Pocono TweetupPeople to People – Sharing Their Skills

Just a quick update to let everyone know that there is a PoconoTweetup scheduled for Friday February 18th:

Time: 8:15AM

Location: Panera Bread, Route 611, Stroudsburg, PA

Join us for some coffee and conversation. It’s always a good mix of topics.

(03/19/2010 – L to R: Jennifer Leckstrom, Jason Trump, Bruce Flinn, Dariah Kelly Uhlig, Lorie Lishman, Michael Beckenbach, and behind the camera is Lisa Sanderson)
 
It’s was this past December when four people gathered for some coffee and tea to meet each other and talk about life, work and social media – Pocono Tweetup was born.

Jason Trump, Lisa Sanderson, Michael Beckenbach and I sat, sipped, munched and chatted for an hour and half. We decided to do this every other Friday and since that first meeting we’ve had a few new people come and share with us off and on.

Everyone that participates in these tweetups has had something to share and they’ve all taught me a lot about Social Media and the mindset changes that go along with being in this space.

These are “People That Matter!”.

- Bruce

First in a series of six webcasts: Six Steps to Social Media Success in 2010 – Jan 13, 2010

For you Pocono restaurant owners this might be something to look into. I came across this from a tweet by @LizStrauss and want to pass it on to our community. I’ve been a regular reader of Liz’s blog Successful Blog and respect her recommendations.

At $99.00 an event you can pick and choose which webcasts may be of benefit to you. (Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Social Media Hash or Liz Strauss and will not receive monetary compensation for providing this information.)

Link to Social Media Hash eventbrite web page where you can find more information on this series: Social Media How-To for Restaurants – Webcast Series by Social Media Hash.

If you do sign up and attend one of these please leave a reply below letting the rest of us know how it was.

How?

A small group of people that met using Social Media tools will be gathering in the next week or two over a cup of coffee to meet each other in person. You can read about it at Bruce Flinn’s blog

Why?

This ones pretty simple. There are a lot of people talking about Social Media. We want to take it to the next level and actually do Social Media. By connecting person to person we will all have the opportunity to learn from each other and share ideas no matter how long or short our Social Media journey has been.

What?

Social Media is made up of a large number of tools and it is not the final stop on the bus route. It is a way to reach farther into the community and start conversations. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, flickr and blogs are just a means to talk with one another. However these products can be confusing, time consuming and frustrating to those that are trying to break into the Social Media theater. Our group is a diverse collection of people that are at different mile markers along their own Social Media Journey. Some have been doing this for years and are very established while others are only a couple of months into it themselves.

We want to share with the Pocono community the knowledge that we have collected along the way.

Where?

This is all going to depend on how many people are interested. To begin with most of the information and activities will be listed on this blog and as the core group of facilitators comes together we will start to formulate dates and locations for meet ups.

PoconoTweetup.com will be the learning example blog. As we move forward together through our learning process all the technical stuff like adding plugins, selecting themes, working with affiliate networks, and everything else associated with building a blog will be demonstrated here as an example. Posts will be made detailing each process with pictures and links to follow along. But the bulk of the doing will be during the meet ups where it will be easier to ask questions and get one on one help.

We will be doing the same by using other social media tools as examples to follow like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc..

Conclusion

This seems like quite an ambitious undertaking but we feel strongly about the opportunity that Social Media tools have brought to the table and we want to give you a resource to turn to. As we’ve said before everyone is at a different place along their SM journey and this can be a real asset to the community.

You learn when we learn and we all learn better by doing.

Thank you for stopping by. Comments are strongly encouraged.