Talking up the London Bloggers Meetup
It’s always interesting to see the blog posts and tweets after an LBM, none more so that Ill and Ancient’s posts. Who else would have thought to evaluate a social evening with a graph depicting his engagement with fellow bloggers over the course of the evening.. an example of why I always say the bloggers meetup is full of phenomenally interesting people.
Anyway, it was once again a pleasure to host the London Bloggers Meetup, particularly as we were being hosted by Talk Talk in their snazzy new Customer Experience Centre and Rob from the Real Cycling blog was giving a presentation on how to add podcasting to your online world.
I have to thank Rob for what was a detailed and well thought out talk, which, if I’d thought about it, I would have recorded with audioboo and made available on the blog. But never mind, if you want to get the gist of his talk, head to the Real Cycling blog which has all the info he presented on the night. It’s the first time we’ve had a presenter heckled / corrected during their presentation (thanks ) which thankfully didn’t throw Rob too much.
TalkTalk were as generous a host as we could have hoped for, providing a good array of beers and some wonderful canapés. At one point the venue manager tapped me on the shoulder and said:
“we’ve already got through most fo the beers, do you think I should order more, or will everyone be happy with the wine.”
I think she knew the answer before she’d finished the question and organised a few more cases. I was surprised just how good a venue the Talk Talk centre is and if you didn’t get the chance, do pop back and check out the lounge and business incubator spaces on the 1st floor and above. A great little centre and I must applaud Talk Talk for finding a creative use for the space they acquired on buying Tiscali. A huge thanks to Maggie, Leanne and team for hosting us so well. We’ll be back (if for nothing else but to use the free internet).
So who did I speak to on the evening. Well, a lot of people, new faces and old and I’m not going to name check the lot of you. But a few notable peeps as ever:
Lolly – a pleasure as always, let me know on the LBM paternity cover
Matt – good to see you being one of the last to leave as usual. Drop me a line on that potential sponsor
Peter – you’ll have to wear a health warning with the number of times I saw your flash going off, but the usual great pics online already I see
Proactive Paul – the paperless office, interesting read and let’s chat about how you could shape into a talk for a future LBM
Pete – now you’re selling ads, perhaps you can teach the rest of us how to do that on our blogs…?
Mehrdad – there’s no way you are that old, just no way.
Heading back to Ill and Ancient for a second, he asked the question…
“would Andy the LBM organiser consider hosting a special, where all the regular bloggery meetuppery people had to do a 60 second talk. Some deal with twenty slides in a minutes or something. Would that entertain?”
The answer is absolutely. If we have enough people interested in doing a 60 second talk, then I’m well up for that. Volunteers please.
Well, enough from me. A fantastic evening had by all I hope and look forward to the August edition (more details coming soon).
Thanks for the shout-out Andy, and yes let’s roll out the paternity cover sooner rather than later! :)
I could do some breakdancing/make some sausage rolls for the next meet.
Those are my skills.