Knoxify

Sat­ur­day night, Octo­ber 17 is a date that will go down in his­tory – albeit, quirky cul­tural his­tory, but his­tory nonethe­less. This chilly evening marked Knoxville’s inau­gural Snug Pub Crawl, hailed by one local tweeter as the “tweet-up of the cen­tury.” Twenty-some-odd Snuggie-clad seek­ers gath­ered at the appointed time on Mar­ket Square for a group pic­ture. Head Snug­gite, Saul Young, served as pho­to­jour­nal­ist for the event that drew par­tic­i­pants from as far away as Chattanooga.

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Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, social media isn’t the end of civ­i­liza­tion as we know it. Face­book didn’t put a stop to inter­per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion. LinkedIn doesn’t neg­a­tively impact the vital, vibrant pulse of the busi­ness com­mu­nity. Twit­ter hasn’t replaced the kitchen table or the cor­ner bar for mean­ing­ful human inter­ac­tion. Rather, these social net­work­ing plat­forms and oth­ers have height­ened con­nec­tiv­ity world­wide and right here in our own backyard.  

Some folks might con­sider Knoxville an improb­a­ble hub of fre­netic dig­i­tal activ­ity. I beg to differ.

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If you live in Knoxville or plan to visit the area on Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 10, I encour­age you all to check out Knoxville Twes­t­i­val!

Knoxville Twes­t­i­val is part of a char­i­ta­ble event tak­ing place in com­mu­ni­ties all around the world. Twes­t­i­val uses the power of the local Twit­ter­verse to encour­age com­mu­nity mem­bers to come out in per­son to a fun event to be held at the Knoxville Zoo on Sep­tem­ber 10, 2009 from 7-10pm, and to donate money to a des­ig­nated local char­ity: The Sal­va­tion Army of Knoxville.

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Last Wednes­day we told you we had more social media in store. Read below for more on another Knoxville media club.

On May 15th, the Social Media Club of Knoxville announced that their inau­gural net­work­ing mixer will take place on Wednes­day, June 3 from 6-8pm on the patio at Barley’s Tap­room in the Old City.

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If social media is your thing then you’re going to have lots of brain-stimulating events to choose from in the near future — more on that in a future post. If our very own neigh­bor­hood czar, Suzy Trotta, makes you shaky in the real estate knees, then we have THE event for you.

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Back on April 17 we asked which Knoxvil­lians you would most want to see on Twit­ter. I wanted to see all of Knoxville’s local busi­nesses on Twit­ter, but real­ized I only knew of a hand­ful. So I cre­ated a Google Form and put it out into the Twit­ter stream.

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The Knoxville Social Media Asso­ci­a­tion, or KSMA as we’re coin­ing it, has launched a sparkly new web­site that’s pow­ered by Ning. It looks like there’s a lot going on already so join the con­ver­sa­tion if social media is your vice. Just like you can fol­low Knox­ify on Twit­ter, KSMA also blasts tweets from time to time.

Scott Maentz dropped us a line about an upcom­ing break­fast for geek’s. The first Knoxville Geek Break­fast is slated for Thurs­day Jan­u­ary 8 from 7:30am — 8:30am at the IHOP on Lovell Rd. It’s good to see this kind of thing pop­ping up in Knoxville.

After mul­ti­ple “tweets” by Who­dini, a large group of Knoxville’s Twit­ter com­mu­nity met for lunch at Lake­side Tav­ern. Here’s a quick round-up of the coverage.

• Whodini’s flickr set
• mwender’s blog coverage
• tohare’s flickr image and blog post

Update: The offi­cial ros­ter from the tweet-up. If I missed some­one leave a comment.

1. cpknox­ify
2. patrick­bee­son
3. Root­clip / luchauer
4. Who­dini
5. gav­in­baker
6. djug­gler
7. Lis­saKay
8. lasthome
9. tohare
10. mwen­der
11. z11
12. cmm1869

Pic­ture cour­tesy of Michael Wen­der

3 out of 4 of our blog campers can be found on Twit­ter. In case you’re inter­ested in fol­low­ing us:

• Bran­don [bcknox­ify]
• Casey [cpknox­ify]
• Patrick [patrick­bee­son]

If you enjoy Knoxify.com you’re sure to get a kick out of our tweets.

For those of you still read­ing and scratch­ing your head, Twit­ter is a quick exchange of mes­sages to let oth­ers know what you’re up to.

If shame­less plugs are your thing, leave your Twit­ter han­dle in the com­ments. While we still have your atten­tion we must plug our Knoxville-centric tweet fac­tory, Instaknox.com.