ASIS 09, Meetup and Lanyard News

Two exciting developments came into shape today for social networking at the ASIS 09 conference:

1. ASIS gave the green light today to publicize the social networking meetup they will sponsor. It will be held at the President's Reception, Golden Horseshoe Saloon, 7:30-8:30 pm at Monday night at Disney Park.

"Guests can enjoy cocktails and appetizers while meeting the people in your networks and sharing a little more than 140 characters at a time!" (I have to give Peggy O'Connor at ASIS credit for that clever statement).

Now - this is very important - you must have a ticket to the reception in order to attend. If you don't, I'm sure we will be working out other meetup opportunities as part of other events but I think it's very cool of ASIS to host this one!

2. Our friends at Laminex are supplying a limited number of social networking lanyards. The idea of these lanyards is to let people who use social networking easily identify each other but not detract from the official ASIS ID badge or any company attire you may have to wear.

As you can see from my poorly constructed example, it will be a sexy, fashionable lanyard with both form and function. There is a space for your Twitter ID, but you can even use your name if you are not on Twitter. Laminex says it's possible to use iron on transfers to make the user names look slick, but that would depend on me hunched over an ironing board for hours. (Someone would have to answer to my Ortho). I'm not saying we won't end up with the slick transfers - we'll just have to figure something out.

Want one? Of course you do.

Just head over to this link and sign up.

Is your company hosting an event during the conference? I'm hoping to pull together other meetup opportunities as part of larger gatherings so let me know!