Still working on this
Posted on: 31 January 2009 at 0745 - Comment
I sit here on a Saturday morning totally stumped as to what’s next. Okay I have to be honest this has been more difficult than I thought it would be. Let me explain, when I opened my big mouth on Twitter about New Orleans I had no idea I would be strapped with this huge responsibility. I am actually having second thoughts about doing this. But I am not a quitter, and I have been known to do some crazy things in my life. Make a long story short I have started following as many people from New Orleans as I could find. Some followed me back and some were indifferent (who could blame them). But forward I march even if it’s to a different tune.
I finally found some movers and shakers in New Orleans (at least on Twitter). Jessica Rohloff, Adele.
They were kind enough to give me the scoop of the New Orleans pulse. Apparently there is a group
( www.net2no.com) that meets the first Tuesday of every month in the back room of the Bridge Lounge. So guess what? I am going to go and see what sort of group this is. Sure they already have their own agenda and I will probably stumble a few times, but what I am hoping is to get some interest for this truly global event. I will let you know what happens, in the meantime please give me as much information regrading what we should do for this event. You can look at all the cities that are participating here and see we are so far behind I would hate for New Orleans to be kicked under the rug, because I did not do my job.
It can be discouraging. On the bright side, you have almost two weeks to go. On a crazier side, we’re just getting started today.
Hi, I live in New Orleans. I am new to twitter (only been doing it a couple weeks) but not to blogging, one that I contribute to a lot is neworleans.metblogs.com I could write something up on there when we you get the particulars in order.
Hey Rayna, that is wonderful thank you so much. I am going to the meeting tomorrow night, I will bring my videocam and record the evening. Hopefully I won’t get booed off .. lolol Can you tell I am a little nervous about meeting the locals
Anything you can do to help this great cause please feel free to suggest.
Dave two weeks to raise at least one well ($4000) shouldn’t be hard if I knew 100 businesses or ppl. that are willing to contribute $100. But I think its more than raising $ for me, it using this great medium (Internet/Twitter) to make change. I think it’s awesome.:) thanks for your support… Are you going to show up at the meeting?
Excited that you’re planning to come out to Net2NO tomorrow! It’s really a great, talented, motivated, fantastic group of people, and we definitely want you to tell everybody what Twestival is all about. The program starts at 7, which is when we’ll start doing announcements, and I’ve got you on the list. So please plan to stand up and talk about Twestival–and don’t hesitate to let everybody know what they can do to help.
Thanks so much for all your hard work, and look forward to meeting you tomorrow!
I was just thumbing through other cities’ pages hoping to find some ideas for the Nashville Twestival when I found this one. Just wanted to leave a quick note of encouragement for you and say that you’ll be fine! We just got started on ours on Friday night and we’re totally freaked out when we look at all we have to do. But, keep plugging away and know that we’re all scrambling!