Mashable has declared today Social Media Day, and we’d be remiss here at adroyt if we didn’t throw up a post saying “hooray!” and doing our part in putting the word out about the “revolution of media becoming a social dialogue,” as they put it. Mashable is encouraging SoMe pals to socialize IRL and we’re stuck at our computers today (after all, it IS what we do for a living: you know, tweet and Facebook, as well as YouTube and Flickr for ourselves and our clients)!

That doesn’t mean we don’t get around to meeting our social media cohorts. One such confab took place during the American Society for Journalists and Authors conference in April of this year when uber-tweep Paul Anater was in town. He took part in a panel discussion we’d put together to offer tips to writers about how to begin or strengthen social media campaigns. Also on the panel were two “rock stars” of our world (as a design journalist, I would have given a body part to have been within an inch of Dominique Browning and Michael Cannell when I was still working in print!). David Farley, who regaled the standing-room-only, flowing-out-the-door audience with his take on Twitter (um, it’s like “crack” to him), was also right up front that day! We know the feeling, David! 

So…without further ado, we present you the entire panel discussion, which was edited and improved by the highly talented Gerard McLean, President/CEO of Rivershark Inc. (though we in Twitterville know of him as a wolf in sheep’s clothing or some such canine intrigue). Let’s just put it this way; he’s hiding in plain sight! Oh yeah, and our own Rich Holschuh actually shot the video. I asked him to make me look skinny but it didn’t work. Oh well; next time!

To follow everyone on Twitter: Paul Anater, Dominique Browning, Michael Cannell, David Farley, Saxon Henry, Gerard McLean, Rich Holschuh, adroyt, ASJA.