#Yorkshirehour: Week 16 – Number 1 trend in the UK

I think this says it all… #Yorkshirehour was the number one trending topic in the UK from 8.30pm onwards and still going strong in the number one spot after 10pm!

We were trending above #Jimmy Carr – (and Jim Carrey too, strangely) by about half past eight tonight and then we trended at number one from just after that – and we’re still the number one trend as I type this at 10.20pm, which is pretty good going seeing as how #Yorkshirehour is only really 8-9pm.  We’ve had 4,223 tweets and retweets using our hashtag since we kicked of this evening.  It’s not the most tweets we’ve had in a night – but it’s the best we’ve done in terms of trending!  Helen and I are amazed by the success of this idea we started pursuing 16 weeks ago.  Thank you for joining in. #Yorkshirehour – What’s it all about? For those of you just looking up #Yorkshirehour to see what it is, please see the previous posts on here, especially the first one on this #Yorkshirehour which explains all about this weekly business to business networking event.

Thank you

I’d like to say a huge thank you to all the regular #Yorkshirehour tweeters for sticking with us each week – and a big ‘hello and welcome’ to all the newbies.  Please add a comment below if you’ve gained followers, made business contacts and done some useful networking.

Best photo with a tweet tonight:

Sinéad Sopala‏@Ramsdens #Yorkshirehour join us at our monthly @midyorkshirenet meetups @themediacentre look who joined us today. Next one 18/7 http://twitter.com/Ramsdens/status/215534669582708736/photo/1  (Sinead – I wish I had a prize to give you for that one!)

Here are some of my other favourite tweets from tonight:

Welcome to Yorkshire‏@Welcome2Yorks @Aspinall_Ink fantastic place to get lots of Yorkshire folk talking to one another and long may it continue! #yorkshirehour

HoneyApple‏@HoneyAppleCoUK Rite, time for me to catch up on Eastenders (by that I mean shout at the TV for an hour – “Stop lying Michael!!”) Nite all #yorkshirehour x
Michelle Victor‏@MichelleVictor My favourite hour of the week on twitter is #YorkshireHour

These from #Yorkshirehour regulars:

Jolene Rae-Walsh‏@JoleneRaeWalsh When does an hour only last half an hour? When you’re at #yorkshirehour

Rudi the Camper‏@RetroHolidays Good night #yorkshirehour! Thank you so much for RTs and new follows – you are great and I love being part of such a great networking event

Todmorden’s LuckyDog‏@LuckyDog_Tod Don’t forget to tune into #yorkshirehour next week and I will tell you about the Lucky Dog Picnic in July!

Karen Hand‏@HandyArcher Best and fastest #Yorkshirehour yet!   Always a pleasure.  Thank you to new followers.  See you all again same time,same place next week

New businesses spotted:

Train2drive‏@train2drive Hi everyone we are a driving school based in Yorkshire #Yorkshirehour First time on Yorkshirehour. We offer pocket friendly driving lessons

Wolds CottageKitchen‏@woldscottage Handmade award winning artisan preserves from Wetwang East Yorkshire http://www.woldscottagekitchen.co.uk retail& wholesale enquiries welcome #yorkshirehour

I look forward to more tweets with you next week.  Please post a comment below if you think #Yorkshirehour is good for your business. Or, even better hop onto our business website and the official Yorkshirehour blog and post a comment there.  (As this blog will eventually be phased out.)

Cheers

Angie

#Yorkshirehour: Week 4

Well, that took my breath away!  What an hour.  The tweets were fast and furious and, according to Topsy, there were 826 tweets featuring our hashtag in the hour (although I know there were also quite a few in the run up to the hour – and just afterwards as well so the total by 10pm was 850 tweets).  I noticed that @LuckyDog_Tod tweeted, “STOP! my paws are burning!” at one point.  Sorry Tod!

Guest star tweeter this week has to be Denise Howard OBE, who gained quite a few followers, I see.  Great stuff!  And a special mention to @RipleyCastle (Just in case it was Sir Thomas Ingilby himself doing the tweeting!)

@Yorkshiredays asked people were asked to give three words to sum up Yorkshire.  Here are my favourites:

@Gedff - #yorkshirehour really, really big

@Msbailz - #yorkshirehour never ending tea-making

@yorkshirebusmkt #yorkshirehour ’champion by ‘eck’

@dragonheat only one is needed, perfect #yorkshirehour

And this gem from co-founder of Yorkshirehour, @RomanticCotHols My 3 words for #yorkshirehour? “Love Yorkshire people”  And for that, you really must show her some Twitter love and follow her!

I got sent to Twitter jail (for being up to my daily limit on the number of tweets you can do in a day) so, I’m sorry if I didn’t get to tweet with everyone.  I’ll try and catch up with you in the week.

It was great to see people tweeting about the fabulous event organised today by Welcome to Yorkshire at the Barbican in York.  We were there and it was great!  (Touching standing ovation for the Yorkshire Regiment too.)  I’m also pleased many people retweeted my plea for support for Welcome to Yorkshire’s ‘back le bid’ campaign to get the Tour de France to start in our glorious county.  As a long time fan of le Tour, I would love to see it come to my home county.  How great would it be to see Cav in the Yellow jersey at the end of the first stage?

Thanks to all of you who posted comments last week.  Again, I’d love to hear your comments about how #Yorkshirehour is working for you so, please get posting!

See you next week – 8-9pm Wednesdays.

Living the WI Life

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As a member, of Tea & Tarts WI,  it’s safe to say that I’m ’chuffed to bits’ to get a mention in the latest WI Life magazine (in the article about WI members who blog).  As they point out, as well as writing this blog, I also write a regular blog for the National Federation of Women’s Institutes – but what I’d really love is the chance to write a column or a feature in the magazine.  So, if anyone on the editorial team’s reading this, what do you think?  Fancy giving me a chance?

Angie joins WI team

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