UK Research Tweetup

As you might know, I’m quite active on Twitter (as @tomewing). So is this very site, as @researchlive. In fact there’s a growing number of market research people using the service: it’s becoming an extremely useful tool for swapping research-related links, opinion and news. And kitten pictures.

So it seems like an excellent time for the UK’s first ever – so far as I know – Market Research Tweetup. It’ll be on Wednesday 23rd September, from 6.30, at the Slug And Lettuce on Hanover Street (http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/hanover_street/) Free entry.

What’s a Tweetup, you ask? No, you don’t ask, because you can guess: it’s a meet-up of people on Twitter. If you’re on Twitter and you want to come along and meet people you only know via a profile icon, come along. If you’re in the market research biz – or a related one – so much the better. If you’re not on Twitter, consider this an excellent incentive to sign up. The Tweetup will be informal, friendly, and a good opportunity to put faces to names, network and natter about industry issues.

I’d love to take credit for this idea but I can’t – it was organised at the behest of Diane Hessan, CEO of Communispace, who is one of the most prominent research industry voices on Twitter. She’ll be there on the 23rd, and I hope so will a lot of you.