Birmingham blogging bug pandemic

There is a bug going around Birmingham at the moment and I have caught it. It’s the blogging virus and it is spread through close contact, speech, hearing and touch. Yesterday evening was the second Birmingham bloggers meet up and it was a much more interesting dynamic than the last. Not to say the first was bad, I got a lot out of it and we discussed some very interesting topics but this time with around twenty people and with such a mixed bag of styles and genres of blogging it really had a zing about it. Without meaning to exclude anyone’s particular style of delivery, to give you a flavour there were political bloggers, press bloggers, social media analysts, Birmingham promoters, personal bloggers, rant specialists, podcasters, creative and design promoters and a cartoonist. Such a vibrant bunch of people, such diversity, and so much alcohol consumed. I must say I was feeling a little worse for wear this morning and from what I gather from some of the Twitter profiles going around, I was not alone. You know who you are!

Quickly splinter groups formed and everyone mingled throughout the night and losing track of the time I had to dash up to New Street to catch my last train back to Erdington at 11.15pm. If there was a later train I would’ve caught it. With no agenda it was an occasion of getting to know the persons we had met previously or had been reading blog posts of since the group started a month a go. Or if we didn’t know them or read their stuff, got to know them and collected their RSS feed. I now have a folder for Birmingham Bloggers in Outlook for all the RSS feeds I have collected and it is great also collecting the Twitter profiles too. Twitter is a lot more exciting when you are sharing it with those that you know.

I just wish to thank Nick Booth for organising and promoting the evening again and for whoever put Nick onto using the Dragon Inn for its social space, cheap booze and wifi access but also to everyone who attended and made it what it was. Everyone was up for it, everyone had exciting stuff to say and we all had a good laugh mainly and it felt more like a party night rather than anything stuffy. If you live in the midlands (or can get to Birmingham for that matter) and you own a blog, or even thinking about creating a blog, come along to the next one as I am sure you will make a lot of new friends and have a great time. There was nothing geeky about this bunch of folks.

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