“Last night’s event was incredible. I have never met so many amazing people in one room since I moved to Vancouver,” someone told me as we discussed how amazing the YVR Twestival was last night. Laughter, great conversation, food, drink and celebration filled the Lookout. Panoramic views of Vancouver’s lush beauty surrounded us.

An abundance of booths from different sponsors, silent auction items and much more were available. On a personal note, it was wonderful to meet twitter friends in person, connect with dear friends and celebrate together. Huge thanks to Rebecca Bollwitt and the YVR Twestival Organizing Committee. Through this incredibly event, we have raised over $8000 to invest in Beauty Night’s cause – to build self esteem and change lives of women and youth living in poverty through 3 streams of programming – wellness, life skills development and makeovers. Donations are still being accepted on the YVR Twestival site.

If you want to check out the photos, please check out Jeremy Lim’s photo stream on flickr. If you have photos to share, please post the link in the comment section so we can add them into this post. Huge thank you to everyone who supported YVR Twestival – we are thrilled that you did!

This is what I saw on my twitter feed:

monicahamburg@beautynight Just created some cool word clouds from tags on your blog (using wordle) http://twurl.nl/u43m3e & http://twurl.nl/6vudjcabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

I clicked onto the links to see what I could see. 

Monica Hamburg Creating Word Clouds Based on Beauty Night Blog Tags

Monica nominated me for the Canadian Living “MetoWe” Award.  If you haven’t voted yet, please do.  If I win, they will donate $5000 to Beauty Night Society.

 Using Facebook, she contacted our mutual friends and encouraged them to vote. She has launched a twitter campaign to encourage people to vote for this award.  If you are on Twitter and would like to spread the word, that would be fantastic. Here is something you can tweet:

Please Vote & RT – Help @beautynight win the “MetoWe” Award! (“In The Community” Category) http://twurl.nl/zwepmy.

Monica will be presenting tips on how not for profits can benefit from social media.  The conference will be run through www.canadahelps.org.  If you wish to make an online donation to a charity (including Beauty Night, our donate now button is just at the left hand corner of the page, please do so.)