With text messaging, email and social
networking groups, staying connected is extremely easy, but it’s not
very personal. During the past couple of months, networking groups have
been popping up in the Mid-Michigan area to put a little face-to-face
recognition back into communication.
This
month, four tech-savvy women from the Lansing area will host the area’s
first “Tweet Up.” A Tweet Up brings together fans of Twitter,
a Web-based communication tool that solves the problem of long emails
and multiple texts by giving co-workers, family and friends real-time
updates.
Tweet Up organizers include Kasey Anderson with Donovan & Smith Marketing and Media, Betsy Weber and Jennifer Middlin with Techsmith, and Julielyn Gibbons with Progress Michigan.
“With everyone just signing on in droves right now, it just seemed like the right time,” Anderson says.
The
Mid-Michigan Tweet Up really extends beyond Mid-Michigan. Anderson says
the networking event will likely include Tweeters from West Michigan as
well. Detroit already has a Tweet Up group.
“It
looks like it’s going to be a pretty big event,” Anderson says. “It’s
more or less a mixer. It gives people an opportunity to meet face to
face. Really the point is to get people together in the area who are
just really jazzed about technology and social media.”
The first Tweet Up will be at Dublin Square in East Lansing July 31. For more details, click here.
Anderson says the group will have a Ning site soon.
Source: Kasey Anderson, Donovan & Smith Marketing and Media
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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