tight deadlines and press conferences. I think I enjoy my job so much because I love working with the press. In addition to all that, I enjoy being an industry blogger and a social media expert and leading my own consulting firm in Los Angeles. 
A Holiday For Your Smartphone
So I hope you and your smartphone, computer, net book, iPad or kin are celebrating today for its SOCIAL MEDIA DAY. Yep, today you can be as geeky as you want – it’s allowed and demanded. So embrace your communities, friends, followers and twitter away to your heart’s desire. I love this.
How am I celebrating this day? I’m having a hi-tech talk lunch with one of my geeky Mac friends today and from there going over to my town’s celebration – all things social media. And if you’ve don’t have anything on your dance card yet, don’t fret…just check out what meetups are happening near you today by clicking here….Mashable Meetups.
Go have fun! And tweet about it. Here’s how Mashable’s Founder and CEO Pete Cashmore, the inventor of this day, recommends participation.
How To Participate in Social Media Day
- Meetup Everywhere Mashable: Sign up to attend an event on the Meetup Everywhere Mashable.
- Watch the live streams worldwide: We’ll be updating throughout the day.
- Tweet: Use the #smday hashtag on Twitter. With so many participating, we should be a trending topic on Twitter on June 30. Also, we’ll soon be announcing a prize for those that tweet or post to Facebook.
- Add the Social Media Day Twitter theme from TweetyGotBack to your account in support of the day.
- Follow @mashSMday: Follow @mashSMday on Twitter for updates and developments on the celebration.
- Comment via Facebook: Go to Smday.com and leave a comment either promoting your meetup or tell us what you’re doing for your event.
- Upload to Flickr: Upload photos to Flickr and tag them with #smday.
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