Last night, San Francisco organized the tech community together in an enormous show of support for a local charity. In light of the amazing job the international organization did last year, this year, cities were encouraged to support their own charity – in this case, San Francisco chose to put their weight to promoting Operation Smile, a group dedicated towards helping foster a better livelihood for children by repairing facial deformities like a cleft lip or palate.
Twestival San Francisco was organized by a great team including Krystyl Baldwin and Ian Ryerson and had its logo designed by Jeff Williams. Supported by some great organizations like Zannel, Eye-Fi, Teeny Cake, Virgin America, Fotki.com, Ubergizmo and Justin.TV, Twestival SF was complete with DJ, Photobooth, giveaways, silent auction, and even a custom Twitter-themed drink offered at Horizon Lounge, the venue of choice for this year’s Twestival.
Here are some photos of the event:
This is what Twestival SF was set up to support this year: Operation Smile.
Operation Smile’s Renee Hamilton and Stefanie Michaels (@adventuregirl) – one of the organization’s ambassadors & a guest star at Twestival SF.
Dave Mathews and a couple members of the Eye-Fi team that were on hand to capture the event and broadcast the photos live using the Eye-Fi technology.
Some of the appetizers served at Twestival SF were provided by Teeny Cake – their cupcakes were good…
Krystyl Baldwin, co-organizer of Twestival SF, raffling off one of the many items donated by supportive companies.
One of the many items raffled off was Putting the Public Back in Public Relations written by Brian Solis & Deidre Breakenridge.
A great deal of people arrived throughout the night to show their support at Horizon Lounge for Twestival SF.
Robert Scoble & Renee Hamilton
Karen Hartline, Adrian Chan & Liza Sperling
Irina Slutsky doing live interviews at Twestival SF on Justin.TV
Maryam Prassad & Keane Li
Deena Blas, Mashable’s Ben Parr & Natasha Wescoat
There are more photos available from the evening and you can view the entire set by clicking here.
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On behalf of Operation Smile, thank you so much for this awesome post and the amazing support. We are so honored to have been part of this and cannot thank the sponsors and organizers (particularly @krystyl) enough!
If your readers missed out on the fun-we still have work to do to reach our goal in honor of TwestivalSF-go to http://www.140smiles.org and donate towards team TwestivalSF!
Togther we’re changing lives one smile (and one tweet) at a time!
lots of love,
@reneeahamilton
@operationsmile