March Tweetup to be held tonight at Luni Latin Kitchen and Coffee studio head as many head off  for SXSWi conference in Austin.  This Tweetup is a joint effort between SMC Dallas and #cubanakolls. (Lauren Fernandez & Traci Koller). They have requested   to use the hashtags #smcdallas & #cubanakolls when talking about the event on Twitter. RSVP HERE on this Facebook Event page.

New Meetup.com group, SMB Social Media Networking, organized by Dallas social media speaker J. R. Atkins, held a Happy Hour networking event last night at Trece to bring like-minded small-medium-sized business owners together for brainstorming on the latest techniques and opportunities.  This  casual event  environment of small- and-medium-business leaders helped facilitate mingling and discussions  on how business owners are using social media.  Corner6 Labs, an Irving-based social media marketing firm sponsored the event and gave away two prizes: the opportunity for a guest blog post on the Corner6 Blog, and a free SEO analysis on the winner’s website. Corner6 representative Travis Blythe was quite the character and co-MC. He wore a lab coat in-line with his company’s branding, and asked attendees to sign it with his/her twitter handle and their thoughts on where social media was headed in 2010. If you are a social media enthusiastic, entrepreneur, or small business owner, I recommend checking out  this group by joining them at their events and receiving their updates via their Meetup.com group.

Neil Lemons is the founder of the Social Media Dallas News site and the lead SEM Strategist at The Marketing Zen Group, a social media marketing company offering website design, SEO, and pay-per-click. Check out their latest articles about using social media as a marketing tool.