Time for a Victoria Tweetup
April 5, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
After the success of Thursday’s DemoCampVictoria01 and reading Mack’s post today about getting a tweetup going in Edmonton–EdmontonTweetup anyone? at MasterMaq’s Blog–I think it’s time we have one of our own.
There are certainly enough geeks and techies in Victoria and if this Twitterlocal pull of twitter users within 20 miles of Victoria (that’s about 30 km, btw) is any indication, well I think we could have a great time.
My preference would be a good coffee place with WiFi, but hey who knows right?
Okay Victoria twitterati, let’s get this going!
BTW, I’ve also created a VictoriaTech Diigo group for us Victoria people to exchange links and info
Good luck Tris! I think Tweetups are a great idea, would be cool to see one happen in Victoria too.
Great idea.
This is just my (non-techie) opinion, but as I just read the post by Jeremiah Owyang that you pointed to in your other Diigo group (”My Essential Twitter Tools”), I’m thinking it would be really useful to combine a meet-up with a sort of Twitter-how-to tutorial. I opened a Twitter account some time ago and never use it, not least b/c I feel so alone there and I can’t figure out how to integrate it seamlessly into whatever else I do. So my “ideal” tutorial would be “Why Twitter isn’t just another Tamagotchi that’s gonna die on you if you don’t maintain it” or something like that.
Seeing Jeremiah’s pointer to TwitterLocal let me understand that it’s *useful* and not just a maintenance task. More like that would be helpful.
Yule, that’s a great idea. Do a little why and how about Twitter … now when and where?