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MarketingProfs Take Over Boston, Entertain Me at a Tweetup

A whole bunch of social media and marketing people converged on Boston over the past couple days for the MarketingProfs Business-to-Business Forum 2008. As usual in this city, there was a tweetup for the occasion and I had the pleasure of attending. Lots of familiar faces were at the Barking Crab (pronounced bahhkin krab) laughing, chatting, meeting, photographing, tweeting… you know the deal.

A few notes:

• Ann Handley is a riot. Ann, you are so much fun and I really hope we can “hook up” [her words, not mine!] in Boston sometime soon.
• I managed not to spill any beverages on Todd Van Hoosear. FTW.
• Chris Penn is pretty stealthy with that camera.
• We knew this already, but Brian Solis is a definite rock star.
• It’s impossible to talk with Steve Garfield and not smile.
• Rebecca “repcor” Corliss and Shelley “thespottedduck” Greenberg are aces at the buddy system. If you’re in Boston and don’t know these two, get on that.
• Dough’s first day at SHIFT was a thumb’s up.
• The only person who loves hugs more than I do is Joe Cascio.
• Paul Dunay is not only a great client, he’s a down-to-earth master of conversation. Great to finally meet IRL.
• Rich Krueger is a hoot. What an energetic personality. Hello, new friend.
• Greg Verdino unleashed his tongue in public… again.

UPDATE: Big shout out to long-time SHIFTer and A-Team leader Catherine Allen, for whom this was her first tweetup!

Twitter may be broken 98% of the time, but tweetups always work.

(Photo by Chris Brogan)