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What the $%*&@ Is Up With the Malibu Chamber?

What's up with the Chamber?

As a member of Chamber of Commerce most of my business life, I was happy to join the Malibu Chamber when I moved my business here several years ago from Century City. I became active giving volunteer hours to the communications committee and helping with PR and social media outreach to the members who wanted to learn more about these skills for free, even doing a webinar.

Most of you know that I was more than unhappy recently when Chamber head Rebekah Evans was summarily ejected by the new Board of Directors after a six year run without so much as a "Thank you very much. Here's your gold watch."

Since the new board was installed, the communications committee or at least my position on it disappeared, as well. 

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Last week, the Chamber (along with the Board of Realtors) hosted a candidate forum which I attended. Each question challenged the candidates' position re: real estate development in Malibu. I spoke with some of the candidates afterward. They felt awkward about the line of the questioning. I think Hans' gives everyone a taste of what was going on. 

Surprisingly, today up popped an email invitation to a Chamber event Friday - a not to be missed Facebook seminar. I was fascinated by the promo.

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Multibrain, our new local social media pros, have the answers. Come in for an informative presentation with the Multibrain Pros on Friday, March 23rd, from Noon-1:30p at Duke’s Malibu.

Multibrain is local? Really? Since I never heard of them and because I am only one of a few social media gigs in town, I did a little research on Google, alexa.com, GoDaddy and Whois. Depending on whom you believe, Multibrain is either a Canadian company, a Sherman Oaks company, a Bel Air company on Stradella Road, lives in Burlington, MA – well it is just about everywhere except Malibu. 

Local? Peeps, you know who is local, and it is not our friends at Multibrain (owned by Tucows.com). 

Meet up with me Thursday night at the Malibu Inn event that the Chamber is hosting, or Friday at the Facebook event with our "local" friends at Multibrain. Either one should be fun. 

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