10 things you didn’t know about Saigon Tweetup 17Aug10

01) Location, location, location.
I had prepared 15 locations to pitch my idea of a Tweetup and a networking event. Xu Saigon was the 1st I approach and they said yes immediately.

02) Numbers.
When Elizabeth, the lady boss of Xu, asked me how many I was expecting, I told her “I’ll give you US$1000.00 if I cannot bring in 20“. And that was I targeting 50. Eventually, about 80 turned up.

03) Microphone.
The wireless mike cost me 150,000vnd (about US$8) to rent. I only used it for 10mins.

04) Drinks vouchers.
While the declared number of drinks vouchers for the early birds was 20, I actually had 30 to give to the 1st 30 who turned up.

05) What’s my name?
You’ll expect Elizabeth, the host, to be active with Twitter in supporting this event. Truth is she had to look up on the net to recall her Twitter’s name

06) What is Twitter?
According to Timen, a few fellows that night asked him ‘What is Twitter’?

07) Tweeters vs. non-Tweeters.
I estimate there were about 70% that night who have a Twitter account. The rest are non-Tweeters. But it’s all cool. This is fundamentally a networking event- Twitter or not.

08) I was high.
While I may talk a lot on this website and in social events, if u know me, I’m actually an introvert. So how do I deal with situations when I have to talk a lot? Alcohol. Prior to this Tweetup, I had already done a big mug of Vodka with RedBull plus 4 cans of 333.

09) Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse…
I had actually written a mini script for my 10mins of fame with the mike. And spent A LOT of time rehearing and rehearing. But stage fright got to me and I did not let go some of the I-think-it’s-very-funny-jokes. One of them is to share about how, because Eds_m is on a 2 years tour of duty in Saigon, she actually flew in, from Malaysia to Saigon, her 2 cats and 1 dog.

10) Ending
The last to leave the Tweetup was I, Nathan and Hendrik close to 11pm.

 

Hendrik –> @hendrikbeck

 

Tyler –> @TylerWatts

 

Nathan –> @Nathogic (left) and Uyen –> @UyenVu

 

Bruce –> @CoachLeaders

 

Patrick –> @kennedypj

 

Edna –> @eds_m and the fellow behind with cigarette is Dylan –> @dylanduong

 

Timen –> @Timen (left) and Mads –> @madsmonsen

 

Ben –> @Vietnam720

 

Chris –> @ChristophK2003

 

Minh –> @Caligarn

 

Truong –> @tanthanhx (left) and Chi

 

Quinn –> @QuinnRMattingly (top left hand corner)

 

Boss of Xu Saigon, Elizabeth, doing the lucky draw.

 

There were 5 dining vouchers in the lucky draw but I only have these 3 shots, starting with @jodiehuynh and followed by Tim Hansen and Dieu.

 

To those who were at the Saigon Tweetup, thank you for coming!

To those who didn’t, where the bloody hell were you?!

 

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