Lawrence Area Twitter and Social Media Meetups

Posted: Wednesday, 26th May 2010 @ 7:43 pm
Tags: Tweetup

Join the Lawrence Tweetup for our second annual Tweetup in the Park!

• When: Saturday, June 19
• Time: 4-9 p.m.
• Where: Clinton Park, located at 5th & Maine in Lawrence (note: this is not Clinton State Park at the lake, this is a neighborhood park near Lawrence Memorial Hospital

Last year our inaugural picnic in the park had a great group of over 70 people. Help us make this year's event bigger and better! We're inviting social media enthusiasts from Lawrence and the surrounding areas. The invitation is open to members of the Lawrence Tweetup, Social Media Clubs of Lawrence and Kansas City, Topeka Tweetup, and Free State Social attendees. Come meet fellow social media users and bring your friends! This is a family friendly event, so feel free to bring the kids.

Please bring a food or drink item to share. We'll have a couple of grills fired up, so bring hot dogs, burgers, chips, side dishes, desserts, or drinks. We hope to have a great potluck style celebration with a lot of variety. The picnic organizers will provide paper plates, cups, napkins, and cutlery- you don't need to bring those items.

You can bring beer, but it must be in cans due to city ordinances prohibiting bottles. Please don't bring any type of alcohol in glass bottles.

If your business would like to donate food or drink, please let us know! We'd love the donation and it would be a great opportunity to showcase your business to a very talkative and influential community. We'll be sure to recognize your support on our website and social media sites.

The shelter area will be reserved for our event, so there will be plenty of seating in the shade. There's also a basketball hoop, kids play area, and lots of open space for yard games. If you have any outdoor games you want to bring along, please do!

Please use the comment section below to let us know you're coming and what you plan to bring- this will help all of us plan so we have a variety of food available. Anyone want to make a Fail Whale cake this year?

RSVP via Twitter using the TwtVite embedded on the right side of the page. You can also RSVP on Facebook.

Please spread the word about this great event, and we hope to see you on June 19!

Event Sponsors

Thanks to @CraveLawrence for paying the cost of the park reservation and covering the costs of the basic supplies we need for the event! They’ll also be donating some prizes that will be up for grabs to those attending. Make sure to follow @CraveLawrence for local food and drink specials.

The Sandbar (@thesandbar) will provide a cooler full of their famous Bahama Mama tropical drinks- without the alcohol, so everyone can enjoy them! And of course, a tropical drink isn't complete without drink umbrellas, toys, and beads so there will be plenty of those to go around too. They'll donate a couple of fun prizes for attendees, also.

The Sandbar Sub Shop in Ottawa, KS (@sandbarsubs), is providing a tray of their fresh sandwiches for attendees to sample. The Sub Shop has a second location open in Ottawa's Zarco66 station, and a third location will open this summer in the Zarco66 on East 23rd Street in Lawrence. The Sub Shop offers sandwiches, salads, and smoothies in a fun Sandbar atmosphere

Would your business like to donate food or prizes? Contact us as lawrencetweetup@gmail.com, we’d welcome your support and will be sure to recognize all who help make this a successful social media community event.

Posted: Friday, 21st May 2010 @ 12:20 pm
Tags: Lunch Tweetup

It’s time for another Lawrence Tweetup lunch!  Meet old and new friends at Biemer’s BBQ in Lawrence for great food and conversation.

• When: Tuesday, May 25
• Time: 12 p.m.
• Where: 2120 W. 9th Street, Lawrence

Biemer's cooks their meat fresh every single day. They offer pork, beef, and turkey, and they have BBQ sandwiches, ribs, and lots of mouth watering side dishes. They even have a kid's menu for the little ones. And if you need to feed a lot of people, you can buy their meat by the pound. Biemer's also offers drive-thru service for the times you're in a hurry. Having a large event? Contact them for catering options. 

Follow Biemer's BBQ on Twitter for updates. You can also "like" Biemer's on Facebook. 

Please RSVP using the Twtvite on the right side of the page, so we know how many to expect for lunch. Hope to see you there! 

Posted: Tuesday, 11th May 2010 @ 12:52 pm
Tags: Tweetup

Join us for the May Lawrence Tweetup at Paddy O'Quigley's! The Kansas City- based restaurant is located inside the Lawrence Holiday Inn's Holidome.

• When: Tuesday, May 18
• Time: 6:30-10 p.m.
• Where: 200 McDonald Drive, Lawrence, KS

Paddy O'Quigley's has great food and drink specials on Tuesday nights which include:

• 1/2 price 10 oz burgers and chicken sandwiches, with 10 different gourmet burgers to choose from
• $2 Free State Beers, currently Copperhead and Ad Astra
• $2 off the majority of wells/calls
• $4 Ketel One and Grey Goose drinks

Paddy O'Quigley's has more than just food and drink to entertain us: they also have dartboards, a pool table, Wii, and some arcade games available. It's a sports-themed pub that also has walls of TV's. 

Paddy O'Quigley's was founded in 1990 and has three locations in the Kansas City area, along with restaurants in Lawrence and Manhattan. Follow them on Twitter: www.twitter.com/paddyoquigleys for the main account, and www.twitter.com/oquigleys for some local Lawrence perspective. They're also on Facebook; you can find them here. 

Posted: Tuesday, 20th April 2010 @ 8:29 am
Tags: Lunch Tweetup

The next monthly Lawrence Tweetup lunch will be held at downtown restaurant Local Burger, a fixture in the downtown Lawrence scene since 2005.

• When: Tuesday, April 27
• Time: 12 pm - 1:30 pm
• Where: 714 Vermont Street, Lawrence

Local Burger offers healthy fast food in a casual environment. Their mission is to "serve delicious food at a fair price with impeccable service while creating a culture of passion for knowing where our food comes from and how it connects us to our world, to our communities, and to ourselves."

Local Burger sources all of its meats locally and features a variety that includes beef, buffalo, elk, lamb, pork, turkey, and tofu. Local Burger is home of the World's Best Veggie Burger- which is gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, corn-free, and soy-free. The restaurant's menu features something for everyone, whether you're vegetarian or not, and is especially friendly for those who have food intolerances or other allergies.

The monthly tweetup lunches are a great way to meet other social media enthusiasts in Lawrence and enjoy great food.

Be sure to follow Local Burger on Twitter and become a fan of their Facebook page.

Posted: Friday, 16th April 2010 @ 8:24 am
Tags: Local event

UPDATE: We have filled all the spots available for the pub-crawl. If anymore spots become available we will Tweet it and post it here. Thanks.

Join #ltwup members for a pub-crawl to raise money for the Lawrence Humane Society and other charities in the Lawrence area!

• When: Saturday, May 1
• Time: 1p-5pm
• Where: Mass Street

Hey #ltwup, @bailann here.

The 2nd Lawrence Pub Crawl is scheduled for Saturday, May 1 in downtown Lawrence. I think it would be a lot of fun to have a #ltwup team and the fantastic Lawrence Tweetup committee agreed.

Entry fee ranges from $25 to $29 per person, depending on total number of participants on a team. I think we can definitely get 12 people but please let me know soon if you plan to join as the deadline to sign up is April 25 (or until they reach the max number of teams). I will register everyone’s email addresses (up to 12). The Lawrence Pub Crawl will then e-mail you information on how to pay the entry fee (which is the donation to the chairty) through their website.

If you have any questions or if you want to be a part of the team, DM me with your email address!

Please visit lawrencepubcrawl.org for more details.

Posted: Monday, 5th April 2010 @ 7:04 pm
Tags: Tweetup

Join your fellow social media enthusiasts for an evening Tweetup at Johnny's Tavern West!

• When: Wednesday, April 14
• Time: 7 pm - 10 pm
• Location: 721 Wakarusa Drive, Lawrence

Johnny's Tavern has been a staple in Lawrence since 1953 when Mr. John Wilson opened the original Johnny's Tavern across the river in North Lawrence. Over the past 30 years, Johnny's has added seven additional locations, and it's grown from an operation by two single guys who used to play rugby to a full-fledged family with eight partners. Six of the Johnny's locations are in Kansas City, and in 2009 they crossed the Missouri border and added a tavern in the Power & Light District.

Johnny's West in Lawrence also opened in 2009, in the former home of J.B. Stout's Bar & Grill. This west side addition has all the great food we've come to expect from Johnny's- pizza and burgers- along with some more upscale fare. Johnny's West features 16 HD TV's for all your game-watching (and live Twitter stream!) needs, and there's not a bad seat in the house.

Find Johnny's West on Facebook for current updates from the business. Johnny's West doesn't have a Twitter account, but you can follow the very active, fun, and friendly Johnny's Prairie Village account.

RSVP using the Twtvite on the right side of the page, and we'll see you on the 14th!

Posted: Monday, 22nd March 2010 @ 7:10 pm
Tags: Lunch Tweetup

UPDATE: 23rd Street Brewery is giving us a special deal for this lunch tweetup. Buy two entrees (you and your friend), get a free appetizer or dessert for the #Ltwup only.

March is flying by! Join the Lawrence Tweetup group for the next monthly lunch. Meet other Lawrence social media enthusiasts and connect with new friends!

• When: Tuesday, March 30
• Time: 12 p.m.
• Where: 23rd Street Brewery

Our host this month, 23rd Street Brewery, is a local Lawrence brewpub. They not only brew and distribute their own beer, they cater events, host banquets, and raise funds for local charities. 23rd Street Brewery is a member of the Lawrence Originals, a group of local establishments that combine resources and collaborate to provide excellent food and service. They also accept the Lawrence Give Back Card, which makes an automatic charitable donation to the charity of your choice whenever you use it at a participating merchant. If you don't have a card, be sure to get one (they're free!) before the lunch tweetup!

23rd Street Brewery has daily $6.95 lunch specials. On Tuesday, the special is a Hazelnut Encrusted Goat Cheese Salad or a Chicken Parmesan Sandwich. If you don't have to head back to the office, enjoy $6 craft beer pitchers or $4 shots from their special shot list.

Be sure to follow 23rd Street Brewery on Twitter!

Posted: Thursday, 11th March 2010 @ 2:11 pm
Tags: Local event

We’re excited to announce another event for the Lawrence Tweetup community to attend!

The Fresh Produce Art Collective (@Freshproduceart) presents Re:Fresh! Art Show on Monday, March 15.

The show will be held at the Barrel House (@barrelhousepb). It's sponsored by Boulevard Brewing Company (@Boulevard_Beer) and features a performance by Jet Set Bachelor. The art show is from 7 pm to 2 am, and there’s no cover if you get there between 7-8 pm. After 8, there’s a $3 cover charge at the door. But tweet "I want in" to @barrelhousepb and you will get in with no cover and can join others from the Tweetup community in our own VIP Box.

Visit the Fresh Produce Art Collective/DotDotDot Artspace website for a list of the participating artists, which includes prolific tweeters and frequent #Ltwup attendees Leo Hayden (@leohayden) and Jason Barr (@barrr).

Join your Lawrence Tweetup friends and members of the Lawrence art community at this great event!

Posted: Friday, 5th March 2010 @ 2:58 pm
Tags: Tweetup

It’s time for another Lawrence Tweetup! Join us for sports, ribs, and rock ‘n roll at Bigg’s Barbecue of Lawrence!

• When: Wednesday, March 10
• Time: 7 pm to 10 pm
• Where: Bigg's BBQ, 2429 Iowa Street

Bigg’s Barbecue offers old fashioned barbecue and 16 TV’s. Their drink specials on Wednesday are $2.50 Mexican beers and $1.99 16 ounce margaritas.

Be sure to follow Bigg's on Twitter and become a fan on their Facebook page.

Bigg’s Barbecue is a proud member of the Lawrence Originals, a group of local independent restaurants that have combined resources to promote their restaurants. They also accept the Lawrence Give Back card card, a free card that is used as a fundraising vehicle for local charitable organizations. Present your card at participating merchants, and a percentage of your purchase is donated to the charity you select. If you don’t have a card, be sure to get one!

We're always looking for suggestions for new places to have Tweetups. If you have an idea for a place or an event, please leave it in the comments!

Posted: Thursday, 18th February 2010 @ 8:03 am
Tags: Lunch Tweetup

It's time for another Lawrence Tweetup lunch date!

Join us at Tortas Jaliscos for authentic Mexican food and great conversation. Bring your friends and meet new people.

• When: Tuesday, February 23, at 12 pm
• Where: Tortas Jalisco, 534 Frontier Road (just off 6th Street)

Tortas Jalisco is a casual restaurant with prices ranging from $1.25 to $8.99. And of course they have tacos, which are a favorite of @philmartinez!