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Tuttle LA #3 Friday, March 27

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Sorry for the lack of advance notice on this post, but it’s been a hectic week! Tuttle Club LA #3 will be happening Friday, March 27 at 10:30 a.m. at The Library Coffee House in Long Beach.

So far, it sounds like there will be a nice crowd, including some new people. We’ll probably be in the strange T-shirt shop/massage chair/free magazine room on the right because it’ll be a bigger group and it’ll probably get pretty loud. Maybe we’ll take some more videos, too.

We’ll be setting up the Tuttle LA blog soon, but for now, leave a comment to let us know you’ll be showing up to share some coffee, conversation and social media talk, and we’ll look out for you.

The Basics

When: Friday, March 27, 2009, 10:30 a.m.

Where: The Library Coffee House
3412 E Broadway
Long Beach, CA 90803
(562) 433-2393

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March 26th, 2009 - Events

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Tuttle #2 – This Time With Video, and No, We Weren’t in a T-Shirt Shop


What is Tuttle LA? from Francine Kizner on Vimeo.

Tuttle #2 was even better than Tuttle #1. We met again at the Library, and started by meeting in the cozy room on the left that has lots of couches, but we had a special surprise — a video Skype chat with Lloyd Davis (aka the Tuttle mothership, as Geoff said), who is at SXSW this weekend. We were a bit loud when on the call, so one of the annoyed Library patrons suggested we head to the bizarre extra room off to the right, which was empty.

With talked about Austin, Tuttle, London and more (check out the video above).

Our new spot in the side room provided us more seating space and let us talk and move around more, but it was a really bizarre space. There were a few yellow walls, some mismatched paintings, a rack of T-shirts and hoodies (all in primary colors), a massage chair ($1 for 5 minutes) and some paper lanterns.

In addition to all the talk about tech, phones, Twitter, WordPress and SXSW, we also did some video interviews. Geoff’s phone died, so we took all the video on my Macbook Pro.


Tuttle LA: Interview with Mark Davidson from Francine Kizner on Vimeo.


Tuttle LA Interview with Amir Motlagh from Francine Kizner on Vimeo.

This week’s attendees: Me (@kizziefk), Geoff Hickman (@geoffsays), Jeb Brilliant (@jebbrilliant), Mark Davidson (@markdavidson), Amir Motlagh (@amirmotlagh, Vimeo), Christine (@christyxcore), Caroline (@thevixy)

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March 13th, 2009 - Events, Los Angeles

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Tuttle #2

Tomorrow will be the second-ever meeting of the LA Tuttle Club. We’ll be meeting again at the Library in Long Beach at 10:30 a.m. for coffee and discussion about work, social media, marketing, music… whatever it is that you’re into. The first meeting was great fun — we all met some new people and learned about some new technology and music.

Geoff, Jeb and I will definitely be showing up, and anyone else who’d like to drop by is welcome. Leave a note in the comments, email, or send me a message on Twitter if you’d like to learn more or let me know to look for you.

We’ll be in the second room (so don’t worry if you don’t see us right when you walk in the door), and we’ll try to grab enough couch and chair space for anyone who’ll be coming. And don’t worry about coming a bit late — we’re not on any schedule — this is what you make of it.

The basics:

Where: The Library Coffee House
3412 E Broadway
Long Beach, CA 90803
(562) 433-2393

When: Friday, March 13, 2009, 10:30 a.m.

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March 12th, 2009 - Events

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See the Data + Art Exhibit (and more) for Free

10,000 cents by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima

If you were intrigued by my Data + Art exhibit writeup, or just need something fun to do this Friday night, the PMCA and 13 other Pasadena museums and arts organizations are opening their doors for free to the public — and providing a free shuttle around town as well as organized bicycle tours to get you from location to location.

When: Friday, March 13, 2009, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Where: All around Pasadena
Learn more: The Art Night website

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March 11th, 2009 - Events

The First-Ever LA Tuttle Club


The first Tuttle LA group: Amir, Caroline, Mark, Geoff, Jeb, Me and David

Today we had the first-ever meeting of Tuttle LA. Maybe it should be called Tuttle LB, as we were actually in Long Beach. In any case, Geoff and I had been planning for this for a few weeks, but weren’t really sure if anyone was going to show up. Thankfully, we didn’t have much to worry about — we had a nice small group of 7.

The Library was a cool place. It felt a bit like someone’s living room, with couches and coffee tables and walls painted different colors. The coffee was good, too.

We talked about mobile phones, as Jeb had recently returned from Mobile World in Barcelona and had quite a few Nokias for people to play with. We also talked a lot about music, since Geoff manages a band and Amir is a musician, as is David, who joined us after listening in on some of our music conversation.


Jeb and Geoff

We also talked film (Amir is also a filmmaker), Twitter, and of course social networking strategy. Mark also told us a bit about some new social networking tools and concepts, and we discussed how social networks can create ambient awareness as well as AI technologies for social networks — as in, do you want a social networking app to be able to predict your behavior on a certain day or time since it’s been tracking what you’ve been doing, or is that creepy?

We of course talked a lot about our inspiration for meeting up — the London Tuttle Club. We made a Qik video and said hello to Lloyd, we decided that Jeb was the new Whatleydude as he was letting everyone try out his various mobile phones, and we talked a lot about Solobasssteve, since he was the one who convinced us to start something up here in the first place.

And just like in London, the gathering went long — we started at 10:30 and hung around until just after 2. And though I had good intentions of getting some work done and brought my laptop with me, it stayed in my backpack. There’s never really any time for solo work at Tuttle.

We’re having our second meeting two weeks from today, on March 13, so mark your calendars if you’d like to come — and let me know if you want to carpool from LA.

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February 27th, 2009 - Events, Los Angeles

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West LA Tweetup

Last night there was a Tweetup — the first I’d actually attended in LA (I know, I’ve been a bit of a slacker since getting back into town what feels like a very short 6 months ago). In any case, when I heard that people were getting together nearby after attending Gravity Summit, I thought I should stop by to meet some new people.

The Tweetup was at Palomino in Westwood, a very popular bar and restaurant — I want to go back and try their thin-crust pizza because it looked delicious. The place was packed with a lively post-work/post-conference crowd, and I meandered around a bit before Rodney Rumford saw me looking a little lost and made some introductions (thank you!).

There was quite a big crowd, so I didn’t even come close to meeting everyone, but I did have some nice conversations with Ben, Dustin, Tony, Ricardo, Alan, Angie and John. I also ran into Jon Rognerud, who I worked with when I was an editor at Entrepreneur.com — we’d never met in person, so I didn’t even realize who he was at first!

It was great to get out and meet some new and interesting people. And tomorrow I have another event — the first ever Tuttle LA. If you’re available tomorrow morning and can make it to Long Beach, I’d love to see you there.

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February 26th, 2009 - Events, Los Angeles

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Bringing the Tuttle Club to Los Angeles

One of my fondest memories of living in London is my weekly meetups with London’s social media crowd at the Tuttle Club/Social Media Cafe. It’s how I met most of my friends in the city, it inspired me to delve deeper into social media with my work, and it provided lots of opportunities for me to talk about new concepts and learn new skills.

When I got back to LA, I really missed the weekly burst of inspiration and camaraderie, which is so necessary when working from home, so I was delighted when Steve Lawson introduced me to Geoff Hickman, and Geoff said he was interested in bringing Tuttle to LA.

He’s done some great work already, setting up a meeting place in Long Beach, The Library Coffee House, and we’ve chosen a date and time — February 27 at 10:30 a.m. We’ll be setting up a blog for the group soon, as well.

For those planning ahead, here’s the information for the first meeting (from Geoff’s Blog):

Where

LA’s first Tuttle Club will be held on Friday, February 27, 2009 at 10:30am at:

The Library Coffee House
3412 E Broadway
Long Beach, CA 90803
(562) 433-2393

What’s a Tuttle Club?

Tuttle Club is a loose group of people who come together to talk and work around social media. It’s freely open to anyone wanting to attend. Sounds vague but it really is what you make of it. Is it a place to meet people interested in social media? Yep. Is it a place to go to get your creative juices flowing? Sure. Is it a place to hatch plans with others? You bet. Is a place to learn, to teach? Absolutely. It’s all these things and more.

Of course, this is nothing new. The original Tuttle Club was founded in London by Lloyd Davis and has been a beloved weekly event for many of London’s geeks and creatives for quite some time. It is, however, new to the LA area.

Who Runs Tuttle LA?

That would be Geoff (@geoffsays) and me (@KizzieFK) but to be honest, the Tuttle belongs to everyone attending.
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February 13th, 2009 - Events

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