Tweetup #4
Omaha Tweetup #4 is over. All together, not bad. But certainly the curve his heading downward in the “coolness” chart.
It seems as it gets more successful, in better venues, the less charm the event has.
The first tweetup had about 40 people there. It’s the first time I met a lot of great people. Not only people I’d start following on Twitter for the first time, but people that are now friends of mine. I can’t say the same has happened at any of the other tweetups.
Last night there was so much space, so comfortable of a venue, that it’s easy for people to stand/sit/hide in their respective groups. You’re not forced into a corner with strangers. A part of the reason I initially started introducing myself the first time around is the fact that you look stupid standing by yourself in front of everybody. Last night it was perfectly OK to be by yourself, nobody would notice. And aside from the name tags (that some may not even be wearing), you could just be a normal Nomad frequenter. You’re not embarrassed into awesomeness.
Ideas to resolve this? Food, of course. Put up a table with snacks or pizza. That gets people to all congregate around a single location in a venue and even by accident start talking to people. And even though I really do like Nomad, it’s a great place, it just had the feeling of a night out having drinks with friends. Well, aside from the business card pushers anyway.
(Photos by @programmerman)
When the Tweetup came to an end for KT and I she came up with this crazy idea to pick up some stranger that she knew off of twitter and head to the 49r. So we did.
I tweeted later “The tweetup isn’t over, it’s just not going on there anymore“, and it was true. We were having a blast. KT eventually left and our new friend, the previously unfollowed by me, @kfred85, and I kept drinking and then went for pizza. The night ended around 1:30am.
Tweetup? meh. Alternative Tweetup. Rockin’.
On a side note, there needs to be a term for “alternative tweetup”. I don’t know what that is. AlternaTweetup is too long. TweetAlt? Twalt?
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Terah
on April 10th, 2009
Twalt. (Disney?)
I would go to a Twalt in a second… I just really have a hard time going on during the week nights.
(I had to miss out of the tweetup to bake a rainbow cake for work today; the process took us 3 to 4 hours to shop, prepare, bake, and decorate. blech.)
Too bad it was kind of lame, but so cool that you made a new friend!
kt
on April 10th, 2009
i’ll admit it. i don’t believe in name tags.
and i’m sad i missed pizza for the second night in a row.
Sblaufuss
on April 10th, 2009
Couldn’t agree more about the less coolness. I ended up leaving an hour into it because there were so many little groups spread out in the building that it was a chore to meet everyone.
Nick
on April 10th, 2009
Good to know that “they used to be cool.” It did seem a little lame, but having not attended the earlier ones, I didn’t have anything to compare it to.
Gabe
on April 10th, 2009
haha I don’t mean to come off that harsh. They’re all awesome, absolutely. I had some great conversations last night and did meet new people. Like you for instance! Just not that fulfilling feeling coming out that “I just did something awesome.”
Nick
on April 10th, 2009
I did say “a little lame,” not “I regret going.” It was definitely worth going to.