{"id":470,"date":"2009-01-31T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2009-01-31T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T02:14:07","slug":"tweeting-the-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/tweeting-the-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting the Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dunster\/statuses\/1161929618\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_0493.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_0494.jpg\"><\/a>I got an email Friday that Governor Deval Patrick was going to visit the CIC (a bit more on\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"CIC\" href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/396\">the CIC<\/a>). \u00c2\u00a0I knew the governor was on Twitter (I was one of the first 25 people to follow him <a title=\"Governor Patrick on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/massgovernor\">@massgovernor<\/a>). \u00c2\u00a0So, I sent him a tweet and asked him to stop by!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dunster\/statuses\/1161929618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-471\" title=\"gov-tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gov-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"my tweet to the gov\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gov-tweet.jpg 654w, https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gov-tweet-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t the only HubSpotter with this brilliant idea. See the tweets <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rickburnes\/status\/1160667164\">here<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mvolpe\/status\/1161731417\">here<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/karenrubin\/statuses\/1162028122\">here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0When you worship at the altar of <a title=\"inbound marketing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hubspot.com\">inbound marketing<\/a> like we do at <a title=\"hubspot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hubspot.com\">HubSpot<\/a>, it&#8217;s natural to engage with opinion influencers.<\/p>\n<p>And it worked! \u00c2\u00a0A little after 2 a bunch of us were in the board room listening to a presentation when the Governor walked in! \u00c2\u00a0We all shook his hand, and he spent a few minutes meeting with our founders, Brian Halligan and <a title=\"onstartups\" href=\"http:\/\/onstartups.com\">Dharmesh Shah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We all formed up for a picture outside, and as he was leaving, we sat him down for a group picture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hubspot.com\/Portals\/53\/images\/\/3239808734_ed69f9ed26.jpg\" alt=\"gov patrick group photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see me in the back row. \u00c2\u00a0I snapped a few pictures as well as I could. . . but you can see there were issues.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-473\" title=\"img_0494\" src=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_0494-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"decent Patrick picture\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_0494-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_0494.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards we chatted with some of the governor&#8217;s posse. \u00c2\u00a0We confirmed that the tweets were the reason the Governor came &#8211; his new media people saw the chatter and figured that it was a good place to visit. \u00c2\u00a0The visit got written up in a couple places, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalhub.com\/node\/23047\">Universal Hub<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s a social media success story &#8211; Twitter made it all happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email Friday that Governor Deval Patrick was going to visit the CIC (a bit more on\u00c2\u00a0the CIC). \u00c2\u00a0I knew the governor was on Twitter (I was one of the first 25 people to follow him @massgovernor). \u00c2\u00a0So, I sent him a tweet and asked him to stop by!\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hubspot","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}