Operation Smile

The TWTRcon pre-party was a benefit for Operation Smile.  Hosted by @AdventureGirl (Stefanie Michaels).  She greeted  conference speakers @boingo (Jeremy Pepper) and @PRNews (Vicky Harres)

Sweet Tweets

@ubergizmo (Eliane Fiolet) and non-tweeter Sihem Ben Mahmoud brought the heat @Operationsmile.

Super Star

As seen on FB. Twitter supa-star @Krystyl (Krystyl Baldwin) pounding cherry cokes Aspen-style (2 @ a time) at the Operation Smile/140 Smiles benefit for #twtrcon

Twitower

Mr. AdventureGirl, Phil Michaels calls himself a "twitower" ( like widower) because of his wife's HUGENESS on da Twit.

so Tweet me.

Operation Smile lady, the woman in the cool leopard print coat and @pistachio made it happen @ TWTRCON 09 in San Francisco.

Girls of Twitter

da girlz of twitter @ Operation Smiles / 140 Smiles.  Journalist and #twtrcon moderator Gina Smith with Anne Weiskopf from Ypulse.

Guy Kawasaki Keynote

Keynote speaker and tech BIG wheel @GuyKawasaki (Guy Kawasaki) from Alltop gets Gina-sized by Gina Smith at TWTRCon.

Guy and the Virgin

@GuyKawasaki from ALLTOP and Porter Gale from Virgin America met up backstage.  Virgin America is one brand  that finds success on twitter by engaging their customers.  Ms. Gale admitted that "air travel sucks".  We've been hearing on twit that Virgin America is doing a nice job flying out of SFO.

Twitteratti

@sunswebmaster (Jeramie McPeek) is a tech innovator with the NBA's Phoenix Suns. @MC Hammer is a very tech-savvy, media-savvy guy.  He has almost 800,000 tweeple following him on twitter.  Hammer is da bomb.

Help Desk

@comcastcares (Frank Eliasson) is the best thing that ever happened to Comcast.  Maybe you've had a less than stellar customer service experience with Comcast.  Frank's trying to change that culture "one tweet at a time".  He's joined by @boingo (Jeremy Pepper), Rafe Needleman and @ask_Wells_Fargo.  We really only have one question for Wells Fargo,  WTF, dude ????

The Hammer

@MCHammer and @AdventureGirl rapped about personal branding.  These two combined can hit almost 1.4 million tweeple with one click.  Speed is one of the chief attributes of Twitter. 

VIP: Behind the Velvet Rope.

Shanan Carney, the Voice of Tivo, a.k.a the Tivo Diva with serial entreprenuer Marylene Delbourg-Delphis up front in the VIP at #twtrcon

The Israelite.

Paula and Shel Israel at Twtrcon.  Shel is social media observer, prolific author and no direct relation to @AspenSpin.com. 

Bub.blicio.us

Bub.blicio.us founder Brian Solis flanked by by @Ch3ryl (Cheryl Lawson) and buzzz generator @blogbrevity Angela Dunn.  Solis, a social media expert wrote an awesome article linked here: click SOLIS to read it.

2 legit 2 Quit

Andy-Party a.k.a. @AspenSpin got into da mix w/ @MCHammer, per B.E.T., Hammer is the #7 best dancer of all time,  He's also a twitter phenom.

Bad Boyz of Twitter

The Bad Boys (and girls) table.  These tweeters think they're "all that", but most main-streamers don't even know who they are??.  Between them they've got about 3 million followers, so they must have something interesting to say. But it appears that they only engage in "two way" conversations with each other.

The Smart Kids

Kara Swisher from the Wall Street Journal moderated a panel on the future of Twitter.  Jeremiah Owyang, of Forrester,  Paul Saffo from Stanford and start up poobah Dave McClure shared their views.

Ask Josh

Ypulse keynote Josh Shipp from HeyJosh.com got his message out loud and clear. Josh explained how he went  from "class clown" to "slinging advice".

Ypulse in Action

Ypulse founder, Anastasia Goodstein is  "in the know" with teens.  Nina, a member of the Ypulse Teen Advisory Board admitted to "sharing the secrets" with Anastasia.

Ypulse

Ypulse managing editor Meredith Sires and culture expert Rolando Brown networking @ Ypulse.

Action Sports

Nate Bosshart from The North Face and Jaimeson Keegan from Red Bull brought some action sports culture to YPulse. Was JK blinkin? or does he just need another RedBull?

Qualcomm

We did a lunch-time drive by to the Java One conference @ The Moscone Center to see our friends from Qualcomm. Say wut up? to PJ 4 us.

Nerd Rock Band

We couldn't resist checking out Java One, which may signify the end of Sun Microsystems as we know it. They are merging with Oracle soon.  Check out the crowd o nerds jamming in the "developers only" VIP.  The drummer is having the time of his life.

Modern Media

The gang from Modern Media who produced both SRO conferences #twtrcon and #Ypulse.  CEO, Tonia Ries, Christopher Carson, Mary and Carolyn "worked it" to great success.

Girls and Cupcakes

Lindsay Holland and  CEO Kristine Zucchetti from Premise in San Diego celebrated their 10 year aniversary with a round of cupcakes @ Ypulse.

Gnarly, duuude

Action Sports is obviously a humongous youth market.  Trevor Graves co-founder of Nemo, (the brand developers for Nike 6.0), Meghan Clough, product manager , The North Face and Ross Resnick the marketing honcho from Honest Beverages all showed @ Ypulse.

Meeting of the Minds

Wired Teens

These teens "get it".  Thats home-girl Ashley Qualls on the left and Teens in Tech CEO, Daniel Brusilovsky with the mic.  A 16 yr old entrepreneur, Daniel consulted with A-Spin last summer , but dropped us to become CEO of his own gig.