Should your travels take you to Omaha, as they did during the #140Conf Road Trip, be sure to stay at the Doubletree Hotel on Dodge St.
Doubletree was a sponsor of the #140Conf Road Trip and true to form, the culture of care and the great chocolate cookie (actually one too many) shined!
Thank you Doubletree for your support.
After spending a week on the road, and staying in various Doubletree Hotels, you get to know not only the brand promise of Culture of Care, but how various franchise owners build culture around it.
This was our second visit to the Doubletree Hotel Detroit Fort Shelby. As you can see from the mat that lays in front of the check in counter, they change the mat daily with rotating themes of care. Since it was Saturday, it was Promise Saturday. The message changes daily but the them of care remains the same.
If you are coming to the #140Conf Detroit on October 20, the Doubletree Hotel Detroit Fort Shelby in the place to stay and our official hotel.
Note: even though the #140Conf Road Trip is over, the stories keep coming in. Think of what follows not as breaking news (because it’s not) but rather a reflection of what a local community does when it comes together for events that bring the virtual to the real. Than you Kevin Dougan for helping organize the event and reaching into your community on our behalf.
The final stop on Day One of the #140conf found @jeffpulver and team in Cincinnati for a Sunday evening RoadTrip TweetUp. The attendees, the stories and the entire experience remind me that no social media platform can replicate the original social network – meeting live and in person. Putting faces to names and Twitter handles is part of it. But you obviously learn so much more than you can from even the most well-crafted 140 character missive.
With more than 20 people in attendance, there were plenty of stories to tell and document about Cincinnati’s social media community. From something as simple as trading tips about the iPhone and iPad with @elliotcampbell and @JoeyWesselsto learning about the latest social media efforts at Union Terminal with @Doug4Cincy. Catching up with folks like @danieljohnsonjr @kristaneher and meeting folks for like @AmelahG and @jamieboyle for the first time reminds me of how essential these events really are.
Perhaps it was the dose of inspiration from Jeff as he explained his mission for #140conf. All of the scheduled events look like they have enormous potential. In a format that forces value from the speaker and optimizes every attendee’s investment of time and money, October’s event in Detroit is definitely worth attending.
Thanks to all who attended. Here are some links to Cincinnati Tweet Up Video and Pics. Below are the Twitter handles I recorded. I know I missed a few so let me know who’s not on the list.
#conf140 Team
@jeffpulver @AlanWeinkrantz @Krochmal @geogeller
Attendees:
@prblog @milanmike @gozapit @ncyp23 @jamieboyle @AmelahG @knrose @checkin_cincy @mbdunnusa @daveknox @Girlfriendology @elliotcampbell @JoeyWessels @Doug4Cincy. @danieljohnsonjr @kristaneher
Sponsors:
@kodak @smartwater @buick @doubletreehtls
Cincinnati’s #140Conf Community Rocks. We met with a wonderful group at the Cadillac Ranch near the city’s center at Fountain Square. Special thanks to Kevin Dugan who helped rustle up the troops for this event.
There after some amazing virgin Bloody Mary’s to recover energy, and some appetizers, Jeff Pulver spoke to the social-media community. Doug McDonald, CEO of the Cincinnati Museum Center talked about the city’s great business leaders such as Proctor and Gamble and Macys and then explained how his field, museum’s have to learn from them and engage the public.
The 140 Conference Road Trip began with perhaps one of the most unusual meetups in the short history of social media – at the Continental Airlines baggage check. Five Cleveland area folks took Jeff Pulver up on his offer to begin the 12-state, 8-day trek through the Midwest by meeting at the luggage carousel. And, it was there that roadistas Alan Weinkrantz and Mo Krochmal first met in person after lots of phone calls in the days prior to the Sunday start of the event.
In this video, hear John Burnell, a journalist, talk about the impact social media has had on his life. Then, after Jeff Pulver arrives, Kathleen Colan, who tweets @mongoosemetrics and @consumerati, talks about meeting Krochmal for the first time in person, after sharing conversations through Twitter. Kasey Crabtree talks about how social media has made an impact on her social life – she has met her life “peeps.”
With all the luggage and equipment we had to carry back and forth to our @Buick #Enclave, I was lucky to cross paths with Raphael ( I did not get his last name, sorry about that.) at the Doubletree Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago.
While the hotel became a Doubletree four years, ago, Raphael has actually been at this one location for 24 years. Yup, almost a quarter of a century.
When you are there that long, you run across all sorts of people and every now and then a celebrity. In our brief encounter, Raphael told me the story about helping and working with the cast and crew of The Untouchables who stayed at his hotel.
Everyone at the Doubletree that we encountered was awesome. And even spending a few minutes riding an elevator with some one nice and very real like Raphael made a big difference in our trip.
During our St. Louis TweetUp on the #140Conf Road Trip, Matt Ridings – AKA – @techguerilla- received a private tour (well, sort of – he was kind enough to let me take him for the tour) of our @Buick #Enclave that not only served as our mode of transportation during the #140Conf Road Trip, but our communications hub for all social broadcasting, including Jeff Pulver’s reality TV show from our car.
Matt runs MSR Consulting and blogs here at TechGuerilla.com. Spend some time reading his content and you’ll see that he has strategy in his DNA. He’s a deep thinker, a great writer, and very practical in this thought processes. He’s also on LinkedIn here. You can follow Matt’s contributions to SocialFresh.com where he goes under the category of Social Guerilla.
Thank you Matt for joining us in St. Louis and hope to see you and the community at #140Conf Detroit on October 20, 2010.
When we started the #140Conf Road Trip, we held our first TweetUp at, uh, well….. yes, we held it a baggage claim at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Jeff Pulver was coming in from New York to get doing on the journey, so our community member, Lance Goddard, helped reach out to the Twitterverse and brought together a group of friends to greet Jeff and send us off on our journey.
Thank you Lance (follow him here on Twitter) for helping orchestrate, and thank you to all who took time out of their Sunday morning to join in the fun.
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