So despite the underwhelming response to my question about if there was any interest in twittering an awards event – we’re gonna give it a shot anyway. Perhaps Twitts need to be engaged in the twitter space rather than through the blogosphere (or, and probably more likely I concede, perhaps no-one’s really that interested in being a part of the evening if they can’t get horribly drunk at someone else’s expense – sorry – I mean partake first hand in the ambience of the night celebrating the great and the good of our industries creative output), so we’ll see how many followers we get.
But, if you are a Twitt then you’ll need to know that I’ll be covering it under the @digitalrecing profile (I’ve also created a personal one – which seems to have confused the hell out of the Twitter system (freeware – what can you do?!) – but for the event I’ll be going through the one we’ve established just for “official event coverage”).
Big thanks has to go out to Jamie @ mylonglunch who came good with an invite for me (my very own fairy god mother – now there’s a thought to make you shudder). I’m very impressed with how well his business is going that he’s shouting (in terms of paying for – but probably also in terms of “at”) a full table at the event – and I think it’s pretty typical of his forward thinking ways that he’s so excited to have this industry first run from HIS table. Although if we’re honest I reckon he just wanted to concentrate on enjoying himself rather than remembering to Twitter about award results and the like and so was glad to be associated with this without having to stay sober enough to contribute too much himself.
So just to re-cap – CIPD Rec Marketing Awards Event Thursday 19th @ Old Billingsgate. If you can’t be there and want to be (in a very small twitterati sort of way) aware of / part of the proceedings and results then you’ll need to have a Twitter account and make yourself a follower (or something like that – still early days for me) of @digitalrecing.
Don’t expect a lot of activity from that account on an everyday basis – it’s purely set up for twittering at events such as this (if you want to follow “real people” then from this blog then at the moment you’ll be looking for: @mattalder; @carveconsulting; @alexhens). And then as the fuzzy head really kicks in (as I’m sure it will do having opened myself to partake in some of the legendary Leonard hospitality) then I’ll transcribe (well copy & paste) the night’s tweets (potentially with a little editing for “actually, in the light of day…” type political reasons) onto this here blog for all those who attended and wondered what the coverage was like, or equally those who didn’t attend and actually found something better to do with your time than tune in to someone finding his Twitt feet and almost certainly thinking he’s getting funnier and funnier as the night progresses.
It’s all likely to either go horribly wrong or be plain dull – I’ll of course strive for some middle ground – but whether it’s car crash or paint drying you can decide and we’ll then see about trying it at future events.
Oh – and if you’re at the event – then you’ll have to excuse me if I seem to be rude and have my nose in my phone. It’s all in the name of an industry first don’t ya know!
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Alex it's great to have you there and we're pleased to be part of another industry first (real time media site, speed sales events and so on). I think it would be more fun to post the Twits live when we're drunk and lets the chips fall where they will.
Honest communication, its what this industry lacks and what DR and MLL stand for.
J
Posted by: Jamie | 10/06/2008 at 01:30 PM