One of the interesting things about working with social media is how much it can really blur the lines between the personal and the professional. Take me, for instance: I never thought I'd find myself in a position to do much of anything with this blog beside telling stories about wangs, but lo, it turns out that the internet changes everything.
So, two things about this post:
1. Full disclosure: This event is being run by a client. I'm helping her get the word out.
2. I am sincerely hoping that some of you will assist me in getting the word out by alerting your readers, be it on your blog, or on Twitter, or on Facebook, or by tattooing the relevant information on your butt and hiring someone to drive you around town on a float festooned with balloons and streamers with your pants off.
And now, the details:
On November 19th, GirlfriendCircles.com is hosting an NYC "speed-friending" event at Sweet Revenge in the West Village. This is for women only. (Sorry, guys. We get speed-friending; you get to pee standing up. Sounds fair to me.)
If you've ever moved to a new city, worked in a male-dominated industry, or for some other reason found yourself living sans a group of super-cool women to hang out with, you know what a good idea this is. The premise is simple: $15 buys you an evening of wine, cupcakes, and a roomful of potential BFFs who are looking to make new friends. The rest of it works just like speed-dating (quick meetings with individual women during which you snap-judge your compatibility), except that none of the participants will eventually try to have sex with you. Which is nice.
Tickets are available at a discount for the next day ONLY. So, if you -- or your readers -- live in New York City and are interested in meeting and mingling with a group of cool ladyfolk next week, please do the following:
1. Visit the event page for a ticket. (As previously mentioned, we're all being offered an early sign-up discount right now -- score!)
2. Tell people about it via Twitter, Facebook, your blog, your butt.
3. Alert me to your illustrious internet activities in whatever way you see fit.
That's it!
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
...Oh, one more thing: I sort of forgot to mention this, but I... um... joined Twitter. So if you want to follow me, you can do it here.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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I would have loved this a year ago but I juuuust found out that I am moving to Chicgao! Excited, but makes me less apt to want to make new friends and then never see them again ;)
Good luck with the event!
i would love to see an event like that in brooklyn!
That's awesome. SO much less pressure when you aren't trying to figure out if they just want to sleep with you.
Posted on my Facebook, though I'm not sure I know many people up in NY. Perhaps it'll get passed along though! I wish they'd do a wine-cupcakes-and-girlfirends night down here!
This sounds so amazing! I'd love to go to an event like this! Unfortunately I'm in Australia and don't plan on moving to NY for a few years :P
This sounds seriously awesome.
On another note, how the eff did we not meet up when I was in NYC?! I think I need to plan a second trip, dedicated solely to eating at pommes frites and hanging out with you.
I LOVE this. As a transplant from one coast to the other, and having left behind ALL my girlfriends, totally would love to go to something like this!
Am I the only cool girl who doesn't get along with other girls?
wait, am i even cool?
PS I was totally just wondering yesterday if you had twitter! adding!
wait... I can pee standing up?
I feel compelled to point out the faulty logic in this: "...except that none of the participants will eventually try to have sex with you."
Other than that I think it is a grand idea and lessens the pressure like Rosa says. As the late Mr. Carlin once said, you need not look any further for the male subconscious attempting to project his "epeen" into EVERYONE'S business than the shapes of bullets and bombs.
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