Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs August 2008 Meetup August 21, 2008

Why you MUST have a Twitter Strategy
Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs August 2008 Meetup

This promises to be one of our most interesting meetings, so don't miss it! Read on to see why...

IMPORTANT!!!: See ADVANCED HOMEWORK at the end. 1.) You'll need to prepare beforehand; only 5 minutes, and 2.) ANNOUNCEMENT Wednesday Aug 20th on Twitter (see below).

Who should attend
If you don't completely understand how and why you should have a Twitter strategy this is one of the most important meetings you could attend this year.

If you are a Twitter guru, we need evangelists for Twitter in our open discussion. We need your experience to explain why Twitter is a MUST both locally in Atlanta and globally.

Format
We'll start with a short intro/overview to Twitter led by Mike Schinkel and then, God willing and the creek don't rise, we'll have two (2) video conferences. After the 8pm break we'll have a roundtable-less discussion led by our Featured Participants below.

Video Conferences
Assuming no technical difficulties or otherwise, these will be our two video conferences:

Triangle Tweetup
An Industry Luminary with > 25,000 followers on Twitter! (Who? See below...)

These are still TENTATIVE anticipating any technical problems.

Featured Participants
Our featured participants are prolific Twitter users who have derived great benefit from using Twitter both personally and professionally:

Sanjay Parekh -- Sanjay on Twitter, Sanjay is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Startup Riot and other startup initiatives, and was a founder of Digital Envoy. Sanjay advises and consults with a number of technology startups.
Tessa Horehled -- driveafastercar on Twitter, Tessa bills herself as a Tastemaker, a Brand Strategist, and a Digital Publicist and focuses her attention on Music, Travel & Flat-Track Roller Derby!
Paul Stamatiou -- Stammy on Twitter, Paul is a prolific blogger, a Georgia Tech student, and he runs Skribit.com, the company that was developed during Atlanta Startup Weekend.

Evening Agenda
Our agenda for the evening will be as follows:

6:15pm - Early Registration (for those not prepaid via PayPal)
6:45pm - Networking
7:00pm - Meeting opens; Group News & Discussion
7:15pm - Introduction to Twitter
7:30pm - Video Conference w/Triangle Tweetup
7:50pm - Video Conference w/Twitter Luminary
8:00pm - Break
8:10pm - Discussion+Q&A w/Features Participants
8:50pm - Closing Comments
9:00pm - Networking (Optional)
9:30pm - Drinks/Dinner at Gordon Biersch

Official Website: http://web.meetup.com/32/calendar/8361289/