HYPE is on this Wednesday, July 7th after your nine to five grind at Bad Dog Café and Wine Bar on Locke Street . Have some vino in the sun, give your tootsies some well deserved flippy floppin’ freedom, and meet up with other like-minded creative young professionals who live in Hamilton this summer.

Getting your buzz on in the sunshine with buds, yes! *
Stodgy business card hand offs with ulterior motives, no!

*Be bad responsibly. Don’t drink and drive.

RSVP by emailing meg@kitestring.ca so we can give Bad Dog a good heads up.

July 7th from around 5:00 till… whenever
Bad Dog Café
229 Locke Street South

If you want to see more pictures of the event you can find them on our facebook fanpage here.

Yesterday kitestring hosted Snow Ball – a social media social at the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton. It was a fun filled morning of learning about social media, enjoying each others company and eating some scones.

The “kitestring players’ started the Social with a short skit titled “Lemonade Stand”, a story about building your brand using online communications. It’s the story of three lemonade stand business owners, Cindy, Kevin and Teddy.

Cindy from Lemonade Inc. has decided not to implement social media into their business, sticking to what she thinks are tried and true modes of business development.

Kevin, owner of The Best Lemonade in the World knows that he should get involved in social media. So, he comes up with his own plan to implement social media as part of his business, shouting information about his business whenever and wherever he chooses at whoever happens to be online. He plans how often he will check his social networking accounts and even what he plans to broadcast, sometimes days in advance.

Theodore, Teddy for short, from Squeezed Lemonade, also knows that social media is valuable for his business. He uses his vision, mission and values to decide how he will engage the communities that best fit his business’ culture.

Regardless of whether they knew it or not, each of these three companies are part of a new market place. We pretended that balloons were social media interactions, and that everyone in the audience was the world’s online audience.

It was a great exercise to show how building relationships, being transparent and becoming part of the conversation is a good way to get social media to work for you.

We also had an amazing presentation by Tricia Mumby of Mabel’s Labels on how social media is working for their company.

We learned about the different social media outlets from Brandon, and Jenn and I talked about building your brand using social media. Oh! And Cameron helped us all loosen up by playing a few fun ice breaker games.

The day ended with an old fashioned Tea Social, jam packed with cupcakes, cookies, tiny sandwiches and scones. Deeeeeelish!

Thank you everyone who attended! We had a blast and you made the day so fun!

I also what to thank these great sponsors!

Marta Hewson has been working with kitestring since day one. Her photography is fun and fresh and not only is she super talented, working with her on any project is a pleasure and a half. You can find Marta on twitter at @martahewson

Thank you so much Cameron Tulloch. Whenever kitestring needs some strategic, fun training exercise for an event he is our go to guy. Follow Cameron on twitter @CamTulloch

Florea is the super adorable new flower shop on James South, owned and styled by two young and hip sisters. Meg loves to visit to start the weekend!

Caroline Peer, from Fastsigns, makes all of our artwork look amazing through print. She provided all the signage for the event. Thank you Caroline we love working with you. Follow Caroline on twitter @FASTSIGNS_677

We`re not Lumberjacks and that`s o.k.

The next HYPE event will be on the upper level of Slainte Irish Pub in Hamilton beginning after your nine to five grind on Wednesday, February 17th 2010.
Get acquainted with the idea meeting other young creatives, marketers, media professionals and cultural entrepreneurs in your city who work all day and probably work more all night.
So get out the cabin for a night and bring your friends, eh!

Come get half in the bag, have more lip than a rubber boot, and forget about jiggin’ yer squid. Lord love a duck!*

We’re here.
There’s beer.
And Hamilton better get used to it.

Wednesday, February 17th
Beginning after your nine to five grind.
Slainte Irish Pub (upstairs)
33 Bowen Street, Hamilton ON

Contact kitestring for more info
t.905 296 9575
e. meg@kitestring.ca

*Come out and drink, talk a lot and forget about work. My goodness!

Well, The Big Tweet came and it went and boy did I have a good time! I hope you did too. Thank you to all who attended. A special thanks to our Meg and her sister Kiki for all the cupcakes. They were d-lish!

kitestring loves putting on fun and exciting events in Hamilton where cool people come together to meet. From TEDx to Hype to Tweetups to who knows what else, we truly enjoy bringing people together. Hamilton seems to be lacking these events. So here’s your challenge; BRING IT ON! If you want something to happen in your city, make it happen. That way we can all enjoy fun times and each others company.

Our next tweetup will be help in the summer. I hope to see you all, + some, there!

Above is a pic of Meg with cupcakes with the kitestring twitter bird fondant-ed on them. Photo courtesy of @johncpiercy. And below is a short video highlighting the event.

Remember when you didn’t need an Apple or a Blackberry to tweet your heart out with little blue birds?

kitestring is pleased as punch to announce that the social media mavens from Mabel’s Labels will be the belles of the Snow Ball: A Social Media Social

Along with kitestring, Mabel’s Labels will share their fresh approach to social media at the event, which includes an interactive workshop, and a tea social that includes all that you would expect a dainty lunch to include.

Oh my! How swell!

The social will be held at the beautiful Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn Street North) on March 3rd, 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

kitestring welcomes marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, social media newbies and pros, groups and singles to the Snow Ball! We’ll learn from each other by building on shared experience.

kitestring’s first ever social media social has limited seating, so please register here by purchasing your ticket.

Snow Ball: A Social Media Social
Hosted by kitestring creative marketing + design
Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Staircase Theatre, 27 Dundurn Street North, Hamilton, Ontario

kitestring is hosting Hamilton’s first ever Tweetup THIS WEEK, on Jan.28th at the Pheasant Plucker (20 Augusta Street) beginning at 6:00 and goes until whenever we tire of eachother.

What’s a Tweetup you ask? Here’s the definition I found online –

Tweetup
n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service.

My definition – Fun times with twitter peeps!

So come on out, have a drink, snack on some free nibbles (CUPCAKES!) and meet your Hamilton twitter friends. CLICK HERE to register!

See you there.

The Big Tweet
Thursday, January 28th 2010
6:00 p.m. until ????
The Pheasant Plucker
20 Augusta Street, Hamilton

Snow Ball: A Social Media Social

Remember when the word “social” inspired visions of teacups, friends and dessert? Can you think “social” today without wondering what the tweet to do about social media?

Bringing old and new together for the first time, kitestring is pleased to host Snow Ball: A Social Media Social!

In celebration of all things worth juxtaposing, Snow Ball: A Social Media Social will feature a collaborative, interactive workshop where guests can learn and share their modern social media know-how with the kitestring team, followed by an old fashioned tea social, accompanied with all of tea service accoutrements like scones, jam, tiny sandwiches and doilies! Oh my!

We’re pleased as punch to announce that the social media mavens from Mabel’s Labels will be the the belles of the Snow Ball, presenting their fresh approach to successful social networking for business.

The social will be held at the beautiful Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn Street North) on March 3rd, 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

kitestring welcomes marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, social media newbies and pros, groups and singles to the Snow Ball! We’ll learn from each other by building on shared experience.

kitestring’s first ever social media social has limited seating, so please register here by purchasing your ticket.

Snow Ball: A Social Media Social
Hosted by kitestring creative marketing + design
Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Staircase Theatre, 27 Dundurn Street North, Hamilton, Ontario
Purchase Tickets online at kitestring.ca for $25 per guest, limited seating

Last night we held our final HYPE (Hamilton Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs) event of the season. It took place at The Ship on Augusta Street and it was the place to be in Hamilton. Over 40 people were there sharing beers, cheers and good times.

From talking to many people at the event it seems like Hamilton is craving more hipster events like HYPE. We have a large and strong young business community who tends to do business differently. And that’s awesome. Having events like HYPE help to foster this community.

Thanks to everyone who came out last night and made HYPE a success! You all rock.

I also want to thank Meg, kitestring’s dynamo, for organizing the event. Wouldn’t have happened without you and we think you’re tops! But you know that. I know you do. : )

Check out the video to catch a few highlights of the night.

Wishing everyone a safe and rockin’ Holiday season!

Tune in right here on our blog TODAY at 10:00 am to see everyone at kitestring wrapping presents, decorating our tree and to witness Jenn’s first taste of eggnog, EVER!

Spread the word:

HYPE (Hamilton Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs) wants to invite you and other young creative professionals at your workplace to a meet and drink others like yourself in this city at our favourite new indie seafood bar on Augusta.

The meet starts after your 9 to 5, and the night is always casual. HYPE isn’t like other networking events around town. No to stuffy business card hand offs, no to feather plumage puffing. Yes to cups of cheer and meeting like minded people in your pond.

Happy Holidays from HYPE!