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Little things like this make me love technology even more.

Yesterday my pal Robin of InnerMedia Coaching & Consulting and I took a field trip to Ann Arbor for one of the LA2M Marketing Meetings, whose speaker that day just happened to be one of my favorite people in all of Metro Detroit, the lovely, smart, and talented Ms. Shauna Nicholson, marketing manager for Biznet Internet Solutions in Wixom. She was leading a discussion on viral marketing.

Though I did RSVP on LA2M’s Facebook event page, I forgot to actually tell Shauna I was going to be there, and forgot to check to see if there was an official hashtag for the event. (I hadn’t been to one of these events before so I wasn’t sure.)

Robin and I were sitting at the far end of the room from Shauna. It was pretty packed, and there was a big table full of people in between us. I didn’t really want to get up just to ask her that, so what did I do?

I sent her a text message from across the noisy room:

is there a hashtag for this? #la2m?

I saw that she was just putting away her iPhone so I nudged Robin and said, “Watch this. . .”

Shauna suddenly looked at her phone, looked up, looked all the way down the long table of people and gave me an affirming nod.

I turned to Robin and said, “See? This is yet another reason I love technology!”

Geeks have more fun!

I have had one hell of an exhausting weekend. Friday night I finally made it to my first ever BIG tweetup, sponsored by Biznet, where I got to meet a large chunk of the people I regularly tweet to and follow over on Twitter. It so great to finally put faces and real people to the icons and @twitternames I see all the time online. To see a glimpse of how much fun you missed, the folllowing video is courtesy of the fabulous Ms. Shauna Nicholson, marketing manager over at Biznet (and quite possibly the most adorable person person in the Twitterverse).

Biznet Tweetup from Shauna Nicholson on Vimeo.

A list of attendees and another video from the tweetup can be found over at Shauna’s blog. It was an absolute BLAST and I can’t wait for the next one. Photos of the Biznet Tweetup are on Flickr thanks to Brian Ambrozy of Icrontic (@primesuspect).

Although, the next one was sort-of the next day at PodCamp Michigan, where I saw many of the same people and then some, but because of a random power outage in my area combined with my own exhaustion and lack of following directions correctly, I was only able to catch the tail end of it. Luckily, it’s PODcamp, meaning that it will all be online in the near future so I can watch everything I missed.