SunTweet Charity Tweetup
By Saintless. Filed in Blogging, Health |
Last night was a gathering of Twitter users in Park City, UT, during the Sundance Film Festival. It was arranged through Twitter, and we all chipped in $5 or more, and at the end of the evening voted on which charity got the money that had been donated. Serenity won the popular vote, and got a little over $600. Serenity is Twitter user @Phil801‘s daughter. From Serenity’s web site:
Serenity was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia on May 24, 2008. Lifting Up Serenity is dedicated to her recovery and supporting her family throughout their journey through childhood cancer.
Donations can still be made on the Social Hat web site, or directly to Serenity.
The panel talked about how to use social networking in the business world. The panel and organizers consisted of:
@ghennipher
@jyl_momIF
@krista_parry
@Jesse
@EXIT_Stage_Left
@startupprincess
@carysnowden
And honorable mention goes to @H0neyB for helping with the door and the video, as well as giving me a ride up to Park City, since my Jeep is having issues.
We streamed the event live using UStream. One of the founders, Brad06, was watching our stream, and put us on the front page. We had over 130 people watching the stream! Here are the clips:
You can also see photos from @slc_jm on flickr.
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, suntweet, tweetup, twitter
Friday, January 23rd 2009 at 10:37 am |
I forgot to add that I’m looking forward to watching EXIT_Stage_Left’s web series:
http://www.lowrytheatercompany.com/
Friday, January 23rd 2009 at 10:41 am |
This was the best night of my life. My only regret was that Will Smith wasn’t there and that I didn’t get a date.
Friday, January 23rd 2009 at 10:52 am |
This was soooooooo much fun!!!! I loved meeting y’all & was delighted to take @saintless up with me! You guys were a hoot! I’m glad we got the Ustream set up & was able to get those in other parts of the world involved!
I say more Tweetups!!!
Oh and @bigbags u came with a guy.. How u suppose to get a date? LOL
Friday, January 23rd 2009 at 11:08 am |
Last night was a great event… and it was awesome to be able to help out Serenity!
Awesome job on getting the Ustream up and running… Definatley should do this for all TweetUps!
Nice meeting you and everyone else!
Doc
Friday, January 23rd 2009 at 12:57 pm |
What a good idea!
All love to Serenity.
Friday, January 23rd 2009 at 1:28 pm |
Great post, Misty! Thanks for your help at the event; the streaming video was a huge success!
Friday, January 23rd 2009 at 11:21 pm |
Your hair looks so great short!
Saturday, January 24th 2009 at 9:00 pm |
I’m such a dork. I wish you could see the questions the viewers were asking… it’s really boring w/out. :)
Saturday, January 24th 2009 at 9:23 pm |
Thanks, Sarah! :)