Thursday, February 11, 2010

Tonight Is the Big Night

After many months of planning, the Women in IP Law Committee will host its 3rd Annual Women in IP Law dinners this evening. The dinners are scheduled to take place in 27 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada but due to weather conditions on the East Coast a couple of locations have decided to postpone their dinners (Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh). If you were planning on attending one of those dinners stay tuned for more information from the hosts on when each dinner will be rescheduled.

We look forward to seeing you all tonight and encourage those of you who are familiar with twitter to post updates of the dinners throughout the evening. If you do not have a twitter account or are unable to attend a dinner, you can follow “tweets” by searching twitter for #womeninip. We already have quite a conversation taking place online.

Months of planning have gone into tonight’s dinners and we are so grateful to all of the hosts who have graciously volunteered to plan and underwrite the entire cost of each dinner. Thank you also to the staff of AIPLA for their assistance and a big thank you to Hathaway Russell of Foley Hoag LLP for organizing a very complicated dinner party (27 different hosts in four time zones)! Thank you Hathaway.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Let’s Tweet Live From the Networking Dinners

For the first time ever, the various locations of the Women in IP Law Networking dinners will be connecting through Twitter. Participants are encouraged to let others know what’s happening in your event and/or follow what other events are doing via your Twitter account. Not attending - you can follow the events remotely as well.

Follow or search for the term #WomeninIP to participate or use that same phrase to post your own Tweets about your Networking Dinner. Let others know about this Twitter experiment even if you can’t participate.

Questions about Twitter or how to join in on February 11th? Contact Sarah Foley(sfoley@yeeiplaw.com) or Bea Swedlow (swedlow@butzel.com).