Tweet Camp Chicago Video Recap

Earlier this month I attended the first-ever Tweet Camp Chicago. Being the geek that I am, I of course toted my Flip camera along and coerced persuaded a few people into talking.

I also had the pleasure of speaking alongside the bright young innovator Craig Kanalley (@ckanal) who founded BreakingTweets, for a session on creative ways journalists can use Twitter. The keynote speaker was Scott Smith, editor of Playboy.com (@ourmaninchicago). He's not shown on the video only because I was so enthralled by his talk, I completely forgot to paparzzi him.

It was a fun and lively event and definitely worth attending -- and not just because food sponsor @Ramon_DeLeon was there feeding us pizza and introducing me to the wonder of phenomenally delicious lava cakes (seriously, I drool every time I think of those now).

Another one of the sponsors was Office Port Chicago (@OfficePort), which has since become my new office home base. The downtown address and unique co-working idea was just too tempting for me to pass up. They just opened the Chicago location in late August and I hope they get their site re-designed soon, since it doesn't do the artsy, loft-like office space justice!

Apparently I'm a sucker for lava cakes and loft office space.

Tweet Camp Chicago was held at Columbia College Chicago and co-organized by Maura Hernandez (@MauraHernandez) and Keidra Chaney (@kdc). All the event's proceeds went to the Association for Women Journalists - Chicago (@AWJ_Chicago).

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Kim Mance is editor of the online travel magazine GoGalavanting.com and host of Galavanting.tv. She's based in Chicago, IL and some of her other writing can be found at MarieClaire.com, The Huffington Post, and Babble.