Detroit Tweetups – Live To Give Charity Tweetup Edition

I think most of the readers of this blog are now well aware of my affinity for recapping tweetups and other local events.  However, since the Detroit social media community accomplished something very special this past Wednesday, I’d like to hand the recap duties over to someone else.

Detroit Twitterers & Live to Givers!

The most recent Detroit Tweetup was a monstrous success. We attracted over 100 people (new #detroittu record) and raised over $1,500 for our Bloomfield Hills non-profit organization, Live to Give Foundation (L2G). If you are unaware, L2G helps families in their time of need in a PERSONAL way with mini movies that reveal our donators, fundraisers and families in need. We were launched in November of 2007 by two college seniors and now are run by 5 post graduates all under 23 years old. Social media (obviously including Twitter) is our main outreach and have raised almost $20,000 because of it.

With the support we gained at the Tweetup in Novi, we are able to provide the Shuck family with 2 more months of rent and utilities while they try to escape homelessness, joblessness, and medical issues.

Thank you to everyone who attended, Fox 2 and Channel 7 for the stories they presented, our generous sponsors (Identity Marketing & Public Relations, iDetroit, CRT Medical Systems, Twitart.com, LA Productions and C! Tech Solutions), Bar Louie for their hospitality and Brandon (@bchesnutt) for taking so much initiative to make this wonderful night happen.

We have created our “personal touch” video of the night’s festivities and encourage you to take 3 minutes to see the Tweetup fun!

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From the bottom of our passionate hearts, thank you!

The entire Live to Give team
Ryan, Kevin, Matt, Ashley & Kelly

Thank you to everyone for helping make this first Charity Tweetup a success.  It’s always a great time when we all get together.  Doing some good in the process was an added bonus.

For those who are wondering, we will be exploring this idea again in the future.  To stay informed as to when this will happen, follow Ken Burbary and I on Twitter or join the Detroit Tweetups Facebook Group.

At the Tweetup, I interviewed Ryan, Matt and Kevin from Live To Give to find out how Twitter has improved their communications efforts and what they thought of the Charity Tweetup.

You can check out some photos on my Flickr page.

Here is the attendance list:

First off, be sure to follow @livetogive.

The Sponsors

These great companies generously donated at least $1 each for every attendee, ensuring Live To Give received $7.50 for each attendee at the Tweetup.

Identity Marketing & Public Relations
@identitypr
@bchesnutt
@aming44
@andreabogos
@erinsabo
@tnixon16
Lauren Hughes (who also brought a friend – thanks Lauren!)

LA Productions
@lisakup
@anig05

C! Tech Solutions
@ryanmeray / @ctechsinc

iDetroit
@davemurr
@balanon

Twitart.com
@kauf / @twitartdotcom

CRT Medical Systems
They generously bumped up their donation to $2.50 per attendee by the end of the night.  Totally awesome!  Plus, they brought about a dozen people.  Wow.

The Attendees

I have to give a very heartfelt thanks to all of the Metro Detroit Twitter users who came out and supported this great cause. I can’t even tell you how much pride I have for our growing community.

@elatlboy
@estrellabella10
@laurenweber84
@chrismoritz
@loritwilliams
@davebenjamin
@corab
@klavaute / @quickenloans
@amurphy / @quizzle
@red5050
@wmtylerwalker
@detroitvoice
@kevinbiznet
@freshmenz
@jennimurr
@swarheit
@damnredhead
@rmercader
@ericjvogel / @socialmediamstr
@mollysly
@hcwlau
@leftos
@guffly (brought like 3 people!)
@genebrady
@kirstenross
@alisondunn2
@ayeskey
@lish
@kimpossiblydire
@muddypuppy
@tailwheel

In addition to our awesome local Twitter users, another 45 people came out to support Live To Give.  We even converted a few into new Twitter users based on our efforts. Sah-weet.

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