Manchester Twestival 2010

@HULABAR, 11 Stevenson Square, Manchester, M1 1DB Manchester

Who is attending?

mckayrc
jonobrain
uncouthamerican
benaldred
DigitalSignals
katrina_suzanne
rhyswynne
degsy
search_magician
karenadams
stevejuice
tinajagla
sandylindsay
instruct
_Chappers_
MichelleDigital
renate888
MrsHardwidge
hardwidge
stuart_kay
thedharmablues
clareinnis
dave_ashworth
jbutcherseo
philipmorgan
guylevine
philtolliday
jenniferogrady
simonwheatley
totmac
hannahtelford28
jonkeefe
gezd
davidtutin
groovegenerator
johnqbarber
KatePickering
RealtimeUK
kernelglobal
jamesbarley
kayddee
NigelSarbutts
bobotheeklown
sophiebradshaw
realfreshtv
shanejones
joecritchley
officesupnorth
nikburton
ThermobaricTom
LadyMcScamp
beks78
iainbe
MartinSFP
tjharrop
metaltax
hjak
martinjwilliams
smescrater
joannahalton
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robin1966
hflf
michaelcooper
annavarleyjones
saltygrim
JamieClouting
TomDoerr88
jordan_wilson
da5idk
h34v3ns3nt
thegibbon
hubbubevent
thefrancunian
AbiAgyeman
MatW
alexmossSEO
manchesterseo
peteyoung
tom_holland
Christianlmg
mikethomas84
jonathanlbarnes
linkmonkey
heidivodka
nattars
jameseahanson
harbourcoat
Psychobel
rickguttridge
smokinggunpr
lucyhunter
letsgabba
helenpower
brightboot
Mymymetrocard__

Thank you, we smashed our target!

Posted on: 6 April 2010 at 14:38 - Comment

Apologies for the lateness of this post. Easter getaways etc.

But to wrap up: thank you everyone who helped make Manchester Twestival a success, we raised an incredible £5325 for @Concern, an amazing achievement. Thank you to sponsors, auction donors, volunteers and everyone who came along.

Globally Twestival 2010 has raised $454,789 (and counting), this will make an incredible difference to the lives of children living in extreme poverty. So here’s our wrap up video, with another thank you - this time to Dave & Rich from KMP who shot and edited it.

Take off with twestival

Posted on: 24 March 2010 at 22:07 - Comment

One of our three sponsors is the low fares airline bmibaby.com

bmibaby are very active on twitter, and throughout March they’ve been running a great initiative turning twitter’s infamous follow friday (where people nominate other twitter users they think are worth following, with the hashtag #ff) into Free Flight Follow Friday #ffff. The principle of Follow Friday remains the same, you still call out Twitter friends, but by adding two fs into the hash tag to make #FFFF, you also nominate them to win one of three pairs of flights to a bmibaby destination.

For this week, in celebration of twestival, you can nominate early from Thursday night. The tickets up for grabs this week are to Lisbon, so get nominating tomorrow night, your twitter friends may have a lot to thank you for.

But there’s more…. for Manchester twestival, as well as sponsoring the event, bmibaby have kindly given us not one, not two but three pairs of tickets to give away. Two of those pairs will go up for grabs in the auction but the final set will be given away in a very special competition.

We are challenging Manchester twestival goers to design a paper plane that looks sharp & flies far. Our judges will choose the best one and the winner will get a pair of tickets to Jersey! Not bad for a bit of origami. Either bring it with you or make one on the night (we’ll have paper available). No metal attachments allowed!

image courtesy rhondda

Ready, steady, bid!

Posted on: at 13:08 - Comment

OK people, listen up, we are getting together tomorrow to try and raise as much money as possible for @Concern and in doing so we’ll be helping some of the poorest children in the world get access to an education which would otherwise be out of their reach.

We have been astounded and delighted at the generosity of our donors and hope you’ll all come ready to bid! Please note that wherever possible we’d like you to pay by card or paypal rather than cash (just makes it a bit simpler).

So here goes - the list of what is up for grabs tomorrow night at Manchester Twestival!

* A flip video camera donated by Amaze @amazeplc

* Two pairs of flight tickets, one set to Lourdes and one set to Bordeaux (to be used within 3 months) donated by @bmibaby_com

* Two Front Row Jason Manford tickets for Wednesday 10th November 2010 at the Manchester Apollo, donated by Gareth Hoyle, Manchester SEO and link building company.

* Dinner for two at Walrus restaurant (Sunday-Thursday) donated by Walrus @WalrusBar

* £200 of Nandos vouchers (that’s a lot of chicken!) donated by Fluid Creativity @fluidcreativity

* x4 personal trainer sessions delivered by Absolute Fitness and donated by Fluid Creativity (at the gym next to Fluid’s offices in Hyde)

* An overnight stay for two at CityInn Manchester, includes breakfast @cityinnhotels

* A full male grooming session including wet shave (worth aprox £75) donated jointly by social media agency Gabba and Close Male Grooming

* A case of Tsing Dao beer donated by Halewood (will be delivered to the winner)

* A durex love-pack donated by Durex

* A scholl beauty pack (summer’s coming people, get those hooves sorted!) donated by McCann Manchester

* A overnight stay at Macdonald hotel & spa in Manchester, includes breakfas.

* Two passes to FutureEverything (worth £150 each) @FuturEverything

* Three annual adult passes (worth £625 each); any bus, anywhere, anytime to 4am. Donated by System One @OneManchester

* Three 12-month silver memberships to Econsultancy (each one worth £195); includes unlimited access to Econsultancy reports (£150 individually) and 10% off all training. @econsultancy (can be auctioned off separately or combined)

* x1 training (Manchester based) training course from Econsultancy (SEO, PPC, Analytics, online pr etc etc!) worth up to £500. @econsultancy

* Two crates of Mountain Dew and 10 boxes of Lucky Charms (worth £75), donated by @americansoda

* A meal for two at the Great Kathmandu Resturant in Didsbury, donated by the Great Katmandu

* A family pack of Hasbro board games (includes Monopoly, Cluedo, Jenga, Operation & others!) value aprox £100, donated by @citizenofbrazen and Hasbro

* A Brother wireless, colour printer RRP £85 donated by @Brother_UK

* A ticket to social media and SEO conference SAScon (worth £250) donated by SAScon

* A pair of top price tickets (value £50) to see When Harry Met Sally, starying Sarah Jayne Dunn, soundtrack by Jamie Cullum, at the Opera House, Manchester on Monday 10th May. Donated by @PalaceAndOpera

* 2 First Class tickets to anywhere on the First TransPennine Express Network, donated by @TPExpressTrains

We also have free twestival printed cotton bags for everyone that comes along, courtesy of 3 Cube and travel scratchcards Donated by System One @OneManchester

Phew!

What’s hot and what’s not…about KMP

Posted on: at 12:16 - Comment

KMP Digitata are one of the generous sponsors of this year’s Manchester Twestival. Find out more about them in our ‘KMP: what’s hot and what’s not’ feature.

HOT
@kmpdigitata is 20 years old next year – Party Time!
Our tweeting departure board for @manairport
Our new Facebook app for Trek America
Helping to promote the North and loving the web by sponsoring Speak the Web, founded by our very own @rich_clark
Free Lunch Thursdays. Cheers @jonkeefe. The debate over “best sandwich filling” rages on.
Monthly Beers and full band Guitar Hero on the projector in the boardroom courtesy of @gezd
Seeing how the weekend’s football has affected the KMP Fantasy Footie league on Mondays. Nothing like a spot of healthy competition to start the week.

NOT
Client Services Director @dodders is the spitting image of JetPark’s @CaptainParks
Studio Manager Drew believes his Palm Pre is pick of The Agency’s smartphones.
The amount of brews made by motion graphics guru @_Davelee – he has yet to make a round in 2010!
The dodgy lift to the second floor –at least it encourages many of us take the stairs and get some exercise.
The Studio Spotify playlists are regularly infected with Lady Gaga and show-tunes by @robsandbach
The KMP Digitata 5-a-side football team. Whatever the result, football is the real loser.

10 facts about Manchester airport we bet you never knew

Posted on: 21 March 2010 at 19:40 - Comment

Manchester airport is one of the three sponsors of Manchester twestival. It’s thanks to the generous support of the airport, bmi baby and kmp digitata that we can put on a fun social event and still ensure we raise as much money as possible for Concern.

Here are 10 facts you probably never knew about Manchester airport.

Manchester airport has its very own cat - Olly – who came to live outside one of the buildings a few years ago and has never left. He now has his own Facebook page and was visited by a journalist from Kuwait recently who wrote a news article on his residence at the airport. He also became a she at the end of last year when during a visit to the vets, it transpired that she is actually an Olivia. There is a shift rota for airport workers who feed her and clean her bowls at the weekend.

The “Tweeting Departure Board” on Twitter has been used over 2000 times since its inception in September 2009. Passengers only need to send a direct message to @manairport and they receive live flight data back every time the status of their flight changes.

Manchester is the only airport in the UK that provides ‘plane spotters’ with a dedicated facility. It’s called the Aviation Viewing Park. There’s a few celebrity ‘regulars’ including Peter Kay and Denis Law. It’s also home to one of the only remaining Concordes in the world.

Manchester Airport is one of the UK’s largest art sponsors, with £9 million pounds donated over the Airport’s history to organisations like the Manchester International Festival, Queer up North, Wigan Jazz and the Halle.

Manchester Airport is the current holder of the ‘Loo of the Year’ awards – there’s 1015 toilet bowls, 464 urinals and 1021 sinks in total. Passengers get through 43,930,000 metres of toilet roll each year - if ‘unrolled’ this would stretch the equivalent distance of flying Manchester to New York (5,385 km) eight times.

The redevelopment of Terminal 1 in 2009 gave the airport a retail frontage of around 550 linear metres, which is longer than the pedestrian zones of King Street and Market Street in Manchester City Centre.

More than 1.5 million bottles of water and 40,000 bottles of champagne, 1.8 million books and over a million packs of cigarettes are bought by passengers every year in the Airport’s shops.

Passengers also drink an average of one million pints of beer, eat 300,000 breakfasts and more than 3 million hot drinks every year.

More than 19,000 people are directly employed on site every day.

The airport has two parallel runways each 3,048 metres in length, three passenger terminals, a world freight terminal, 42 air bridges, 254 check-in desks, 940 information screens and its own rail station.

Today’s Lesson: Education

Posted on: 9 March 2010 at 21:06 - Comment

This is what it’s all about…. come and help us raise as much money as possible at Manchester twestival, for one fantastic cause.

Sponsors, we salute you!

Posted on: 24 February 2010 at 21:29 - Comment

So along with hundreds of other volunteers across the globe, we’re gearing up for this year’s Manchester Twestival; finding venues, seeking donations and of course, looking for sponsors who are willing to step up to the mark and support us in our efforts to raise money for a fantastic cause.

And we’ve been really lucky that three fantastic companies have agreed to sponsor our event. So please take a bow….

bmibaby, the funky low cost airline that flies from four UK bases: Manchester, East Midlands, Birmingham, and Cardiff to 30 European destinations.

KMP Digitata, one of the North West’s leading based creative digital agencies that count some of the UKs most prestigious brands in their client list.

Manchester airport, needing little introduction. Over 100 airlines offer direct flights from Manchester airport to over 210 destinations worldwide, connecting over 22 million passengers to more places than any other airport in the UK. Pretty darn impressive.

We’ll be talking a little bit more about our sponsors over the next couple of weeks (and there are others who are helping out in different ways) but for now we’d like to say thank you for agreeing to help us organise Manchester’s very own Twestival. Once again, there’s a very good reason why we’re doing this.

*photo used under Creative Commons courtesy of psd

Your Twestival Needs You

Posted on: 16 February 2010 at 00:18 - Comment

Everyone involved in last year’s Manchester Twestival should be exceedingly proud of themselves. We raised over £4000 for an incredible cause and had a great time doing it. We want to help make this year’s global Twestival even more successful and contribute as much as possible towards the chosen charity, Concern Worldwide.

Be sure to keep Thursday, 25th March free and follow @MancTwester for the latest updates and ticket information (we sold out within five hours last year).

Finally, but most importantly, as every twestival around the world is organised solely by volunteers (who have day jobs, kids, dogs etc) the more people who get involved the better. Specifically we’re looking for:

Help updating/maintaining the blog
PR support
Donations for our charity auction (some incredible donations last year)
Contributions to our goody bags
Help organising the event (including technical help with streaming, audio and visual)
Helping hands on the night itself.

If you think you can lend a hand please do get in touch via @MancTwester or email katie at prandsocial dot com. We are also having a volunteers meetup on Thursday 18th February at 6pm in Rain Bar, just turn up and say hello!

Over a grand and still counting

Posted on: 20 September 2009 at 18:34 - Comment

MancTwester Local saw people turn out from all parts of Manchester’s digital community - academics, agencies, client side. The charity auction got pulses racing with a Wii, a case of Tsing Dao beer, a box of goodies from Durex and a NorthFace ice wall climbing experience. Marv was on the decks till late and a good time was had by all.

Big thanks to Sun Microsystems for sponsoring the event, McCann Manchester for organising it, Andy O’Brien for his compere skills and HouseBar9 for loaning us the bar. Over £1000 has been raised from the sponsorship, charity auction and ticket sales.

We hope that St Ann’s Hospice will be able to put the money to good use.

Breaking the ice

Posted on: 8 September 2009 at 13:50 - Comment

Lucky lucky MancTwester.
Brazen and NorthFace have just offered to give us tickets to an ice climbing session as an auction prize for Thursday night! Glad we’ve got a wide range of prizes now, something for everyone (we hope).