A series of free tweetup events are scheduled for Greater Lafayette and Purdue, with the goal of having local social-media people and businesses meet, network and get to know each other offline.

Future plans include creating a board of local new media advisors, guest posts on our blog to expose the way local people and businesses are using social networking tools to promote their values and to connect with interesting people, thematic events.

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WHEN
Monday, December 7th
7:00-9:00pm

WHERE
Courtyard Marriott
150 Fairington Ave, Lafayette, IN
(765) 449-4800

THEME
SMO: Social Media Optimization
(networking and un-conference style)

HASHTAG - #laftwt
Use it whenever you tweet anything about this event.

PANEL #1: BLOGGING AND SEO
Open talk on blogging suggestions for businesses and individuals, search engine optimization tricks, create and maintain blogs to build your online brand etc.
Panelists:
- Gunes Yilmaztuerk (Founder and CMO of Sollé Coaching, Lafayette, http://twitter.com/gunesy)
- Andrew Gouty (Sales Manager at Deep Ripples, Indianapolis http://twitter.com/agouty)
- Douglas Karr (President and CEO at DK New Media, Indianapolis http://twitter.com/douglaskarr...)
- Michael Reynolds (President and CEO at SpinWeb, Indianapolis http://twitter.com/michaelreyn...)

PANEL #2: SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS AND APPS
Open talk about various tools and applications any business or individual could use to better manage their online presence. Targeted discussion about how businesses can efficiently use available social media applications to interact with their customers, respond to their concerns, provide quality customer service and support and improve revenue and profits.
Panelists:
- Ed Finkler (Creator of Spaz, a Lafayette-based open source Microblogging client for desktop and mobile, http://twitter.com/funkatron)
- Vince Koser (Founder of CeTwit, Lafayette-based full featured windows mobile Twitter client, http://twitter.com/vkoser)
- Nelu Lazar (Founder of Tweetvisor, Lafayette-based multi-account Twitter interface for businesses, http://twitter.com/nelulazar)

LOCAL AWARDS 2009 - for Greater Lafayette, Indiana
- Best Local Personal Blog
- Best Local Business Blog
- Best Local Collaborative Blog
- Best Local News Website
- Best Local Startup
- PRIZES: "Twitter Marketing for Dummies" by Kyle Lacy of Indianapolis
- More info: http://bit.ly/7xNwP5

SPONSORS AND MEDIA PARTNERS
- WAZY 96.5, http://wazy.com
- WPBE / Bob FM 95.3, http://wbpefm.com
- Classic Rock / The Rocket 95.7
- LafayetteOnline, http://lafayetteonline.com

RESOURCES
- Blog - http://lafayetweetup.wordpress...
- @LafayeTweetup - http://twitter.com/lafayetweet...