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By Leora Wenger, November 22, 2009 8:53 am

On Friday I enjoyed a face-to-face meeting with 4 others (Annie Boccio, Jennifer Wilner, Eva Abreu and Joanna Carides). Annie is pictured talking into Eva’s laptop because we had our “tweetup” (where folks on Twitter meet in person) at the same time as a group in northern New Jersey. Unfortunately, we couldn’t hear well with the Skype, so it was difficult to connect well with our friends in the north (Joe Mull, Dorrie Rifkin, Chris Kieff, Amy Koehler, khk2000, Cathy Farber, John Herman). But we had time to talk amongst ourselves about our own businesses and lives.

What are some reasons one might want to meet others in person?

1. You might get a new client.
2. You might learn something that will help your business.
3. You might help someone in the group get a new client or help them with their business.
4. Your work involves staring at a screen all day or talking into the telephone (mine certainly does!), and you love the idea of talking about your work in person, with real live people.
5. You like meeting new people.

Any more suggestions for why one would attend a face to face meeting?

I also ran a Twitter Research Workshop at the Highland Park Public Library on Monday night, so it was a good face-to-face week for me. It was great to have Dhaval Jani and Haim Cohen at the workshop, as they helped answer some of the participants’ questions.

Do you have opportunities to network in person where you live? How have you found the experience? Eva Abreu organized the tweetup on Friday, and she used http://www.meetup.com/ for the invites and feedback. If you want, you can use it to join our Central New Jersey group or to organize your own in your area.

If you have suggestions on how the audio for Skype can be improved, feel free to say so in the comments.

Update: See Eva’s video -

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