PRSA’s 1st Tweet-up at Night

By Charlotte Shaff on August 3rd, 2009 In Professional Development, Social Media

Let’s face it – it’s the dead of summer and WAAAY too hot to be getting in and out of your 120-degree car at noon. So, Phoenix PRSA is looking to celebrate the summer with a very special PRSA Lunch…at Night. Oh, it’s a Tweet-up too. Thanks to the folks at Fox Restaurant Concepts, PRSA is holding its first official tweet-up instead of a lunch this month where new pros, mid-level practitioners and masters will all come together to talk shop, summer and social media.

Date: Wednesday, August 26
Time: 5pm to 7pm
Location: Bloom at Gainey Ranch – 8877 N Scottsdale Road Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Cost: $20 for members $25 for non-members if you RSVP by August 21
***The cost rises $5 for each group if you RSVP late or want to pay at the door***

RSVP: Please RSVP by August 21

Hashtag: #phxprtweetup

Additional Details: Phoenix PRSA’s 1st tweet-up (instead of a traditional August “lunch”) will be more than just networking! The lively evening will include adult beverages, heavy appetizers and all kinds of surprises. Come prepared to dish on your lessons learned, mentors, greatest PR successes, funniest PR moments, biggest challenges and more…

PRSA Phoenix welcomes friends at IABC, AMA, NATAS and media friends are welcome as well, so spread the word!

PRSA’s 1st Tweet-up at Night

Comments

Mike Shaldjian Says:
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Wish I could be there, but will be in Coronado. I’m sure it will be a fabulous event! I’ll be looking for tweets that evening from everyone there.

Melissa Rzeppa Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 8:05 am

Sounds great, I’ll definitely be there

If You Charge For It, It Ain’t a Tweet-up! Says:
August 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

[...] because the Phoenix PRSA is organizing a meeting of its members. Its charging members to attend and calling it a Tweet-up. Now since when did Tweet-up’s get hijacked like this? Well, for one thing, let me be clear, a [...]

Shailesh Ghimire Says:
August 5th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

How is this a Tweetup?

Champ Superstar Says:
August 5th, 2009 at 8:08 pm

Charging for your PR event is one thing, but using the term “tweet-up” and still charging means your understanding of social media is fairly limited or just plain wrong. Use of the term is misleading and awkward.

A more appropriate use of Twitter for this event would be to create a hashtag and append it to your tweets. I would think as a PR firm you would have an expert on hand who would recognize this.

Pat Elliott Says:
August 6th, 2009 at 7:54 pm

Not a Tweet-Up if you’re charging. It is bad PR though.

Charlotte Shaff Says:
August 6th, 2009 at 9:03 pm

I wasn’t aware of a rule book on the use of “Tweet Up”.
If you’d like to attend, we’d love to have you come to the event.

I looked at Mr. Ghimire’s blog post and found this comment.

“Comment by Scott Monty (1 comments.) on August 6, 2009 @ 11:53 am”
I’m going to chime in here for two reasons:
1) My name was already invoked above (by Benn)
2) I coined the term “tweetup,” so I think I should have some say as to how it’s being used. See http://www.wordspy.com/words/tweetup.asp for the details.
Personally, I don’t care if a tweetup is free or includes a cover charge. The point of a tweetup is it’s a face-to-face meeting of two or more people who use Twitter. Period.”

Amanda Blum Says:
August 7th, 2009 at 6:37 am

tylers right (stepping aside for lightening strike). not sure scott monty’s opinion is entirely that valid here.

meetups, tweetups, etc are suppossed to be an extension of the free platforms that bring them about. i think many organizations and companies are trying to seize this concept as a way of showing they’re down w the lingo.

really, there is nothing about this event different from all other PRSA events. its not a tweetup, its a PRSA cocktail hour, just like all other PRSA cocktail hours.

Now, if PRSA REALLY got social media, they would hold an ACTUAL tweetup, make it free, publicize it via twitter and enjoy the purpose of a tweetup, which is to bring in new people you’d otherwise not have at the event. Maybe those people decide they really like PRSA, and pay to attend the next non tweetup.

and yeah. What Pat said.

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