G'day folks, I feel compelled to blog about this morning's incredible experience: Social Media Coffee, held at Single Origin Roasters cafe at 64 Reservoir St, Surry Hills.
This event, which had the atmosphere of the "unconferences" like BarCamp and WordCamp - is a good excuse for a get together for some very bright minds operating in all things online communities, digital and social media. I thank my Twitter pal Neerav Bhatt for introducing me to this event. A quick Twitter Search later, and I was locked in.
Two hours later, and after pretty much constant chatting meant I managed to meet some inspirational people, such as:
- Beth Etling, ad:Tech's Marketing and Content Director;
- Sarah Peacock, dmg World Media's Marketing manager
- Matt Moore, Knowledge Management specialist at Innotecture;
- Neerav Bhatt , professional blogger.
- Neil Phillips, Principal Consultant at Uniqueworld;
- Scott Drummond - Communuity Manager at Sports Hydrant.
Another key takeaway was Matt Moore kindly referring to me several interesting resources:
- the interesting IBM blogger Jasmin Tragus - who writes the wonderwebby blog.
- James Robertson from Step Two designs - a vendor-neutral intranet and content management consultancy.
What I love about unstructured events such as this one is the directions conversations can take and topics covered. The above group was just a small snapshot of the people there today - in fact there were more than 100 people there, plus a fantastic band playing. The cafe itself and in particular Gav and Nick (the cafe's friendly proprietors), was a sublime experience, and will be posted about in The Food Zeitgeist soon.
Update: 15th January 2009, via Ben Cooper on Twitter I stumbled upon this great video, by Scott Drummond, which captures well the experience that is Single Origin Roasters:
Single Origin Gypsy Friday from Scott Drummond on Vimeo.
