• Select a date.
• Select a venue.
• Introduce self, explain the blogtail party to the restaurant manager.
• Check with restaurant manager to confirm a clear event date and time.
• Send the manager the link to the wrap-up doc for our Pure Wine event.http://scr.bi/8YfYcg and the

eventbrite.com invitation link.
• Get the restaurant’s twitter handle, if it exists. And the website address.
• Find out if the restaurant is actively managing its foursquare account.
• Encourage the restaurant to do something special for the bloggers at the party.

• Create the eventbrite registration.
• Create a hashtag for the event, or just use #hocoblogs.
• Find and include links to Howchow posts about the place, the foursquare URL, Hocoloco-girl post,

• Write an event announcement and send it to The Columbia Flier calendar section.
• Tweet the event on @hocoblogs.
• Post the event on my Facebook page, published to my Hoco list.
• Blog about it on Hometown-Columbia.com.
• Ask the bloggers to share the news of the party in their networks and on their blogs, where relevant.
• Create a Facebook note (but not an event) and tag bloggers in it.