It's been a bit over 5 years since Wayne Sutton @waynesuttons, Ryan Boyles @theRab, Ginny Skalski @ginnyskal, Jeffrey L Cohen @jeffreylcohen, and Francis Shepherd @shepherdfx met in the Helios Coffee in downtown Raleigh NC for the first tweetup. Since then we've hosted about 20 tweetups with our Triangle friends with attendance averaging 150-200 people. This is the story - packaged as an Ignite talk.
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2. IN A (BLOGGERS) WORLD...
first, we met at NC “Blogger
conferences” like ConvergeSouth,
BlogCarolinas, BlogTogether, 30
Threads Bloggers Bash (circa 2006 –
2008)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalpapercuts/2952810691/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalpapercuts/2923518930/ / http://www.flickr.com/
photos/waynesutton/2946961011/
3. TWITTER NERDS
@WayneSuttonNC @KippBodnar @theRab @GinnySkal @JeffreyLCohen
(aka @waynesutton) (was @kbodnar32) (was @dgtlpapercuts)
but something new was taking over our phones
what is twitter? we met back in Raleigh in December 2006 at @CafeHelios
from 2006 to 2012, we have hosted dozens of Tweetups with thousands of people
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalpapercuts/3238528122/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalpapercuts/3237682619/ / http://www.flickr.com/
photos/waynesutton/3274516679/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrees/3237517025/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/reesphoto/4668466008/
9. FOOD (PRE, DURING AND POST)
@hughlh @lcbledsoe @kitch @jazzychad @kimetzel84 @dimambro @taylorbarr @snoopdave @kbodnar32 @jefftippett @jasonpeck @jessmartin @terisaylor
Wait, where is the food?
I just see a lot of NC beer...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynesutton/2534254413/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/taylorhbarr/2535625328/
15. TWITTER TATTOOS
@critter as seen on CNN, Mashable, etc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalpapercuts/2789585613/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrees/2316108700/
19. HELLO MY @NAME IS...
get social NC!
@lauradaughtry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynesutton/4689379320/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobthink/5082163455/ / http://www.flickr.com/photos/
brontosoftware/5750315511/