Comparing Real Life and Virtual Meet-ups
Social Media is about more than just conversation. It’s about connecting, and these connections are driven by conversation.
This point has become clearer to me over the past six weeks as I’ve turned myself into a case study of the power of social media for building serious relationships.
It also provides fertile ground for comparison from experience, as happened last Thursday when I attended Coffee with crayon in the morning and the D.C. gathering of the Social Media Club in the evening (with lunch with fellow blogger Andrea Weckerle sandwiched between the two).
New marketing company crayon hosts a casual weekly gathering for new marketing types at their offices in Second Life. The meetu-p has been attracting good crowds and generated some interesting conversation in my first appearance this week.
The D.C. social media club is fairly new and this meeting was in the offices of Ogilvy Public Relations. About 20-30 people were present and the crowd of online geeks had a distinct slant towards PR/Marketing folk (an almost identical make up to crayon’s crowd).