I’m happy to see how our Maui tweetups have grown and evolved in the last year or so. It used to be just a small group of us meeting at a coffee place or somewhere to catch up on each other IRL (In Real Life). It turned a corner when we did the tweetup at AK’s Cafe on Lower Main Street in Wailuku during our Malama Maui tour with the Maui Visitors Bureau, which ended up being great promotion for the venue, and 12 of the 18 people who attended had never been there before.
That event seems to have sparked a new tradition of holding tweetups partly to promote various venues on the island. Last Thursday, my friend Dania Katz of Edible Hawaiian Islands organized one at Star Noodle in Lahaina. Our tweetup group got free pupus (appetizers) and desserts, and the proceeds from everything we purchased were donated to the Maui Food Bank. By the end of the evening, we raised $345 and the Star Noodle staff threw in another $100 for a total of $445 donated.
Moutwatering ribeye in a teri-yuzu sauce at Star Noodle, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii
Not bad for a get together with friends old and new… great food, great networking, promoting a great local eatery and raising funds for a good cause. It’s one of the rewards of social media and the real life relationships that result from it.
If you’re on the island, watch our #MauiTweetup hashtag for future tweetup events, like the one coming up at Whole Foods Maui on Tuesday, June 8 and the one at Ono Gelato on Wednesday, June 14. Come meet local tweeters IRL!
See Jen Russo‘s blog post at Maui Dish for the complete scoop on our fabulous Star Noodle evening…
Originally posted at In A Cool Hour…
I too am happy to see the #MauiTweetUp grows and the Maui Business community slowly embracing it. This is also a sign that Social Media involvement on Maui is growing, not just the tweet-ups but the whole Social Media involvement in general.
Thanks to your workshops – many are learning and getting excited about it
I love doing the workshops. The more we educate each other, the bigger the community gets!
Thanks for mentioning my post at mauidish. I am excited to be a part of the social media movement here, thank you Peter for leading the way with workshops and partnering with other workshops, ie MauiTime TechTalks. I am learning so much along the way. Everytime I explain twitter and people ask why (anyone would get involved), these IRL meetings really help make it relevant.
I’m learning too. We all are. Things change so quickly it’s a requirement. Glad to have you and Tommy to partner with!