BrumBlogMeet3 Roundup
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Event organised by Nick Booth via the Birmingham bloggers Facebook group. Here’s the event page.
At least 31 people at Rooty’s on Monday 31st March from 7.00pm. There was a mildly formal session at the start followed by much chatting. If there was a theme it seemed to be on coworking spaces and the like.
Dubber shot a video of the talk.
Special guest was Lloyd Davis from that London. He’s talking about The Tuttle Club
Blog posts
Stef Lewandowski: Roundup of ideas
Hemminac: “Badges for bloggers builds barriers?!”
Antonio Gould: Short post
Charlotte Carey: “the rather mischievous notes/observations I made”
Antonio Roberts: “I’m very interested in seeing what a coworking space, and the people running it, can offer a communtity who are almost completely unknowledgable when it comes to technology.”
Simon Hammond: “There was a lot of discussion about ‘evangelism’, ‘conversion’ and ’spreading the word’ about social media which struck me as odd language.”
Nick Booth roundups the roundups of the roundups. It’s all getting terribly meta…
Twitter grabs
orangejon: definitely thinks that more frequent meets are called for.. I only got to meet such a small portion of the people there tonight!
prlewis: believes that IRC is a kind of virtual co-working and has been going on for years. Come on down to #brum on irc.freenode.net
Stuff that may or may not have come out of it:
Paul Bradshaw built a Birmingham Bloggers Aggregator and a Birmingham Twitterers feed.
Lloyd reminds us in the comments of the Coworking Birmingham wiki that was set up a while back. It’s there for the using.
Pete Lewis has started a Brum Planet which appears to be a massive stream of stuff being produced online in Birmingham. Something for ambient browsing.
Mark Steadman brings us Blogging Brum: a group blog for Birmingham.
After tonight’s coworking discussions I’ve updated http://coworkbrum.pbwiki.com/
Peeps can add their names if they want a coworking space (consider it a petition of sorts) and suggest any projects they want to get going (esp community/charity projects with an online slant).
It was good to have a dedicated space for this one as it made it easier to welcome people as soon as they came in.
I think the right balance of formal/informal was reached, good to get any formal stuff over with early on.
Re. coworking spaces/social media clubs etc. - as I (unfortunately) have a full time office-based job and so am more of a hobbyist blogger/social media user, I am only really interested in this from a social/free time point of view. I suspect this is the case for others in the Brum bloggers group too, so while it was great to hear your initial plans last night and I fully support them, I think you might need a separate group to discuss the details in future?
@Julia - I agree. I’m thinking that the coworking space could also actually also be an evening venue for more social stuff to happen too…
@stef that’d suit me :)
Great to meet you all guys and gals - thanks for making me so welcome. Tried hard to not be patronising capital city type, probably failed.
http://coworking.pbwiki.com/CoworkingBirmingham
could do with a touch up - maybe a place to mirror what else you’re doing - gives you a national and international audience. If you haven’t already I’d also encourage you to sign up to the coworking google group: coworking@googlegroups.com
See you again soon - all welcome at tuttle club on a friday morning if you’re down the smoke :)
Let’s have more impromptu co-working meetups using Twitter!
If you’re working somewhere in Birmingham for a while and would like to invite people to join you, writter a Twitter message containing the word “brumcoworking” and your (precise) location. Even more usefully, twitter it in advance to give people a bit more of a chance to get there.
If you’re interested in reading these messages, subscribe to this RSS feed: http://tweetscan.com/rss.php?s=brumcoworking
Wrote a bit of a post about it on me ol’ blog. Check it out!
I spout off here: http://simonhammond.com/blog/2008/04/01/brum-blogger-meet-3
Hi Pete.
Many thanks for the mention. I’m hoping with a bit of inspiration and effort BloggingBrum can become a powerful force for creative writing in the city. I’m really enthused by the idea of bashing lots of heads together and allowing different voices to come to the fore on one place.
Cheers, and look forward to next month’s (although I will need some time to recover!)
Cheers for the mention Pete. Was a good meetup! Just a note that the IRC channel is ##brum on irc.freenode.org. Come and hang out…
Good stuff, touched upon Habermas’ theory of the public/private sphere. I love the idea of turning up and “donating” an hour pro-bono if someone needed some snaps doing or assistance with writing a blog etc. I’d love to learn a bit of photoshop at one of these “spaces”.
Great stuff, will keep my eyes open for another one at some point.
Interested in seeing how pro bono offerings could be broken down to incorporate different learning styles - whether it’s showing someone how to set up a blog, edit a template, consider and structure content. Plus, there’s the factor of working with different formats to be responsive to individual learning styles and needs - one-to-one ‘tutorials’ (for want of a better word), workshops, group developed freeware/shareware to add to the ‘toolbox’, crit sessions for constructive feedback.
Given the mix of experience, technical expertise and professional backgrounds, there could be alot to offer to a wide range of people.
All good stuff, sorry I couldn’t be there but it was a skoooool night ;)
Yeah I actually watched all of that thinking I’d definitely have been there, which would’ve upped the minority gender contingent by 33% and the median age by urgh, something.
Good to see how many people I’ve met in real life, without knowing them as bloggers, as it were. ;)
Lots of scope for doing similar things here in the frozen north, so when I get my broken website back online, I’ll do a post myself. Distance lurking. :)
Kudos for the video and the extensive after-meet discussion - I couldn’t make BBM3 :( so whoever’s idea it was originally to do a video package deserves a gold star!