Adelaide Tweeters

February’s Wrap-up

Mar 7

Posted by Monnie in Updates | 3 Comments

The February meet was a success! We had 25 attendees who spent a relaxing Sunday afternoon at The Highway. With many thanks to Cupcake Treats (@monnie) for bringing along some cupcakes for us all to enjoy!

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Another of our attendees has made a pretty neat collection video of all the photos that were taken by @monnie and @aliyaki to introduce everyone that was there – if you’re thinking about coming along don’t be afraid, we’d all love to meet you!

Head over to YouTube for @hugepedlar’s ATUB video!

Stay tuned as information on March’s meet will be available through our Twitter account and a poll here very very soon. :)

Clipsal 500 Road Closures

Mar 2

Posted by Monnie in Adelaide News | 1 Comment

As you may know, the Clipsal 500 is coming to Adelaide from March 11-14. For some of us, this means a weekend out on the track, but for most this means road closures and a lot of headaches. Here’s a list of all the dates and times of the road closures. This affects mostly the East and South East ends of Adelaide, and as in previous years, causes gridlocks during peak hour. Plan ahead for the coming fortnight!

Road Closures

DEQUETTEVILLE TCE - 6am Saturday 6 March – 5pm Monday 15 March from Britannia roundabout to Bartels Rd

WAKEFIELD RD - 6am Saturday 6 March – 1pm Wednesday 17 March from Britannia roundabout to Hutt St

BARTELS RD - 10am Monday 8 March – 5pm Monday 15 March from Dequetteville Tce to Hutt St

HUTT ST - 10am Monday 8 March – 5pm Monday 15 March from Wakefield St to Pirie St

EAST TCE - 6am Saturday 6 March – 1pm Wednesday 17 March from Bartels Rd to Wakefield Rd

FLINDERS ST - 6am Saturday 6 March – 1pm Wednesday 17 March between East Tce and Hutt St

KENT TOWN - Angas St, Little Angas St, Wakefield St and Little Wakefield St closed at Dequetteville Tce end from Friday 19 February. (Always open at Fullarton Road end) Flinders St, Kent Town closed at Dequetteville Tce from 10am Monday 8 March – 5pm Monday 15 March

RUNDLE RD always open

FULLARTON RD always open

The origins of ATUB

Feb 24

Posted by Monnie in Adelaide News | 1 Comment

I’ve had a couple of people ask me lately what the origins of the name “ATUB” are. Once people actually understood that ATUB = Adelaide Twitter Meetups, they were all trying to figure out what the U and B stood for. Well, it stands for Adelaide Twitter Underground Brigade. Although we’re not so underground anymore, the name has stuck (because the rest of Australia still use it)!

Back in 2007 when I first joined Twitter, it was a dark empty room. When you first join, it is quiet. I didn’t know anyone else using the service so I left for a few months and came back to meet a couple of other Adelaide people and new interstate friends. Thanks to a lot of them, I realised how valuable the service was.

Sydney and Melbourne already had very well established Twitter meetups, and formed their names based around the fact that Twitter was still a mostly unknown world. Facebook was still developing and poaching MySpace users at this time, so Twitter was left to grow on its own.

I attended my first Twitter “meetup” in early 2008, when I met up with a friend (who no longer lives in Adelaide). At this stage, not very many people were keen to meetup or were busy. Eventually we met others, and in late 2008 after a brief break from Twitter myself, the media had done the hyping Twitter needed to become more of a social meetup network.

I put faces to names for the first time in December 2008 when I held a BarCamp Adelaide Planning Meeting and the Twitter meets followed regularly from here. They used to be every Friday night, but in recent months after a few breaks and demand for different days increased, we’ve polled our attendees instead. That’s how we came to the Sunday afternoon conclusion, as well as the venue – The Highway.

We also have another Twitter account which mirrors the ATUB tweets called @AdelaideTweetup where we hope the name itself will be enough to attract more attendees (as it’s very self explanatory).

Hopefully we’ll see you on Sunday afternoon!

@monnie

February Adelaide Twitter Meet

Feb 22

Posted by Monnie in Updates | No Comments

Thanks to everyone who came along to the very relaxing January meet, held at the Ed Castle! It was great to see some new faces, and the regular ones, and have a quiet drink in the beer garden on a lovely summers day.

It’s about that time again for another one, and after your votes on which day of the week you want ATUB and the venue, here’s the official details:

February Adelaide Twitter Meet
Sunday February 28th from 2pm
The Highway Hotel (290 Anzac Hwy)

The venue is here:

Thanks to Cupcake Treats, every attendee will receive a free cupcake!

If you like to RSVP on Facebook to keep track of your events, here is the event invitation. You can always keep up with the latest details at the ATUB account, and we’ll see you on Sunday for a quiet afternoon at the Highway!

New Look Adelaide Tweeters

Feb 22

Posted by Monnie in Adelaide News | 1 Comment

Hi Adelaide Tweeters!

I’m @monnie and I help to maintain this website and ATUB with @Tarale. This is the new look website (amazing what a little theme change can do)!

We organise Adelaide Twitter meets during the last weekend of every month. In 2010, we’ve started asking you what day you want ATUB, and where you’d like it held.

We’d ideally like to start featuring local tweeters and events here on this website – not just twitter meets of course! Do you have something you can offer to other tweeters maybe, or an event you’re organising? We’d also love to review your website/event/anything – and let other Adelaide Tweeters know about it! It’s all about sharing information, ideas and deals between us.

If you’d like to write for Adelaide Tweeters or have a suggestion about what we should post, please let us know! Photos, events, news snippets, interviews, spotlights – anything and everything. We’d also love to hear about your experiences at the Adelaide Fringe and what the best non-sold out shows are!

ATUB January

Jan 29

Posted by Monnie in Updates | No Comments

Hi Adelaide Tweeters!

NEXT ATUB:

Sunday January 31, 2010

2pm – 6pm

The Beer Garden of The Ed Castle (Currie Street, Adelaide)

Visit http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=264909408346 for more info and to RSVP, or @ ATUB to let us know you’re attending. :)

ATUB November

Nov 15

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Hi Adelaide Tweeters!

We are fast approaching the end of 2009 and it is time for another ATUB meet… This one is most probably the last official one for the year, so if you can come along and finally put names to faces, do it! We’d love to have you come along.

The last ATUB meet in September took up almost the whole upstairs room in the Pancake Kitchen and had 30 attendees!

At this moment the event location is to be confirmed. Somewhere in or near the immediate vicinity of the CBD is preferable and accessible for seating, numbers (30-40 people), aircon (possibly) and decent pricing for food/drinks.

Hopefully we’ll get to see you all there!

@monnie
on behalf of @ATUB

If you’d like to RSVP to this ATUB event, here’s the Facebook Invitation.

Event Updates

Nov 12

Posted by Monnie in Updates | 4 Comments

Quoted from the Adelaide Tweet Blog:

A good time was had by all at #CommsAdelaide yesterday evening at the @HotelTivoli. There was lots of chatter about the positive impact that social media is having in #Adelaide, productive sharing of ideas and, of course, plenty of laughs! Can’t wait for next tweetup in 2010! Well done @PPRAdelaide!

Great to see another Tweetup being organised in Adelaide! You too can create one with any focus and we will help you spread the word and get attendees – we can even help you find a venue.

Stay tuned for news on the upcoming Adelaide Geek Dinners to be held at various locations around Adelaide starting in January! The event is a dinner held every few months for “geeks” – that is, if you love technology, gadgets, social media, the internet, photography, gaming, anything you think defines you as a geek. Come along for an intelligent chat over a nice mid-week dinner. Bookings will be required for these events so keep listening out for more information. The first one should be in mid-late January so you have plenty of time to recover from 2009!

Cupcake Camp Adelaide is just over a week away now and our bakers are busy getting together their ingredients to start the marathon next week! If you haven’t heard about it, Cupcake Camp Adelaide is an afternoon of eating cupcakes to raise money for charity. Volunteers bake cupcakes to sell at the event – you can bake too, or just go along to enjoy them! They still need more people to bring along cupcakes and also some other supplies donated, and if you can help please let them know at their website.

Preparations for BarCamp Adelaide 2010 are now underway and with thanks to CodeFire, they have a venue from the beginning! If you’re interested in programming, new technology, future trends, the internet, social networking, gaming, and anything techy, you should take a look at BarCamp Adelaide. The last one in February 2009 had over 30 attendees for a day of fun networking and exciting conversation – and cupcakes for dessert!

Finally ATUB November is coming up on Friday November 27 – and we’d love your thoughts on a venue! Please try to keep it in the CBD for this one as it is most likely going to be the last official one from the year! It runs from 6pm until whenever the last person leaves. The last ATUB we had at Pancake Kitchen in September had over 25 people attend! Leave a comment with your ideas and thoughts and hopefully we’ll see all you tweeters there!

PR / Journo / Comms Tweetup!

Nov 9

Posted by Monnie in Meets and Events | No Comments

Hotel Tivoli

From the Hotel Tivoli website (http://www.hoteltivoli.com.au)

On behalf of the Adelaide Communications twitter users, PPR Adelaide has organised a tweetup for Journos / PR and other Comms people in the industry to network and have a chat.

If you’re interested, you should RSVP straight away to @PPRAdelaide – the event is on tomorrow night (Tuesday November 10) from 5-7pm at the recently renovated (and now very stylish) Hotel Tivoli (@Hotel_Tivoli) on 265 Pirie Street in the city.

We can’t wait to hear how it goes!

Looking for contributors!

Nov 9

Posted by Monnie in Adelaide News | 1 Comment

We’re looking for you!

We’d like some regular writers to post about some popular events and write reviews about eateries and venues in Adelaide, and also help with planning the ATUB (Adelaide Tweeters) meets.

If you are interested in becoming a contributor we’d love to hear from you – email us! twitter at adelaidetweeters dot com with your Twitter details and we’ll set up your writing access!