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Here is just a short introduction to our next event. For now, we are leaving sponsors of our last event to celebrate their commitment in September 2009, but we hope to have an updated sponsor list shortly!;)

Please look up the address of the pub: 1 Iffley Road, OX4 1 GB

Once you get to the Cape of Good Hope look for our logo - the entrance to the upstairs venue is on the right hand side from the bar;)

With great Twestivals comes great Twesponsibilities (does that work), so as the drinks flow and bands rock Oxford Twestival, why not take a moment to take those empty bottles and make sure you #tweetrecycle?
As creating bottles and jars from recycled glass uses less energy than creating glass from raw materials, here at www.frieendsofglass.co.uk we’ve been trying to encourage the great folk of Twitter to recycle their glass bottles, and share that fact with the #tweetrecycle tag, to promote recycling within the wider community.
We’ve already reached our goal of targeting 76,500 bottles between us to power the streetlights of London for 5 minutes – but we want to continue! The steps are below, and #tweetrecycle wristbands will be free and available on Sunday. So do pick one up, remind the barstaff to recycle any bottles used and share your numbers on Twitter with the #tweetrecycle tag.
1.    Go to www.twitter.com and set up a Twitter account if you haven’t already
2.    Count up the number of glass items you’ve put out for recycling
3.    Include them in your tweet and mark it #tweetrecycle
4.    Don’t forget to encourage your friends to take part too!

Follow us @GlassFriendsUK and www.bloginabottle.com.

We’re delighted to be an official sponsor of Twestival Oxford. SEOptimise is a leading search engine marketing agency – so we live and breathe the latest online trends and are genuinely excited to see innovative ideas like Twestival develop so successfully.

Not only is Twestival connecting people all over the world it’s raising money for life-changing charities such as Oxfam - it has our full backing!

We work with a wide range of clients around the world to raise their visibility on the internet and many projects include social media campaigns…

In fact, the story of our own business’s success also points to the power of social media. Our blog has proved a key driver in our business’s rapid growth. Since we first posted in 2006 our blog is now followed by 6,000 Twitter users and has more than 5,900 RSS subscribers. So we use our blog to connect with a wider audience and offer practical advice as well as comment on the latest industry trends.

Chat with us on Twitter @seoptimise or visit our blog.

Kevin Gibbons
Director of Search, SEOptimise

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So go on, grab a ticket here!:) And see you on Sunday!

At this very moment the first three of the N86 Tour-ists are Helsinki-bound on the first leg of the Twestival ‘09: N86 Tour. Armed with N86s, they are going to capture the journey the devices take across the world in the next 4 days, handing over to new Tour-ists at various points. From Helsinki, the devices will be travelling to Bucharest, Birmingham and Dubai (and one even takes in Brussels), before all meeting again in Oxford on Sunday.

As one person reaches a new destination, they’ll be handing over the N86, relay-style, to someone else, always creating rich video content showing the journey each device is making, and all the connections made along that journey.

When the devices make it back to the UK they’ll convene in Oxford, where some of the journeys will be shared, along with a talk through of connections made and exciting Twestivals attended.

There’ll be an N86 at each destination to be raffled off at each Twestival, and Nokia are making a per-mile-travelled donation to all the Twestivals the Tour-ists land at. In addition they are also offsetting the carbon emissions from the flights by utilising the we:offset application on each device.

There will be much more later, once they touchdown in Finland, so stay tuned.

Current Tour-ists:

@vikkichowney

@philcampbell

@ruperthowe

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqVnadRdh2U]

Team already posts about the trip, so to read the updates from all of them on the tour click here!

Do you like taking photos and video clips with your camera or iPhone?  Want to share your photos and videos in the form of an awesome music video?  If you’re coming to Twestival, we’ve found a great way for you to share your pics and vids with the new people you meet and your existing twitter followers.
Animoto , the hottest online video creation service, have agreed to give all Twestival organizers and attendees one (1) free full-length video credit ($3 value). Just upload your photo images and video clips, and choose a song from the animoto music catalog, and a few minutes later, receive a unique auto-created Animoto video that you can either stream or download.  You can share this video with your new friends and twitter followers!  Get started here

Just remember to use the twestival promo code ("TWESTIVAL") between September 10th and 23rd .  Also, Animoto will donate a portion of proceeds to Charity:Water from any purchase by Twestival attendees who use the promotional code during this two week period!

AYM is the performance poetry moniker of Ian Williams, who, as well as running a marketing training & consultancy business, runs the Oxford sketch writing group The Guild of the Forbidden Helmet and (from time to time) performs as a stand-up comedian. Wearing his performance poetry hat, Ian was the first ever winner of Oxford’s very own Hammer & Tongue slam poetry competition and was also the first ever winner of SlamIdol, the world’s first internet-based slam. Ian is a keen Twitter, with four accounts: @ianwilliams, @jerichotraining, @jerichomarketin and @forbiddenhelmet.

I am interested in the Oxford Twestival as I am expanding my interests more and more into the Twittersphere and this seems like a great opportunity to both perform and get to know other people who are as passionate about Social Media as I am.

You can find Ian here, here, here and here! He is also on MySpace!