I was the oldest guy there, with my daughter, a budding web designer. I am a consulting CIO and systems designer. Have built a lot of commercial applications, some large B2B sites, now doing small e-commerce for startups as well.

We are using social media in the form of crowd funding, for a movie (funded) and a book.

I am the Outreach and Development Specialist at the SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. We met briefly at the PRSA luncheon earlier in the month. We are working on our Summer Institute Conference in Myrtle Beach in June 2011 and were wondering if you would consider facilitating a networking event for our participants on the evening of June 16, 2011? For more information about our conference, you can go to our website and click on our Summer Insitute Logo. Thanks for your consideration. -Kim W.

Have you tried going after specific segments of your target market? If parents are part of your target market, you may want to search specifically for groups of them on facebook (i.e. P.T.A. groups for different high schools).

Nick

Where is the “Share this on Facebook/Twitter/Etc” link? I see it under the blog posts, and I see you have icons to connect with the Fan pages and Twitter profiles. But what about a very simple “Share this on Facebook” button that will help them post a link to their Wall?

From what I can tell, the “Invite a Friend” page only allows the user to type in email addresses. Why not allow them to import contacts from major address books (Yahoo, Gmail, Live) and automate some of the messaging?

Registration is too complex. If you only require a name and email address, I imagine you’ll get a much higher conversion rate than requiring addresses as well. This will allow someone to continue receiving your message, test the waters, and see if they want to give you the rest of their information and join the march. If nothing else, allow them to only enter their Zip code (like Picken’s Plan does) and force them to key in more information when actually contacting the government.

Remember: you can blast out emails the night before to remind people to complete registration, but only if you have their email address. Don’t let them be turned off by requiring too much up front.

Last, try a Counter system like Kiva. They show you statistics on how many people you have invited vs. the average of all Kiva users, how many loans made, etc. People love the idea of being “above average”.

Good luck with this!

Chris

Cheers

Joy