Yesterday I ended up going to New Brunswick with a bunch of people I had met on Twitter for Third Tuesday New Brunswick. Third Tuesday is a social media meetup that happens every month (guess which day!) to bring people together who work in or are interested in social media. It’s basically a networking event. With beer.
It all started in the morning when @robertsnell posted on twitter saying there was an extra spot in the car heading up there, and I figured I wasn’t doing anything else yesterday so I might as well give it a shot. So at 3pm I headed down to his office downtown and met up with Robert as well as @DarrinSearancke @webconomist @brightwhite and Cory, but I don’t have his twitter so I can’t link to him…
It took us about 3 hours to get to Moncton, including several coffee/smoke breaks along the way, and a near miss of a stop at the Anne Murray Museum. We got to the event a bit early, hung around and chatted with various people before the presentation started. The presentation was by 2 two people who worked at T4G, and it was pretty good. I think I learned quite a bit, but the real value of going was meeting people.
After the presentation we stuck around for awhile and then headed out to come back. We stopped in at Wendy’s though for some dinner, and at the advice of @robertsnell, I tried a baconator. Bad idea. I’ve felt terrible all day today. I guess that is what you get for eating 6 strips of bacon and then driving for 3 hours and then going to bed. All in all though, it was a good day, and it was really cool to meet people I had been twittering with for awhile and actually get to know them a bit.
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