Wonderful story about our Central Iowa Business Blogger group (#CIB) in the Des Moines Register today. The piece captures the spirit of collaboration and open-source ideation we hoped for from the start og the gathering three years ago.
Though some have moved on, plenty of new folks join in each month. It really has become an offline example of the blogosphere if you watch and listen:
- You enter the restaurant and immediately hear the buzz, looking over and seeing 30-40 people sitting, standing, laughing, or drawing on backs of napkins
- You try to get close to see what all the commotion is about. You hear the word "blog" or "twitter" and remember the jokes that you heard on Letterman or the View -- and you wonder who these "geeks" are, starting to back off, until you hear it...
- You hear folks talking business; best practices; relationship-building; global connection; new income streams; synchronized communication; improved findability on the web
- You creep closer and some Yoda-like guy starts introducing you as if you've been part of the group all along (and you have -- you just now realized it is all)
You see, you've been part of the community all along. It's the nature of the species. To connect. To communicate. To share thinking and feeling, It's a unique species for sure. No, not the blogging species. The human species.
The CIBers (we all co-own it) meet every month on the First Friday (next one is tomorrow), Panera at 6740 University (WDM), 8am-ish. I won't be in town for the October event, but look forward to November.
And if you find that the CIB is not at a [convenient] time or place, you may want to check out the iBlog Conference coming up in November.
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