My little SXSW tshirt campaign idea grew into a lovely flower. Here’s how
Friday – meet @yellowpark at Tuttle Club / Social Media Cafe London and chat it through. Speak together to Dave Hughes on the phone.
Monday – call Dave and place my order for T shirt; write blog post and rush round in the afternoon trying to get photos of the shirt designs to illustrate it. DM a couple of folk asking for feedback. None comes. Go and meet the #SXSWm West Midlands group meetup and they are broadly interested. Follow them back on Twitter later that night. Pete offers to put it up on their wiki.
Tuesday – go to Chinwag site and email all those on the Digital Mission list asking if they’re interested in joining in. Get instant reply from Tom who I know. We talk about other stuff. Set up a couple of ‘tweet laters ‘ for tomorrow and Friday. The lovely Emily at Chinwag sent it out to the full Digital Mission list of 60+ and introduced me to Clare who’s organising a group from the south west.
Wednesday – get some DMs from folk as the automatic tweet laters spin off. Also a great chat with Leah from the UK Government Mission in Houston, TX who is keen to be involved. She hasn’t got a complete list of everyone from the UK going…. ho hum.
Thursday – finally persuaded @katiemoffatt to get a t shirt. She tried to wriggle out but I was firm. Also @paulcarr firmly refuses to wear one. I guess he’ll be naked then!
Friday – a couple of folk ask if they can have their shirts shipped to my home to bring over as they are already stateside – shouldn’t be a problem. DM Dave in the morning and he has a dozen or so orders and more coming in. I expect as today’s the deadline it’ll be the ole last minute rush job.
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Tags: , SXSW, twitter t shirt, UK digital mission to SXSW
Hiya Rebecca, top idea indeed. The Chinwag massive have just ordered a bunch of t-shirts ready for SXSW. Just deciding whether I should get a bowler hat to really set off that *look*
Top team, Chinwag! Looking forward to seeing what colours you chose.
Now when it comes to cultural icons I think the Union Jack boxers are the thing….
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