Spirit of the Season, December #LRTweetup

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Keith

The holiday season is just around the corner and this is a time of year that we are especially mindful of our blessings and reminded of our duty to show good will to our fellow man. The LRTweetup community has been a blessing to all of us and we are committed to being a positive force of change in our corner of the world.

We wanted to respect your crowded schedule and yet offer events that are unique, fun, charitable, and memorable. Mindful of these goals and in the spirit of the season LRTweetup is blessed to announce our Holiday events.

Yes, Events. Plural.

December #LRTweetup at @IOMetro benefiting @ProjectOurHouse

Thursday, December 10

@IOMetro is opening the doors of their new space to LRTweetup and @ProjectOurHouse.

To celebrate I.O. Metro is doing a @ProjectOurHouse promotion from Dec. 11-Dec. 18. A portion of ALL sales at IOM for that week will go to Our House!

Project Our House is a group of UALR mass communication students using social media to drive donations to the local working homeless shelter, Our House. Our House provides the working homeless with safe, clean, comfortable housing; food; free child care; education; and job training.

This is a huge opportunity and we are thrilled that they want to partner with LRTweetup to help spread the word and raise money for Our House. In addition to the promotion they are offering a 25% discount to all LRTweetup attendees on Thu Dec 10 and the discount is good through Sat Dec 12. They’ll be providing food and beverage Thursday evening so come out and enjoy some amazing people, amazing furniture, and learn more about what you can do to get involved with Project Our House.

We’ll be providing more details in a few days but we wanted to go ahead and announce the event so you can make plans attend.

RSVP to the December #LRTweetup

Lights over #LRTweetup at Garvan Woodland Gardens

Saturday December 19

It’s Christmas. What better way to celebrate than to experience the best light display in Arkansas with family and friends?

If you’ve never seen the lights at Garvan Woodland Gardens then you are in for a real treat. Garvan Woodland Gardens comes alive at night during the holidays thanks to 1.7 million lights and the beauty of this lighted landscape is truly a wonder not to be missed.

This is a family event so bring the kids, have some hot chocolate, toast marshmallows and just enjoy.

Cost is $5.50 for adults, $3:50 for children 6-12, free for ages 5 and younger. Sunset is at 5:00 so there is plenty of time to enjoy the lights and still get the little ones into bed at a good time.

Garvan Woodland Gardens is located at 550 Arkridge Road, Hot Springs, Arkansas (map / directions). We’ve got several friends of LRTweetup in Hot Springs so we hope to see some new faces when we visit the Spa City.

We can’t wait.

RSVP to Lights over #LRTweetup

Socializing in the Rock #CommAR & #HOSB

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Keith

Central Arkansas is exploding with social media forums and learning opportunities and we are proud to say that the LRTweetup community continues to lead the way. Welcome to the community calendar 2.0, upcoming social media events in Central Arkansas.

Arkansas Business Expo #CommAR

The Commerce Arkansas Business Expo takes place tomorrow and will feature a panel discussion entitled, “Using Social Media for Business, Nonprofit, and Search Engine Marketing”. The panel will include Ed Nicholson (@TysonFoods), Meghan Knight, and Natalie Ghidotti (@Ghidotti). It will be moderated by Lance Turner (@LT).

The panel will commence at 2:30pm. The Expo is held in the Governor’s Halls of the Statehouse convention center. Pre-registration is free, $20 at the door. For more info and links see “Talking Social Media and Business at Commerce Arkansas Nov.3” over on Lance’s blog.

Make sure and stop by the booths of LRTweetup regulars, Paul Strack (@PStrack) of CustomXM.com, Brant Collins (@BrantC) and Doug Krile (@DougKrile) of StationX.tv.

Hands on Small Business #HOSB

Hands on Small Business is kicking off their series of social media sessions in Central Arkansas tomorrow with 2 events. HoSB sessions will offer practical advice, direct instruction, and application tips to small businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to learn more about social media.

The sessions are lead by Kyran Pittman (@KyranP) and Susan Payton (@Eggmarketing) and events are scheduled in Hot Springs, Little Rock, North Little Rock, and Maumelle. Free pre-registration required. For full event schedule and registration visit the HoSB Little Rock Events page.

Tuesday, November 3, 8:30am-10:30am at the National Park Community College, Hot Springs
Tuesday, November 3, 11:30am-1:30pm at the Arkansas Museum of Discovery (@ArkMoD), Little Rock
Wednesday, November 11, 2:00pm-4:00pm at the Argenta Downtown Council, North Little Rock
Thursday, November 19, 5:30pm-7:30pm at the Maumelle Library, Maumelle

These are all excellent opportunities to help educate others or to learn something new for yourself. Remember, we call it social for a reason.

Are you involved with an upcoming social media event in the central Arkansas area? We’d love to know. Contact us with the details. As always you can subscribe the LRTweetup calendar for the latest event information. Links:

Localizing your Twitter stream

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Keith

LRTweetup’s first goal is to act as a connection catalyst. Through our online community and offline events we hope to be a community that makes introductions and allows good friends to continue to connect.

Personally I’ve discovered that connecting with more locals through Twitter has added a ton of value and interaction to my Twitter stream. A few months ago if I needed local info or wanted to be plugged into local events Twitter wasn’t very useful. The Little Rock community wasn’t very active on Twitter and I didn’t know many locals that used Twitter. LRTweetup radically solved that problem. It’s been such a amazing benefit that we’ve been looking for a way for you to easily increase the number of awesome local folks in your Twitter stream.

Introducing the TweepML LRTweetup List

TweepML.or is a new service that allows you to build a group of users that others can easily follow. We jumped at the opportunity to build a LRTweetup list so interested people can increase their local connections in a single click.

The list can be found at http://tweepml.org/LRTweetup

This list currently includes 37 people and it’s by no means comprehensive, so we are asking for your help. You can suggest people to be included on this list by following the links on the sidebar of the page, look for “Suggest to the List Creator”.

This is such a great way to help others plug into the larger LRTweetup community so please follow and suggest so we can help everyone localize their Twitter community.

Improv you can’t Improve

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Keith

How do you improve on the best Improv comedy troupe on earth?

You can’t. Unless you decide to see it with 30 friends, and this was precisely the experience of LRTweetup at the Arkansas Rep this past Thursday.

The Rep opened Club Mezz to LRTweetup and the laid back atmosphere in addition to great food and good friends made it the perfect place to hang out prior to the show. We could have chatted all night. Then at 8 pm it all changed.

The lights dimmed and Second City took the stage.

I’m a huge comedy fan and I was prepared to be impressed but I wasn’t prepared for seeing perfect improv live. The performers’ quick wit and impeccable timing left you speechless in between gasps of laughter. From their political satire to old skit revivals it was a treasure to behold. All of us spent the evening in tears.

I can’t recommend Second City enough. They are performing at the Rep through Oct 18 so there is still time to catch this amazing show.

A big Thank-you to the Rep (@theRep) for offering the discount tickets and the venue for the gathering and thanks to Angel (@angelmg) for making this all happen.

Last Call for Laughs, #LRTweetup this Thu!

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Keith

Every month our twitter stream finds folks that intended to come to our gathering but simply forgot, so consider this your friendly reminder.

LRTweetup is meeting at the Arkansas Rep this Thursday evening.

The evening will include time to socialize and enjoy the appetizers and cash bar courtesy of the Rep and then many of us will be seeing “The Second City” show that begins at 8 p.m. What? you don’t have tickets? Well you are in luck because there are a few tickets still available so call the box office today at 378-0405 if you want to enjoy this awesome 50th anniversary tour.

If you aren’t interested in the show we still want you to come down and hang out. LRTweetup is all about connecting people so come on over to @theRep and engage with the most vibrant and connected community in central Arkansas. If you are planning to attend do us a favor and RSVP.

You can add this event to your calendar by clicking on of these links:

If you don’t want to miss any of our upcoming events you can subscribe to the LRTweetup Calendar

Don’t forget to stay connected by subscribing to our RSS feed and following @LRTweetup. We’ve got some new things coming and you don’t want to miss it. (t-shirts, design contests, and community profiles just to mention a few)

Help us spread the word about Thursday night and tell your friends. Click to RT.

Check out what Twitterverse is saying about #SecondCity

2 Days left to join #LRTweetup @theRep

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Keith

Need a good laugh? Well you are just in time.

LRTweetup is going to see “The Second City” at the Arkansas Rep but you’ve only got 2 days to snag your reserved tickets before they go on sale to the public. The Rep is graciously hosting the October Tweetup and they are offering discounted tickets to “The Second City” but these tickets will be released on Thu Oct 1st.

Call the box office today at 501-378-0405 and ask for the LRTweetup section when booking. Tickets are only $25 and we get a great block of seats all together. Don’t miss this great event.

Help us get the word out and tell your followers about LRTweetup @theRep. Just click the image below to retweet.

After you order your tickets please RSVP to the event so we know who is coming. A final note, if for some reason you aren’t interested in seeing “The Second City” we’d love to have you come hang out with us prior to the show. Just RSVP and come enjoy some food and friends.

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