Last night’s meeting was at a new venue, a wonderful room donated by Jobing.com, with screens and projectors, and everything a presenter needs, and although we have had overflow crowds in the past, only twenty people showed up. I guess we didn’t do a good enough job of getting the word out about the change of venue. However, John Paxton of Godaddy recorded the meeting, and you can get the podcast here.

It was quite an interesting discussion, as we had BusinessWire there, and Malcolm Atherton started out to give a ten minute presentation on its new alliance with PRWeb and the EON product. He was immediately interrupted, and a wide-ranging discussion ensued about how to make press releases more visible to search engines on the web.

That segued into a discussion about whether people would use search engines in the future at all, with many in the room believing that search engines will be replaced by individual communities. That, in turn, led into a discussion about Twitter, and whether it was or was not useful, would or would not become mainstream, etc.

It was a wonderful, lively discussion with lots of learning and networking. You might want to listen to at least part of the podcast,which was done live in the room without special equipment (and has all the plusses and minuses associated with that.) Thanks John.
A shoutout to Dave Barnhart of Business Bloggers for volunteering to run meetings in the future.