The group is devoted to learning how to use and monetize the social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Branch Out, Plaxo, the Referral Network, Merchant Circle, Quepaso, and many others. We will have group meetings to share success strategies and learn what works and doesn't, as well as have speakers, teleseminars, and webinars to provide tips on what to do. The group will become part of a network of Social Media Connection groups in other parts of the U.S. and other countries.

The organizer, GINI GRAHAM SCOTT, PhD, JD is a nationally known writer, consultant, speaker, and seminar-workshop leader, specializing in business relationships, professional and personal development, writing, promotion, and marketing. She has published over 50 books on diverse subjects. Webites are www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com, www.ginigrahamscott.com, and www.changemakersproductions.com.

She is writing a book with a team of authors on Monetizing the Social Media and has written several books on using the social media, promotion, and writing, including: - The Complete Guide to Using LinkedIn to Promote Your Business or Yourself, - Top Secrets for Using LinkedIn to Promote Your Business or Yourself, - The Complete Guide to Doing Your Own PR, - Sell Your Book, Script or Column; - The Complete Guide to Writing, Producing and Directing a Low-Budget Short Film.

Her books for clients include books on work and business, professional and personal development, self-help and relationships, psychology, sales, marketing, and money, health and beauty, memoirs, crime, social trends, and popular culture, novels, and specialty books. Her scripts include book adaptations and screenplays from original ideas. She also writes books and book proposals, articles, scripts, and other materials for clients, and writes books and does workshops on writing and promoting books and films.

Her books on business relationships and professional development include: Want It, See It, Get It!; Resolving Conflict; Disagreements, Disputes and All-Out War; 30 Days to a More Powerful Memory; A Survival Guide to Managing Employees from Hell; A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses; and A Survival Guide for Working with Humans (all from AMACOM). Scott’s books on marketing include: Let’s Have a Sales Party, Building a Winning Sales Team, Success in MLM and Get Rich in Personal Selling.

She is founder and director of Changemakers Publishing and Writing and Changemakers Productions and has published over 30 POD and E-Books in various formats, and has licensed several dozen books for foreign sales, including the UK, Russia, Hungary, Lithuania, Korea, Spain, Japan, and India. Scott has received national media exposure for her books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, and CNN. 

Scott has produced over 50 dozen short films featured on her Website and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/changemakersprod, which include documentaries, promotional videos, music videos, and dramatic shorts. She also has written 15 original screenplays and has written scripts for a dozen clients, based on adapting memoirs, novels, and ideas for films.