Northern UK Bloggers’ Meet-Up

old-broadcasting-house The first Northern UK Bloggers’ Meet-up took place yesterday at the Old Broadcasting House in Leeds – which is now a one of the facilities of Leeds Met University, which happens to be where I was a student back in 2001-2004 – it kind of felt like I’d come full circle!

The aim of this first session was to decide on the format for future events (which we kind of did), have some informal discussions about blogging and basically get to know each other.

In total there was about 20 bloggers that turned out for this initial event, we proceeded into the “boardroom” – not quite like the Apprentice with Sir Alan Sugar waiting for us – there was certainly no intimidating grillings, it was a very relaxed and good-humoured affair.

Jamie Harrop gave a great presentation about a cool new website statistics service called Woopra. This sparked some interesting discussion by all those present and he also gave some beta invite codes out so everyone could go away and have a play with it.

We then had a ‘show and tell’ session about our websites and/or online businesses, we even ended up using mobile broadband - I found this really useful and got some interesting feedback and tips which will most likely influence the future development of Zath!

Then to round off the event we then walked the short distance down to the ‘Dry Dock’ pub – a boat that’s been converted into a pub – again a throwback to my uni days!

A big thanks goes out to Chris Garrett and Jamie Harrop and anyone else involved in organising all of this!

They’ll hopefully be more of these events happening in future, most likely taking place over a whole day rather than just starting at 6.30pm, which should mean more people with longer journeys, can make the trip over. If you’re a fellow Northern UK blogger, feel free to join email discussion list and keep an eye on Chris G’s site – which is also filled with loads of useful blogging/website information.

Strawbleu took some great photos that you can see on his Northern UK Bloggers Meet-Up Flickr collection.

Here’s a list of sites that I’ve manage to put together of those in attendance – if I’ve missed your site, just let me know and I’ll add it in!

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15 Responses to “Northern UK Bloggers’ Meet-Up”

Forest on August 16th, 2008 10:43 pm

Wow a real English pub…. sometimes I miss England…

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Andrew Mason on August 17th, 2008 9:16 am

Good to meet you on Friday night. Pity I missed the pub as I have never been in the dry dock.

I have reviewed the meeting on my blog and would love my blog linking from yours.

Thanks.

Andrew..

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Richard on August 17th, 2008 12:16 pm

What a great night covering a variety of interests, and wasn’t the standard of participants sites very high, both visually and from a content point of view.

Looking forward to the next one!

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Jack on August 17th, 2008 4:36 pm

Nice to meet you Friday and thanks for the mention.

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Tim Nash on August 18th, 2008 2:59 pm

Me no get no link

Just teasing it was good fun and hopefully we can do it again soon, while I know everyone is looking forward to the full day version I really enjoyed the “infomal” version .

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Tony Scott on August 18th, 2008 2:59 pm

Sound like it was good night.

By the way I’ve been to the Dry Dock pub in Leeds - a bit surreal a boat on top of a hill in the middle of the city!

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Andrew on August 18th, 2008 5:26 pm

It was an interesting evening for sure and nice to meet everyone. You did miss me off your list though.

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Zath on August 18th, 2008 5:58 pm

Hey guys, sorry for missing you off, have now added you onto the list of “founding attendees”

@Andrew Mason - I’m a big fan of GTD sites, mainly because I’m not very organised if I don’t put the effort in, had not seen your site before, but will definitely be checking it out regularly!

@Tim - How could I have forgotten your link - your Stumble info was a real eye-opener to me, thanks for that!

@Andrew - I need to take a good look at your site, I have an idea of a plugin I need here on the site and need to figure out I could go about creating it.
Andrew on August 18th, 2008 6:39 pm

Well let me know if you need any help with your plugin. If I can help I will.

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Zath on August 23rd, 2008 12:39 pm

Thanks very much for the offer Andrew, I may well take you up on that! Cheers!
Susan Hoyle on November 8th, 2008 6:35 pm

Sounds like it was a good night.

When is the next one?

Susan xxx

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Zath on November 8th, 2008 7:14 pm

Hi Susan - since this original meet-up there’s been a further 2 taken place, with the last one involving a post-meeting meal at a local curry house.

The next date hasn’t been finalised as I’m writing now, however, I’m sure they’ll be another one before Christmas.