For those of us interested in social media, it's about finding a community of peers, making connections, learning from and supporting each other.

Social Media Breakfast Ottawa wants to help you do this by bringing you interesting, entertaining and timely speakers along with lots of real networking time over our (mostly) monthly Breakfasts.

We'll keep the event to 90 minutes, focusing on providing an opportunity for attendees to meet each other. To spark conversation and discussion, we're pleased to welcome a guest speaker.

Breakfast Agenda

7:30 AM Arrival, coffee and pastries, networking

8:00 AM Introductions, guest speaker's presentation

8:30 AM Questions

8:40 AM Thank yous, announcements, more networking

9:00 AM We're done! On with your day!

What's Up for Breakfast 24?

We've invited back Dr. Sam Ladner, our first returning speaker! Sam was our Breakfast 15 guest in April 2010. 

Mobile Work Life

The mobile platform is increasingly important to marketers and communication specialists. Sam will present some initial findings from her research project Mobile Work Life (http://mobileworklife.ca). This project involved research conducted in-home, in-office, and "ride along" field interviews with smartphone users.

Sam and her colleagues asked the question: "What is the impact of smartphone use on work/life balance?" Their initial findings suggest that smartphone users are indeed bringing their work home with them, but are also bringing their domestic responsibilities to work.

What does this mean for marketers? Sam will describe how domestic mobile use is starting to reflect workplace mobile use. She will also show how smartphone use is disrupting existing social interactions. Marketers and communication specialists will learn and have a chance to discuss consumer use patterns and how mobile is changing our social lives.

About Mobile Work Life

Mobile Work Life is a basic research project, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSRHC) and hosted at Ryerson University, where Sam is a postdoctoral fellow.

About Sam

Dr. Sam Ladner is a sociologist specializing in the social aspects of technological change. She mixes private-sector consulting work with academic research and teaching. Primarily an ethnographer, Sam is founder and principal with Copernicus Consulting, a social research company that consults on digital and industrial product design, organizational change and consumer culture. She is also adjunct professor in the graduate program of OCADU. She holds a PhD in sociology from York University.

We hope you'll join us to kick-off our 2011-12 season!