Alaska Tweets

Alice in Wonderland (3-D!!!)Tweet-up

MayorRachel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:23:24 +0000

**UPDATE** If you do use Fandango, please purchase the XD option for 7:00 p.m. on Thursday.

Please join my daughter (Lily) and I at Century Theaters on Thursday night (March11) at 7:00 p.m. for a trip down the rabbit hole!

I have loved Tim Burton since the beginning and I know a lot of you are fans as well. Alice in Wonderland has been a favorite since I was a little girl and I can’t wait to see what Tim (yes, we’re on a first name basis) has masterminded for this flick.

If you have never been to a 3-D movie, be prepared to be astounded (as well as pay a lot, WORTH IT!) because as I sat watching Coraline in 3-D, I felt like my grandparents probably felt the first time the saw a T.V. It was the magic.

Please note that you will NEED TO Fandango tickets or purchase them at Century in advance since it seems to be such popular movie (AND IN 3-D! ZOMG!).

Meet in the lobby at 6:00 so we have time to say our hello’s and get treats/seats.

If you would like to come leave a comment here or direct message @mayor_of_twtr (Rachel) so we know to expect you.

Please remember this is a kid friendly event, but Tim tends to be on the dark side of productions, so if your little one scares easily it may be best to leave them at home.

Tweetup Tonight!

@Valette — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:53:30 +0000

Are you ready for tonight’s tweetup?

Thursday, February 18
6:00 – 9:00 pm

Kaladi Brothers Cafe at JL Tower
3800 Centerpoint Drive Suite 100 [map]
Anchorage, Alaska

Event hashtag: #aktw

What to Bring

Yourself
Dish to share at the potluck
Moble device, laptop
Some prepared well wishes for @jmproffitt and @AgentIceCream, because @alaskamom will be walking around recording the festivities.

Door Prizes

With the help of @KaladiBrothers, we have a great selection of door prizes to give away to randomly selected attendees this evening.

@OrsoAK – $25 gift card
@SnowCityCafe - $25 gift card
Alaska Bagel Restaurant – $25 and $15 gift cards
@Bella_Boutique – $25 gift card
@CafeRistretto – two $25 gift cards
@KaladiBrothers – two $50 gift cards
@GCIAK – 10,000 Alaska Airline miles

Confirmed Attendees (so far)

Possible Attendees (so far)

First Ever MatSu Tweetup: Sat, Mar 6 at 2:00pm

@Valette — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:42:41 +0000

Come visit Pandemonium Bookstore and Cafe to meet, mingle, and network with local twitterers. All who attend will be entered to win many great door prizes. Pandemonium will be offering a great Latte special and as usual, all their great eats.

Pandemonium Booksellers and Cafe [map]
Saturday, March 6
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Please register through twtvite
Organized by @KarenWhitworth
Event hashtag: #MarchMatSuTweetUp

Hope to see you there!

Fond Farewell Tweetup: Thur, Feb 18 at 6:00pm

@Valette — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:16:23 +0000

It is with sadness that the Alaska Twitter community says goodbye to @jmproffitt and @AgentIceCream with the biggest Tweetup Anchorage has ever seen. Come show your support and share embarrassing stories about John and Stephanie.

Kaladi Brothers Cafe at JL Tower
3800 Centerpoint Drive Suite 101 [map]
Thursday, February 18
6:00 – 9:00pm, but Kaladi will be open before then
Live music by Robot Junky
A Kaladi barista will be available to make free drinks
Door Prizes
The event will be a potluck, so bring your favorite dish to share
Please register through twitvite so we get a general headcount
Event hashtag: #aktw

Boxing Day Sledding Tweetup

@Valette — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:34:16 +0000

It’s a proven fact that sledding is good for one’s health. It provides ample opportunity to fill one’s lungs with fresh and crisp air and one’s blood with quick jolts of adrenaline. It is also known as the best way to get over all of the extra calories that come with the holidays. This Boxing Day, let’s sled down Powerline Pass and Gasline Pass.

Location

We will meet at the end of Sultana Drive, marked on the map as a P, at 12:00pm on December 26. By 12:15 we will cram as many people and sleds into as few 4×4 or AWD vehicles as possible and drive to the Glen Alps Parking Lot at the base of Flattop. After a short walk we will be ready for a great 2-mile sledding extravaganza!

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What to Bring

Warm clothes
Snow gear: pants, boots, gloves, scarf, hat
A sled or two, something fast and fun
Thermos of hot cocoa for the bottom of the hill
This is a family-friendly tweetup, so bring as many friends and family as you can

Caveats

If the weather turns terrible the sledding tweetup will be canceled; a determination on the weather will be made closer to Boxing Day. We will also need a number of 4×4 or AWD vehicles capable of making the drive up to the Glen Alps parking lot and drivers willing to shuttle others.

Attendees

Karaoke Tweet-up!

MayorRachel — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:30:50 +0000

The holidays are upon us. For weeks we have been shopping, making plans with loved ones, decorating our homes, and baking. While we have been frosting cookies and sending off cards, wrapping packages and singing carols, many of us have forgotten to reflect upon the most important activities of this sacred season.

Go to your crawl space, get your aluminum pole and join @Mayor_of_Twtr and @Clusterfarce this Friday, December 18 from 8:30 until we’re done at The Blue Fox for some karaoke in preparation for December 23 — also known as FESTIVUS.

You can speak frankly about each other’s karaoke performance to practice for:

THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES

Challenge someone to a fight in preparation for:

THE FEATS OF STRENGTH

Join us Friday, December 18 from 8:30 until we’re done at The Blue Fox for what promises to be an interesting evening! Just remember, the celebration isn’t over until the Head of Household is wrestled to the floor and pinned!

(Illustrations from www.festivusbook.com)

Radio, CDs, vinyl, sweepers and snacks

@jmproffitt — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:08:45 +0000

Thanks to @jennywalks, Loren Dixon and @KNBA for hosting a fun little tweetup at Anchorage’s only music-based public radio station. Tune in to FM 90.3 to hear some of your fellow tweeters on the air soon!

Attendees

Photos

Photos from the Tweetup are posted to Flickr. You can also review tons of photos in the Alaska Tweets photo pool!

Restless Puppy Tweetup: Sun Dec 6 at 2:00pm

@Valette — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:12:33 +0000

@akcook reports that Marty McFly has been waking him up multiple times during the night this week, and I know Olive has been doing the same to @Valette. Convinced that they are restless from going an ENTIRE WEEK without seeing each other, we will be walking with the dogs this weekend in hopes of getting it out of their system.

Meet @Valette, @akcook , @jamielang and other scruffy creatures (with and without Twitter accounts) at the end of Klutina Drive this Sunday, December 6 at 2:00pm. See the map below for directions.

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KNBA Tweetup: Fri, Dec 4 at 6:30pm

@jmproffitt — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:37:12 +0000

Join fellow Alaska Tweets folk this First Friday at local radio station @KNBA — a public radio and “AAA” music station famous for eclectic live-hosted music shows plus local news and public affairs.

Our hosts: Journalist and producer Jennifer Canfield (@jennywalks) and Loren Dixon, KNBA’s Director of Programming and Operations. And they’ve got some great plans. Here’s what’s included in KNBA’s first Tweetup:

A brief, personalized tour of KNBA’s studios, brand new just 2 years ago
A chance to record a “sweeper” in your voice that the station can use on-air (and you’ll learn just what a sweeper is)
An opportunity to browse through some 300 CDs — and take home any you might like
Hang-out time with new and old Twitter friends
Refreshments (of course!)
Kids are welcome
Doors open by 6:30, tour at 7:00, hang out until 8:00-ish

Register Now

Participation is limited to about 30 people. First registered, first confirmed. If you’re planning on joining us this Friday, please register here — where you can also see who’s already signed up.

And mark your calendar:

Friday, December 4
6:30pm to 8:00pm (ish)

Location

KNBA is in the Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) building, a block northwest of the intersection of Bragaw and Debarr. It’s a secure facility, with a guard at the main entrance. Please arrive between 6:15 and 6:45pm so the guard can greet you and get you into the elevator to the 4th floor.

3600 San Jeronimo Dr
Anchorage, AK 99508

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Rock and Roll!

@jmproffitt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:59:31 +0000

Photo: @SethBoyer does his best Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Man, he’s good.

We had a great little group make it out post-Thanksgiving and pre-work-week tonight and everyone seemed to enjoy Pirate Radio, an entertaining little romp through a raucous period of radio and rock-and-roll history. Then a smaller group got together afterwards at the Bear Tooth Grill for eats and good conversation.

OUR PIRATES (starred names also went to the Bear Tooth Grill):

Want to host your own movie tweetup? Just send us your idea, the details of where and when, and we can post it here to AlaskaTweets.com!

Movie Tweetup 2: This Time It’s Personal

@jmproffitt — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:08:16 +0000

It’s time for a sequel. No, not a movie sequel — a Tweetup sequel.

Cap off a long Thanksgiving weekend with @kpearso3, @eareeve, @AgentIceCream, @jmproffitt and other tweeps Sunday afternoon at a showing of Pirate Radio. It’s your last chance to hold off the start of a new, non-holiday week. Join us!

Century 16 in Anchorage [map]
Sunday, Nov 29
4:45pm showing
Arrive by 4:15pm to meet in the lobby
Buy tickets online and print them at home, or buy them at the theater

If you’re joining us, please let @kpearso3 know via Twitter so we know to watch for you!

Pirate Radio preview:

Movie Tweetup: For Jedi Warriors Only

@jmproffitt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:04:31 +0000

[photo by @FX_DaleTran]

Sounds like everyone had a great time seeing The Men Who Stare at Goats tonight, thanks to help from @FX_DaleTran of Kaladi Brothers fame and all the fun tweeps who came out to Century 16 in Anchorage. I can’t speak for everyone, but I thought the movie was hilarious.

Both @BigDaveGrizzly and @ClusterFarce showed up to enjoy their free tickets — courtesy of @KaladiBrothers — and we all got to sit together in a bunch in the theater. No popcorn fights broke out. Well, not much of one.

And thanks yet again to @KaladiBrothers for offering free drink coupons to everyone attending, which we passed out before the show (sadly, no Kaladi at the movie theater!).

OUR JEDI WARRIORS:

Want to host your own movie tweetup? Just send us your idea, the details of where and when, and we can post it here to AlaskaTweets.com!

Goat-Staring Tweetup: Sat, Nov 7

@jmproffitt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:28:02 +0000

UPDATE 1: All attendees of this Tweetup will receive one free drink coupon from Kaladi Brothers! Just make sure you’re there on time and introduce yourself.

UPDATE 2: Win tickets to The Men Who Stare at Goats! Kaladi Brothers is offering a pair of tickets to two randomly-selected Tweeters that tweet the phrase “AlaskaTweets Stare at RedGoats” by 10:00pm Alaska Time on Thursday, November 5, 2009. NOTE: You must be able to attend the movie to win.

UPDATE 3: Congratulations to @BigDaveGrizzly and @ClusterFarce — the winners of 2 free movie tickets (each) for this Saturday’s show, generously provided by Kaladi Brothers! And don’t forget all of our Alaska Tweets friends attending the movie will receive 1 free drink ticket from Kaladi.

The fall movie season is upon us, so let’s get together to see a movie that looks as crazy as the Alaska Twitter community itself: The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Saturday, Nov 7
5:10 p.m. showing
Plan to arrive by 4:30 p.m. so we can socialize and sit together
Century 16 (301 E 36th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99503)
BUY TICKETS NOW to ensure you’ll get a seat (click on the 5:10 link under Century 16 to get started)

We hope to see you there! And please… leave the goats at home.

Preview:

Follow Friday: Tweetup Edition!

@jmproffitt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:00:15 +0000

UPDATE: Added @_e_bomb to the list. (Let us know if you attended a Tweetup in October and we missed you on the list.)

You know what Follow Friday is, right? Well, we haven’t done that here at Alaska Tweets so far, but that’s changing today (a Friday, no less!).

Today we’re announcing Follow Friday: Tweetup Edition. Our Follow Friday tweets today plus this post and a brand new Twitter List are honoring those Alaska Tweeters known to have attended at least one Tweetup during the month of October 2009 (as documented here at alaskatweets.com).

These are folks that are not only fun to follow online, they’re also fun to meet in person. If you haven’t been to a Tweetup yet, be sure to make it out for the next one. We love meeting new Twitter friends!

Here’s the full list, or check out twitter.com/alaskatweets/tweetupattendees

October Tweetup Action

@jmproffitt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:08:28 +0000

We’ve had a lot of great Tweetups this month! Here’s a quick recap of several of the bigger ones, complete with photo links and attendee lists (where available).

Juneau Tweetup (Thu, Oct 22)

@Valette hosted this first-ever Tweetup in Southeast Alaska and got a great turnout of Tweetup newbies (but old Twitter friends. We’re so excited Alaska Tweets could expand beyond southcentral Alaska! Huge thanks to @Valette and to all you cool people that came out on a Juneau October evening.

Photos are posted both in Valette’s photo stream and in the Alaska Tweets Photo Pool.

ATTENDEES:

@Valette (host)
@awpz
@jemalaska (be sure to check out her Juneau tweeps list)
@melissaleeanne
@redshirtDSi
@scottmanchee
@freeryan
@laurasedai
@shondamarie

Roller Derby Tweetup & Post-Derby Tweetup (Sat, Oct 24)

Several of the Anchorage Twitter crew met up at the Rage City Rollergirls roller derby event to see the bone-crushing action, Action, ACTION! But it turns out the Rollergirls are a huge draw and the venue wasn’t nearly big enough to hold everyone. It was standing room only for most of us and the space didn’t lend itself to hanging out with your tweeps.

Still, it was an adventure and quite a folks turned out. Then a group of us gathered afterward at @pianchorage for drinks and snacks — including @cpennylane, who attended her very first Tweetup!

Lots of photos from the Roller Derby Tweetup are posted to the Alaska Tweets Photo Pool.

ATTENDEES:

@Valette (derby)
@robotkarateman (derby) — the #balloonboy sensation!
@akminx (derby)
@hogbiker (derby)
@4ann2c (derby)
@dbovee (derby)
@lindseydurrell (derby + Pi)
@jmproffitt (derby + Pi)
@AgentIceCream (derby + Pi)
@pocketofroofies (derby + Pi)
@Anniepants (derby + Pi)
@kevintraver (Pi)
@barnesak (Pi)
@akcook (Pi)
@Mayor_of_Twtr (Pi)
@cpennylane (Pi) — First Tweetup!

Library Tweetup (Wed, Oct 28)

Not to be outdone by mere Rollergirls, our very own @eareeve lit up the Tweetup circuit this week with a Library Tweetup. Amidst tea and cookies we got to meet some new friends while getting a private tour of the Z. J. Loussac Public Library in midtown Anchorage, including the impressive Alaska Collection.

Photos are posted in @jmproffitt’s Flickr account and to the Alaska Tweets Photo Pool.

ATTENDEES:

@eareeve / @anchlibrary
@jessejoseph
@kevintraver
@kpearso3
@salenastrate — First Tweetup and first week in Alaska!
@frozenfriend41 — First Tweetup!
@jdfrankl (and Addy)
@niecee_b — First Tweetup!
@jmproffitt
@agenticecream
@wendipqa — First Tweetup!
@speedinspenard — First Tweetup!
@margot907 — First Tweetup!
@joshuadbrown — First Tweetup and new to Alaska this fall!
@jennywalks

Thanks to everyone that came out to all these and other events. We hope you’ll be out with us again soon!

P.S. If anyone wants to get me a list from the @sethboyer Blue Fox karaoke birthday party (Fri, Oct 23), that would be awesome.

Kaladi does a Tweetup right

@jmproffitt — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:40:50 +0000

Thanks to Dale and the great @KaladiBrothers crew for throwing a wonderful lunch Tweetup this week! Lots of people turned out, including some new faces. And @alaskamom even shot a little video clip…

Some of you may remember @KaladiBrothers was a key participant in this past summer’s Tasty Tweets fundraising event. And I know Kaladi shows up to countless other community events all year long. Thanks to Dale and everyone at Kaladi for living up to their tagline: Catalyst for Community.

Attendees (please comment if we missed you)

What happens when you get the best people in the room

@jmproffitt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:00:47 +0000

Sure… Alaska Tweets isn’t about venture capital or the tech industry. But we’re definitely all about overcommunicating. And meeting in person.

Let a million Tweetups bloom

@jmproffitt — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:46:50 +0000

October is turning into a busy month for Twitter meetups in Alaska. Here’s the lineup so far:

Fri, Oct 16 – Marian Call in concert at the Tap Root starting at 8:00 p.m.
Tue, Oct 20 – Lunch Tweetup at Kaladi Brothers downtown at 12:30 p.m.
Thu, Oct 22 – Juneau Tweetup at 6:00 p.m. (the first Tweetup outside Anchorage!)
Sat, Oct 24 – Roller Derby Tweetup at 6:00 p.m.
Wed, Oct 28 – Library Tweetup at 7:00 p.m. (limited to 25 people)

Click the links for more details on each one. And we hope to see you everywhere!

Now we just need a Recover from the Tweetups Tweetup.

Roller Derby Tweetup: Sat, Oct 24

@jmproffitt — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:40:18 +0000

We’ve been talking about it for a while. Now it’s happening. It’s the Roller Derby Tweetup! You simply have to attend this very special Tweetup — or we’re sending the Rage City Rollergirls to get you.

Why attend? Oh, man… this event has it all:

Dress as a zombie for a chance to win 2 season passes
Get on the track at half time to learn and perform the “Thriller” dance (you might even win a t-shirt)
Beer garden & food vendors
Rage City Rollergirls merchandise
Suicide seating available

Bring your camera and cheer for the Dirty Pollis or the Sockeye Sallys as they battle for queen of the roller derby undead.

Buy Tickets

Online / In Advance: $12
Day of the Bout: $15 adults, $5 kids 3-11
A portion of the proceeds goes to Compassion in Action (animal adoption agency based in Wasilla)

Be There

AT&T Alascom Sports Pavilion
11015 O’Malley Centre, Anchorage
Doors Open: 6:00 p.m.
Wheels Roll: 7:00 p.m.

Library Tweetup: Wed, Oct 28 at 7pm

@jmproffitt — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:22:00 +0000

So you think you know how the library works? You might be surprised.

Hosted by @eareeve, the Library Tweetup promises to be an enlightening behind-the-scenes look at how the library actually works, including an exclusive look at some of the special collections the public rarely sees.

If you’re one of the lucky 25 people to attend, you’ll enjoy refreshments, meeting up with other Twitter fans in Anchorage and a private tour from your very own tweeting librarian.

Wednesday, Oct 28
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Z. J. Loussac Public Library – Public Conference Room, level 1
3600 Denali St, Anchorage
Attendance is limited to 25 people — Sign up here

And whether you’re one of the chosen few or not, everyone can (and should) follow @anchlibrary for more library fun and info.