When I’m bragging (yes, I’m generally too modest, but occasionally it happens!) that the things I was talking feverishly about 2 years ago are now what make me a living, people often ask “So what are you talking feverishly about now” When I tell them “face-to-face ” they sometimes look a bit disappointed, but that’s really where I think the exciting stuff is going to happen in the next period.
What I’m particularly frisky about is the bootstrap effect – we’ve built a bit of a relationship online, then we enrich that relationship offline and face to face, then when we go back online it’s all been taken forward and we do more new and interesting things together… and so on… and so on… and so on….
So the must-do meatspace convergence points in my diary so far are:
NMK Forum
VNU Blogs & Social Media Forum
Anything by Policy Unplugged
Chinwag Live
Second Chance Tuesday
Interesting2007
Disclosure: each of these events is either giving me a press pass to come and blog or are paying me serious wonga for creating rich records of the day (all except for Interesting2007 for which I’d gladly pay twice the entry fee and possibly don an adult-sized romper suit – but that’s another story)
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April 19, 2007 at 12:19 pm
David Wilcox
Nice one – how about a bootstappers club, or an “I’ll be there if you will” web tool as I suggest http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/2007/04/bootstrapping_t.html
May 11, 2007 at 7:50 am
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