It was with trepidation that I arrived at Cape Bar last night at about quarter past 6. A large empty room confronted me and set my heart racing as to whether I might have over-egged the venue somewhat.
A quick scan of twitter for #notttuesday and I could see a few people were heading over, and with the guys from Esendex coming, at least I wasn’t going to be on my own.
I shouldn’t have worried.
You kept coming and coming. There must have been 50-60 of you and the place was buzzing by the time the talks were about to start.
There was even a Nottingham Evening Post photographer which got me excited until I discovered he was there with Martin pretending we were at Nottingham Twestival.
Ewan MacLeod gave us all an excellent, brief history of Mobile Industry Review and how he learnt to beat the media and publishing industry at their own game. Opinion and ‘little’ bit of controversy gave his audience something to keep on coming back for.
It was then onto the networking and there was no stopping some of you. Next time I looked at my phone it as quarter to ten.
I ended up having snatched conversations with so many of you that need to be longer.
Thanks to Alan O’Dea, I now know that Stoney Street is a hot bed of international online technology companies.
Leslie Bowie and I have a ‘discussion’ to continue about the evils or not of Google
Peter Goodwin tells me there is a plan to bring serious broadband capacity to the Lace Market, hopefully more on that from Peter later.
Patrick Smith was sharing the pain of having to go to Barcelona next week for Mobile World Congress.
Plaudits for Tina Bilan making it despite a very, newly injured wrist. Networking above and beyond the call of duty.
Thanks to Caron-Jane Lyon for Qiking the event and Jonathan Relf for his photo journalism skills.
Nick Barker and Simon Oxley shared the joys of being a startup and the exciting new service coming out of Viisys.
It was great to meet Joanna Butler in the flesh, her SEO tips via twitter are a goldmine.
Last man standing I think goes to Al Carlton who I’m sure I saw at the bar downstairs as I left.
And there were more of you, many more, I look forward to finding out more on this site or at the next event. Do add comments with your own experiences of the night.
Thanks for coming, see you on March 10th.
You know, I’m starting to suspect that this thing might just have some legs.
