What is a Sacramento Tweetup like?

Recently, I attended the “Sacramento TweetUp” 1st anniversary at the Sacramento Mikuni’s restaurant in downtown Sacramento.

I spoke with Alejandro Reyes, the founder of SacTweetUp, about giving away Roni Deutch’s tax book as a door prize, as I am her social media coordinator; but unfortunately, he was not accepting door prize or raffle items at this event. He explained that he had turned down others gifts’ as well. He should be having a less social and more business oriented networking event soon and he will keep us posted.

Alas, I was still able to network with friends and new faces at this event and promote the Roni Deutch brand (where I work) as well as explain her businesses. I was able to give my business card to 5 people and chat with about 6 total. It was a loud restaurant with many people so it was difficult to broadcast any information and converse well at times, however, I feel the one-on-one connections were valuable and helped build relationships, old and new. These networking events are great opportunities for new “followers”, “friends” and “fans” for your Twitter and Facebook account(s) as well as a way to let others know or learn about your brand or what you do.

Info about the Sac TweetUp was on KCRA channel 3 news, as well as an article in the Sacramento Bee on Saturday. I hope to get “in” on the interviews next time. A sponsorship would help this, I am sure.
There are also Sponsorship opportunities that would help us create a larger “presence” as well as recognition for at these networking events.

From SacTweetUp.com:
Sponsorship: What are the benefits?

• Recognition on any event media materials
• Company name/logo on all promotional event materials, signs, banners, emails and website
• Option to speak at event & promote business and/or events

Sponsorship costs vary depending on the event. If you would like more information about event sponsorships, contact Alejandro Reyes at (916) 947-2455.

www.Sactweetup.com or http://www.facebook.com/sactweetup

Networking at the Vino TweetUp Tuesday

It was a sweltering hot night in downtown Sacramento. However, it did not stop Sacramento Twitter peeps from gathering together for great food and wine on the upper back patio of the L Street Lounge restaurant. For $15 anyone who heard of the Vino TweetUp and wanted the opportunity to mingle with like-minded social media individuals and local professionals were able to purchase a ticket using eventbrite.com courtesy of a Capcity Offices account. Capcity is a Sacramento co-working business that I had the pleasure to learn about at the Sac bar camp un-conference a few months ago.

Getting back to the festivities of the Vino TweetUp: The flatbread pizzas that the L Street Lounge provided looked and tasted amazing. I definitely recommend their
food. Three wineries hosted our event: Radee, James David, and Mas.
Each winery had their own special niche.

The shared tastes for good wine and social media made for a great networking opportunity that was fun and a little less stressful.

Among the professionals were social media club members, Sacramento 365, Capsity Offices, marketing professionals, Entrepreneurs, and recent college graduates looking to make job connections. Most everyone had a Twitter account, and if they didn't, the others proudly explained the benefits and software, such as Tweetdeck which makes Twitter and Facebook status updates from one application.

I successfully networked with about 8 people. A success!

My weekend at Sac Bar Camp

This weekend I helped set up and attended Sac Bar Camp, a conference for the technically-minded. It was a great networking opportunity for everyone and a way to share information about what is happening in our emerging Web 2.0 world. A great company called Webvanta seem to have a product I'm excited and curious to try out. We are in a new frontier, with new ways to advertise, new ways to do business on the web, and new ways to market---ourselves! Jared Hill, also a sacbarcamp attendee, has many great ideas on marketing oneself, see JaredHill.com or sacbarcamp.com for more information. Follow sacbarcamp on Twitter (http://Twitter.com/sacbarcamp)! Sac Bar Camp is currently run by Jenna Langer, a fellow graduating senior of New Media at Sacramento State.

I really want a bunny! Check out the RSS rabbit!

I found this video-description on www.youtube.com. Special Bonus? I hear it can also read your tweets from Twitter and be programmed to read tweets to Twitter.