Social Web Meetup 2 in St. Albert

Last night was the second Social Web Meetup. We were out in St. Albert, the guests of Inside and Out Naturally.

They’ve got a great facility out there. Unfortunately a few people had some difficulty finding the location due to a Google Maps marker error. With so many coming from Edmonton. where the grid system rules, the curves in the road were too much for some of us. I got lost too, but a phone call to Inside and Out put me on the right path.

The guys from somethingtv.net were there doing a live broadcast. It was interesting watching it. They interact with their chatroom but I’m not sure if they’re used to a live crowd. They were mostly talking about politics and the recent U.S. election, so that was good. Some of us are suffering from withdrawal!

I just checked and the video from the episode is up on the site. It streams nicely. It’s definitely worth watching. It was great to be there seeing it live and checking out what happens behind the scenes in one of these productions.

As usual, there was some great food and really interesting conversation about social media. Using social media is a lot of fun and I really like it when I can get out and meet the people I talk to online. My social media of choice is Twitter, but I’m also a fairly regular user of Facebook. LinkedIn is another good one, especially for business people.

Every attendee at the Meetup was even treated like an Oprah guest, receiving a free radio from Brittney of iNews880.

The next Social Web Meetup is scheduled for December 4. I will definitely be there, unless we have a blizzard. It may be time to get set up with some snow shoes and make sure there’s plenty of hot chocolate available at that meeting.

See you there!

Alain Saffel