Central Ohio bloggers, PR pros and Twitter fans, it’s good to be us. Tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 22, is our next official Columbus Tweetup. This one’s being held at Opera Columbus and the food sounds terrific. We even have out of town VIP guests driving down just for the Tweetup. Have you RSVPd yet? If not, you can do that here. I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow night.
In November, the central Ohio chapter of PRSA (the Public Relations Society of America) is hosting two blogger-centric events. On Thursday, November 13 over the lunch hour, meet the biggest local influencers you don’t know yet - top Columbus-based bloggers - at a panel moderated by yours truly. I’m very excited by the line-up of bloggers for this event - Walker Evans, Advergirl and Ms. Single Mama. Get ready to find out how bloggers and PR folks can work together. This is a very hot topic, considering the most valuable tip I heard on today’s HARO “how to pitch a reporter” teleseminar was to pitch bloggers as a way to reach top mainstream journalists.
Then, on Wednesday, November 19, local bloggers and PR pros will meet and mingle over free appetizers and happy hour drink specials at Gordon Biersch in the Arena District. This event is free - and so fresh it’s not even posted to the site yet, but you can RSVP here by leaving a comment. It’s our first official PR pros & bloggers mixer, and hopefully the first of many.
If all that’s not enough, check out the new Columbus TechLife wiki. What a cool tool for corralling tech and social media folks in one place. Between that, Majelly and The Central Ohio Network, there’s certainly no shortage of excellent resources for new media information and events here in Columbus.
And if you’re just to the north and west of Columbus? Then check out the new Irish is an Attitude blog from the Dublin CVB, where with the luck of the Irish, you can win a gift basket of local sweets by posting a limerick or Irish proverb.
Have I missed any other cool news or happenings in the social media world of central Ohio? Let me know by leaving a comment below. Thanks!
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6 responses so far ↓
1 dawn // Oct 22, 2008 at 11:38 am
I’d still love to hook up w/you to talk sometime although my schedule has gotten a lot trickier (husband back at work full-time, working around my kids). I’m seeing a lot of misunderstandings about hitting up bloggers when I talk to clients. I see a “throw spaghetti at the wall” kind of approach, which can really end up backfiring.
2 James Seay // Oct 23, 2008 at 8:32 am
Lara, for the lunch event in November. Is it on Wednesday or November 13th?
3 larak // Oct 23, 2008 at 10:57 am
Dawn, I was just thinking about our botched coffee date the other day - I would love to reschedule.
James, thanks for catching my error. It’s Nov. 13 which is a Thursday. Thanks!
4 Shane Haggerty // Oct 23, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Lara,
Looking forward to the blogger panel. Definitely going that one! I am also going to try to get to the mixer, but I have a work-related meeting scheduled for that evening. So who knows about that one? Anyway, great events, lots to look forward to!
5 larak // Oct 28, 2008 at 8:37 am
Shane, I will look for you at the panel lunch. Remember to RSVP through the PRSA site!
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