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Stella’s Joining us for the Summer Party
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No not Stella McCartney, but Stella Artois. That’s right our friends at Stella Artois have decided London’s hard working bloggers deserve some cool, crisp, liquid refreshment and have agreed to sponsor our summer party. They’ve promised to buy everyone a couple of pints of cold Stella, or a glass of wine, or a soft drink as you fancy.
Not only is Stella buying the beers, but they also are running a fabulous competition just for members of the London Bloggers Meetup. The prize is a trip in the Stella Artois: Star Over London airship.. to take in London from above. Currently retailing at £185.00, this really is a fantastic opportunity! Thanks Stella!
So how do you win such a fantastic prize?
It’s simple, in 150 words or less, describe your local pub and what it is that makes you keep going back..?’
Simply post your answer as a comment to this post by close of play on Friday 25th July. The entries will be judged based on entertainment value - the more entertaining the more likely you are to win!
There are SIX places up for grabs!
Well, what are you waiting for..!
We’ll announce the winners at the Summer Social on the 29th. Get writing folks and I’ll see you all on the 29th!
Andy
Blogger Time - That’s a Wrap
Time to wrap up another bloggers meetup and once again I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. I’m always happy to hear feedback, both positive and negative, as it helps me to refine the meetups and provide a forum everyone can get gain some benefit from – whether that’s socially, educationally or simply through enjoying a beer. I tried something new this time by arranging for some presenters - as had been requested by plenty of group members – and I though they all added something of value.
Xavier’s presentation on making people comment was entertaining, valuable and delivered beautifully, check out the slides below if you want a recap - although perhaps the best tip was to promise a Belgian beer in exchange for a comment. Improbulus made a spirited attempt at explaining some of the basics of SEO which was useful and I’m sure some of the newer bloggers would have learned a few tricks. Tony’s introduction to Wordcamp UK was an insight into open source event organising, but aside from those headaches, good to know for any WordPress bloggers at least (shame it’s in Birmingham though Tony…). I have to agree with Peter that I’m more than happy to listen to a sponsor in exchange for a free beer, so thanks to mobile social network ‘M3′ for coming along. If anyone wants a free M3 t-shirt, you just have to send us a note with your thoughts, impressions and general feedback. M3 is a startup in beta and any assistance I’m sure will be gratefully received.
Well, here are Xavier’s slides…
And here are some photos of the night…
As I said, thanks to all of the comments, duly noted. We will rebalance the social / presentation aspect with just one speaker at future events. Also, if anyone has any strong opinions on the involvement of sponsors I’d very much like to hear them. Does it work at the meetups, is it p*ssing you off, are there other types of companies you would like involved etc?? I’m more than happy to explore the options.
Thanks again to everyone who keeps turning up. It’s always great to see the usual suspects, but also so many new faces at each event.
Cheers,
Andy
PS Xavier is interested in hearing about potential work opportunities in case anyone is looking…
Blogger Time Update
I am delighted to announce we have a sponsor for June’s blogger meetup in the form of M3, a mobile social network. They would like to come along and show you what they’ve created to help bloggers (and non-bloggers too to be fair) to get connected and stay in touch with London’s vibrant social scene. I am working on the finer details but it looks as though there will be some free drinks floating around.
You should check them out online to get a real feel for what they’re all about. But essentially they offer a mobile phone led location based service to help you hook up with friends when you’re out and about. Sounds pretty good and I hope I can get some mileage out of it for the meetup. Oh did I mention it was also free (as you’d expect in this day and age really).
Other news is we may well have a presenter coming along too. Someone has volunteered to talk about a new plugin to help drive reader engagement on your blog. More news on that coming soon.
Please don’t forget to RSVP on the meetup page!
Spring Meetup - More Like Social
Well, despite it raining cats and dogs, we had a good turnout at the Spring Bloggers meetup last night. Probably best to call it a social from now on I think. Plenty of new faces and a handful of old which made for an interesting mix. We’ve actually grown to around 160 members now which is nice.
The bad news is that I was pretty sick and had to slope off home early doors (which is when the snap above was taken). Still, I had time to have a chat with Peter about a new project he’s working on, Andy Roberts, Matt from Londonist (who has promised to speak about Londonist at one of the next events), the lovely Jaz , Chris, Jurga , Rajesh, fabulous Francine, Tim, Malcolm Eggs and many more.
Keep on coming folks. I’m hoping that I’ll be at least healthy next time and possibly with some more of those free beers we’ve had in the past.
If anyone got any good photos last night, or a reasonable idea of how many people attended, please drop me a line.
Cheers!
Andy