In the United States, we will be celebrating our National Holiday of Thanksgiving this week. Lots of Americans will be traveling this week, in fact the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is typically the worst and busiest travel day of the year. Many of those people who are traveling are other singles… And some of the other travelers are friends and family members of other singles…. Leverage the Law of Large numbers this week. Work with the energy and movement of people which is already naturally occurring.
Organize a TweetUp
On the internet dating front, all those Social Media contacts you’ve been making at Facebook and Twitter, now you have a wonderful opportunity to meet a few of them while you will be in town. At Twitter, suggest a TweetUp for the city and metro region you will be visiting. Typically you will want to DM (Direct Message) a few of your Twitter buds in the area you are visiting and exchange phone numbers while keeping your privacy intact. And then for a few days before the TweetUp, be sure to cite the TweetUp a number of times in your TweetStream, citing it with a Hashtag #TweetUp citation along with the time and location for the event. That way others might join you.
Last New Years I celebrated in the Minnesota Twin Cities area and did a TweetUp with locals there. In particular, I got to meet Al Ferretti, @AlFerretti, of the TwitterWatchDog pair with Skeeter Hansen, @SkeeterHansen, as well as others. Our doing so ensured we had a deeper networked relationship than if we have only kept our Social Networking online.
Online Dating is the same way. Yes, you want to do some vetting online, and then you want to aim to actually meet and go on dates.
When You Are Traveling
With the Thanksgiving travels this week, if you are the one traveling to visit friends and relatives, make an effort to talk with other people in your airport shuttle and in the airports. Grab a coffee. Grab a cocktail. Have a magazine or newspaper with you to assist others in an easy conversation opening topic with you. Feel free to wear a baseball cap or University fleece. These are all conversation opening props. Make it easy for others to talk with you.
While you are in town, get on the horn and make efforts to get together with former high school, prep school, or college buddies. Meet at wine bar or the local pub. First, you never know who you may end up dating. There are plenty of marriages which occur between former class mates who met years later and suddenly had chemistry. Or between former school mates who were in a class or two ahead of you or behind you. Those age differences can be huge when you’re 15 and nothing when you’re 35.
Former Arch Rivals
Additionally, while you’re at the pub or wine bar, chat up the locals who are there. Maybe they are from what was your high school’s arch rival in Field Hockey or Football, and you can laugh about it all now. Shared laughter fosters romantic chemistry.
All this week I will be blogging about ideas to get your dating life moving and grooving around the Thanksgiving Holiday and all the activities of the week.
Until next time,
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Southern California Christian Dating & Relationship Speaker
Lynn Lane says
November 22, 2009 at 7:28 PMApril,
some very good ideas for singls on the move over the holidays. I love the idea….meet the folks you talk with on your social media sites if you travel to their town.
And meeting some old friends that may be single when you travel back home.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Lynn Lane
Success Strategies For Life
Martin says
November 23, 2009 at 1:37 AMHi April
Great ideas for Thanksgiving travellers.
I hadn’t heard of a TweetUp before, so thanks for educating me!
Martin Wright
John Ho says
November 23, 2009 at 5:04 AMApril,
TweetUp is pretty powerful.
Actually, using social media like Facebook is effective in calling up for gathering. In Melbourne, Australia, we had an incident where a teenage called up a birthday party in his Facebook page and ended up with about 300 youths (doubt that they’re all his friends) gathereing around his house and created havoc and disorder that needed police intervention!
Well, I don’t think it would have the same result with TweetUp for dating though.
John Ho
Darryl Pace says
November 24, 2009 at 1:25 PMGreat tips for meeting people when traveling!
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Steve Chambers says
November 28, 2009 at 1:52 PMA Tweet up, now there’s an idea I never thought of. Taking our online relationships offline is always a better idea. Real relationships are always better than virtual ones.
Steve Chambers
Suzanne Gantz says
December 16, 2010 at 7:56 PMI think meeting other travelers at the airport bars would be really easy. Great idea April.
Jhon says
September 30, 2015 at 5:20 PMGeorge, the short answer is no. But I think it boils down to cpnceot, rather than verbiage. A daily is very different from a weekly. And a monthly is in a whole nother ball park. Because the editorial cycles are dramatically different, it makes analysis that much more important rather than, say, event coverage. It would help differentiate the product from what The Union and KNCO do. When it comes to the local blogs though, I’m not so sure there is a need to differentiate the content explicitly with blogs in mind. Nobody I know of is going to all of the meetings and events like the local news orgs.