NASDAQ Market opening Tweet-up with GlobeNewswire

UPDATE April 1, 2009

Adam Wallace of The Roger Smith Hotel posted a short video of the morning.
YouTube link here

John Blossom, author of Content Nation wrote a very interesting blog post on the tweetup.

Maryann Separovic - @GirlBug - Is traveling all over the world and blogging her experiences. She was at the tweetup and here is her report.

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This morning with a group of 30 people recruited through Twitter, we opened the NASDAQ stock market. It was covered live on FOX Business News, CNBC, and other networks. What a terrific morning.

I really appreciate everyone who took the time to participate with me. What a special morning. Thank you for your enthusiasm.

And thanks to Bradley Smith of Shareholder.com and GlobeNewswire for making this happen.

Here's a great video produced by Devin Dwyer.
Direct YouTube link here.

Note that I signed my name @dmscott after I pushed the button.

You'll find tweets with Hashtag #NASDAQ

An interview with Wall Street Journal / MarketWatch here.

I’ve already seen dozens of photos that people who were there have posted, but here are several taken by Zef Nikolla, the NASDAQ photographer. (Click for a larger image).

Photos © 2009, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Reprinted with permission.

Comments

[Erika Stanczak]

What an amazing day it was @dmscott! Thank you so much for involving us in something we will never forget (when will we ever get to see our faces on a building ever again!?). Best of luck on the book launch. :)
@estanczak

[Cherilyn Stringer]

Thank you @dmscott and GlobeNewswire for the amazing experience yesterday. It was great to meet everyone and be a part of the first "tweetup" at NASDAQ. I posted a few photos on Flickr at http://tinyurl.com/dmg2ub

Thanks again and see you online! @cheristringer

[C.C. Chapman]

Congrats! It was awesome to see the tweets and photos coming in yesterday. Wish I could have been part of it and psyched for the latest exposure you got! Way to go.

[Adele Revella]

Ohmigosh David, this is incredible. A world wide rave indeed!

[Heather K. Margolis]

That's so great! Hopefully you bring some good vibes as well as a WWR!

[John R. Sedivy]

Congratulations on this significant accomplishment! Truly a great way to promote your book as well as continue to gain momentum for non-traditional marketing methods such as social media!

[tangoman]

Hi David, congratulations on your blog...I happen to just click on it and to my surprize found it quite interesting and well done....

I am a former businessman and entrepreneur from Austin, Texas who one day did a crazy thing and followed is dream by going to live in Florence, Italy even though I was broke, had never been there, did not know anyone and did not speak the language...I was 47 years old at the time....well it had been a 12 years full of unbelievable movie like experiences in a country full of MAGIC !

One of my dreams had always been to be a tango dancer and so I pursued that with a passion...I have now taught tango in several places in Europe and the US and have done performances in some beautiful theaters...

And so my message to people is..

• Follow your dream...DO IT NOW !
• It is never too late...NEVER !

Come visit me in Rome David, we'll share some good food and wine and I'll show you the most beautiful city in the world ! Here is my latest video !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YeHpnzMAq0

[Swan]

How far we've come. Now anyone can create a tweet-up with the push of a few buttons on twebevent.

Just point your browser to http://twebevent.com/YourEventName and follow the prompts on screen. Replace "YourEventName" with your event name. :)

Also, there are dozens of twitter chats on a variety of topics that take place weekly. Check http://bit.ly/oXBBu for the schedule.