The Sun­dance mar­ket­ing team col­lab­o­rated with us to cre­ate an amaz­ing Sundance/​Salt Lake City Tweetup fea­tur­ing Ondi Tim­o­ner, who was awarded the Grand Jury prize a few days after our Tweetup at the Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val for her doc­u­men­tary, We Live in Pub­lic.

We met in the lovely Bee­hive Tea Room in down­town Salt Lake City. Not only did we have Twit­ter users attend this event, but we also wel­comed a few who have never used Twit­ter, but wanted to join the group to meet a Sun­dance direc­tor. Ondi Tim­o­ner, Josh Har­ris, and crew joined our Tweetup in between show­ings and gra­ciously spent some time telling us about the doc­u­men­tary, and Tweet­ing their experience.

Direc­tor Ondi Tim­o­ner (@onditimoner) and Josh Harris

Tweetup atten­dees lis­ten­ing to Ondi Tim­o­ner and Josh Har­ris talk­ing about We Live in Public

Here’s a par­tial list of the Salt Lake City Sun­dance Tweetup:
@rmiriam12
@kit­tygutz
@rox­y­cross
@ThomA­llen
@carys­now­den
@ambeestar
@taranaki
@latent_​image
@high­pointe
@ghen­nipher
@kevin­D­white
@lit­tlei­dea
Dan­ica Cross
Krista Smith

Many thanks to Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val, Ondi Tim­o­ner and Josh Har­ris for com­ing to our Tweetup! We all had a great time! And con­grat­u­la­tions to Ondi Tim­o­ner for win­ning the 2009 Grand Jury Award for Best Doc­u­men­tary We Live In Pub­lic.

Sun­tweet Char­ity Tweetup Jan­u­ary 22, 2009

One thing I love about Social Media is the power it has to sup­port a good cause. The #sun­tweet char­ity Twetup event def­i­nitely sup­ported a great cause, and raised over $600 for Seren­ity. We also UStreamed the event and even made the front page!

#Sun­tweet pan­elists prep­ping to talk about social media.

@ghennipher with fel­low #sun­tweet pan­elist Jesse Stay (@jesse)

We all had a great time with the Twee­t­ups dur­ing the month of Jan­u­ary. I’m really proud to have had a part in sup­port­ing an impor­tant char­ity — Seren­ity, and to sup­port a bud­ding doc­u­men­tar­ian, Ondi Timoner.

If you’re an orga­ni­za­tion in Utah that would like to be part of our SLC Twee­t­ups, please con­tact me. Your cus­tomers are actively using social media and talk­ing about your brand via social media. Theres no bet­ter venue to reach this audi­ence than through social media — online and offline. I would love to con­nect you with this won­der­ful group of social media users and help you design a strat­egy to pro­vide real value to your cus­tomers dur­ing these dif­fi­cult eco­nomic times.