Posted in Meetup on 09. Jun, 2011
Our friends at LifeSort were good enough to record Leo Babauta’s presentation at the London Bloggers Meetup.
We’ve embedded below the first part, but Leo was good enough to talk for some time and the rest – along with Arvind Devahia’s fantastic talk too – are available on the LifeSort YouTube channel.
Enjoy and be inspired. Two really interesting speakers.
Posted in Meetup on 15. Apr, 2011
We had another great London Bloggers Meetup last night with our guest speakers Leo Babauta from Zen Habits and Arvind Devalia from Make it Happen. I thoroughly enjoyed both of their talks, not only interesting and informative, but very inspirational too.
Rather than me tell you all about it, why not watch some short clips from the night below. Sorry about the background noise, but it really was a busy night at the London Bloggers Meetup.
If you haven’t been to a London Bloggers Meetup before, click here to read some comments from our community members and to find why you should join us.
Posted in Meetup on 15. Jan, 2011
As usual I’m a few days late blogging about LBM and as usual I’m struggling to start without gushing too much about how good a night it was, particularly challenging this time around given I was one of the speakers. Oh what the hell, I’m just going to say it, I thought this was a great LBM.
Nice to get the year started with such a bang and probably the busiest LBM to date – we had somewhere in the region of 120 bloggers turning up.
Obviously it was good to have our friends at Dell onboard. Nice to hear from Kerry (@kerryatdell) about the Trade Secrets campaign which you can check out on facebook soon. Of course the very generous bar tab helped us ease back into the year, but possibly the biggest crowd puller was the Dell Vostro laptop competition. We had over 40 entries to the competition and in the end two winners, with Andreas Kambanis from London Cyclist picking up the Vostro laptop and Tom Phillips a snazzy looking new mouse. You can read their entries here.
There were plenty of other great entries and we had a shortlist to choose from, including those where there was a genuinely good trade secret, or those that simply made us laugh…
Andy Roberts I wanted to make a good first impression so I tried painting my Dell laptop white, using a jumbo pot of tipex. It didn’t work and now I realise this was unnecessary. MACs aren’t the only cool computers any more.
IanVisits ..the more useful tip is to take a notepad with an interesting cover as it can be a good way to break the ice and build relations with people about shared interests.
Alex Guest speak clearly, “Beardy dear, yo Delhi pepper” = “Get it here! Your daily paper!”
Paul Wilkinson How NOT to make a good impression
Trust me, I speak from experience…. Sometimes everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. This all happened to me in one pitch to a new client last year:
1. Do not break your leg. Crutches are never a great look for a PR consultant, and you can get hot and sticky very quickly….
Stuart Waterman Whenever I meet a new person, I hand them a crisp ten pound note. It *must* be crisp – once I made the mistake of giving a new contact a crumpled note, and, while he still accepted the cash, I could tell he hated me for it. It was in the flare of his nostrils.
To those on the shortlist, we doff our caps and say well done, maybe next time you’ll be picking up the silverware (or in this case hardware).
I hope you all enjoyed my talk too. It was the first time I’ve done much more than introduce our speakers and welcome you all along to an LBM. You can see my prezi presentation below which has my 10 lessons and tips from the past four years of blogging. Just in case you’re curious and haven’t asked me yet, I blog about marketing and the London Bloggers Meetup events, but in the past I’ve also blogged about great places to eat in London for under a fiver, being a tourist in London and I have been the editor of the blog for lastminute.com.
There were too many people to name check this time around I’m afraid, but you can see a handful of snapshots from Peter Marshall here if you want to get an idea of who was there. Usual apologies to peeps I wasn’t able to speak to on the night, I seem to remember getting interrupted in mid conversation with many of you, most notably with Mex!
See you all again in around a month’s time.
Posted in Competitions, Meetup on 27. Oct, 2010
We are being joined at this month’s London Bloggers Meetup by Naked Wines. For those who haven’t come across Naked Wines before they are a completely new and different online wine retailer. What makes them different is they invest in independent winemakers in exchange for preferential prices – which they pass on to their customers.
The wines taste great because the winemakers can pour their passion into making great wines and perhaps the best bit, they cost anything up to 65% less. Beautiful.
As part of their involvement in the London Bloggers Meetup, Naked Wines will be creating a special mixed case of wine just for our community. One lucky blogger will even win a case to take home and enjoy at their leisure.
How can I win?
Yes I thought you’d ask. Well, there’s only one free case and to claim this you simply need to nominate a charity in the comments of this blog post. We will then draw a winner out of the hat at the meetup on the 17th November.
The profit Naked Wines makes from the sale of the London Bloggers Meetup case will then all be donated to the charity nomimated by our lucky winner.
So hang on, are you telling me I could support my favourite charity and win a case of wine, simply by nominating my favourite charity below.
Yep….
It’s as easy as that. Oh and of course you must come along to the Naked November meetup on the 17th November. More details here.
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