Mashable Wants Your Twitter Bloopers
You’ve all probably sent a few DMs you would be horrified to see in your public timeline. Perhaps you’ve sent a personal tweet to the wrong person. Maybe, like me, you responded to a DM on your phone thinking you were just texting a friend back who said she had an “emergency” and needed your mobile number. And then a few random phone calls later, you realized… Whoops.
If you’ve done something like this, Mashable wants to know. Write a tweet with “twitterblooper” in it and confess your biggest Twitter blunder. Don’t be shy–I did it!
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)
If You Give Amanda a Tweetup…
Remember those children’s books If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Moose a Muffin? The little characters get all excited and keep wanting more, more, more. I’m like that with Tweetups. Taking my online friendships offline is always interesting, and with the crew who attended this weekend’s Blogstring Presents: Boston Pubcrawl Tweetup, there’s never a dull moment.
Seeing the lovely miss Julia Roy was a breath of fresh air–it had been far too long, sister. And I absolutely adore the time I spend with Pam Seiple, aka @pamelump. This was her very first Tweetup, so I’m glad she had a great time with us crazy kids. As always, seeing Sarah Wurrey and Nate Burke was A+ all around. Sarah did some sweet Pat Benatar karaoke and Nate wore the greatest shirt ever made. Denton and Paull were silly, of course. Love seeing those boys. Also in attendance: Dmitri Gunn, who I met last week at the SOURCE Boston Tweetup; Bryan Maleszyk, who I don’t think I’ve seen since October 2007; Abe Estrada, who I met on Australia Day in NYC; Sandy Kalik and her boyfriend Nate, who are two seriously awesome kids; Steve Garfield and his wife Carol, who are obviously amazing; and Josh Nichols, aka @techpickles, who I met for the first time last night.
Being part of this growing group of friends is so much fun. I get to have awesome conversations about social media, careers and life. We’re sharing and laughing for hours–we’re a comfy bunch. Like I said–never a dull moment. Some people are skeptical of relationships that form online, thinking that legitimate friends are only formed face-to-face. But I’ve made some really excellent friends from Twitter! Tweetups: quite possibly the key to my heart. Join us sometime.
If you haven’t been tempted by any of the links above, you can see all my photos from the night here, and Sarah Wurrey’s photos (along with a choice moment from Halloween 2007) here.
Coming soon: Blogger Social and Podcamp NYC!
