We’ve set up a facebook events page for the night (including ical reminder). Please invite yourself, your friends, co-workers, neighbors, fellow creatives or anyone you feel might be interested in our unusual endeavor!

Come down, drink, support, introduce yourselves.  We look forward to seeing you on the night.

And if you can’t make it down to the venue, remember you can watch it right here on the site via our live stream.

Wanted to say a big thanks to the awesome Sal Dell’Aquila for our new logo.  Sal is the genius mind behind the look for HBO’s Flight of the Conchords and the Sopranos Google Map game, as well as a bunch of other great stuff.  

You can see more of his work on his site Salvation Design.  Thanks so much Sal, Me & Them loves you too!

At the impromptu Blogging 101 session at my apartment I asked the group to keep the dialogue going and to get in touch if they had further questions or needed to be walked through anything on a one-to-one basis.  I had a request from Laura last night for some twitter instructions, I watched over 15 YouTube how-to’s meaning to just link something but couldn’t’ find any I liked, so I replied with a step-by-step email to the group instead, and thought I would post it here too.

(d) or online via your phone – not available for all – from m.twitter.com

• If you want to put a url in your update, most people shorten it by using a service called tinyurl http://tinyurl.com/
• If you want to refer to a person within your update put @ before their name – example http://twitter.com/alexjohnson100/statuses/923955330 this creates a hyperlink so that other people can click through to the mentioned person’s profile automatically
• This is also useful as some people have updates set up on their phone so that they can get a text everytime someone mentions their name, film, or any other keyword that they’ve chosen
• This is something you can do too by setting up a tracking system on your phone or IM (Instructions here – scroll down to second post http://blog.twitter.com/2007_09_01_archive.html)
• If you want to mention a place use # before the location – example https://twitter.com/saskiawb/statuses/890356597
• There are two ways to communicate on twitter

(a) through your friends timeline – if you see something you want to respond to click the arrow on the right – this is important as it creates a trail of responses that other readers can track back if they want to
(b) As above – refer to someone by name, using the @ system

• Obviously the more people you have following you the better as it means that your community is larger, and everytime you post something it turns up in more peoples’ timelines – there are several ways to do this

(a) follow people – they will likely receive an email that you are following them and this prompts them to check out your profile and follow you
(b) become involved in discussions – you become more visible to the community if that person responds, as their friends will see the response on their timeline – it’s a public forum – don’t be shy
(c) outside of twitter – post your twitter url (twitter.com/alexjohnson100)