The London experiment with weekly media-making meetups continued this evening with another member getting his first taste of videoblogging. Guy West has been a regular at our discussion groups and kindly recorded some audio at one of the meetings.
We sat in the brand new foyer of the British Film Institute/National Film Theatre which only […]

The Social Media Club folk in London got together last Thursday for our monthly discussion group (thanks to Ben & Hayley at Fleishman for putting us up again!), this month led by Michael Spencer and Ronna Porter of Sound Strategies. Michael, formerly a violinist with the LSO and head of education at the Royal […]

OK, so my bright idea was a little under-attended last week (yes, I was the only one to turn up) but nevertheless I did one of the things I set out to do which was to make some media.
Tonight we had a 500% increase in the number of attendees and half of the people who […]

This month, the London Chapter met at the offices of Blue Rubicon - actually, I’m not very comfortable calling it a chapter - the only organisation I associate that with is Hell’s Angels, so we shall see… Again, there were new faces but there is a small core of regulars emerging and around 20 […]

Despite large parts of the UK trying to blow away with the attendant travel chaos that staggers those from less civilized climes, we had more than 25 hardy souls braving the elements from as far away as Bonn (yes, as in Germany) and Cardiff (yes, as in Wales), for free beer, wine and nibbles (Thanks, Fleishmann Hillard!) and some incidental chat about social media.

There is quite a churn in these meetings so far, though some suckers keep coming back for more, so we started with round-the-room introductions. There was a wide variety - media consultants, media creators, bloggers, photographers, marketers, entrepreneurs, geeks, visual-thinkers and many more.