The state is gearing up for a bonfire at Birchwood Farms in Reevesville. We are so happy to welcome our peers from Columbia + Greenville, and areas in between, to join us on Saturday from 3:00pm – 9:00pm.
For almost five months now, Charleston has been tweeting up consistently and has exceeded my wildest expectations. It started when I moved back home and felt out of place because, although I grew up here, I didn’t have a professional network or attend college in Charleston. With the help of Kristin Bostic (@ChasRunner), we invited strangers and friends to meet-up and engage one another. On Saturday, we hope to make our world a little smaller and include those tech-savvy individuals across the state to move & shake with us.
I’ve put together some directions with landmarks, so you don’t feel so lost or deceived by your GPS. Some of the streets change names before you can notice:
-Get on I-95 South (to Savannah)
-Take exit 77 (to 78 East), Jim Belton Blvd
-Off the ramp, turn right and it will go down to 2 lanes (and change names, just keep straight)
-Take a left on Main St/Co Rd S-18-383, this will be the left before the Town Hall + Fire Department.
-Take a slight right over the railroad tracks on Reeves St/Co Rd S-18-18
-Keep straight for 2.1 miles Reeves St will turn into Heaton Rd
-You’ll take a left at the stop sign at Independent School Rd, for .8 mi
-1146 Independent School Rd is on the right with the white taped off fencing.
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With 1-2 events a month, we have turned this town upside down. I have found new friends and connections right in front of my face, but in the most unconventional threads of similarities. I would never have figured out that @KennethAndrews was such an art junkie with similar taste in indie music, or that @BrianCrawford was ripping electronic tracks on the side & that we were familiar with the same DJs, or that @MelMatho would be the most motivating person to get me involved in Charleston, or that @JaredWSmith would be my tech guru and a common staple in my Barcamp/social networking/#CHScowork lifestyle.
Without Twitter, these conversations may not have developed and interests would not be discovered. But that is true in life and in relationships. You don’t network with someone and expect to know them immediately. Cognitive dissonance evaporates over time and people reveal themselves in unique situations.
TheDigitel.com has the skinny on Charleston Twestival.
I created this video for the www.charleston.twestival.com site. I figured, Charleston needed a way to relate to Twestival since many businesses seem hesitant to get involved with Twitter. It’s really funny how uncommonly un-mainstream Twitter is in the Lowcountry and that organizations are unsure if they want to be associated with it.
It humors me that having concern and awareness for others strikes cognitive dissonance. I may be communicating in a different way, but the message remains clear. Twestival is here to umbrella cities + communities on the same day for the same awareness and energy to be exerted on March 25th, worldwide. No, we don’t spend the time tweeting when we’re in-person. Twitter is an introduction and a handshake into conversation that can flow from an online space to an offline environment. Twestival is the comforting hug for children around the world in the poorest nations.
Let it spread into your heart, your home, and your soul. Take it away, Avett Brothers!
I’m looking forward to #chstweetup tonight at Bambu in Mt. Pleasant. Christina Lor of Ergonomix PR, who recently relocated to Charleston, is working to launch a new series of Twitter-based networking events here designed to connect a wide variety of professionals and other interested parties.
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