Sorry to have missed you I only made the first half hour or so of the last bham bloggers thing as had my daughter with me. I’ll keep you posted on a couple of ideas I’ve had with others around female bloggers etc.

But just wanted to say hi – will have a look see if you’re on Twitter.

Charlotte

Really good to see you there Bobbie, look after those teeths.

I would be interested in the consequences of an amalgamation of different approaches/perspectives to certain topics through blogging.

Does that make sense? In my head maybe.

Again, think Flickrmeets.

I need to write all this down somewhere…

I guess the point of it all is to see how online conversations and/or communities can create physical spaces where different styles of activity can take place. It’s early days in figuring it out but I think it’s going to throw up some interesting things.

And don’t dismiss socialising, or try and think of it differently. Random ideas mixing?

But yeah, it all seems a bit wanky and hyperbole at the moment – my fault as much as anyones (though Stef makes me cringe sometimes!) We’ll get over that!

Thanks for your comments!

Thanks for the teeth concerns Pete- currently my gums are comforted by frozen peas! I can either spend dollar on music Ed software or on my wisdoms removed privately. NHS- sigh…

I have two very special tech heads in my life- and if it weren’t for them this blog would not exist. So, I totally agree with you about and respect the tech thing but…

If there were say an agenda that could make the gatherings feel as though the sessions weren’t just for the engineering of blogs perhaps more diverse/less tech enabled bloggers would attend?

Say- themed bloggers meets?

Saw you and meant to say hi but then you left – hope the teeth feel better!

I think the tech thing (which plays into the bloke thing unfortunately) comes from people who are interesting in what blogging is / can be / etc being from the tech world. That and we techheads are pretty well connected since we tend to be early adopters. There are major issues here but I’d say it’s early days. Like blogging itself the platform of online-realted meetups can be applied to anything and I hope it will be.

Speed dating is a top idea. I like this a lot. Could do it like a secret santa type names-in-hat thing. I’ll have a think on this!

I know Joanna Geary has been thinking about a lady bloggers meetup.

Overall aim, from my perspective, is to put a bunch of people who have one tenuous thing in common (they blog) in a room and see what happens. I’m mainly inspired by the Flickrmeets where a community formed around photography made up of people who wouldn’t otherwise have come together like that.

I didn’t go to the first (though attendance was low), and the second definitely was just a social gathering, but after the third – in which Stef, Pete and co. talked about SXSW – there’s not really anywhere else to go with it. A whole load of aggregators showed up after the meet, but what next?

Hosting meetups is like the new crack in Birmingham it seems, but after socialising what’s next? What’s the point of it all?