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Quick Summary: The second Mumbai Twitter Meetup at Italian restaurant White in Goregaon had a full house with as many as sixteen people turning up.
In Mumbai? On Twitter? Let’s meet up.
Here are the details of the next Mumbai Twitter Meetup —
Date: Sunday, March 2, 2008
Time: 11:30am – 3:30pm
Location: White, Off Link Road, Near VIBGYOR School, Goregaon, Mumbai, India
Aditya, who owns the Italian restaurant White, has graciously offered to give us 50% discount on food for the meetup.
So, what are you waiting for? If you aren’t already on Twitter, go sign up Twitter, then start following me @Gauravonomics, Aditya at @acmhatre and Mumbai Twitter Meet at @MumbaiTwit.
You can register for the event by registering on the Facebook Mumbai Twitter Meetup Event, sending a message to @MumbaiTwit, or leaving a comment below.
Remember: Each one, tweet one (that is, get an interesting friend to sign-up for Twitter and come to the meetup).
Also See: Details of first Mumbai Twitter Meetup.
It was a full house at the Mumbai Twitter Meetup today with as many as sixteen people turning up at Aditya Mhatre’s beautiful Italian restaurant White.
Brajeshwar brought along a really fancy Nikon D40X camera, amongst assorted cool gadgets, and you can see the rest of the photos from the tweetup at his Mumbai Twitter Meetup set on Flickr.
From my interactions, in tweetups or otherwise, I have seen that most active Twitter users in India are quite tech-savvy with an impressive web presence. Therefore, tweetups often turn into great networking opportunities, and today’s tweetup too had its share of “let’s network!” conversations –
What do you think of my latest (really cool) Wordpress plug-in?
I’ll do a review of your (really cool) startup on my blog tomorrow!
Why don’t we do this (really cool) vidcast series together?
Have you heard of this (really cool) startup funded by this (really cool) angel investor?
Someone should create a (really cool) CrunchBoard for India!
We should meet up later this week and discuss the latest (really cool) trends in enterprise 2.0!
Other much discussed topics included Ideasmith’s “gangster moll” boots, Aditya Mishra’s fancy “entrepreneur-in-residence” job title, Preshit’s pre-exam preparations, Saket’s new improved “20% more human” look, Aditya Mhatre’s Olympic sized swimming pool, Werner’s booming voice, Netra’s networking expertise, Brajeshwar’s Adobe-branded towel-hanger and my extremely modest and private disposition.
You can also watch videos of Aditya Mishra talking about Second Life and IdeaSmith and Werner discussing why women bloggers get easy attention.
So, in the spirit of my earlier post on seven reasons why you should join Twitter today, and at considerable risk of raising several eyebrows (raised eyebrows often translate into linkbacks, so that’s precisely the plan), let me give you one reason why you should come to the next @MumbaiTwit tweetup –
@MumbaiTwit tweetup = BarCamp – presentations + great food + great wine + great conversations
Since my own claim to fame nowadays seem to be hosting meetups (Mumbai Twitter Meetup and Mumbai Bloggers Meetup) and making introductions (tweet1, tweet2, tweet3, tweet4), let me reproduce my (really cool) introductions of the (really cool) people who attended today’s tweetup –
- VeerChand Bothra is at the center of India’s mobile boom, as MobilePundit, as organizer of Mumbai Mobile Mondays and as VP at NetCore Solutions. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Aditya Mishra has the fancy title of Entrepreneur-in-Residence at TCS, which means that he sponsors BarCamps as part of his day job and hobnobs with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists otherwise. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Brajeshwar Oinam is the first Indian to become an Adobe Community Expert and one of the few Indian bloggers I know who write about technology with real authority. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Saket Vaidya is one of India’s original A-list bloggers and, in his Webchutney avatar, one of the few people in India who have worked first-hand with viral marketing, Facebook apps and social media monitoring. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Aditya Mhatre is India’s leading podcaster at Indicast and also the owner of the beautiful Italian restaurant White, the venue of today’s tweetup. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Ideasmith, aka R****, strangles people who mention both her identities in the same sentence. Otherwise, she tracks the desi blogosphere at DesiPundit. Blog, Facebook and Twitter.
- Aalaap Ghag, a developer at Web 18, is also India’s most prolific Twitter user (3400+ tweets!) and the creator of the (really cool) link aggregator LinkBunch. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Kirti Kapoor is Knowledge Management manager at Frost & Sullivan and an enterprise 2.0 enthusiast. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Arunima Lad is a researcher at Accenture and an enterprise 2.0 enthusiast. Facebook and LinkedIn.
- Asfaq Tapia is a self-confessed geek who tracks the Indian Internet industry at Alootechie. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Preshit Deorukhkar is the Community and Content Manager at Burrp! and IndiaGSM. Blog 1, Blog 2, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Aditi Gupta is an entrepreneur who develops social media marketing strategy for startups. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Netra Parikh is the business manager at Digital Marketing Institute run by Mahesh Murthy’s PinStorm. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Werner Egipsy Souza handles mobile and business development at digital marketing agency BC Web Wise. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Samir Makwana is a PlayStation fanatic who writes for Digit magazine. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Yours truly sells cars for a living. Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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- Updated: Mumbai Twitter Meetup & Seven Reasons You Should Sign Up For Twitter Today If You Already Haven’t
- Mumbai Open Bloggers Meet
- Reporting from the Mumbai Blog-a-ween Meet
- Check Out My Friend Aalaap Ghag’s Really Cool Link Aggregator LinkBunch
- The Role of Citizen Journalism in the Aftermath of the 11/26 Mumbai Terror Attack
