http://boston.twestival.com Twestival Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few days ago, Chris Brogan tweeted about signing a few copies of "Social Media 101".  I tweeted back to him to see if he could donate a few.  He promptly put me in touch with Wiley after a few tweets, we exchanged emails.  We quickly got the approval to ... http://boston.twestival.com/2010/03/13/extra-special-thanks-to-wiley/ We will be hosting the Boston Twestival at Red Sky Boston - just outside Fanieul Hall. (The exact address is16-18 North Street, Boston.) Doors open for the event at 6:00PM (on March 25th - of course). Admission gets you one raffle ticket and you will have an option to buy additional ... http://boston.twestival.com/2010/03/09/we-have-a-location/ About a week ago, we put out the call for DJ's, Bands, Entertainers to assuage the crowds at Twestival Boston. One man answered the call, the enigmatic @teh_center. I started coordinating with him, and immediately got 3 names back. His real name, his stage name, and his twitter moniker. Like I said, enigmatic. Which ... http://boston.twestival.com/2009/09/10/hey-mr-dj/ Tonight, Twestival Local Boston will be supporting SmallCanBeBig.org at OM Restaurant in Harvard Square from 6:30-10:00PM! Do you have your tickets yet? Remember, each ticket represents a direct donation to SmallCanBeBig.org! Look forward to seeing you there! -JW http://boston.twestival.com/2009/09/10/do-you-have-your-tickets-yet/ The results  are in, and Twestival Local Boston will be supporting SmallCanBeBig.org on September 10, 6:30-10:00PM at OM Restaurant in Harvard Square! SmallCanBeBig.org is a charity that uses micro-donations to help families on the verge of losing their homes, their health, their livelihood, or mobility because of a shortfall ... http://boston.twestival.com/2009/08/31/small-can-be-big/ Yesterday, I promised that I would post all of the candidates that have been brought to our attention for Twestival Local. Below, you will find a list of charities and non-profits that have either been nominated for consideration, or have asked to be included. A couple of these are big charities ... http://boston.twestival.com/2009/08/26/twestival-local-charity-candidates/ In three weeks, Twestival is going to do something that I do not think has been done before: Twestival Local. Twestival has charged local teams to rally their community behind a charity which meets a pressing need in their city. As far as I know, this has never been done before: 4  ... http://boston.twestival.com/2009/08/25/twestival-local-boston/ We finally have a ton of fun photos from BostonTwestival up on our Flickr Pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1027808@N21/ Tag yourself, tag your friends! http://boston.twestival.com/2009/02/19/pictures-from-twestival-are-up/ We're please to announce that Boston's Twestival was a fun time and a successful event. We raised almost $4000! Globally, Twestival raised over $250,000 and counting. There were 34,000 Tweets about Twestival, 6,600 Twitterers and 4,000 ReTweets. We'd like to thank our awesome sponsors for providing a venue, donations and raffle ... http://boston.twestival.com/2009/02/18/twestival-boston-a-great-success/ Bring out your dough! Bring out your dough! Today is the last day to get tickets for Boston Twestival. Duh, it's today! Boston Twestival is shaping up to be a great event. Many of the area's social media and pr heavy hitters will be turning out for the event. Why wouldn't ... http://boston.twestival.com/2009/02/12/raffle-prizes-and-tickets/