A few days ago, I attended my second tweetup, and it was awesome. I got to meet some fellow Gen Y bloggers and entrepreneurs who live around (or happened to be visiting) the Bay Area. With Jenny Blake and Jamie Varon organizing the meetup, it was a given that there would be cupcakes involved, and there were plenty.
The cupcakes were great, but my favorite part was getting to meet some of the people that I’ve only talked to online. As a member of the 20 Something Bloggers and Brazen Careerist communities, I got to meet a few people that I’ve only interacted with through email, blog comments, Twitter, etc. In return, they got to see proof that Broke Grad really does exist even though he blogs anonymously.
Here’s a roundup of some of the cool people I met at the tweetup, complete with links to their sites. If you were there but aren’t on the list, please don’t be offended. It doesn’t mean that you’re not cool. It means that I either didn’t talk to you, never got your name, forgot your name, or know your name but can’t any traces of you on the internet.
- @jenny_blake | Life After College
- @jamievaron | Intersected
- @junloayza | Jun Loayza
- @yukai_chou | Yu-kai Chou
- @irinai | Nine to Done
- @katerishka | The Social Petri Dish
- @charlesju | Charles Ju
- @smj10j | Another Johnson
- @Ashleymittman and @jennysf | The Mad Grad
- @spychresearch | Spych Research
- @morganives | The Wrong End of a Telescope
I had a great time meeting everyone and look forward to the next tweetup. If these tweetups keep growing at this rate, I think we might need name tags next time or maybe cupcakes with our names of them.
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I’m jealous man! That’s an awesome crew.
I’m hoping to make it out to the West Coast at some point soon so I can meet all of you guys. And I’m always intrigued by meeting anonymous bloggers … It’s nice to put a face to the written word.
Hopefully we’ll get to hang out at some point.
-RP
Thanks for posting! It was so much fun and I hope we can do it again soon!
Broke-Grad!! You write the best cupcake tweet-up write-ups. Jamie and I might have to hire you as our first intern. LOL – juuuuust kidding! You can be CCO: Chief Cupcake Officer. I had such a blast hanging out with you (and everyone else on this great list) – CAN’T FREAKING WAIT until the next one! And Paugh – get your butt out to Cali already
@Ryan Paugh: When you make it out to Cali, I’ll be at the meetup.
@Irina I: Couldn’t agree more. I’m looking forward to the next one already.
@Jenny Blake: CCO — I like it. We can still hire an intern though. It can start out unpaid with perks. For example, the intern gets free cupcakes (after they go on a cupcake run and bring back a bunch for us).