Join us for a Tweetup on Salt Spring ‘Silicon’ Island!
Calling all Salt Spring social media enthusiasts! If you’re using social media services like Facebook or Twitter for business, pleasure or otherwise on Salt Spring come down to Rock Salt and help us overload their brand new wi-fi service and drink some complimentary refreshments they are providing as sponsors. It’s curry night at Rock Salt too! Always good food at Rock Salt. Meet some of the people in person you may have been connecting with only online. We’ll also share a little about an initiative some of us are working on to create a sustainable, resilient local economy right here on Salt Spring. An economy designed to inspire digital innovation and entrepreneurship which might create better paying work opportunities for our island community.
To get us going and inspired, we have some speakers lined up who will each have a ruthlessly fast, but fun, two minutes to share their story on ‘why they’re using social media’ then we’ll un-conference the rest of the gathering to see who wants to talk about what, maybe break into some groups, get to know each other, then close with some kind of “was I bored to tears and never want to be in a room with these people again?” or “when could we do it again?” kinda of conversation.
We’re hoping to hear from;
@suzannelittle
@jonsuk
@AmyGeddes
@jordanstratford
@saltspringair
@pravin64
@BatemansIssues
@rocksaltcafe
@christopherroy
Where: Rock Salt Restaurant
When: Tuesday, October 26th
Time: 7:30-9:00 PM
Hashtag: #ssitup
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What’s a Tweetup?
A group of friends on Twitter (social network) that are planning to meet up. A request by a user to meet in person with friends via Twitter.
or my favourite description;
A gathering of nerds attempting social contact, likely for the first time. Usually disintegrates into everyone running to the nearest computer to type one another.
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