There’s fun aplenty and a chance to satisfy yer hankering for some Southern fare with all the fixins!

Get three sheets to the wind with $8 mini-pitchers of beer!

As per usual, HYPE is a free event for professional young bucks where both howdya do’s and sass are welcome and business card stickups are considered real tacky-like.

Wednesday, September 7^th from 5:30 p.m. till whenever we get tuckered out!

Rolly Rockets
470 King Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
L8P 1B7

Ya’all better give us a head’s up on Facebook and invite yer friends, ya hear? (Check out the invite here!)

Gotta question? Email meg@kitestring.ca or tweet @Ettiekit

Christmas Spectacular was a hit! Thanks to everyone who came to the event, and all of our sponsors, we collected and delivered 143 toys to McMaster Children’s Hospital is three hours!

After all the hard work, goodies and glitter we’re so happy with how the day turned out. It’s wonderful to see how our community came together to make the day possible. Want to see what the day was like? Did you get your photo taken with Santa and want to see how it turned out? More (gorgeous!) photos courtesy of Marta Hewson Photography to come.

It’s time for the un-holiday HYPE hang out! Check out all the deets below and we’ll see you there! Email meg@kitestring.ca and let her know you’re coming.

What’s the HYPE?
HYPE (Hamilton Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs) is for networking group for young Hamilton-based professionals.

When?
Wednesday, November 24th 2010 after your nine to five grind, and the night is always casual.

Where?
Our favourite indie seafood bar on Augusta Street (The Ship, 23 Augusta Street, Hamilton)

Why?
As per usual, HYPE is all about saying NO to stuffy business card hand offs and feather plumage puffing in networking situations. When you show your smiling face at this pre-Holiday “Why The Elf Not?!” party, you’re saying YES to cups of cheer and meeting like minded people in your pond.

Remember the last Big Tweet: Hamilton’s First TweetUp? It was packed and we had a blast.

The Big Tweet 2: Flock of Seagulls will be totally awesome, dude! Or wicked… or bitchin’.. or.. I was born in the 80s and I’m trying my best.

You’re invited to Southern Ontario’s only 80s themed tweetup! Prizes for the best costume, and there will be an air guitar competition!

Slip on your leg warmers and I’ll see you there!

The Big Tweet 2: Flock of Seagulls
Register Here (It’s Free)
Wednesday, September 22nd from 5:00 to 10:30 p.m.
Augusta House, 17 Augusta Street, Hamilton

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.