Social Media Club San Antonio Assists in Online Mayoral Media Coverage

Social Media Club has been assisting the city of San Antonio as well as SA4Mayor, and other media entities is providing online coverage and new distribution for one of the hottest election season to date. Our talented media professionals are honored to be a part of his amazing process and look forward to providing you extensive coverage for those tuning into the various online reports that will be shared with our online community.

*NOTE: be sure to follow hash-tag #SAvotes on Twitter for San Antonio community involvement.

*Taken from the offical press release

2009 Mayoral Election Coverage!

What: Live coverage of San Antonio’s mayoral election

When: 5-9 p.m. Saturday, May 9

Where: sacurrent.com, IGoSA.com, and uStream.tv

Join the Current, IGoSA, NewTek, the Social Media Club, and 24 Hour Entertainment for live coverage of San Antonio’s May 9 municipal elections online at sacurrent.com and igosa.com. Using the NewTek Tricaster, Skype, a little kismet, and approximately 5 rolls of duct tape, the Current and 24 Hour Entertainment news teams will provide up-to-minute election returns, live reports from mayoral candidates’ parties, guest commentary from political pros past and present, plus live music by some of San Antonio’s best musicians, including Marcus Rubio, the Hawks of Holy Rosary, and the Swindles.

Readers can watch the broadcast live via sacurrent.com, igosa.com, or on their iPhones, using the free uStream iPhone app. Live-chat windows and the Social Media Club’s Twitter and blogging teams will whip the viewing public into a political frenzy. Local glam icon Jade Esteban Estrada will drop by the offices to offer his take on this year’s political follies, and former Councilmen Chip Haass and Roger Flores will provide perspective on their old districts’ races, as well as the challenges facing the next mayor and council. JP and political blogger Steve Walker will … well, he’ll just be his usual entertaining, informative self.

“For Social Media Club San Antonio, this is a phenomenal opportunity to showcase all of the online tools and the ease of access for anyone and eveyone to connect — whether its business, government, non-profits, whatever,” said SMC’s Jennifer Navarrete.

Current Editor Elaine Wolff says last month’s successful mayoral debate webcast demonstrated that live, interactive events are an important tool for engaging the public. “We’re excited about getting better and more creative  at using these new technologies to build open forums for San Antonio,” Wolff said. “Technology such as the Tricaster, Twitter, and Skype can make government more accessible, more open, and more fun — which never hurts when you’re trying to increase civic participation.”

24 Hour Entertainment’s Kaye Cruz says he “loves the new opportunity to work  with traditional media in deploying original creative content for the online world to witness. San Antonio is becoming a new hotbed for Cyber-programming ideas.”

Expect raw, unfiltered commentary, political insight, and a ton of fun as this new-media consortium brings you San Antonio’s first live election cybercast, online mayoral forum.