Like most people, I only heard of Twestival shortly before it was due to happen. Just over two weeks before. I wanted to make sure I was there as I was fed up with missing out as all ‘local’ events took place in Sheffield or Leeds. I was definitely going to go until I realised [...]
A a way to promote Twestival in general and Nottingham Twestival in particular, my post Using Twestival To Increase Your Audience While Helping Raise Money for Charity, has been included at Twitip.com. The post covers the benefits of being involved with Twestival to raise your profile, raise some money and all round raise your spirits. [...]
This week has seen much attention around some of the celebrities that have started posting on Twitter. @schofe, @wossy and @rustyrockets have been posting very frequently, and more importantly, interestingly. Stephen Fry is a well established celebrity on Twitter and even discussed it with Jonathon Ross on his comeback show which reached a much larger [...]
Well, it’s official. Nottingham Twestival takes place on Thurs 12th Feb 2009 at The Castle pub. A Twestival is both a meetup for Twitter users and fundraising event for charity:water. Events are taking place worldwide, take a look at the list of participating cities at Twestival. It’s 100% organised by volunteers and 100% of the [...]
A shadow loomed but Gordon Brown backed down on the MP’s expenses row. This was in part achieved by the efforts of mysociety. They even had a helping tweet from Stephen Fry. By encouraging use of WriteToThem as shown by Ewan Spence and a Facebook group with over 8,500 members there was overwhelming support. In [...]
Starbucks has teamed up with Product (RED) for Christmas, sorry, the holiday season. I didn’t remember to obsess about the countdown to Gingerbread Latte’s coming back into the shop but that’s OK because others did. That’s assuming that a Gingersnap Latte in the US is the same as a Gingerbread Latte in the UK.
