Blogger-Twitter Meetup at HIMSS Annual Conference
I’m getting very excited about the HIMSS Annual Conference. As someone who writes as much as I do about healthcare IT, I think that going to the HIMSS conference is going to be like a little kid in a candy store. I could be wrong, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun for me. Extremely busy, but I’ll enjoy every minute of it.
As I’ve started to put together my plans for the conference, I was thinking that it might be interesting to have a blogger meetup at the conference. Maybe it should just be called a New Media conference so people on Twitter could come as well as bloggers. Plus, I’m cool with readers of various blogs coming to participate as well. I know there have been blogger meetups at HIMSS in the past. I think that Shahid has helped out with those in the past. Maybe he already has something planned.
The other good news is that it looks like I might have a sponsor for a blogger meetup. So, if we get enough interest I think we could get the meetup sponsored and have an even better time. That means, let me know of your interest in the comments and we’ll see what we can put together.
Also, I’ve signed up my first sponsor for my coverage of the HIMSS conference. I’m still looking for a couple more. If people are interested, feel free to drop me a note on my contact us page.
I would definitely be interested in attending the blogger meet-up event at HIMSS 2010 conference.
I would absolutely love to participate in the blogger-twitter meet-up event at HIMSS 2010. As the Communications Chair for the Georgia Chapter of HIMSS, I have been working to encourage our members to become more active in Social Media as a communications tool, especially our physicians and hospital CIOs. I look forward to meeting you!
Great to hear Liz. It looks like we’re close to having enough people to make this thing a reality. Maybe you could help us out with a location in Atlanta, Liz? Do you live there? Preferably something close to the conference.
John,
I’d also be interested in meeting up at HIMSS. I’ll be there – also enjoying all the candy. Beth Friedman
Beth,
Great to hear. Plans are seriously coming together on this. I think it’s going to be a pretty exciting event. Might include a number of meetups throughout the show. More details to come out next week.
FYI… HIMSS already has a few meetups scheduled for social networkers. http://www.himssconference.org/networking/engage.aspx
Ok everyone, I’ve finally announced the details of a couple New Media meetups at HIMSS: http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2010/02/10/2010-new-media-meetups-at-himss/
It’s open to everyone since the beauty of new media is that everyone can participate. Make sure you register for the Kick Off Party.
Hi everyone — Pervasive Integration is one of the sponsors of the meet-up, and we’re looking forward to meeting you all! We’ll be in booth 2545 with a great give-away and some comfy places to sit. See you soon.
Lori,
Thanks for the sponsorship. Looking forward to meeting you at HIMSS.