La te da!

It’s a beautiful day in socialmediaville!

Ettie Kit here to report on Social Media no-no-Number 1: Not everything is worth Tweeting.
Find me @EttieKit on twitter!

Enjoy this? Well then you’ll certainly enjoy Snow Ball: A Social Media Social

Join me and a spot of tea!

More info and registration below:

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!

Come on CRTC! Why do you do this to us? We (as in us Canadians) can only see the hyped up Super Bowl ads “if you get your television signal over the air, have an illegal satellite dish or move to Buffalo”.

I just don’t understand! Every year around this time the morning television shows and radio shows are all the same, touting Valentines Day lame-o products and how to mix pink cocktails for “the ladies” and chili recipes, beer specials and zantac promos for Super Bowl parties for “dudes”. Then the following Monday after Super Bowl Sunday, the same Canadian television morning shows talk about the hilarious ads that appeared on the American broadcast of the big game.

Why, oh why?! Unless you hopped on YouTube, you didn’t even see them!

A little research tells me that Pepsi has surveyed Canadians about their disappointment in the Super Bowl ad exclusion and have decided to make a special 60 second spot to give us all a big hoot!

Sigh.

Someone prove me wrong

Oh, to be a young creative in glorious Hamilton!

Today I imagined the possibilities in tea cups, wrote of Divas, spoke of fiddles and performed an entire puppet show! (We’ll reveal these creations later.)

All in a days work! At kitestring we create branded experiences that you can really sink your teeth into. Thank goodness there are grammatical limits to keep me in check! I knew I wouldn’t fit in with the monkey typists.

Lucky me!

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.

A Tweetup is defined as: A group of friends on Twitter (social network) that are planning to meet up. A request by a user to meet with friends via Twitter.

Tonight is Hamilton’s first tweetup: The Big Tweet! (details below. you should come!) Because this social phenomenon is so new, when I went looking for the proper way to host a tweetup I came up empty. So we  decided that free food, custom cupcakes and access to drinks was the right way to go. Even less is commonly decided about how to behave at a tweet up. The online consensus on the subject is that “…most people act a fool at tweetups. And that’s not acceptable, though it is hysterical.”

So kitestring scoured the net, asked some buddies and put their heads together to come up with our own pointers for tweetup etiquette. As always, take any advice with a grain of salt.

kitestring’s official list suggesting tweetup etiquette:

A. No one cares that you’re a twitter veteran. What does that even mean? Whether or not you consider yourself a Guru, this is a time to forget your mantra and go unscripted. Leave your feathers at home and don’t boast your net-savvy experience to less acquainted users.

B. Refrain from overly talking about talking. We’re here in person to meet one another and make real connections, so there is more up for discussion than your blog or tweet topics.

C. When you meet someone new that you click with, make the effort to follow them on twitter afterwards.

D. Keep tweeting about the tweetup to a happy medium. Don’t sacrifice a conversation with a real live twitter follower in the flesh by ignoring them to love your android phone…. it will still be in your pocket when the conversation is done to document the happening.

E. If it’s never good to drink and dial, it’s probably a bad idea to drink and tweet. Remember that everyone probably has something close to an iPhone and that picture of you hugging the porcelain can be immortalized as the highlight of the tweetup, spreading in the matter of seconds, possibly visible by your Mom through her facebook account the following morning. Just saying.

How I love cultural phenomenons! I promise to try and have fun… but I can’t promise that I won’t be studying the behaviour of the (140) characters in the room.

CLICK HERE to register!

The Big Tweet
Thursday, January 28th 2010
Beginning at 6:00 p.m. until……
The Pheasant Plucker, 20 Augusta Street, Hamilton
Question? Contact meg@kitestring.ca

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
Purchase Tickets online at kitestring.ca for $25 per guest, limited seating

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

Today is the day. We are so excited to finally showcase a project we have been working on for the past month. Ladies Choice AutoCare partnered with kitestring to conceive and creativity direct two TV spots that will air on the Rogers Channel channel. You know, the channel with all the channels listed on it. You know.

Below is the first ad to air. Thanks to Tara at Ladies Choice AutoCare for being totally awesome and allowing kitestring to do what it does best. Creative! And a big thanks to Lisa of MediaFace for shooting and editing the spots.

Enjoy!

Apparently someone from kitestring needs to come out of the birthday closet!

I know it can be overwhelming having three other excited kitestringers wanting to throw you a party with balloons, candy, noisemakers, dance parties and icecream cake. But that is no reason to be hush hush about your big day!

Happy Birthday Brandon!