I just met quite a few New England bloggers at the Boston Blogger Dinner! We seem to be a bit difficult to find. I am going to do what I can to remedy that. I am up against a fairly significant challenge though. Steven Warley tells me that New Englanders like to keep their private life private. Fair enough, but if I do not know that 1. you are interested in tech, and 2. going to be at a certain place where I can meet you, how are we ever going to get to know each other?
Having a local network of geeks is important for the survival of the city. Scoble thinks that you have to move to Silicon Valley to start a tech company. San Francisco has a much better organized tech community and that really does help, but we can have the same thing here with a little work.
Fortunately there are a few events in the area where we can meet, and that is starting to help bring us together. I am going to schedule a meet-up in South County pretty soon. I have also found Facebook to help a little in that direction, but tonight lets talk about the Boston Blogger Meeting.
It was really neat. I had the honor and privilege of talking to Doc Searls! That was the highlight of the night. Thanks Doc, for taking time to talk to me. You made my day. I met a lot of other people I will have to post about tomorrow.
Note to self: when setting up a similar meet-up pay attention to the floor plan. The room we were in was big enough, but we only used about 60% of it because nobody wanted to go over to the dark corner. You could not get to the food from there so we all crowded into a much smaller place than necessary. I have to agree with someone else who ate there once that the food at this restaurant did the job of making you not hungry anymore, but the people who came made it worth it.
I got to talk a lot about non-profits this evening. I knew that giving back to the community was becoming an important theme, but was still pleasantly surprised at how many people were talking about ways to help non-profits. This is definitely the right time for KarmaGeek. It is an exciting time to be alive.
More on Boston / New England Geeks tomorrow.
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