From Facebook to ‘Real Life’

Blagica Bottigliero, NBC5 Street Team (Video)

I along with fellow Street Teamer, LeeAnn Trotter, met up at Duffy’s yesterday morning. You may wonder – Why would the two of you get up early, trek to Lakeview and eat breakfast when you live in the South Loop ? Good question.

LeeAnn and I attended ‘Breakfast with Jeff Pulver and Friends’. Jeff Pulver is a well-known VoIP expert (he co-founded Vonage) that hosts these types of breakfasts all over the world – literally. Using Facebook and word-of-mouth as the means to invite people, Jeff gets likeminded folks together to eat breakfast, chat, and tag one another. Did I say tag? Yup.

Jeff uses social media methods to communicate in ‘real life’. Each of us wore a main sticker with our ‘tag line’ (mine was Mixing Business with Activism). From there, we met fellow breakfast goers, networked and wrote on their ‘wall’.

LeeAnn is piecing together a story for an upcoming newscast, so stay tuned for that. Once you see things happening ‘live’, you’ll get my drift. I also chatted with LeeAnn on camera about my POV on the topic, so I’m excited to see how that turns out.