How Many Fingers?, originally uploaded by WBUR.
Whoa.
The brilliance at last night’s third social media gathering left heads throbbing here at the station. And coffee is not proving a salutary antidote. Any known cures for social media–induced hangovers?
For those who missed the proceedings, please read the sublime Limeduck’s recap. The ubiquitous Steve Garfield took a photograph (its off-kilter framing calls to mind the villians’ lair in the ’60s Batman series) posted here. And fashion criminal/genius Adam Zand … well … Adam Zand was Adam Zand, “Uttering” ad infinitum. And judging by all the busy little fingers, there was a whole lot of Tweeting going on.
And as our little meeting was well underway, the redoubtable C.C. Chapman could be heard on 90.9 as part of a Marketplace segment on Twitter. I’m convinced such synchronicity only confirms the gods were smiling upon us. Let the revolution begin!
All kidding aside, this was one of the most interesting and incisive sessions we’ve had. The presence of two on-air guys who listened instead of lecturing, asked questions instead of patronizing, certainly helped. Thank you, Steve Brown and David Boeri, for rubbing elbows with the plebs. What’s more, the latter’s epiphanic Web Two Oh revelations have spawned a Twitter account. Will let you know his handle once we know. (History in the making, folks: 90.9’s first on-air personality to “Tweet.”)
Now where do we go with all this? Not sure, but the ride has been too much fun to get off just yet. What I really am hoping for are some answers to this as well as generating some movement toward this.
I want to see some fresh faces at the next event. And based on some of your feedback, I am considering a set schedule. And to make it easier to find out about the wheres and what-fors, I am creating a page for those non-Tweeters (gasp!) among us to remain in touch.
Thank you all.
P.S. Andrea Mercado ended up with a salad as big as herself.
So thanks again folks, all of you.
Sorry I missed it! If you go for a set time, could you try to make it not a Tuesday?? Worst day of the week for me.
Persephone
Persephone:
You have my undying promise the next one will not fall on a Tuesday.
Planning on something for October. Maybe you can join us to tell us what you are up to with Media Re:public. See you next month?
Your social media / tweetups sound like station listening sessions. I’m sure it’s a lot of work to process these events compared to a non work related meetup. Is the development department of our organization part of this?
I mean, ‘your’ organization
Who told you???!! I deny everything. Please go easy on them.
Joking aside, the developmental dept. such as it hasn’t played a role in the organization of these gatherings.
These get-togethers sprung out my desire to get WBUR top open the doors to listeners, especially those heavy into social media. We got a lot to learn from those folks. And hopefully vice-versa.
With time I have been able to spark the interest of marketing folk. Given we are still in the early stages of planning these events, nothing has been officially structured or assigned to date. We’ll see how things progress.
I do see lots of potential in leveraging social media to market your brand, to fund raise, to grow community.
Thanks for dropping by.
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