Posted on: Sep 7, 2010
Posted in: Tweetup
Join the Lawrence Tweetup group and residents of Lawrence to socialize, have fun and support the United Way of Douglas County!
The United Way’s community campaign kickoff carnival is next week. This event is a fun way to begin their annual community fundraising drive.
- When: Thursday, September 9
- Time: 5:30 p.m.
- Where: South Park
Lots of activities are planned for this family-friendly event! Come enjoy live music, clowns and cotton candy. A fire truck will be there and Baby Jay will make an appearance. Jump in the bounce house or compete in the bag toss tournament. And, there’s a pie-throwing contest!
Hy-Vee is providing free hot dogs and chips, and there will be free Live United t-shirts for the first 500 attendees. Stan Herd, the famed Lawrence artist, will direct a group photo of everyone in attendance. Don’t miss this event!
Bring your friends and fellow tweeters, and don’t forget to tweet before and during this event. Use the hashtag #uwdgcokickoff. Meet up with other tweeters near the bounce house at 5:30, or find the people staring at their phones while walking around. We can help spread the word about the United Way’s mission and have fun at the same time!
In case of rain, the event will be moved to Abe & Jake’s Landing.
RSVP for the event here and invite your friends.
Find the United Way of Douglas County on Facebook and Twitter and follow along!
Posted on: Aug 30, 2010
Posted in: Lunch Tweetup
Join us for the monthly lunch tweetup. This month we are having lunch at the Free State Brewery located at 636 Massachusetts Street. The lunch tweetup is a great way to connect or reconnect with local social media users. If you have never attended, please feel free to join us. The lunches are casual and we enjoy meeting new people.
You will find us in the private room located on the upper floor.
See you there!
More info and RSVP at the Facebook page.
Posted on: Aug 10, 2010
Posted in: Tweetup
Join the Lawrence Tweetup group for an evening event at Fatso’s in beautiful downtown Lawrence! This group meets twice each month, once in the evening and once for lunch.
- When: Tuesday, August 17
- Time: 7 p.m.
- Where: Fatso’s, 1016 Massachusetts Street
Fatso’s offers $2 wells, calls, and any bottle of beer on Tuesdays. Cupini’s is located inside Fatso’s and serves a variety of pizza and pasta, so come hungry.
Fatso’s has a great patio off to the side of the stage, and they often feature live music. Find them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.
RSVP on Facebook or use the Twtvite on the side of this page. Hope to see you there!
Posted on: Jul 15, 2010
Posted in: Tweetup
Join the Lawrence Tweetup group and local social media enthusiasts for the July #ltwup event. This month we’re meeting at the original Johnny’s Tavern north of the river. Johnny’s and their fellow North Lawrence businesses have suffered through extensive road construction for months, and it’s finally easy to get there again. Let’s show our support and have a great turnout!
- When: Tuesday, July 20
- Time: 6:30-10 p.m.
- Where: Johnny’s Tavern, 401 N. 2nd
Tuesday night specials include $1 tacos and $2 16 ounce Miller Lite draws.
Johnny’s is truly a Lawrence original, open since 1953 and still in its original location just across the Kansas River bridge. They boast the longest running tap in Lawrence and claim they have not only the best burgers in town, but also the best pizza. A patio is available in the back.
The first and third Wednesdays of the month are Cajun Night, with live music at 6 p.m. and mouthwatering shrimp and crayfish. On the second and fourth Wednesdays, come back out for free live trivia with Scotty Mack.
RSVP using the Twtvite on the right side of this page or find us on Facebook. Follow Johnny’s on Twitter @johnnystavernpv. Don’t forget to use the #ltwup hashtag when tweeting about us! Hope to see you next week!
Posted on: Jun 25, 2010
Posted in: Lunch Tweetup
It was great to see so many old friends and new faces at our annual Tweetup in the Park last week! The tweetup was a big success with guests from Topeka, Kansas City and Lawrence. We had lots of great food, too!
It’s time for the monthly Lawrence Tweetup lunch! This month we’re headed to Cielito Lindo, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Lawrence.
- When: Tuesday, June 29
- Time: 12 p.m.
- Where: Cielito Lindo, 815 New Hampshire
Cielito Lindo has a large menu of Mexican food staples. The restaurant is in a great brick building and has possibly one of the best patio dining areas in Lawrence. Let’s hope it’s a nice day so we can sit outside!
All Lawrence social media enthusiasts are invited to join us for lunch. Don’t be shy! If you’ve never been to a tweetup before, a lunch event is the perfect place to start. You’ll find friendly faces and meet great new friends. Hope to see you there!
Posted on: May 26, 2010
Posted in: Tweetup
Join the Lawrence Tweetup for our second annual Tweetup in the Park!
- When: Saturday, June 19
- Time: 4-9 p.m.
- Where: Clinton Park, located at 5th & Maine in Lawrence (note: this is not Clinton State Park at the lake, this is a neighborhood park near Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Last year our inaugural picnic in the park had a great group of over 70 people. Help us make this year’s event bigger and better! We’re inviting social media enthusiasts from Lawrence and the surrounding areas. The invitation is open to members of the Lawrence Tweetup, Social Media Clubs of Lawrence and Kansas City, Topeka Tweetup, and Free State Social attendees. Come meet fellow social media users and bring your friends! This is a family friendly event, so feel free to bring the kids.
Please bring a food or drink item to share. We’ll have a couple of grills fired up, so bring hot dogs, burgers, chips, side dishes, desserts, or drinks. We hope to have a great potluck style celebration with a lot of variety. The picnic organizers will provide paper plates, cups, napkins, and cutlery- you don’t need to bring those items.
You can bring beer, but it must be in cans due to city ordinances prohibiting bottles. Please don’t bring any type of alcohol in glass bottles.
If your business would like to donate food or drink, please let us know! We’d love the donation and it would be a great opportunity to showcase your business to a very talkative and influential community. We’ll be sure to recognize your support on our website and social media sites.
The shelter area will be reserved for our event, so there will be plenty of seating in the shade. There’s also a basketball hoop, kids play area, and lots of open space for yard games. If you have any outdoor games you want to bring along, please do!
Please use the comment section below to let us know you’re coming and what you plan to bring- this will help all of us plan so we have a variety of food available. Anyone want to make a Fail Whale cake this year?
RSVP via Twitter using the TwtVite embedded on the right side of the page. You can also RSVP on Facebook.
Please spread the word about this great event, and we hope to see you on June 19!
Posted on: May 21, 2010
Posted in: Lunch Tweetup
It’s time for another Lawrence Tweetup lunch! Meet old and new friends at Biemer’s BBQ in Lawrence for great food and conversation.
- When: Tuesday, May 25
- Time: 12 p.m.
- Where: 2120 W. 9th Street, Lawrence
Biemer’s cooks their meat fresh every single day. They offer pork, beef, and turkey, and they have BBQ sandwiches, ribs, and lots of mouth watering side dishes. They even have a kid’s menu for the little ones. And if you need to feed a lot of people, you can buy their meat by the pound. Biemer’s also offers drive-thru service for the times you’re in a hurry. Having a large event? Contact them for catering options.
Follow Biemer’s BBQ on Twitter for updates. You can also “like” Biemer’s on Facebook.
Please RSVP using the Twtvite on the right side of the page, so we know how many to expect for lunch. Hope to see you there!
Posted on: May 11, 2010
Posted in: Tweetup
Join us for the May Lawrence Tweetup at Paddy O’Quigley’s! The Kansas City- based restaurant is located inside the Lawrence Holiday Inn’s Holidome.
- When: Tuesday, May 18
- Time: 6:30-10 p.m.
- Where: 200 McDonald Drive, Lawrence, KS
Paddy O’Quigley’s has great food and drink specials on Tuesday nights which include:
- 1/2 price 10 oz burgers and chicken sandwiches, with 10 different gourmet burgers to choose from
- $2 Free State Beers, currently Copperhead and Ad Astra
- $2 off the majority of wells/calls
- $4 Ketel One and Grey Goose drinks
Paddy O’Quigley’s has more than just food and drink to entertain us: they also have dartboards, a pool table, Wii, and some arcade games available. It’s a sports-themed pub that also has walls of TV’s.
Paddy O’Quigley’s was founded in 1990 and has three locations in the Kansas City area, along with restaurants in Lawrence and Manhattan. Follow them on Twitter: www.twitter.com/paddyoquigleys for the main account, and www.twitter.com/oquigleys for some local Lawrence perspective. They’re also on Facebook; you can find them here.
Posted on: Apr 20, 2010
Posted in: Lunch Tweetup
The next monthly Lawrence Tweetup lunch will be held at downtown restaurant Local Burger, a fixture in the downtown Lawrence scene since 2005.
- When: Tuesday, April 27
- Time: 12 pm – 1:30 pm
- Where: 714 Vermont Street, Lawrence
Local Burger offers healthy fast food in a casual environment. Their mission is to “serve delicious food at a fair price with impeccable service while creating a culture of passion for knowing where our food comes from and how it connects us to our world, to our communities, and to ourselves.”
Local Burger sources all of its meats locally and features a variety that includes beef, buffalo, elk, lamb, pork, turkey, and tofu. Local Burger is home of the World’s Best Veggie Burger- which is gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, corn-free, and soy-free. The restaurant’s menu features something for everyone, whether you’re vegetarian or not, and is especially friendly for those who have food intolerances or other allergies.
The monthly tweetup lunches are a great way to meet other social media enthusiasts in Lawrence and enjoy great food.
Be sure to follow Local Burger on Twitter and become a fan of their Facebook page.
Posted on: Apr 16, 2010
Posted in: Local Event
UPDATE: We have filled all the spots available for the pub-crawl. If anymore spots become available we will Tweet it and post it here. Thanks.
Join #ltwup members for a pub-crawl to raise money for the Lawrence Humane Society and other charities in the Lawrence area!
- When: Saturday, May 1
- Time: 1p-5pm
- Where: Mass Street
Hey #ltwup, @bailann here.
The 2nd Lawrence Pub Crawl is scheduled for Saturday, May 1 in downtown Lawrence. I think it would be a lot of fun to have a #ltwup team and the fantastic Lawrence Tweetup committee agreed.
Entry fee ranges from $25 to $29 per person, depending on total number of participants on a team. I think we can definitely get 12 people but please let me know soon if you plan to join as the deadline to sign up is April 25 (or until they reach the max number of teams). I will register everyone’s email addresses (up to 12). The Lawrence Pub Crawl will then e-mail you information on how to pay the entry fee (which is the donation to the chairty) through their website.
If you have any questions or if you want to be a part of the team, DM me with your email address!
Please visit lawrencepubcrawl.org for more details.
Philsqaure