It started with an innocent twitter entry. Now this twitter episode has lead to in interesting (and a little embarrassing) story that has now down the rounds within the SMX conference so I figure why not just blog it before someone else does. It relates to a trip I made a few weeks ago……..

“sinotechian:  Matt is in transit in Singapore… watched the debate on YouTube.. you got to love technology”.
So following my little twit, I got a response from my SEO buddy, David Temple (semscholar ) in Singapore who sent me a twitter message back. “lets catch up”.

Cool I thought. We have not seen each other and be great to meet.
The following day I posted “sinotechian   heading to the pool… laptop in hand and needing to do my slides for the Singapore SMX event next week…”
We then used twitter a number of times to agree on a Sunday meeting at 6.30pm for dinner. All seemed so 21st Centry.
On the Sunday, David wrote “semscholar   waiting in lobby at grand hyatt   from mobile web”
I rushed to the Hyatt to get there for our meeting time of 6.30pm
Unfortunately, neither of us took each other’s mobile numbers. We both waited in the Hyatt Hotel lobby for about 45 mins. I was a little surprised not to see David in the lobby and that he was late however, after a long wait I finally gave up the sitting around and felt he must have got held up. I head back to my hotel room and read my twits

“semscholar   not in bali sorry i thought you were in Singapore”
I replied.
sinotechian   :O sorry throught you were in Bali… lets see each next week in Singapore…

So two of the great minds of Digital Marketing (and active users of social media tools) have managed to successful set up a meeting at the Hyatt. It was just a shame that we waited at the Hyatt in different countries.

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