@bethebutterfly formerly Known as Perri Gorman

Perri is a natural born networker and Twitter “passionista” who runs a Social Media consultancy, community building, and strategic introduction business.  After over a decade of Executive Search in the Financial Services industry, she saw the light that there had to be more life and left to pursue new dreams.

Perri founded TweetCamp in September of 2009 and co-created the first series with Hong Kong’s most followed Twitter star, Jay Oatway. She was recently the organizer of the Hong Kong Twestival which came in as number 5 out of almost 200 cities in total funds raised.

Perri is an active social media blogger and has guest blogged for sites like Penn Olson, and Social Media New Zealand, and others, as well as her own.  She is an active member of the local and global social media community and has attended Tweetups around the world including, most recently the 140 Character Conference in New York.

Perri is also Neal Schaffer (@NealSchaffer) founder of Windmill Networking on Tuesdays at 8pm EST called #jobchat for those who want to discuss strategy on job search, recruitment, business origination and personal branding.

Perri will be moving back to New York City from Hong Kong after four years in June 2010.

If you are interested in a private TweetCamp for your group or company, please contact Perri at perri@be-thebutterfly.com

We are excited to present a mini-TweetCamp (3 hours) on Tuesday June 1st from 7-10 pm at the Center of Excellence in Prince Edward, Hong Kong.  There has been a lot happening in the world of Twitter and many improvements to the tools available to businesses and individuals over the last six months.  We plan on sharing tips on Twitter branding and engagement, how to increase your follower base, and getting into depth on how to use some great tools that not only work with Twitter, but with Facebook Pages (not just profiles) as well.  Sign up today!

As many in the Hong Kong community know, I had the privilege of organizing the last Twestival here.  Through that experience I was able to meet some special people in the region involved with Twitter and Social Media.  One such person is Michael Q. Todd (@mqtodd) who was one of my co-organizers in Asia for Tokyo Twestival.

Michael sees Social Media as a way that a team of like minded people can co-operate globally at almost no cost to promote each other`s businesses and share learning and make a massive difference at the same time.
He is a creative and influential leader in the new media space. His primary skill is helping small businesses and charities to maximise the use of their time on Twitter. After leaving behind the secure but unfulfilling New Zealand legal business to live in Tokyo three years ago, he has worked without pay to master his chosen field and connect with other influencers.
Michael’s particular interests lie in the areas of environmental destruction and innovative education.
In late 2009 he founded the world`s first Social Media marketing community with several other social entrepreneurs and this has proved to be a major success. With a goal to play as big a game as possible and have as much fun as he can at the same time Michael spends most of the day online or juggling and the evenings at networking parties or disco dancing.

It has been a joy getting to know Michael, and I am thrilled that we can bring you a TweetCamp together.

Really looking forward to seeing you ~ @bethebutterfly

Twitter is changing the rules of business, but Tweetcamp is here to help.

As thousands of businesses, from the smallest to the largest, move into the real-time web it is becoming clear that Twitter’s founding principles are becoming the new rules for businesses everywhere.

What Twitter has taught us to become:

Immediate: Move from “Hard to Reach” to “Available Everywhere”.

Transparent: From “Controlling our Image” to “Being Ourselves”.

Approachable: No more “Trying To Sell”. Now: “Making Connections”.

The most common misconception is that Twitter is a tool for broadcasting lots of annoying, inane tweets signifying nothing. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Twitter is about listening and responding in helpful ways.

Join us to learn how to begin moving you business in the right direction.

Tickets on sale now.

There’s no point in delaying the inevitable. If you are in business you had better figure out how to capitalize on the real-time web revolution before your competitor does.

Times have changed. Having a presence online is something we all must get used to — just as many of us had to get used to the idea of having computers on our desk at work, and then email on Blackberries in our pockets.

Twitter isn’t the end-all-be-all of social networking — but it is the most important starting point. It has, in just two-short years, changed the way we search and are searched. People are looking for you and your business in the NOW–not some static website that you update periodically.

Old-school search will never vanish, your corporate blogs (you’ve got one of those, right?) will continue to play a vital role in the new media business ecosystem, but real-time news about you and your industry is creating a society where we have an omnipresent sense of the moment.

Are you living in that moment? Do you have any idea what people are saying about you and your business, right now?

Google organized our memory, but real-time search (the kind of thing that Twitter specializes in) is organizing our consciousness.

These are the sort of people who we’ve designed Tweetcamp for:

• thought leaders
• sales and marketing executives
• brand managers
• PR directors
• customer service reps
• entrepreneurs
• media workers
• social crusaders

Get your tickets now!

Twitter founder, Evan Williams explains some social, business and political uses driving the service