By Kevin Dugan

Will @jeffpulver ride the bull when he’s in Cincinnati?**

The fourth stop on the #140Conf Road Trip Tweetup will allow for a few of the stories from Cincinnati’s social media community to be told. Exploring “The State of Now” in The Queen City yields a well-known list of businesses impacted by social media.

But instead of exploring obvious examples like any of the nine Fortune 500 companies headquartered in town, consider a longer, albeit less obvious, list. It includes startups like ShareThis and Buzzvoice, seed stage venture accelerators like The Brandery as well as communities like Girlfriendology and online culinary passionistas like Cooking with Caitlin.

Not to mention groups formed with the sole purpose of fueling the above lists. New Media Cincinnati and Cincinnati Social Media (#CincySM) help people and businesses use social media.

#CincySM is excited to host a stop on the #140conf Road Trip. As a founder of the more than 1,500 member group, along with Daniel Lally, Stacy Cole and Dave Knox, I can tell you that Twitter is one of the primary reasons CincySM exists. A little over two years ago, Albert Maruggi was in town on business and held a tweetup on behalf of Social Media Breakfast. I saw his tweet the night before and that morning two dozen folks, including Jason Falls, put names to faces.

Since then CincySM has hosted events on everything from building community with Jory Des Jardins and community management with Six Apart to Innovation with Tim Westergren and social shopping with GroupOn. These events are in addition to helping tell the stories above.

The #140conf brings us offline to talk about online. This action completes the circuit of social media and it powers CincySM. We’re looking forward to participating in the #140conf as it builds up to its Boston, Los Angeles and Detroit events.

**Since Buick is sponsoring the road trip, we’re holding the event at Cadillac Ranch. There’s a mechanical bull so we’re wondering what it’ll take to get Jeff on the bull?

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Kevin Dugan has been blogging since 2002 and works at Empower MediaMarketing as Director of Social Marketing.

Tags: Alan Weinkrantz, CincySM, Jeff Pulver, Kevin Dugan, Mo Krochmal

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