Patch Hosting Blogging Happy Hour

Patch isn't Patch without "U" in the Community. Bradenton Patch and Sarasota Patch are inviting the community out to learn more about blogging on Patch at a happy hour Thursday, March 15, from 6-8 pm at Urban Flats in The Shoppes in University Center. Our party will be located out on the patio.

It's a nice central location — not really Bradenton, not really Sarasota, and not really Lakewood Ranch.

We hope that you'll be able to make it out to the party and participate. If you don't blog already for Patch, we can take care of that, too! You can even post your existing blog that you own on Patch.

This will be the first of many blogging happy hours we'll host to get the online and media communities to talk face to face.

We'll provide some appetizers and light fare. Urban Flats will also have happy hour specials during that time.

Make sure you bring your Eventbrite ticket as we will raffle off an Urban Flats gift card!

Let's make this interactive and spread our social media capital.

Before the party, we hope you will:

• Tweet about the party and share the eventbrite link. Use hashtag #patchblogs
• Register if you are attending!
• Like Urban Flats on Facebook, if you feel so inclined
• Post a blog entry about the party
• Share news of the party in your own social network by clicking the Recommend button above for Facebook or the Tweet button for Twitter.
• Been to Urban Flats before? .

At the party:

• Check in on Foursquare
• Take and post photos with Instagram
• Tweet using #patchblogs

After the party we'll round up a Storify version of the night's events. You can tweet it up, post on Facebook how awesome it was and we hope that we'll see you on Patch.