The 3rd annual South African national Tweetup for good, #TBDZA (previously known as #TBD), will be held on Saturday, 26 May 2012 at venues around the country. Same time, same date. More details to follow. Details will be posted on the official website: www.twitterblanketdrive.co.za

With #TBD events all wrapped for the weekend, it's time to reflect before I report back. Need to remember to celebrate all the good that happened these past months - total strangers coming together to make a difference. There is so much good to reflect on. I'll post an official #TBD report on my blog as well as on www.twitterblanketdrive.co.za by the end of this week.

Thank you to a very over zealous South African Twitter community, the official #TBD website has borked! Here's all the info you need to know about events taking place around the country today. There are 14 events taking place in 4 provinces: Province Area Venue Time Twitter host Gauteng Sandton Crowne Plaza Hotel, Rosebank 6pm – 10pm @MelanieMinnaar Benoni The Coffee Shop, Rynfield 6pm @jackiejvr West Rand SilverStar Casino 6pm @ReneeEverett Pretoria The Blades 6pm @sdiederic

In 2009 I signed up for Twitter. Hardly an early-adopter. I lost interest very quickly as no one was apparently interested in what I had to say, and ‘they’ were downright rude as they didn’t even acknowledge my presence on the social media platform. It took 6 more months before someone explained to me how Twitter worked. It was only in January 2010 that I really started exploring the bustling social media platform. I was on maternity leave, it was a cold autumn day. And as I

The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosebank has been confirmed as the venue for the 4 June Tweetup for the blanket drive in Sandton. The hotel has generously provided a conference room, complete with AV support necessary to make the tweetup a techie success. The tweetup venue is conveniently located in a private area with close access to rest rooms, deck (for smokers) and the hotel bar (in case there is a sporting event on the telly which we've overlooked in selecting the date). The h

The temperature has dropped. The trees are shedding green for gold. And, #TBD is back on... Last year the South African Twitter community raised over 500 blankets in addition to bags full of clothing for less fortunate communities. Over R20,000.00 was also donated directly to selected charities for the drive. Tweeps from all over the country came together on the same day at the same time for a national Tweetup for good. This years' #TBD kicked off about 2 days ago and so far

For love of the game... The picture to the left is of the new Orlando Stadium which will soon be on display to the world when the soccer world cup kicks off in a couple of weeks. This weekend though it will be home to the Blue Bulls and the Stormers in the Super 14 final. To say that I am not a rugby fanatic would be an understatement but what has caught my attention is a post on sport24.co.za brought to my attention by active Tweeters, @talk2imagine and @antiekoekie: What Cl