The Career Express Tour Tweet-ups And You
So, I’ve gotten a ton of nudges from folks about the cross-country Career Express Tour that starts Friday. Most of them have been virtual high-fives, etc. But there have also been some questions about the tour.
The top two questions have been, in order…
- The bus isn’t stopping near me. You hate me, don’t you?
- What’s this “tweet-up” thing that’s happening in Columbus?
To answer the first question…
No, I don’t hate you (probably). I didn’t have anything at all to do with the who, what, where, why or how of the bus tour. I’m just along for the ride. If you wanna blame someone, blame Dana, who did the bulk of the tour planning. But then I’d have to hurt you, because Dana rocks!
To answer the second question…
There are already lots of “official” stops on this tour, with full-blown events planned, which are all documented in a couple of official places like…
TripIt
- Career Express Tour (http://www.tripit.com/trip/public/id/B4B835E6192618A05E0CFB602522D4EC)
- Get on the Bus (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=697103507&ref=profile#/event.php?eid=54136119660&ref=ts)
Blogs
- Born to Learn (http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/science)
- Chris Rue’s Welcome to the Funcave (http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/im-getting-on-the-bus.html)
The key thing to remember is that this isn’t an episode of Scooby-Doo…it’s a bus tour, with living people aboard. So both the bus and its human cargo will need pits stops to refuel, etc. Which means that we’ll be stopping in even MORE places than what’s on the official schedule. We won’t be there long enough for a full-blown event to happen, but might be able to swing an impromptu meet-up. Like, a bunch of folks meeting us to hang for a little while, pick up some swag, chat about what-have-you, and basically say “Heya” before we hit the road again.
The plan is to use Twitter as the announcement mechanism for these. Which would officially make them “Tweet-ups.”
So even if you’re not on the official sked for a stop, that doesn’t mean we might not show up near you!
If you wanna watch for the Career Express Tour tweet-ups, you can watch for them a bunch of different ways…
Twitter channels (watch for hashtag #tweetup):
- MSLearning (http://twitter.com/MSLearning)
- Chrisrue (http://twitter.com/chrisrue)
- Get on the Bus (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=697103507&ref=profile#/event.php?eid=54136119660&ref=ts)
- Chris Rue (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/profile.php?id=697103507&ref=profile)
Blogs (subscribe to the RSS feeds for fastest notification)
- Born to Learn (http://blogs.technet.com/mslcommunity/rss.xml)
- The Funcave (http://feeds.feedburner.com/chrisrue)
Couple of other things to remember…
Since these are impromptu, there won’t be a whole lot of warning before one happens. Couple of hours notice, max. Maybe a little more if we can get in a groove.
And we do have a schedule to keep. So if we’re running late or something, or whatever…we might not be able to hang with our Tweeps this time around.
So keep watching, and here’s hoping we get a chance to Tweet-up with you between May 1 and May 11!
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