AMA Tweet meet 

Member rep feedback

Southern
The Oxford meeting at The Phone Room was great. We had a very informal discussion about our experiences with social media and the lovely Nick Watts (twitter handle @nfpvoice) was a great source of all things social media and it was great to hear from him how he uses social media for charities and their fundraising as well. It was great fun and very insightful thanks to contributions from everyone in the group.
Femke de Vos Burchart - Director of Marketing, South Hill Park 

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East Scotland

 The Edinburgh tweet meet was buzzing with a good mixture of twitter pros and twitter novices. Lots of open discussion with a mixture of technical questions and strategic issues. Great networking over a glass of wine, people didn't want to leave!
Alex Hinton - The Audience Business, Marketing Manager    

Personally, it was my first network meeting and first steps into Twitter – completely brilliant. I could have happily chatted to everyone there for another two hours there was so much enthusiasm, knowledge and generally lovely people in the room. Everyone seemed to enjoy it and I think even the expert users managed to pick up one or two tips they can use.
Claire Wilcock - Marketing and Campaigns Manager, Perth Theatre and Concert Hall

East Midlands
Enjoyable, stimulating, useful was the verdict of the East Midlands arts marketers who gathered at Embrace Arts in Leicester.
I thought it was great to be able to interact both with the other people in the room and with all the other meetings at the same time – though I found my multitasking skills were somewhat challenged in looking at the Twitter feed, Tweeting myself and listening to what was going on in the room all at the same time. Lots of useful stuff came up. How about establishing an AMA Twitter community in some way – there were so many different people tweeting I found I couldn’t capture all of them to follow? Interesting to see that people who weren’t there have subsequently started to follow me and vice versa so it shows the power of the reach of the event. Could we use this method to have a more general public debate about how best to market the arts? I’m interested in exploring that method for feedback on where people think our venue should be going.
Gillian Garratt - Marketing Manager, Embrace Arts

Eastern

Photos from the Norwich Tweet Meet

Yorkshire and Humberside
The tour was great and as the gallery was closing at the time we had the place to ourselves. We were engrossed in our conversation as it was a small group and that brought up the topic of whether it was good to be engrossed and interested in something and be in the moment rather than Tweet about the moment and miss things. We also had an interesting conversation about how tweeting suits certain personalities but not others and how jobs such as social media should be given to the right people with the right personalities in organisations.