Ranging from neophytes to experienced, the common thread was a desire to learn and grow.

The first order of business was to talk about one of the basic conventions of marketing on social media… Don’t be a butt-head… engage others with meaningful conversation.  Educate your target market.  Interact with them.  Listen.

We also talked about building future events.  The next event is going to be in Cobb County on August 26th.  Midtown should come soon after that.

The core group was divided between Midtown, Cobb and Gwinnett… with a couple of hardy professionals venturing from Athens, too.

During the networking talk, FaceBook Fan Pages, Active|Rain, WordPress and Flickr were all being discussed in various parts of the room.

For more information, feel free to visit our FaceBook Fan Page.  We will also be coming online with a WordPress MU blog, too.  As soon as it is live, I will be posting the address for that as well.

Currently the plan is to have events rotating to various parts of the Atlanta metro.  We are so spread out that having events in only one location would make it tough for a lot of people.

We haven’t set a date yet, but we are planning for the second meeting to take place in Cobb County.  We would like to also be able to hold future events in the South Metro area.  In order to do that, we would love to find a partner in that area to coordinate the event.

You might know Ken as the KC half of the JCKC Twitter Tuesday program on BlogTalkRadio.  Despite the Twitter-specific name, they talk about all sorts of social media and networking, and bring in cool guests from a variety of social media spaces.

This is NOT only open to real estate professionals.  In fact, we would VERY much like to have people from outside of the real estate industry.  We will be discussing how to effectively and responsibly utilize social media for business.  The discussions will range from basics for beginners to advanced topics and integrating social networking and social media like blogging, Twitter and FaceBook into a broader marketing strategy.

We’d love to hear from you!  We need to have an idea of how many people are going to make it to the event.