After my last trip to Boston I am psyched to go back. Not only am I performing comedy on Saturday at ImprovBoston (7pm and 10pm) and maybe catching The Midnight Show Friday at Improv Asylum, but I’m teaching workshops Saturday and Sunday AND (Are you ready for the part in the film Blog Post where the Main Character references the title of the post) @B_Donnelly organized an ImprovBoston Tweetup on Saturday April 10th 5-7pm just because I was coming to town. What? AWESOME, I know.

Brian named the event Nerds and Birds. Follow the hashtag #twtzach

I’ll either talk about Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and how we use Improv Fundamentals to drive our Marketing and Social Media strategy for @DSIcomedy OR I’ll just have a dark Boston beer and do bits.

For those of you who didn’t catch my Boston Improv Festival post in September, I’m staying at the super-swanky Hotel Marlowe again (probably not in a Suite, but still pretty sweet). My own HTTM!

My CONFIRMED Boston Schedule

Saturday 12pm – 3pm: Improv Workshop, What Are You Laughing At?

Saturday 5pm – 7pm: ImprovBoston Tweetup, Nerds and Birds

Saturday 7pm: Zach Ward & Guests, ImprovBoston Studio

Saturday 10pm: Mainstage, ImprovBoston

Sunday 12pm – 3pm: Improv Workshop, You Had Me At YES!

Mention #twtzach and get 2 for 1 tickets to the Saturday 7pm show.

I’m excited to see Boston friends and improv students at the shows and at the Tweetup. Thanks to Deana and Will Luera at @ImprovBoston for the invitation to teach and play again, and Brian for organizing Nerds and Birds (and for trying to make me sound super important on BostonTweetup.com).

See you in Cambridge!

Register online, http://jansmctriangle.eventbrite.com/

I’ve been asked to talk about how the basics of IMPROVISATION can help you understand the psychology behind the online AND offline networking aspect of social media and how to use COMEDY to create a character and brand that inspires community. Expect an opportunity to participate in (or sit back, drink, and watch) some fun games that might just help you think about your social media activity.

+++

I am very proud of how my company has used Social Media to reach AND BUILD a community of fans online. We’ve been active on Flickr and Youtube forever and our staff regularly posts content on Facebook and Twitter — Btw, Thanks to Three Ships Media for the Social Media feature on DSI November 2009.

We recently pushed out a MercyCorps benefit for Haiti to raise $1345 ($655 short of our GOAL, if you’re feeling generous). You are? YOU ARE AWESOME! Thank you for your donations AND RETWEETS.

DSI also started work today to secure a $35K support grant from Intuit — Our social networks helped us reach 17 unique recommendations in under 2 hours. Do you love DSI? TELL THE INTERNET.

“If you get it, share it.”

Awesome.

We do stomach work (BOO), We lift weights, But when we started the elliptical I was SOLD.

ZW Works Out comes to Facebook and Youtube from the Elliptical machines at Carolina Fitness (Carrboro, NC). For the pilot, watch the last minute of a 40 minute 3-mile trek at an average 130 SPM. Clips shot with an HD Flip cam from the dash of the machine. I might talk about life, my workout progress, improv, comedy, producing festivals, running a small business or maybe I’ll just do sweaty bits.

Paula plans to get a Flip cam so we can edit together workout clips.

Awesome.