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December 24, 2009

Recap of the first #140conf Los Angeles Meetup

Since the launch of the #140conf events, one of the amazing by-products from the conferences has been the launch of local #140conf Meetup groups in a growing number of cities.

On the evening of December 14th, the first #140conf LA meetup took place at the Yahoo! offices in Burbank, California. Eric Greenspan helped with the co-host duties. Eric and his MakeItWork team came down from Santa Barbara and worked together with a number of volunteers and helped produce the first #140conf LA Meetup. Special thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of the event.

The speakers included:
@adventuregirl who spoke about “Sharing and Caring”;
@marlooz: - “Love 2.0” and the "tweetfunding" of her laptop.
I enjoyed learning about how the advent of social media brought forth an era of coopitition on the Sunset Strip during the "Sunset Strip Tweet Crawl" talk given by @Alflamont (The Comedy Store) + @N8theSk8 (The Viper Room).
@BethFrysztak, @3Lunches, @momsofamerica were part of a lifestreaming discussion they called "Playing in Traffic."
And my friend @evanlowenstein spoke about the "Evolution of communication between artists and their fans."

A number of the people who attended the meetup shared their commentary / feedback on their blogs. For a more complete recap of the event, please read the following blog posts:

- Justin Moore-Brown: The 140 LA meetup
- Yahoo! Advertising Blog: 140 Conf Meetup @ Yahoo!
- Vanessa Rivers: "OSN101: Learn to Surf Like A Pro!"
- Ricardo Bueno: Recap: #140Conf LA Meetup
- Victor Caballero: Los Angeles Yahoo 140 Conf Meetup
- Greg Pincus: Tweetups and Meetups and Conferences (Oh, My!)

I look forward to returning to California in 2010 and having an opportunity to attend additional meetups.

Video archive of #140conf LA Meetup (special thanks to: @marlooz).

For more information regarding future #140conf meetups, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/140conf/.

For more information regarding future #140conf Conferences, please visit: http://140conf.com.

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Tags: 140conf, social media, 140 Characters Conference, twitter, Jeff Keni Pulver

Posted by jeff on December 24, 2009 06:50 PM | Permalink

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Comments

The mood was ebullient. I was very glad to be there.

I laughed, cried (@marlooz presentation), hugged and got some great photos at the after party.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lindashermangordon/sets/72157622883625273/

There are also a couple of other photo albums that would be fun to include in this post.

Jeff - Thanks for your great presentation and important reminder: "When friends ask me how to get more out of twitter, I tell them four words: Listen, Connect, Share, Engage."

@LindaSherman

Posted by: Linda Sherman at December 24, 2009 09:13 PM