Photo-A-Day #2078
Tonight I went to the 2nd Annual MegaTweetUp at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge. I attended MegaTweetUp last year and while I was there I took a ton of photos of people who won prizes. This year event organizer and all around awesome guy, Joselin Mane (@JoselinMane), asked me to be official photographer for the night. It was a lot of fun.
I rode into Boston with Bruce K. Garber (@BruceKGarber). We had a great conversation up and back. Bruce is one of the founders of Southern New England Media Makers. Bruce is a real interesting guy and he live streamed the entire MegaTweetUp. He had a great setup too and he did some on the spot interviews with some really fun people.
One of those fun people was Steve Garfield (@stevegarfield). Steve did a 360 panorama of the crowd on his iPhone.
I also got to meet Lane Sutton (@KidCriticUSA), a social media powerhouse, and he is only 14. This guy is making great stride in social media and he was part of the group that captured the real social media reach and impact of MegaTweetUp. Lane has posted some preliminary findings on SlideShare already.
Part of my responsibilities at the event was to photograph all of the raffle prizes and prize winners. I spent a lot of time with Trish (@trishofthetrade) and Nancy (@NancyTWS), some great people who managed the volunteers and kept things running.
At the event there were a ton of great sponsors like my favorite burrito place, Boloco. (Yes it is my favorite now, they converted me thanks to CEO John Pepper (@boloco)). I had a fantastic Steak Burrito that was so tasty.
At the event there were so many mini cupcakes with 500 written on them in icing. That was because MegaTweetUp was the 500th event at Microsoft NERD.
So many cool things were happening last night at the MegaTweetUp and I am sure I missed 75% of it too. There will be other Recaps and I will try and link to all of them on this post as I find them. It was nice meeting so many great people at the event and I look forward to seeing everyone again soon.
Here is a link to the MegaTweetUp 2 – 2010 Flickr Set that I created.Other MegaTweetUp Recaps.
- Steve Garfield
- Bruce K Garber
- Peg Mulligan
- Rachel Sprung
- Aurora De Luca – Flickr Set
- WayneNH – Flickr Set
- GregPC – Flickr Set
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Ben – Many thanks for all the pictures and the fantastic recap! It was great to meet you at MegaTweetup.
Zach
Zach – Thank you, your crew did some amazing stuff and that is why on the Flickr Image I titled it the Braintrust of social Media’s Future. You guys rocked.
Ben – Thank you for sharing the ride with me last night to the #MegaTweetUp2. We both had a lot of information to share and will keep the conversations going at Southern New England Media Makers and beyond! You are becoming a great new friend. By the way, it goes with out saying, but I will say it anyway, you did a great job last night being the official #MegaTweetUp photographer. Thank you for sharing the link to all of those very nice memories, a 500th of a second at a time. See you Sunday for breakfast.
Best regards,
Bruce Garber
http://bruceKgarber.com
http://bruceKgarber.yv
http://twitter.com/bruceKgarber
Bruce,
You are welcome. We had a great time and I look forward to SNEMM! The photos were so fun to take at the event.
Great photos and summary of #MegaTweetup Looking forward to meeting and chatting with you sometime soon! Great work! PS. Nice to see the quality my D80 could produce if I brought it out more! Happy Holidays @utollwi
William,
Thanks very much. Get that D80 out there and do it! Get more photos and have fun!