BETAMOUSE #8 – Disney Meetup Tech

On this week’s episode of Betamouse the crew discusses the way new tech has enabled Disney Meet Ups to happen with ease. Comments, suggestions or ideas? Email: show@betamouse.net

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• Henry introduces the Panel.
• Thank you to our sponsor Touring Plans. Visit Touring Plans for everything you need to save time and money at the Disney Parks.
• Henry introduces the topic of tech and Disney meet ups and asks the panel when they started doing meet ups with other Disney fans.
• Scott did a meet up in San Francisco with Lou Mongello and met Henry there!
• Jeff has only been to WDW Today Reunion 2009 as far as Disney meets and confesses that he has been listening to WDW Today since episode 6.
• Katie started her meet ups in 2009 at Studios Central Star Wars Weekends and has since been to Reunion 2009 and Tentfest as well as marathon weekend with the Be Our Guest Podcast.
• Nate talks about Westfest, a Disneyland meet, and how he has been in the Disney community since the late ’90′s.
• Henry has been following the Disney community since 2004 and started doing meet ups as recently as last year.
• Scott talks about the “meet of the month” idea taken from Lou Mongello from WDW Radio.
• Henry asks the panel about tech influences on the meets.
• Scott hears about the meets on Twitter or Facebook events.
• Jeff talks about using social media and Katie’s influence on him to join Twitter at Reunion 2009.
• Katie talks about the need for planned events and quick updating social media like Twitter to keep up with all of the Disney meet ups.
• Katie describes what a “flash meet up” is.
• Nate touches base on the idea of giving away swag at meets.
• Henry asks about using technology to exchange contact information at Disney meets while keeping information semi private.
• Scott talks about the ease of giving away email and Twitter accounts.
• Jeff and Katie talk about the new app Lokast and how it could be used to share media at Disney meets.
• Henry talks about a way to aggregate photos and media into a group stream at these types of meets and Katie recommends a group Posterous account.
• Henry asks the panel what is one thing they would do at a Betamouse meet.
• Scott suggests a contest using mobile devices similar to a scavenger hunt.
• Henry talks about a group check in on FourSquare.
• Katie wants to have a group meet at an Apple store.
• Henry wants to have free WiFi at a Betamouse meet, a group photo with everyone on their smartphones and to make a Twitter list of the events.
• Thank you again to our sponsor Touring Plans for hosting the show.
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