Courtesy flickr: Kingstonist
So… I’d planned on doing a nice, long post today and add in a paragraph about last night’s meetup… but writer’s block struck and I’m stumped… So all you get today is the meetup stuff.
Last night the LNMG entered our 3rd year of meetups by getting people together at the Coffeeco location at the Kingston Centre for some coffee, snacks and tech talking. In addition to our largest turnout yet (11 people showed up, but we only had 10 simultaneous there), we launched a new format for the meetups with a local speaker and discussion, followed by the more general tech chatter we’re used to.
We opened the meetup around 6:30 or so (Though official start time was 7:00) and invited our guest speaker – Rich Ottenhof of Coffeeco – up to speak around7:30. Rich talked about how the company is using Twitter to build brand recognition using geocaching-style giveaways every week and then asked everyone for some feedback on a larger-format, Twitter-based game he’s been thinking of.
The snacks (Thanks, @delilahevening!!) were tasty, the coffee was flowing and the chat was wonderful. Thanks to the whole crowd who came out last night! Stay tuned to this blog, the LNMG blog and the @LimestoneTweets account and we’ll announce December’s as soon as we confirm the date.
Tommy Vallier helps groups, individuals and businesses understand how social media tools can be used to their fullest. He is also a community builder and web developer living in Kingston, Ontario.
I’m really going to have to make it out to one of these some day soon.
I agree that the turnout was excellent, and commend those who did their part to beg, borrow and steal people for the meet up. The change in format was also very good, and has a lot of potential to focus the group.