16 May 2010, Posted by admin in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Mission: Accomplished

Up in space

13 May 2010, Posted by admin in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Mission: NASATweetup

Day one, part one

27 Feb 2010, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Celebration at The Tavern

99 Bottles of Beer

17 Aug 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

SweetUp '09

Let’s start from the beginning.. there is twitter. On twitter, you make friends (sometimes), and you meet them at tweetups (twitter meetups). Tweetups are normally held at a restaurant or bar where you can mingle and talk with friends and meet new twitter people. To put a spin on things, this will be a SWEETup. A tweetup, but with LOTS of candy and sweets! Get it? Now, read on.

Next tweetup, SWEETup is on Thursday, September 10th. Winter Park Wedding Chapel is kind enough to host this event at their place!

Thanks to Shaan bringing up candy corn, Justin and Daphne continued talking about candy last week, I have decided since so many people on twitter have to like candy, cake, cupcakes, why not get together and look at it and then eat it!

SUGAR DADDIES: @JeremiahsIce, @SweetByHolly, @KernelEncore

We’d love for EVERYONE to come and bring their favorite treat with them. Since we are not holding this event in a bar or restaurant, sure we’ll get some beverages to have, but not a ton. Think of it as a potluck of sorts. Don’t need to bring anything crazy or $$, just something small for everyone to share.

I’m looking for chocolate, cake, cupcake, lollipop, candy, SWEET places to help out with this event. If you are a company or you know of a company that would be willing to help out please let me know! You can e-mail me at kelly@peglegpug.com or find me on twitter @peglegpug.

To RSVP please visit: SweetUp ’09

25 May 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Florida Aquarium Holds a Tweetup

Thanks to Julia Gorzka and Josh Carrico, Tampa had one of their biggest tweetups yet.

People started arriving at the Florida Aquarium around 3 PM. Everyone got their name tags, though some were brand new to twitter and weren’t sure of what their twitter handle was (you know…the thing that comes after the ‘@’ sign).

After a hour of meeting people and watching a couple of videos about the Florida Aquarium, an alligator and snake were brought in the room for everyone to look at and touch.

If you didn’t want to see these animals you were free to go wander around the aquarium until certain twitter-ers swam with fishes and one lucky twitter-er got to dive with sharks.

There were a lot of people that showed up to the tweetup and there was even more stuff to look at around the aquarium. From ground animals to under the sea, the Florida Aquarium covers it all.

Jeff and I didn’t even make it upstairs to see everything. But from what we saw, we had an amazing time with my parents and Ross, Natalie and the Mini Ross’.

These and other pictures from the #tbtweet can be found on my flickr page.

For more information about the Florida Aquarium, please visit www.flaquarium.org.

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20 May 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Has Your Local News Had a Tweetup?

CFNews13.com (@CFNews13) held a tweetup right across the street from their downtown building.
One Eyed Jacks was a good location, but it seemed like the rain kept everyone away

(expect Rowan, she was prepared!)

It was nice to see Jen Cook with her producer hat on and News 13 reporters out and about.

The tweetup even made it on the ticker again!

About 15 minutes after walking in, I kindly had a camera shoved in my face. And yes, yours truly made it into the lovely CFNews13 Tweetup segment. Make sure to listen closely for the Casey Anthony shout out (don’t ask me what I was thinking).

CFNews13 tweetup video

CFNews13 tweetup article

These pictures and others are in the gallery.

14 May 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Florida Conference for Women

Even though I had read about the Florida Conference for Women, I wasn’t 100% sure what to expect. I knew who was talking, what they were going to be talking about, and what time. But with it being my first conference ever, I was a little nervous.

The morning started with Barbara West (WFTV-ABC Orlando) and Alex Sink (FL CFO) welcoming everyone and Alex Sink hinting that she may be running for FL Governor (which we all know is true now).

Then the opening keynotes. Tory Johnson and Ariane de Bonvoision.
Tory Johnson is the founder of Women for Hire and is on Good Morning America as the Workplace Contributor. From giving quotes like “Women think negate is the same thing as a root canal.” to three things we should all do in our daily lives: Self Promotion, Networking, Negotiation, made her keynote wonderful.
Ariane de Bonvoisin is the founder of First30Days. Ariane is all about change. Positive change. With a quote from Plato, “Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.”, Ariane is very inspirational.

My 1st session of the day was “Actions Speak Louder Than Words”. We learned about non-verbal communication from an expert, Jan Hargrave. She has written books called “Let Me See Your Body Talk” and “Judge the Jury“. Her talk was amazing. Funny. Informational. Tale-tell signs. If I see you next time and ask you to hold your hand up..don’t be surprised!

Session number two was “The Tools of Change”. Keynote speaker Ariane de Bonvoisin ran this session. As I stated before, she is the queen of change. Ariane went through the 9 Tools for Change, which come from her book The First 30 Days.
1. People who are good at change are open-minded.
2. Change guarantee. From this change, something good will come.
3. People who are good at change are stronger. Everyone has a change muscle, which has a memory, which will get stronger as more changes come into your life.
4. People who are good at change do not get stuck in an emotional circle. People who are good at change allow themselves to be human. The emotion you’re resisting is ruining your life.
–Antidotes: Fear is faith, anytime of faith. Doubt is surrender. Impatience is endurance. Blame is responsibility. Shame is honor. Guilt is forgiveness, who and what are you forgiving for?
5. People who are good at change let go of resistance. We are all moving in the river called life. Some of us flow down the river and then cling to a rock, and others start flowing down the river and start rowing back upstream. Don’t worry! The river will take you in the right direction. “When you argue with reality, you only lose 100% of the time.”
6. People who are good at change know what they can control and what they can’t control. We can all control the words that we use, instead of being negative we can say, “What can I learn from this?” If you drop the story that you’ve been telling forever, you WILL get change.
7. People who are good at change know that there is something bigger going on. The answers are on the inside. We have the answers inside of us.
8. People who are good at change are not alone. You don’t show up naked to your change. We’ve all had changes, maybe even that SAME change. Ask yourself “Who is on your team?”. It probably isn’t your parents, spouse, friend. It’s going to be people that want to help you change. Who are your 3 go to people?
9. People who are good at change take action. We need inspiration, not information. Take care of yourself! SEED – Sleep, Exercise, Eat well, Drink water
As you can tell, we got a LOT of information in a very short hour session.

During lunch, we had another two great keynote speakers. Julie Stav who is a financial expert, whom just so happened to drop her pants at the end of her talk. And also the author of The Middle Place, Kelly Corrigan, talked about her life, her battles and then read us two chapters from her book. Any author that can right about battling cancer and also make someone laugh in the same sentence is amazing to me!

“What Happy Working Mothers Know” was my third and final session of the day. The moderator was Cathy Greenberg, who wrote the book “What Happy Working Mothers Know”. The panelists included: Lisa Hein (author, “I’m Doing the Best I Can!“), Jayne Rager Garcia de Valseca (speaker), and Renee Trudeau (author, “The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal“). All 4 of these women told stories about their lives. The hard times and the worst times. The one that sticks out the most is the one about Jayne’s life and husband (see video below).

We ended the day at the career fair with a windstorm (literally!) All day was wonderful. Had a tweetup with good friends Melanie (@modernmami) and Susan (@eggmarketing). And made friends with twitter-ers: Tara (@taralamberson), Kim (@momsatwork), Elsa (@elsaodette) and Elizabeth (@elizabethb).

Were you there? What sessions did you attend? Who was your favorite speaker? Are there any changes that you would make for next years Florida Conference for Women? Would you attend next years?

Pictures can be found in the gallery.

Other write ups:
What I Learned Spending The Day With 1000 Women.. – Kim Hays, Orlando Sentinel
My Day at the Florida Conference for Women – Melanie, Modernmami.com

01 May 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Eden Bar. #Otweet: Part Duex

The place: @Eden Bar at @EnzianTheater. The reason: the second @OrlandoTweetup (II — for Ross!)

Fun was had. Drinks were had. Tweeting was had.

Thursday, April 30, 2009 – @OrlandoTweetup and @OrlandoSentinel put on the second major tweetup for Orlando. I got to see friends again and then met quite a few new faces (even @JustinEdwards, whom doesn’t have a twitter face!)

About a hour into being there, @IAmGonzilla spotted @TomSorrells walk in and she immediately went over to chat. Great photo opp if I do say so myself.

Saw @SomaCow, @SomaCowGeoff, @ComaSowJen, @Evanzan, @FosterVideoPro, @SirKyle, @WebFugitive, @ModernMami, @EggMarketing, @ShawnRoberts (and many others whom I am forgetting now. Sorry!)

After I saw people that I knew and had a couple of drinks (yep, that helped!), I started to wander around and I met some new people! Some awesome people. @Shaanx, @Kfreshness, @ValerieWare, @LoveIsAnAction (who runs a non-profit charity to help the homeless, @Nomsa), @CoreyVincent, and @JohnRoquemore.

Other random pictures from the night (which including Jeff – @bananakin – walking around with a bottle of Kosher Coke).

Other pictures can be found on flickr.

Once again, @etanowitz, @dsashin, and the @OrlandoSentinel did a wonderful job.

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Etan Horowitz post can be found on the Orlando Sentinel website.

18 Mar 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

#paddytweet @izeainc

For those not “in the know” — that’s reads “There was a St. Patrick’s Day tweet-up at Izea”.

Lots of green beer, Rockband and pizza. What more could one ask for at a tweet-up? Alright, I guess there were some nice people there as well.

Izea had “Show Me Your Shamrocks” t-shirts made for St. Patrick’s Day and the first 20 people that showed up got them. And yes! Jeff and I both got one! Woohoo!

I met some new tweet-ers: Rae Hanson, Mitra Sorrells, Tom Sorrells, and Philippa Channer. And then there were the “regulars” that I’ve met before, but it’s always a pleasure to see: Carri Bright, Ashley Edwards, Ted Murphy, Anthony Richardson, Melanie Edwards, Susan Payton, Shawn Roberts, Ross McCoy and David Bain. (sorry if I left you off — I tried SUPER hard to think of everyone!)

Oh and sorry about “yelling” at you, Andrew Beard, when you guys were trying to get TedTube up and running in the lounge-y area. (MAC TO THE RESCUE!)

Our paper tweets from the @elross kiddos.

Thanks to everyone at Izea for a wonderful time! And hopefully next time Jeff or I will have learned how to be XSHOT MASTERS! (Thanks to Ted for the help!)

The rest of the pictures can be found on flickr.com

22 Feb 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Tweetup at an Irish Bar

Saturday, February 21, 2009

How many non-Irish folk can you fit into an Irish bar? I wish this was a set up to a joke, but it’s not. The answer is about 100 completely different people from twitter! 100 people shoved into Scruffy Murphy’s in College Park makes for an interesting night.

Jeff and I met up with our friend Tommy and we had a little walk over to the bar. We were early, but all was well and Mickey, from SomaCow, was there already so we grabbed our first drink of the night. Thanks to Mickey for our drinks! All of the SomaCow guys are great…well I can’t say that for J though..seeing as though he apparently doesn’t ever want to come meet others, so I haven’t met him yet..

Shortly after, others started flowing in and by the end of the night I had walked around (yep..I continued standing the entire night, even after…oh…6? beers. Oops!) and met quite a few wonderful people (I also did some catching up with others that I got to meet at the Ichiban tweeup). Including, but not limited to: Carri, Sir Kyle (because that is what I will always call him), Ashley, Anthony “I don’t have a butterfly on my keychain” Richardson, Garth, Katy, Marc Middleton, Geoff, Jen, Mickey, Ross, Shawn, Etan, Daphne, Melanie,  and Susan (who is a great alarm system–she kept Jeff from stealing things from my bag! Which I greatly appreciate!)

Thanks again to Etan and Daphne for putting together a wonderful tweetup. I can honestly say that I never expected that many people to show up. Who would have thought?

Below are some of my favorite tweets the day of the tweetup! And then pictures from the tweetup!

Video from Marc Middleton and Katy Widrick from GrowingBolder.com
What is a tweetup?