About

Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis/St. Paul (SMBMSP) is where event where like minded folks across the Twin Cities get together to share & learn about social media. Membership in SMBMSP online has grown to over 2,300 professionals from all different disciplines and industries. Many partnerships, jobs, career changes, and friendships have blossomed because of this group’s ability to connect people who enjoy sharing what they know.

SMBMSP was modeled after the first-ever Social Media Breakfast, created by Bryan Person in Boston in September 2007. SMBMSP is now the largest of more than 40+ chapters in the US.

Organization Information

Who We Are

Mykl Roventine
Director
Mykl brings a lively and focused passion for the SMBMSP community to life. He designs engag­ing web expe­ri­ences and speaks about social media, WordPress and typography. He co-founded and coordinates the actvities of Ignite Minneapolis and UnSummit, and runs as the local chapter of TechKaraoke Minneapolis. He has a special passion for the social web and its power to educate and inspire. He blogs at myklroventine.com.

Meg Knodl
Community Management
Meg Gerritsen Knodl is the Online Community Manager for Hennepin County Public Affairs. She spent the first decade of the millennium as a librarian. Meg established social media efforts for Hennepin County Library and was recognized as a 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. Meg’s favorite social network is Ravelry.com where she posts progress on her various knitting projects. She is married to a tumblr addict and together they like to travel, make things, and read to each other.

Missy Berggren
Strategic Planning
Missy Berggren is the brand manager at Allina, the largest healthcare organization in Minnesota — where she’s currently leading the rebranding of the organization to it’s new name Allina Health. Missy is also a co-founder and director of the Minnesota Blogger Conference, along with her colleague and friend Arik Hanson. In the social space, Missy is known as@MarketingMama on both twitter and her parenting blog. (photo by @meeterica)

Our Founder

Rick Mahn
Founder
Rick brings his passion for connecting people, and helping organizations understand and implement social media for their customers and employees alike. Rick has over 20 years of technical and communications experience leading teams and projects in social & new media, bringing new ideas and functionality to organizations of all sizes behind the firewall.

Strategic Partners

Mary Lower
Sterling Cross Communications
Mary brings her storytelling craft to SMBMSP by bridging traditional media to Social Media. With 20+ years in various roles within Public Relations, Mary has focused on integrating Social Media and PR over the past few years. She creatively uses the tools, mediums and language needed to tell the story of what SMBMSP is doing.