The Internet for most of us is a part of life and for the majority of us I would imagine it is something to be looked at on a daily or even hourly basis?
In the last few years the term Social Networking seems to be where the internet holds most of its users as we all connect with friends and family and beyond making new online friends through Facebook and Twitter.
Twitter comes in for a lot of unfair media coverage which is understandable as some users can over step the mark with a wrong word or two especially when a celebrity is the angst of a users words.
For the non Twitter person out there Twitter is where you can communicate with any other user only using 140 characters which is a challenge at the best of times!
Last year I was invited to a Tweet Meet Up in Bedford which is where Tweeters as we are called meet up for a evening of socialising with one person doing a talk about a subject they have the desire to share with others and not just their business interests.
Last week I attended my third Tweet Up held at the Embankment Bar/Restaurant in Bedford.
There were about thirty of us that attended including many new faces which is always good to see.
The first Tweet Meet Up came about one day when Eric Swain was ousted as Mayor of Bedford Train Station by James Parton on the Foursquare application which is another social networking site that you can tell others where you are and after so many times of being at that location you get virtual rewards. James and Eric grew up a friendship over the internet as they move in similar business circles and the idea was born to get together local tweeters to socialise and mingle with each other.
The first Tweet up I attended the very lovely Jo Dring did a presentation about Charles Wells beers, the second Tweet Up Kristian Purcell and Gemma Hutton did a presentation about the Higgins Museum and Art Gallery of which they are very involved in and I for one can’t wait until it’s open again as it sounds like it’s going to be a very good day out indeed.
Last week Noel Gray did a presentation about creative thinking and it certainly opened my eyes up to the way I think about things (or don’t) as the presentation taught us.
A Tweet up is a more sociable evening rather than a business networking get together and everyone is happy to swap business cards as usually various individuals work in the same line of work and can be of interest to one another.
Hopefully there will be a tweet up in the next couple of months so if you’re reading this and you tweet come along and say hello.
Of course feel free to follow me as well please @stewpot.
