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How #140Conf Road Trip Sponsor, @doubletreehtls Focuses on Its Culture & Brand Promise of Care.

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

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.

Learn From @doug4cincy on How the Cincinnati Museum Center Connects With Social Media #140Conf Road Trip

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

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.

Video by Mo Krochmal

Doubletree Bellman as Story Teller. Meet Raphael. @doubletreehtls #140Conf Road Trip

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

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.

Meet Brian Shelton @briandshelton – Gilchrist & Soames’ eCommerce & Special Projects Manager – #140Conf Road Trip

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Go to almost any upscale hotel in the world, and chances are the goodies like soap, shampoo, and body lotion are made under the name Gilrchist & Soames or private labeled for the hotel by them.

Meet previous #140Conf NY attendees, Brian Shelton, Gilchrist & Soames’ eCommerce & Special Projects Manager, and member of the Indianapolis community, where he talks about his role at the company and why he joined us at the recent Indianapolis TweetUp.

Follow Brian on Twitter.  And, follow Gilchrist & Soames on Twitter too!

How Traditional & New Media Partner To Leverage The Power of the Real Time Internet – #140Conf Road Trip

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

During the #140Conf Road Trip, we met up with Chris Theisen from Hare Chevrolet and Paul Poteet, a local TV personality who has made the transition to the Real Time Internet.

Living in the State of NOW, Indiana’s largest volume Chevrolet dealer, has partnered with a familiar face, becoming an online spokesperson to help promote and continue awareness of the dealership. Listen to how partnering with traditional media can help bring your online strategies forward.

Buggy Manfuactured by The Hare Family Which is Now Hare Chevrolet

Aside from what the dealership is doing online, it’s important to understand that Hare Chevrolet is not just any ordinary car dealer.  They are the oldest transportation company in the U.S.  When you go into their showroom, you’ll see buggies that were built and sold in the 1800′s before the modern invention of the automobile as we know it today.

In its own right, the dealership is a museum of transportation and a testament to a family owned business that has endured technology and social change.

If you want to see what an innovative car dealer does online in the State of NOW, follow Hare Chevrolet on Twitter.

Jeff Pulver Tours GM’s Lansing Delta Township Plant During #140Conf Road Trip- @jeffpulver

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Towards the end of our #140Conf Road Trip, our friends at GM invited us for a tour of their state of the art manufacturing plant in Lansing, Michigan.  Technically  called the  Lansing Delta Township Plant, it is clear that upon arrival to this facility, that it’s no ordinary automobile manufacturing plant.  It’s modern architecture and sleek design is striking.  And walking through the plant tour, it was eerily quiet as we watch these crossover vehicles evolve into a sleek driving machine.

Technology aside, what struck us most was this deep sense of pride in GM’s manufacturing prowness.  Personally, I recommend that this plant should be part of a civics class in every elementary and high school in the U.S.  as reminder that this plant is very much a reflection of our Country’s can-do attitude in making world class automobiles.

Jeremie Miller’s – @jeremie Vision of What’s Next – #TeleHash: Distributed Apps Without The Need for Servers

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Jeremie Miller has a pretty good track record at having a vision and making it a reality.

As the creator of the XMPP open standard, he’s the reason IM works the way it does across platforms on your computer or wireless device.

On the #140Conf Road Trip, Jeff Pulver, let the Twitterverse know that we’d be at the Field of Dreams. Who shows up? Jeremie. He happens to live on a farm in Iowa near the famed baseball field in a corn field and came over to visit us.

Jeremie’s next big thing is something he calls TeleHash. The idea is to exchange JSON in a real-time and fully decentralized manner so that applications can connect with each other without the need for servers.

Jeremie is passionate about protocols. In the video above, he talks about his vision of decentralizing information and having information free and open to everyone.

Thank you Jeremie for joining us briefly and connecting at the Field of Dreams. You’re proof that if you build it, they will indeed come.

Engaging with Kodak’s Brand On the #140Conf Road Trip – @kodakevents @kodakcb #140KodakMoments

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Having a sponsor like Kodak provide guidance, support, and product that we can not only use, but give away as gifts during the #140Conf Road Trip, brings an opportunity to engage a brand into the experience of an eight day moving road trip.

I would be overstating the obvious to say that Kodak is a perfect match for an event like this.  But there is more to this process than just sticking their logo up during our events.

At heart, it’s about the Characters, and there is no better way to illustrate the Characters we meet and the stories they tell, with photography and video.

We had a Kodak Zi8, Playsport, and  Z950 Digital Camera to use.  We also gave away several Zi8 and ESP 5250 Printers to winners along the way.  Product winners went to worthy causes including an Iraqi War Veteran, a new Co-working Space in St. Louis, and a parent in Minneapolis who had a college bound son who had just asked his Dad for this product.

On this road trip, we were lucky to have Mo Krochmal join us as an embedded journalist who did much of the video story telling using the Kodak Zi8.  The photo gallery in this post has several photos of Mo using the Zi8, capturing stories which you may view on his Facebook page.

Thank you Tina Clark, Kodak’s Interactive Marketing and Brand Manager.

Thank you Jenny Chisney, Kodak’s Chief Blogger.

You’re both great story tellers in your own right!

GM’s Director of Social Media – @cbarger – Christopher Barger on Engaging Communities with #140Conf

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

A Chance Meeting with @minnemom and @jeffpulver at the Field of Dreams

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

You never know who you are going to meet at the Field of Dreams in Dryersville, IA. On the #140Conf Road Trip, we visited the famous site where the movie was filmed. Recognizing the #140Characters name and references to Twitter on our T-shirts, we met @minnemom, who travels with her children and writes about it here on her blog.

#140Conf Live Feed
LittleAnimation: @RicDragon Perhaps for a bigger business it is, but not for Little Animation, sadly. Ah well, next time! #140conf
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RicDragon: @LittleAnimation wow! the personal is - didn't know that. But the professional is still good deal http://t.co/HknogRKZ #140conf
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TedCurtin: RT @KellieAtZoocasa @LittleAnimation THANK-YOU @OgilvyInsurance!! for bringing #140Conf to #Montreal! #140MTL http://t.co/q7We2c40
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LittleAnimation: @RicDragon Sold out already?? *tears* http://t.co/yT6vv1nJ #140conf
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LAlupusLady: RT @jennerus: "...All there is ever, is the now." ~George Harrison (and all you need is love) <3 #140conf http://t.co/fBvoipdp @jeffpulver
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140Kory: #140conf's Facebook page http://t.co/LVt30s3f is only 10 followers shy of 1700! If you like us but have yet to "Like" us please "Like" us!
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chieflemonhead: Thought it was NY State of Mind? MT @RicDragon Just returning frm #140MTL & getting excited 4 NYC State of Now #140Conf http://t.co/wNAzx7zh
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LittleAnimation: RT @RicDragon: Just returning from #140MTL and getting excited for the NYC State of Now #140Conf http://t.co/HknogRKZ
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140Kory: RT @jennerus: "...All there is ever, is the now." ~George Harrison (and all you need is love) <3 #140conf http://t.co/znpyF1Ic @jeffpulver
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140Conf: Speakr Spotlight: The Philly Youth Poetry Movement - @JustGregPoet #140conf NYC Jue 19-20 #StateofNow http://t.co/49oo15PR
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