Tampa TweetUp coming to The Florida Aquarium
May 4, 2009
I am thrilled to announce the next Tampa TweetUp is happening May 23, 2009 at THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM
If you’ve been to one of our previous TweetUps, you know Josh and I like to bring you to special spots in our city that give us a little somethin’ extra to tweet about.
The Worlds Most Dangerous Tweet
The fine folks at The Aquarium are partnering with us to introduce brand new, never-before-imagined tweet opportunities.
Two LUCKY Tweeple will have the opportunity to Swim with the Fishes! And, as if that wasn’t amazing enough one of our Tweetup members is actually going to Dive with the Sharks!! As far as we know, this will be a tweeting first for America Aquariums.
Who will the lucky tweeple be? Follow both myself @JuliaGorzka and @SIGEPJEDI on twitter for details a chance at this giveaway!
Tweetup Schedule:
3:00 PM – Arrival and Welcome in Taylor Great Room
3:30 PM – Animal Encounters in Taylor Great Room
4:00 PM – General Aquarium Viewing (Swim with the Fishes and Dive with the Sharks taking place in the tanks)
4:30 PM – Cantina food service ends
5:00 PM – Coral Reef Dive Show (and SCUBA divers special welcome to Tweeters)
5:30 PM – Penguin Promenade in the Coral Reef Gallery
5:30 PM – Cantina bar closes
6:00 PM – Tweetup ends
***Cash bar***
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/tampabloggers/calendar/10333946/
This is one TweetUp you don’t want to be late too!
** We appreciate your sharing this event with your friends and online followers.
Please HashTag with #tbtweet
Wondering What’s a TweetUp?
Meet other local Tweeple (People in Twitterspeak) who enjoy Twitter, blogging, podcasts and just all that is social media & beyond for an evening of drinks and great conversation. Enjoy a night out of the office or home, Away from your computer, to dork out with others who share similar passions of social networking and have a few drinks.
Like minds gathering to both share and learn. Whether your a webmaster, business professional, professional blogger, PR or Marketing professional, social media junkie, or even just looking to learn this event is for you! It’s an all you can eat brain food buffet, with fellow tech dorks sharing their passions & discoveries. Business deals have also been known to go down!
We aggregate all Tampa Twitter chatter over at TampaBloggers.com! Join the conversation!
Hash Tag: #tbtweet
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/tampabloggers/calendar/10333946/
Tampa TweetUp News
April 15, 2009
Putting On the Tampa TweetUp
As co-host of the Tampa TweetUp and an evangelist for getting the word out about local awesomeness, I like to plan our gatherings at cool, unique, unexpected places.
For March, my co-host Tampa Bloggers’ Founder Josh Carrico and I partnered with Walker Brands. Space limitations required us to limit RSVPs to 60 people and we had a waiting list within 48 hours. The night of the event saw several “Tweet Crashers.”
With the help of Nancy Walker, we cooked up some new ideas for March including optional Think Tank Sessions on “Building your Brand with Tweets,” “Tweeting into the Future,” and “Early adopters: What Technologies are You Using?”
We staged a video tweet booth (like a confessional) – were we asked our local tweeps to share why they were at the TweetUp, how Twitter has changed their life and how they explain.
As always, we had streaming live tweets tagged #tbtweet projecting throughout the night
WHY:
Twitter has emerged as a forum for people to connect virtually and develop relationships. It’s a universal equalizer giving people the ability to connect with others they would otherwise not be able to. The TweetUp is an opportunity for great minds to come together and experience emerging communications. Tweeple can now bring the conversation offline, meet the people they’ve been following and communicate in an entirely new way.
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER:
Hash Tag: #tbtweet
@walkerbrands (TweetUp Partner)
@TampaBloggers (For Future TweetUp Notices)
@sigepjedi (Co-host Josh Carrico)
@juliagorzka (Me!)