The second Birmingham Bloggers meetup was last night and it was a very different beast to the last one.
I got there early with the idea of wearing my ol’ blue Blogger hoodie might be useful for physically tagging our end of the pub. It’s also becoming nicely vintage, harking back from an era when blogging was brave, fresh-faced and no-one had heard of comment spam.
The meeting seems to have roughly doubled to about 20 from last time, including some big-time bloggers. I guess the growth was down to a combination of a more central location (the Dragon Inn) plus the word getting out. At this size it naturally relaxed into several small but mingling groups, more like a party than a debate. The cheap Wetherspoons beer reinforced this convivial atmosphere which I saw Jon trying to capture on his mobile, perhaps for later vlogging.
Talked to lots of interesting and friendly bloggers, although not as many as I would have liked. One month seems like an awful long time for the next meet.