The Jeff Pulver Blog: A Look at Jeff Pulver's "Breakfasts Across America:"

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February 21, 2008

A Look at Jeff Pulver's "Breakfasts Across America:"

Steven L. Lubetkin: "Jeff Pulver Breakfasts Across America"

"Jeff Pulver hits the road early when he’s having breakfast with his social media friends up and down the east coast. In February, Jeff launched a series of breakfasts with a kickoff in Philadelphia that drew more than 50 social networking participants. Pulver arrived in Philadelphia from his Long Island home with regular sidekicks Sam and Geo, and promptly set about equipping attendees with “real-time social media tagging tools,” such as stickers, Post-It Notes, labels and markers to use for what Pulver calls real-time social tagging.

Participants write tags or keywords and paste them on each other, as if they were adding bookmarks and keywords in an online environment. By the end of the meal, everyone is adorned with multiple tags and labels, and some even have larger labels or “walls,” where people have written messages, like they do on Facebook or MySpace.com.

Pulver conceived of the real-time tagging event after going to networking events where participants didn’t really connect with each other.

“I thought, why not do a mashup of social media and networking,” Pulver said. In Tel Aviv last summer, he ran a cocktail party where he encouraged participants to write a social media tagline on their name badges. Later, he expanded the concept to add the labels, notes, and walls."

(read the entire story here)

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Steve Lubetkin

Steve Lubetkin (@@podcaststeve) captured the essence of the breakfasts I have been hosting. I enjoyed reading his accounting of the breakfasts and appreciated the coverage.

Upcoming breakfasts include:

February 26th - NYC
February 29th - Chicago
March 5th - Tel Aviv
March 17th - San Jose
March 25th - Baltimore
March 28th - Toronto
April 1st - Boston
April 3rd - Atlanta
May 1st - Washington, D.C.