If you A) live in or around Portland, B) use social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and C) aren’t some kooky shut-in, chances are you’ve heard of PDX Pipeline. I follow them on Twitter, and it’s a great place to hear about upcoming concerts, food and beverage events, pro sports, film screenings, roller derby and whatever else we Portlanders deem to be entertaining.
I mention PDX Pipeline because I’m excited to say that Julian Chadwick and Nathalie Weinstein – the two main players behind it – will be our guests at PR 3.0 on Feb. 15.
If Thursday were a woman, she'd probably wear a coat a lot like this.
For the newbs, PR 3.0 is a weekly event where we meet, drink, make merry and discuss a variety of topics related to communications, public relations, social media and pop culture. The PR 3.0 vets, or PR 3.old timers (as I like to call them when they’re not around) might be saying, “Wait just a minute. Feb. 15 is a Wednesday, and everybody who’s anybody knows that PR 3.0 is the diamond brooch on Thursday’s mohair coat.”
That’s true. If Thursday were a person, she would wear a mohair coat. There’s no denying it. Whereas, everybody knows Wednesday has a thing for tweed. It’s also true that PR 3.0 is normally held on Thursdays, which should give you some indication of just how jazzed we are to have PDX Pipeline grace one. We’ve done the impossible and moved an event normally designated for a completely arbitrary time and place to another time and place. I’ll wait for the “Ooohs” and “Aahhhs” to die down before I continue.
Speaking of the place, we’ll be holding this very special edition of PR 3.0 in the super-exclusive auxiliary space at EastBurn, where we’ll all be free from the noise of other diners/drinkers to listen as raptly as possible and then argue as loudly as possible immediately after. It’s going to be glorious.
If you see this man, do not anger him by telling him that Treat Williams played him in the TV movie.
If you give a damn about things that are important, I suggest you make it your beeswax to be at EastBurn at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15. Not only will it be an edutaining chance to hear about a company that started on a social network and then worked backward to having an actual website of its own – and was successful as a business doing so – but I predict that we might all finally find out what happened to famed hijacker D.B. Cooper in the process.
