@unmarketing 's Scott Stratten sent out a tweet. He was working on the #unbook at the time & asked how business owners felt about Trade Shows. I messaged back asking him if he would be interested in hearing about it from a show organizer's point of view (I am never afraid to ask, I figure the worst people can say to me is no & I'm okay with that). Scott said SURE & I was very excited to be given this opportunity. Fast forward several months and not only did Scott read my take on it, HE QUOTED ME IN THE UNMARKETING BOOK!
(this is my current claim to fame. I spent most of the summer saying, not only am I in a Book, I'm in a book THAT PEOPLE ARE READING-this is a big deal to this little KW Gal).
I can't thank Scott enough. It's brought a lot of attention to MeFest and my co-host Diane & I are eternally grateful for it.
But we're also thankful for a whole other reason.
We gained a new set of Friends because of it. They live in Brantford Ontario.
Diane and I headed off to the Unmarketing Book Launch in Sept 2010.
It was the first time I got to meet @LindseyJay face to face. She brought @Trevor_Cherewka with her. The four of us chatted about tweetups and how they have so many in Toronto and area, but that's a lot of travelling for us. Lindsay said that Trevor organizes Tweetstock in Brantford and how fun it was. We said that it's just down the road from KW & we would love to attend the next one.
A few weeks later Trevor messaged me asking me if we would speak at the next Tweetstock. I agreed, but unfortunately Diane wasn't available. This posed a bit of a problem. If you know or follow me, I'm very social. I love the back and forth of a conversation, coming up with ideas, learning about new things, so this would be easy right? I found myself standing in front of a group of people talking to them about using twitter in an engaging way, only to find out most of them weren't on twitter. So my talk became a bit of a ramble but after the speaking part I went back to having convos with the people in attendance and really loved how they were open to trying twitter (and taking Tiara pics!).
Since then I have been back to Brantford several times and my new pals have come to events in KW as well. I was so excited to hear that the @TweetstockCA team were going to have both @KathyBuckworth and Scott Stratten for #Tweestock4 , but then quickly saddened by the fact it was the same day as TEDxWaterloo. Just because I didn't think I could make it work it didn't stop me from helping my pals get the word out about such an #EPIC event! It took until the week of the event to get all the quirks worked out so that Diane & I could arrange to GO TO TWEETSTOCK4 !!! Yes I was that excited when I found out I could be there. Upon arrival we were welcomed with open arms Literally (I warn people that I hug & take lots of pics). The event was fantastic take a look here. We had friends from London to Oakville that made the trip and the energy in the room that day was UN-believable (see how I threw that in there).
Hours later we arrived at the after party only for me to realize that I left my camera behind. All of my pals hopped on twitter (remember the people who didn't have twitter just months earlier) and were messaging the organizers and the @SandersonCentre to let them know what had happened. The following day I was informed that my camera was found and for fun Trevor tweeted out that a camera was found. So many tweets came in saying that it belongs to @Those2Girls . It made me feel so good to know that so many people were looking out for me.
As you can see I do have my camera back in my possession and speaking with Diane I said, once this weather breaks I can see us spending most of our time in Brantford (aka now my 2nd home).
