Bacon, Bacn, and Bloggers

CustomScoop sponsored an early morning (well, for this girl anyway) breakfast for Boston-area social media enthusiasts this morning, and I’m pleased to report the event was a runaway success!

The brainchild of Bryan Person, the Social Media Breakfast brought a couple dozen folks to the Pour House in Boston for some eggs, French toast, bacon-not-bacn, and most importantly, some great conversations about social media.

Just some of the folks in attendance were Chris Penn; Topaz Partners’ Todd Van Hoosear, Sandy Kalik and Doug Haslam; Julia Roy, Chris Brogan, Laura Fitton, and Andrea Mercado, Steve Garfield and David Cutler.  I was equally thrilled with the turnout as I was bummed that I did not get to connect with all in attendance. There’s always next time (which will be in mid-October, keep an eye on Bryan’s blog for details!).

After all the delicious bacon-with-an-o, I was quite pleased to note an influx of bacn from all my newfound Twitter friends. One interesting note: while Facebook came up a couple times over the course of the morning, I have yet to receive any Facebook bacn from the folks I met.

This falls in with my thinking that in my “Summer o’ Social Media,” Twitter has by far been the most useful tool added to my arsenal. Facebook is a great resource, but I rely on Twitter for creating personal connections far more.  This is interesting, especially when you consider that you can discover more personal information about a contact through a Facebook page than a Twitter profile.

I think Paull Young said it best in his recent podcast conversation with Doug Haslam about Twitter: it gives you immediate access to personalities. The human behind the monitor doesn’t come through in a random assortment of personal facts, but read enough Tweets and you get a pretty good idea who you are dealing with.

Regardless, this morning’s breakfast was quite an event, and I look forward to seeing everyone again soon.

Technorati tags: Bacn, social media breakfast, Twitter, Facebook

Comments

[Bryan Person, Social Media Breakfast organizer]

Sarah, thank you for the nice write-up about this morning's breakfast, and a big thanks to you and CustomScoop for the sponsorship.

You're right on about Twitter and its growing importance as a tool for making -- and maintaining -- connections.

Of note: I handed out a short survey at the breakfast today asking people how they first heard about the event. The No. 1 response, by far? Twitter.

I think Twitter may reclaim its top spot in this coming Friday's edition of the Bryper Social Media Top 10.

[Chris Brogan...]

Super cool hanging out with you and talking smarmy whatevers. : ) You're swell and you do a great service to Custom Scoop.

[Sarah Wurrey]

Bryan - Thanks for organizing such a great event, we were happy to sponsor, especially since it was so much fun.

Chris - Smarmy whatever are almost as good as bacon.

[Paull Young]

Another indication of the immediacy and personality of Twitter - I know all about the breakfast you guys had, I know who was there and what was discussed, and I also know the Boston has a kick-arse social media scene.

This is, largely, through Twitter.