- I’m freakin’ awesome at glow-in-the-dark mini-golf.
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Years ago, I attempted to learn how to play golf. The last time I took a lesson, it was in the midst of the NHL playoffs, and I ticked off my classmates by opening up my classic flip cellphone to call my aunt and check the score of a Detroit Red Wings game every few minutes (I knew the goalie, since retired). Yes, it was a different era. By the way, my short game isn’t bad. And by short game, I mean glow-in-the-dark mini-golf.
Why was I trying to improve my non-existent game? I’d recently read a number of articles about deals being made on the golf course, and how women should get out on the links and start making some of those deals.
As I said, it was a while ago.
Flash forward. Social media has replaced the golf course for me. In fact, Twitter, in particular, has hooked me up with many great people and “Hey, we follow each other!” serves as a much better icebreaker for me than “what’s your handicap?”.
Case in point: Ryan Pinder (Twitter: @ryanpinder) and I have followed each other for some time since his days as the play-by-play guy for the Penticton Vees (Twitter: @pentictonvees). As I watched Ryan write three, or maybe four, press releases and blog posts at the opening game of the Vancouver Canucks Young Stars Tournament at the South Okanagan Events Centre — the SOEC graciously let me and several of my Twitter pals on the media deck for some live-tweeting — we bonded. And we’d only just met IRL (in real life).
Ryan recently took is play-by-play skills to the Abbotsford Heat. I gave him tips on using Hootsuite; he explained why hockey fans will be paying attention to a young man known as “The Nuge”. And then we cooked up a little contest.
Once Ryan reaches 800 followers on his Twitter account, he and I will put together a VIP package for one of his lucky followers to attend a Heat game at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre. We’re talking a behind the scenes tour, tickets, maybe some popcorn…and someday, when Ryan has moved on to call plays for the NHL, you’ll be able to say you tweeted him back in the good old days.
Now go. Follow Mr. Pinder. And by the way, the home opener for the Heat is October 14th. Hint hint. And maybe, if you’d like, post a tweet to me (Twitter: @allisonmmarkin) that says, oh, I don’t know, how about: “Thanks @allisonmmarkin for hooking me up with @ryanpinder. He’s the man!”.
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Does your mom call you when someone pokes her on Facebook? Does your BFF just not seem to grasp what a hashtag is (it’s something cool and useful on Twitter). Do you think IRL* is just a post-modern way to spell the name Earl? Have no fear, more All She Wrote classes are coming to the numerous Okanagan Colleges beginning in January, including a fun-filled social media camp for the wine and culinary industry. 
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