Photo credits: Crowd: Digital Papercuts Bird: John Rees Prom Queen & King: AbbyLadyBug Just want to say thank you to everyone who came out last night for our 1st tweetup of 2009. The turn out was amazing, the speakers were great and new relationships were made. A big thanks to Edge Office, Empire Eats, @HotNow and all of the speakers: @DiMambro @jazzychad @brianr @ayb @covati @dgtlpapercuts @taylorbarr and @communitygirl . Also...

Tomorrow at the tweetup, there will be several attendees from local news media outlets,  each have some sort of presence on twitter in a rss bot format like @newsobserver &  @wral_top or employees like @ @wiggitywack & @nsj . As you can tell some are using twitter correctly and some are not. Take the poll below to see where the triangle tweeple go for  local news? The Poll: What other local news twitter accounts do you follow...

We conducted a @twtpoll to prepare for the TweetCamp session after the presentations tomorrow. If you have never attended a BarCamp event before, a TweetCamp is like a BarCamp unconference but just all about twitter. Also its like a open TweetShops session, just not one on one. Tomorrow at the TriangleTweetup we’re going to host a short TweetCamp based on topics from the poll and a few more. The poll asked:  What topics are you...

We’re just three days away from our first Triangle Tweetup of 2009 and if you’re like me then your excited about seeing some old twitter friends and meeting new ones in real life for the first time. Attending a tweetup can be valuable for increasing your relationships with existing twitter friends and it can lead to new ones offline and online as well, therefore you should plan ahead of time to take advantage of the situation. Here’s...

As the twitter wave continues to ignite new users to sign-up, it’s becoming more important to build relationships and connect with your new online friends who are now following you. We’re seeing everyone from health care professionals, pastors, news anchors and teachers joining twitter to either promote their business or reach new customers. The challenge is with so many new people joining twitter and people deciding how to manage...