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Scott Monty, Doug Haslam, Jim Storer, and Laura Fitton headlined the ticket at yesterday morning’s Social Media Breakfast 5 at the S & S Restaurant and Deli in Inman Square, Cambridge.
Each of the four led a five-minute presentation on how Twitter has “changed our lives.”
Scott Monty (@ScottMonty on Twitter) reminded us that “Twitter is nothing if you don’t have the community,” and explained how Twitter was indirectly responsible for helping him land his current gig at crayon.
Doug Haslam from Topaz Partners used props — specially a ball of dough that matches his Twitter handle, DougH — to demonstrate how Twitter serves as the hub of much of his work online. He also shared answers from members of his Twitter community to the question, “How has Twitter changed your life?”
Jim Storer from Mzinga (and @jstorerj on Twitter) talked about the potential of Twitter’s under-used favorites tool; the bright future for microblogging (including inside the enterprise), which he termed the “gateway drug to social media”; the notion of “hunters and gatherers” on Twitter; and the importance of listening.
Pistachio Consulting’s Laura Fitton (aka “Pistachio“) delivered a deeply personal and moving account of the ways that Twitter has changed and enriched her world, both personally and professionally, since she moved to Boston last year.
A big thanks to Jim, Aaron Strout, and everyone at Mzinga (disclosure: Mzinga is a client of mine) for sponsoring Social Media Breakfast 5, and to Boston’s ever-passionate — and growing — social media community for making this breakfast series the success that it has become.
Other media from Social Media Breakfast 5
- Doug Haslam: Social Media Breakfast 5 (Boston): Bizarro Version, 140 characters at a time
- Tech PR Gems: Social Media Breakfast 5 (Boston): Why We Use Twitter
- Christopher Herot: Social Media Breakfast
- Ed Stafford: How Twitter has changed my life
- Tech PR Gems: Videos from all presentations (courtesy of Michael Bayer)
- PerkettPRsuasion: A tale of two breakfasts
- Jim Storer: Social Media Breakfast 5: Twitter has changed my life
- Alexa Scordato’s video recap
- Alexa Scordato’s video recap II
- All photos tagged Social Media Breakfast on Flickr
Your Twitter ID
Did you attend yesterday’s breakfast? Please drop a comment with your Twitter handle to this post, or to the one announcing the event. I’ll round up all the IDs and share by e-mail.
Photo credits
Montage above uses Flickr photos from Mzinga Marketing, davefishernc, colin_n, alexa627, doughaslam, and stevegarfield.
Technorati Tags: Social Media Breakfast, SMB5, Scott Monty, Doug Haslam, Jim Storer, Laura Fitton, Mzinga, Twitter
14 comments ↓
[...] Perhaps only for my own amusement, here is video of my portion of the presentation at yesterday’s Social Media Breakfast: [...]
Bryan – I commented on the original post w/ my twitter ID but here it is again just in case @astrout.
Best,
Aaron
bryan, thanks for pulling together another great event. i’m @9n and @rickburnes
[...] Social Media Breakfast 5: How Twitter is changing our lives I think it’s great that some people value Twitter. But from what I’ve heard when speaking to people, nobody actually likes it. Everyone writes about it, but nobody uses it. How weird. (tags: twitter pneo001 socialmedia microblogging) [...]
[...] Jim Storer below. Links to additional media created from the event can be found in the round-up post on [...]
Well done Brian, looking forward to April.
@mattcrucius
@mattsearles.com
opps, I mean @mattsearles
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