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The Big Tweet -- Major Event Celebrating North Shore Creative Economy June 17 at Endicott College's New Center for the Arts

Posted on: Monday, 1 June 2009, 08:29 CDT

Experience Twitter and the power of social networking

SALEM, Mass., June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Creative Economy Association of the North Shore (CEANS) announced today their major event of the year on June 7 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Endicott College's new Center for the Arts in Beverly, MA. Titled "The Big Tweet" the event will focus on social networking. The featured speaker, Ben Bassi of CommonPlaces e-Solutions, LLC, will talk about how to use social networking to grow your business. Creative economy businesses from throughout the North Shore are invited to celebrate the past year's efforts to organize and grow this major economic sector in the region. Admission is free.

CEANS will provide time for in-person networking and will use Twitter as a networking and social networking teaching tool. With support from CommonPlaces and cooperation from participants, we will undertake our own interactive live 'tweeting' experiment. Advance registration is required at www.ceans.org.

"The Big Tweet" is the culmination of several years of work focused on identifying and growing the creative economy in the North of Boston region. Eight cities and towns have held their own events bringing together creative economy companies to understand and address their needs; a 128 Venture North breakfast for investors and entrepreneurs focused on the creative economy; several cross regional events centered on specific creative economy sectors including design, arts and culture, and business and management consulting were also held in the past year. CEANS has grown with help from the Enterprise Center at Salem State College, the Salem Partnership and by a grant from the Massachusetts state government.

"We know that the creative economy is an important and vibrant part of our local economy and that helping creative companies network results in new strategic alliances that grow businesses," said Christine Sullivan, co-president of CEANS.

"People who work in creative companies are drawn to areas of high amenities such as history, culture, architecture, oceans. The North Shore is a hub for those kinds of individuals and a natural place for the growth of the creative economy," said Patricia Zaido, co-president of CEANS.

SOURCE Enterprise Center at Salem State College

Source: PR Newswire

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