Unless you have been living under an avalanche in Antarctica for the last few days, you haven’t heard that the Facebook movie, The Social Network, was #1 at the box office this past weekend.

I’ve already seen it, and despite Hollywood taking the usual liberties with the true story, I found the movie to be interesting, engaging,  and well acted.

Actually, Justin Timberlake is pretty good…

And, I’m all about seeing it again! Let’s have a Movie Meetup!!!

Date: Friday October 8, 2010

Time: 7:20pm

Place: Terrace Theatre, 1956 Maybank Hwy, James Island

Other: Pre-movie meetup at 5:30-5:45pm at Zia Taqueria (next door)

Let me know in the comments if you wish to attend the movie, Zia’s or both!

The proposed meet-up would be Thursday, August 26, 2010 at Carolina Crust, in Hanahan Station.

6:30-7:00pm ish (what time sounds better to you?)

This venue offers a large enough space for a gathering.  There is a full bar and very fresh and delicious food choices.

If I have a good response, I’ll call them, directly, and make the arrangements.

Are you in?  Let me know in the comments.

~Heidi

As I’m sure many of you have noticed updates here at LowcountryBloggers.com have become more and more infrequent. I want to thank everyone who has been involved with the community in all of its forms over the past few years

Dan Tennant has moved to Pennsylvania and I have had as much as I can handle with the growth of Home-Ec101.

The community has also grown, blogging is no longer the only game in town. We have Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, 21st Century Photography, and even some activity on Google Wave. There is also  Social Media Club Charleston a group that works to help locals understand and use various social media platforms. I have been talking with Ken Hawkins at TheDigitel to see if there would be ways this community could be taken under their wing, but there isn’t a definitive plan at this moment.

Speaking of The Digitel, they are looking for a few writers and this may be something some of you are interested in:

Well then you might have the right stuff to join TheDigitel’s writing team. We’re looking for a few folks to spend 5 to 10 hours a week writing about their community.

Your time will likely be spent covering live stories, interacting on social media, reporting about other great local reporting, and everyone’s favorite: rewriting parts of press releases.

If you’re not yet familiar with us, TheDigitel.com is a hyperlocal online media site that does primary reporting and “context aggregation” in Charleston. What this means is that we’re the gateway for all things local.

Last item on the table. Google is hosting a picnic tomorrow (Saturday November 14) at Cypress Garden, here is their press release along with contact info to learn more. The weather should be gorgeous, so maybe we’ll see you there.

Community Benefit Event Set for Cypress Gardens

Proceeds will be donated to The Supporters of Historical Cypress Gardens

(BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.) – The Supporters of Historical Cypress Gardens and Google, Inc. will team up to host a Community Benefit Event on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The benefit – featuring live music from the Hot Shots and Shakin’ Martinis, an inflatable castle, children’s fossil dig and swamp fishing, face painting, balloon art, a raffle and other surprises – will be held throughout Cypress Gardens.

The Palmetto Bar-B-Que Company will sell food at the event with 20 percent of the proceeds benefiting the Supporters of Historical Cypress Gardens, the non-profit organization that supports Cypress Gardens.  Raffle tickets can also be purchased at the event. The raffle is sponsored by The Supporters of Historical Cypress Gardens. Raffle prizes will be provided by Google, Inc., who will also match proceeds from the event up to $5,000.

Cypress Gardens will offer reduced admission for attendees — $5 for adults and $2.50 for children. These special admission prices are only valid with a discount coupon, which is available at any Berkeley County library while they last. Attendees can bring the discount coupon to Cypress Gardens on Nov.14 and purchase a discounted ticket at the door. Without the coupon, tickets to Cypress Gardens will cost $10 for adults and $5 for children. The discount coupon is only valid on Nov. 14. On the event day, the park will be open only for those with a ticket.

For more information about the event, please visit www.google.com/berkeleycounty or call 843-553-0515.

WHO:              The people of Berkeley County, community leaders, representatives from Google, Inc. and the Supporters of Historical Cypress Gardens

WHAT:             Google Community Event to Benefit Cypress Gardens

WHEN:            Saturday, Nov. 14 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE:           Cypress Gardens is located at 3030 Cypress Gardens Rd., Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461

EVENT DETAILS:

Parking: Free parking will be available at Cypress Gardens

Tickets: The admission price is $5 for adults and $2.50 for children with discount coupons available at any Berkeley County library.

About Cypress Gardens

Beautiful Cypress Gardens has been a preferred group and family destination since 1951. Visitors from all over the country come to experience this unique and exciting attraction, which has been featured in numerous national magazines and has offered the setting for some of the most memorable scenes in motion pictures such as The Notebook, The Patriot and Cold Mountain. Nestled within a genuine black water cypress swamp, Cypress Gardens offers a variety of adventures for adults and children of all ages, including thrilling swamp boat rides, 4.5 miles of scenic nature trails and an amazing Butterfly House.

A chance encounter has changed Wendy’s outlook:

The night after that happened I made a decision that I would never make anyone feel the way that woman made me feel. I made a conscious decision to live Joyfully. That decision has had a profound impact on my life. I feel like I have been liberated from stress.

A familiar face can be found at the Navy Yard, where they have  interviewed fellow blogger Leigh Webber.

Phish stories.

Simple Cents recommends FinanceWorks as a budgeting tool.

Content management can be overwhelming, but here’s a layman’s rundown of folksonomy through tagging.

Parting shot: recipes to celebrate Octoberfest from Hugging the Coast.

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for Oct 17th for our yearly Blognic and October 24th, Barcamp Charleston has released another 50 tickets after nearly selling out earlier today.

Crossposted from Imablog

If it’s September, that means time to start planning for another Blognic!

By my count this will be Blognic #4 and since Wannamaker County Park worked so well for the last two, might as well go there again (unless someone has other suggestions).

Now we just need a date. My thoughts for potential dates are the weekends of Sept 26, Oct 3, Oct 10 or Oct 17. Those just happen to be weekends I have free, but don’t let that stop you from suggesting other dates. Personally I like the Oct 10 or 17 dates.

As usual, Blognic ’09 will be a pot-luck affair for the whole family and by no means limited to bloggers so everybody’s invited!

Events

Tomorrow, August 19th,  join Social Media Club Charleston for Social Media 101. It’s a free event at the College of Charleston’s Wachovia Auditorium. The panel starts at 6pm and at 8 we’ll head over to Mellow Mushroom for an extended happy hour. Feel free to drop in or follow the hashtag #smcchs to keep up with the event.

August 25th the Charleston Arts Coalition is hosting a Creative Town Hall Meeting, “Nursing Creativity Through an Economic Slump.”

Hurricanes

Bill reminds us big storms can happen in slow seasons.

Flora and Fauna

Photo Credit: Audubon South Carolina

You may have been to Mepkin Abbey, but have you taken the bug tour?

Are your coneflowers fading? Offshoots explains a possible reason.

Quick Tips

Recycle your phonebook (and stop new ones from arriving).

Social Media

Need an update about traffic or construction on I-26 due to the expansion project? You’re in luck, there is a Twitter account.

What could have happened if Best Buy had responded positively to their $9.99 pricing error?

Impersonal social networking?

We like Meta.

Helen, of Tartlette, shows off her new digs.

Pink Wallpaper got some love from Design Dazzle.

New to the blogroll the Navy Yard Blog.

Random

Bummed out? Try Bejeweled.

Subtle humor from Patrick’s Place.

A hard sell can lead to bad publicity.

Heather is starting to get nervous, but that doesn’t stop her from blogging at Home Ec 101 or at home.

You don’t have to look far to learn my opinion of on our role in community. Today’s round up is a look at the community in action.

This Friday run a 10k to help raise money for Forester’s fight with cancer:

PLEASE join us for Seabrook Island’s 2nd annual 10k charity run/walk & silent auction! You’ll get a groovy t-shirt and help us with the burden of medical bills! Before and after the walk/run there will be the opportunity to bid at a silent auction. Also, a cash bar with Bloody Marys and Mimosas will be available before and after the race! Mimosa before running? Sounds like a great idea!

Cross-promotion is a clear benefit of community participation.

Have you been paying attention to Geoff’s mishap? It’s encouraging to see so many locals rallying behind him.

JanetLee:

Geoff is getting an idea of the real America – yes, bad things happen, but that’s when we come together.

JJ weighs in and shares a quote from Helen Keller:

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”

Pam:

It seems that folks from the Lowcountry and beyond are determined to help Geoff stay on the road – and at the same time redeem his frustrated view of this country.

Charleston City Paper:

According to Dan Conover at Xark!, the fund-raising effort has been largely decentralized and has garnered support from the North Carolina blogging/Twitter community in addition to widespread local response. Conover writes, “Online communities are communities nonetheless.”

And of course, we need to hear from the man himself:

What do you say when someone sets up a ‘help Geoff‘ website for you? When ‘#helpgeoff’ becomes a Charleston hashtag of the day. Or most of all, when people are willingly parting with their hard earned dollars in these tight-times to cough up for me for new equipment and keep me on going some. Today I learned the definition of the word ‘humbled’.

‘Humbled’, of course, cannot begin to sufficiently describe how it made me feel. No way will “Thank you” go anywhere near towards really thanking you for you help, love and support.

By the afternoon, my mind was made up. I carry on. Because giving up would be … well … just giving up, wouldn’t it? And as another favourite quote of mine goes … “You can’t fail, if you don’t give up”, which means that giving up is not an option.

Janet wants to know what the Lowcountry creative tech community needs:

what YOU would do — with a building that could have shared infrastructure in terms of both space and tech. I’m talking about a really spacious spot, with room for cooperative workspace, offices, artist studios, classroom space, editing bays, event venue, commercial kitchen, even conference and workshop space. Maybe a gallery. The concept I’m in love with is downtown. It is HUGE, though, and mostly ready to go.

What does downtown Charleston/rest of Lowcountry need?

Our blogging and Twitter community frequently leaves the comfort of the monitor’s glow to meet up. Another opportunity will soon be here. The Social Media Club of Charleston will be meeting at the downtown Taco Boy July 14 from 6 – 8pm. If you’re on Facebook, send an RSVP.

Did you miss last night’s meet up? Well, check out Eugene’s blog for pictures.

Cottage Industrialist has a wonderful tutorial for a beaded necklace.

Mike Lacett tells the Charleston Splash to give it up.

Keep up with the quads, they have their own blog now.

Living life with reckless abandon, that’s our Notoriously Nice Mike.

The Charleston Real Estate blog links to an interesting mashup depicting US job gains and losses geographically. 

A year without TV.

Katherine is back with a new plein air painting, this time of the Joseph Verre house.

Did you put away your jackets? Brad says our high will only be in the 60s. Madness.

Patrick talks about the #twitterfail problem:

For many traditional media haters, services like Twitter represent an exciting alternative, where citizen journalism and speed-of-light posting ability combine to give old-school journalism a run for its money.  One of the biggest complaints the anti-traditionalists have is that the old-school media like to “blow things up out of proportion.”

Pedicab Man is Cycle Chic.

Send Heidi some kind words, losing a parent is hard.

The April, end of the month, meetup, has been scheduled for Thursday, April 30th, 2009!

Come join us, at Carolina Crust, in Hanahan, at Tanner Station, across from the new Super Bi-Lo, at 7pm.

My post, about April meetups, around the LowCountry:

We’ve, personally, tried three of their specialties and have been fully impressed with their fresh ingredients and different approach to Pizza.

The Boy’s favorite is The Pesto Chicken and Spinach Pizza. The Pesto is made, in house, with real pine nuts. None of that cheaper walnut thing, is going on , there. He happily added roasted red peppers, to it, too.

Girlie and I really liked The Quattro Formaggio, on our first visit. This pizza is a cheese snob’s delight! Did I mention my absolute love of Feta, lately?

Last week, we tried Spicy Southern BBQ Chicken. I don’t think I’d call this spicy.. but it was surely good. I was cutting pieces of both the Pesto Chicken and Spinach and The BBQ chicken, and eating them together! OOOhh to the Goat Cheese and BBQ sauce, in one bite. Full of yum!

Carolina Crust also has 3 large screen hi def tv’s and a full bar. They are located in Tanner Station, across from the new Super BiLo. (1105 Tanner Ford Blvd, Ste B-6 (843) 553-2662)

Anyone willing to try the special pizza with arugula and sea salt, with me? I can’t get anyone, I birthed, to try it. I’ve, also, never had arugula! Come on, let’s live a little. *smile*

Scott and Charity Webb have created a great environment with tasty recipes to tempt us, with fresh, local ingredients.  There is a full bar and several beers on tap, too.

See you there!

First, our next scheduled meet up is April 16 at the Charleston Maritime Center for the i5k after party. It should be a chance to meet others outside of our usual circle. The i5k is being sponsored by The Digital Corridor. Six of us are running, but everyone is welcome to join in on the fun. There is a $5 fee and the fun begins right after the race which starts at 6:30pm.

We have two new blogs for the Big Blogroll this week. Please welcome The Sage Avocado and Lowcountry Architect to the blogosphere.

Eugene is celebrating ten years in Charleston.

Have you visted Nice Mike lately? He and his camera have been busy.

Today is the finale of Charleston Fashion Week. Erica Jackson has some sweet shots from the The Gown Boutique show that ended with a surprise engagement.

Tony Romo isn’t exactly behaving like a media darling.

The Digitel receives some love from Patrick Properties:

Oh, and must tell you how much I admire the folks at The Digitel. They have/had their fingers on the pulse of all the CFW brouhaha: Twittering like mad, LIVE blogging, videos, the works. Great job, guys.

Hugging the Coast is singing G-U-A-C-A-M-O-L-E.