We’ve got a new weekly feature here at SSMP and, hopefully, you think it’s pretty cool beans. It’s called This Week in Seattle Social Media and I would love some community involvement with this. Here’s how it’ll work. Every Friday, I will compile a list of the most interesting and relevant information from that week. Most of the info will revolve around social media and will include blog posts, news, interesting or funny tweets from Seattle social media tweeps, and whatever else is useful or just plain funny. Not all of what you’ll find in this feature will relate to social media, as you’ll see, but for the most part, that will be the main focus.

Now, here’s where you come in.

Seattle Social Media Profiles’ goal is to give back to the social media community here in Seattle by doing our part to nurture it. We want new conversations to start between people based on what they can find here on our site. With that, what I would love is if “This Week in Seattle Social Media” was a community-based effort. So here’s the deal: for every section in this weekly feature, I will accept submissions from you throughout the week, whether that be a blog post, a #SeaSMFollow recommendation, or just a funny story or video. On Friday, I will post the best from that week (and of course, I will give credit to those who submitted the information).

So if you think you’ve come across a great blog article about social media in Seattle, send it my way—I’ll post it. If you find a funny or insightful tweet from a Seattle social media tweep you follow, send it my way—I’ll post it. If you have a great new tweep here in Seattle you think everyone should follow, send it my way (with a reason in 140 characters, plz)—I’ll post it. I can’t post everything, but would love it if this section of the blog were built by the Seattle social media community.

Please send submissions to kenjionozawa@hotmail.com.

Thoughts?

USEFUL SOCIAL MEDIA BLOG POSTS

• Wired Magazine – The Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet
• Chris Brogan: Are You a Trust Agent
• MASHABLE – 10 Twitter Best Practices for Brands
• MASHABLE – 30 Apps for doing business on Facebook
• Business Week: Fortune 100 CEO’s are Social Media Laggards
• Social Media Today – How To Do Online Marketing For Restauraunts and Wine Bars
• What’s in Your Social Media Tool Kit?

SEATTLE-BASED SOCIAL MEDIA RELATED BLOG POSTS

• Social Networking is All About Relationships Silly
• The Twitter Relations Model
• Flight Training at Alaska Airlines – not for sissies

NEWLY DISCOVERED TWITTER SERVICES

• Twubs – Organizes hashtags into groups.
• MashDeck – Like Seesmic or TweetDeck, but from the folks at Mashable.
• Poll Everywhere – Live audience polling via text messages? VERY COOL.

IMAGES

• Pacman’s Twitter followers look like bad news
• In case of fire, do not use Twitter

JUST FOR FUN

• VIDEO: Obama Kills Fly: Ninja Remix
• IMAGE: This iPhone is Freakin’ Hilarious
• LIST: Top 100 Funniest One-Liners
• BLOG: 16 Things I wish They Had Taught Me in School
• GAME: Totem Destroyer – VERY ADDICTING

TWEETS OF THE WEEK

• joannjen Advice to LT class of 2010 “get naked” which means do away with #Seattle nice. Don’t be afraid to show who you are. -’09
• andruedwards I’m a grown man…why did I just request sprinkles on something?!
• jowyang (Observation about aging): memory > energy > hairline > getting older < waistline < patience < wisdom
• halfnelson I change my shoes when I get to work. Mostly so I can feel like Mr. Rogers.
• chrispirillo Who says that you can’t make real friends online? They’re wrong. You guys (and gals) are the absolute best.
• trevorrotzien #FailWhale sighted. Another example of how cute doesn’t compensate for dysfunction.
• shih_wei Umm, did anybody miss me while I was gone? Just checking.
• geekgiant When people say they’re “hopping on a conference call,” how many of them have ACTUALLY hopped? I might try it…
• TimothyCarter Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; & character fixes our destiny.

SEA TWEEPS TO FOLLOW #SeaSMFollow

Have a local social media person you want to recommend everyone follow? Send it in a tweet with a reason why and I’ll post it next Friday! @Kenji_Onozawa or  @SeaSMProfiles – Sorry, only one submission will be accepted.

• @KeGill – Teaches Digital Media at UW and is teaching a Twitter class this summer. SWEET!
• @TechLouise, @BCahill, @NMithel, @BrianOptify – The Twittersphere was all abuzz with their names after their panel discussion on social media this week.
• @ChrisPirillo – He modded the event… does he really need any more followers?
• @IdeaGiant – My brother-in-law, Guru, who’s trying to change the world.
• @JAndrick– Jeremiah is the man. One of the men behind BarCamp Seattle and a karaoke legend.
• @MoniGuzman – Seattle’s big blogger. Brilliant.
• @SandraSullivan – A great one to follow for Seattle happenings and current events (via @dominiqueb)
• @Ethany – SM genius (via @ryeager)