This month's Social Media Breakfast is brought to you by Uptown Uncorked, DimDim, the Portsmouth Tea Company and Custom Scoop.

You already know about Uptown Uncorked, since we are the breakfast maestro each month, and DimDim, who handles the periodic live casting of the breakfasts (note: this breakfast will not be live cast). Let me tell you a bit about our venue, The Portsmouth Tea Company, and our sponsor, Custom Scoop.

Our venue this month is The Portsmouth Tea Company. They will be providing the food and space for this event in their tea room. It should be a unique experience (and they have assured this coffee lover that they do have excellent coffee, but that once I try their tea I may never go back. We'll see!).  A little about the people behind the company:

Thank you to Maria Simos of e-Forecasting who helped facilitate the venue for us!

Our sponsor this month is Custom Scoop. Custom Scoop is a long time supporter of our education efforts with SMBNH, and they have sponsored several of our events both financially and with AV equipment. I'd like to thank them for continuing to be there for us and supporting our efforts whenever they can since we started. A bit about Custom Scoop:

A pioneer in the online news monitoring industry, CustomScoop has been providing fast, accurate media monitoring to clients since 2000. Our proprietary technology keeps our clients informed about traditional and social media.

We customize each client account to deliver meaningful media intelligence to make our customers more effective and efficient. With a database that includes hundreds of thousands of newspapers, magazines, web sites, blogs, podcasts, and more, you can be confident in your results.

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Social Media Breakfast History

On seeing growing demand in this area, I decided to fill the need with a new branch of the nationwide Social Media Breakfast in NH. It isn't that we don't love Boston, because we do, but our neighbor to the north is rich in technology and social media, and often overlooked when events are planned. I saw a need for networking opportunities that were easier to get to for the northern tech and social media crowd, and decided to step up and fill it. Because NH itself is a diverse and scattered state, the Social Media Breakfast there will be just a little bit different than the one in Cambridge/Boston. Our first meeting was in January 2009, and was a roaring success.

What is a Social Media Breakfast?

From the official description: The Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

The breakfast series began in Boston and has now spread to more than a dozen cities throughout the United States and around the world.

How will the Social Media Breakfast in NH be different?

The main difference between Social Media Breakfast NH and other SMBs will be all-inclusiveness. I do not want only social media people and companies to attend, I also want technology types, programmers, coders, tech writers, tech companies and more to attend. As a state that is rich in technology but scattered in distance, I think the best networking and connection making effect will be achieved by combined our different cultures. You never know, as a social media type you might just meet the coder you've been looking for to create your dream project if we all come together to connect and to learn from each other!

Theme for the sixth Social Media Breakfast: Reaching Beyond Cultural Divides 

The seventh Social Media Breakfast NH (hashtag #smbnh) will be all about topics related to Reaching Beyond Cultural Divides. We plan to talk about social media as it relates to minorites of all types and the disenfranchised, gender roles and other often overlooked or under tapped demographics. In this struggling economy and shifting paradigm we need to be working together to be more successful and better weather the storm. We should be pulling in all aspects of technology, new media, old media and social media to succeed. This  meeting will help us lay the foundation for a richer, better education, tech and new media community in NH.  

In addition to myself, who will be your host and MC for the morning, you will have three speakers giving three brief presentations on topics relating to the theme for the morning. 

Speakers:

• Opening Remarks by Leslie Poston, Uptown Uncorked

• Welcome Remarks by Marshall from Portsmouth Tea

• Sponsor remarks by Custom Scoop

• Ari Herzog, running for City Council, Newburyport, on "Dealing with Differing Religions Online"

• Anthony Liang, Senior at UNH, "Reaching College Students via Social Media"

• Leslie Poston, Founder of Uptown Uncorked, Co-Founder of Film POP! and Founder of SMBNH on "Women and Social Media"

This is going to be a great breakfast!

TO SPONSOR THIS OR A FUTURE SMBNH CONTACT LESLIE POSTON via Twitter, Email or Phone.

Let's make SMBNH crackle with energy and success! See you there!