Comments on: Help organize the Third Tuesday Social Media Meetups

By: Darcy Whyte

Darcy Whyte — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:57:12 +0000

Count me in. I’d like to be in the organizing group.

Darcy Whyte
Darcy aaahht Siteware.com

By: Robin Browne

Robin Browne — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:38:31 +0000

Hi Joe,
I’m willing to help organize if you still need folks.
Cheers.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:25:22 +0000

Hi Joe,

I would like to assure you and all Third Tuesday fans that CNW Group is excited to continue on as title sponsor of Third Tuesday events across the country.

We appreciate the opportunity to be involved with such an interesting and enthusiastic group of people.

My colleague Parker Mason is already working with others at Thornley Fallis to sort out the details of our involvement.

We look forward to the next event!

Laurie (VP MarComms @ CNW Group)

By: Brendan Dermody

Brendan Dermody — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:45:20 +0000

Sounds great! I’m in.

By: Janine Westera

Janine Westera — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:15:26 +0000

Hi, Joe
I would love to help out. These functions are important for current and upcoming PR practitioners. Let me know what I can do to help!

By: Rayanne Langdon

Rayanne Langdon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:35:56 +0000

As a big fan and supporter of Third Tuesday, I’ve love to help in any way possible. Please keep me in mind!

By: Elena Yunusov

Elena Yunusov — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:35:45 +0000

Hi Joseph,

I’d be happy to to lend a hand and join the organizers of this year’s Third Tuesday Toronto. Please let me know if there’s anything you need from me. Meanwhil, I’ll make myself available for that meeting in early August.
Thank you for the terrific opportunity I am liking your line of thinking and am sure that opening up will be a good thing.

Elena.

By: David Alston

David Alston — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:09:13 +0000

Hey there Joe,

A big thanks goes out to you as well for getting everything started and for supporting all of the new groups starting.

For those that maybe are unsure of the costs involved if they can’t find a sponsor if you can host at your own facilities the costs can be kept pretty low – $250 per meeting max. If you need to host it as a bar/meeting space somewhere then you maybe looking at costs of around $500-$700 though you can sometimes negotiate the cost of the space free if you commit to food and a few free drinks. The Social Media Clubs in the US sometimes charge $10 per attendee online (which isn’t too much of a deterrent) to help with the costs.

As well, if new groups are worried they may not be able to find speakers for their events here are a couple of options we’ve used here in NB.

1) Hold the Third Tuesday to co-inside with the business visit of a social media speaker (we did this with Jason Falls when he flew up to visit with Radian6 in February)
2) Have a video conference session with a speaker (Chris Brogan joined via video chat which was projected on a wall at the event and guests had a chance to ask questions etc…)
3) Hold a workshop with various social media stations (The TTNB folks have done two meetings with this format and the feedback has been great.) Basically ask for volunteers to man stations at the event where different social media tools/apps are explained. After 15 minutes participants get up and move to the next station. The last one we did LinkedIn, Plurk, Google Analytics, Flickr etc…

Third Tuesday’s are a great way to meet other folks in your area face-to-face who are interested in in the same things you are. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed being part of each and every one.

And Joe is a great guy to ask if you have any questions as well.

Thanks for getting this all started Joe.

David