A lot of people ask me, “What’s the deal with tweetups?”. First, let’s define what one is. A tweetup is basically a scheduled meetup between Twitter friends. Tweetups allow you to take the relationships you’ve built online and extend them in person. The beauty with tweetups, which is hard to describe to someone who doesn’t use social media, is that all of the awkward “um, hi, errr…I’m Lara” is replaced with “Oh my Gosh!!! You look nothing like your picture! How are your daughters? You mentioned they’re moving to California for University, right?…”. They’re fun, they’re unpretentious, they’re meaningful.
The Queen of tweetups (aka Debra Roth of PinkInc) planned this one at The Event Solutions / Catersource 2010 Conference. We met at Bally’s Indigo Lounge before the big Anthology party later that night. It saw a mix of girly drinks (yes, even the men had a few pink, fruity concoctions), a lot of smart phone comparisons and a tonne of business card trading. A perfect combination.
Next time you attend an event, follow the event’s hashtag on Twitter and you too may just be lucky enough to find yourself at a tweetup!
[New Post] escs10 tweetup . in case you missed it – http://www.ready2spark.com/2010/03/escs1… #eventprofs
That was just too fun, and too short! I loved meeting Liene (Think Splendid), Lindsay and Amanda from Grosh Backdrops and Jeff Hurt in person finally. Also great to catch up with Robert Sivek and Howard Givner. And John and Carolyn Baragona! Knew I'd see you at the show but never thought I'd see you at a Tweetup! 🙂 Thank you Deb Roth for organizing this and Lara McCulloch-Carter for promoting it and Tracey Kumar-Moore for always being so supportive of everyone! After that we all went to the Anthology party and drank champagne poured by women hanging upside down…an evening in Vegas just doesn't get better than that!!
It was really amazing FINALLY meeting everyone in person!
[…] As I was saying earlier – us twitter adopters are having so much fun meeting and learning about all kinds of new things. The #eventprofs group came out strong for Event Solutions in Las Vegas and I got to spend time with Jeff Hurt, Lara McCulloch, Glenn Thayer, Ruth Moyte, Liese Garnder and Elizabeth Beskin to name just a few! The connections that are built through our online relationships translate very well into real life meetings and our dialog continues long after we leave one another. I look forward to our F2F meetings and our ongoing conversations! #escs2010 (read more and see great pictures on Lara McCulloch’s Ready2Spark) […]