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It’s 8 days now until the next meetup and we have a completely full house . I don’t know whether this has anything to do with the support from our generous sponsors Smirnoff, or just because the last few socials really have been pretty great… either way suits me, but I have to say I’m particularly looking forward to the next event. We have a waiting list by the way, so if you can no longer make it along, please let me know or release your place on meetup. There are others waiting in the wings to join us.
Smirnoff are hosting us in the bar of parent company Diageo and have promised to give everyone a cocktail making lesson, along with designing a custom cocktail for everyone’s blog. Something I’m sure every discerning blogger would be delighted with. Because of the venue there will also be a strict guest list on the door and as they say: “if you’re name’s not down, you’re not coming in!”
Personally I’m looking forward to trying one of their famous Moscow Mules…
I’ve just added a video and audio commenting plugin to the blog which I’m going to trial for a short while. So please everyone, give it a road test so that I can see how well it works.
Along with that I’ve created a FriendFeed for the London Bloggers community where I’ll be publishing your tweets - let me know if you’d like to be included (@Annie Mole - I’ve added you just to test it out, hope you’re ok with that..? )
I’m hoping to setup another competition for this month too, so keep checking back for news on that.
See you all on the 30th.
The Bloggers Summer Social
I’m not going to write very much about the London Bloggers Summer Social, just pass on some of the feedback I received:
Mex
“ Excellent event. Lovely location looking out onto the river. Stella sponsorship was extremely well pitched with nice competition, some goodies and drinks - kudos for not just supplying Stella ”
Lewis
“ Best yet me-thinks! ”
jedb
“ Really good time was had… got there early and had time for good chats with new faces. Well done Stella for the sponsorship. See you lucky people on Friday in the Airship! ”
Navin
“ had an excellent time.. a very helpful and warm organiser.. and warm knowledgeable people.. good stuff to talk about.. ”
Chris
“ Brilliant! ”
Gary Andrews
“ Great idea, really good evening. Everybody was really friendly, was good to meet other bloggers. Great fun. ”
I have to say, I agree with all of the above. It was a great night. Thanks must go out to Jason Mical at Edelman for arranging the Stella Artois sponsorship. For me it was a really great way for Stella to engage with the blogging community, but I’d be really interested in hearing your feedback too.
Did you appreciate Stella’s sponsorship, could they have done anything differently, was the airship competition suitable, did you take a glass and a USB stick.. and would you be interested in more corporate involvement at the meetups?
Please let me know your thoughts with a comment or two..
Peter Marshall has kindly added some photos to the meetup page and there are a few of my terrible snaps below, including a photo of the airship!
The winners of the ride on the Stella Airship are listed below and their entries can all be read on the Stella competition post:
Epicurienne
Robert McIntosh
Lewis
Jed
Debbie
Allison
Enjoy your flight guys (if the wind ever drops enough for the airship to take off that is!).
Thanks everyone for making the socials what they are today! I have to share Pete’s thoughts:
“ Lovely venue, lovely people - I’m convinced that if we really got our heads together we could come up with the next Google 
met people with some amazing new ideas and angles on existing technologies ”
I’m going to skip August and take a summer holiday, but we’ll be back in September with some potentially exciting new supporters.
All the best,
Andy
Stella’s Joining us for the Summer Party
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 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!