Join the Charleston blog/twitter-verse at Bowen’s Island Restaurant Jan 5 for a post-holiday oyster binge!
Show up any time after 5PM.
Don’t forget, Bowen’s Island is cash only.
A cool Blognic ’09
The weather was a little on the cool and grey side with a little bit of sun peeking out here and there. Attendance at this year’s Blognic was light, but the company and conversation was good.
Calvin makes some pretty tasty lumpia.
Of course the dogs didn’t mind the cool weather at all. Even spending an hour running around at the dog park didn’t even make a dent in their energy level.
LCB’s third anniversary
Heather noted that most of the better attended meetups happened to be ones that I threw together. I think I just got volunteered for stuff.
Today’s third anniversary meetup turned out pretty well. Had about 20 bloggers and tweeters show up, possibly much to the dismay of the lone newbie waitress working the patio area who was expecting a slow evening. I was pleasantly surprised by the numbers that showed.
It’s always good to get together and I think everybody had a pretty good time.
Several #jaredrumours were being formulated.
3 years of meetup-ing
Hard to believe, but May 16 will make it 3 years now since the inaugural Lowcountry Bloggers meetup (yes Chuck, I know you and Joan and a couple others met up before that).
From that very first meetup at Toucan Reef (now called Harbor Grille), the Lowcountry blogging community has grown from a few dozen blogs to well over 400 that are being rounded up and aggregated at lowcountrybloggers.com and lowcountryblogroll.com. It’s a community that’s grown to encompass not just bloggers, but Twitter users and just about every other social web thing out there.
Doesn’t seem like it’s been only three years. I feel like I’ve known the people I’ve met through LCB a lot longer than three years. I’ve met a lot of really great people through their blogs (and tweets), and being able to meet them in person has been pretty awesome.
To celebrate the occasion, I’ve checked with Harbor Grille to make sure their patio will be available and they’ve said it should be no problem. So join me and a few others returning to the scene of the crimewhere Dan helped kick everything off.
Oh, and don’t feel like you have to be a blogger to join in. Come hang out with us even if you’re a non-blogger. We don’t bite (pretty sure most of us don’t anyway).
Anniversary meetup
Plans to meet at Harbor Grille prior to tonight’s showing of Star Trek at the Hippodrome got me thinking about the first Lowcountry blogger meetup, which was held there (it was Toucan Reef back then). Delving in to my blog archives, I discovered that tonight’s meetup almost coincides with the third anniversary of the very first Lowcountry Bloggers meetup.
If anybody’s interested, I propose that to celebrate the third anniversary of blogger meetups (you Tweeters can come too) we all return to the scene of the crime for an anniversary meetup.
What: Lowcountry Bloggers 3rd anniversary meetup
Where: Harbor Grille
When: May 16, 2009 6PM to whenever
Who: You (and whatever friends you want to bring along)
Why: Because it’ll be a fun time!