Coffee Morn 160207:

A fair turn out for this week's coffee morning.

Phil from the Leith. Ian from Golley Slater. Mark from Mark Gorman. Jamie from Terinea. Mike and Alice from DigitalAgency. Carol, Nev, and Fraser from Whitespace. Brad on student placement at Whitespace.

More talk about QR codes, Flickr vs SmugMug for professional photographers, the perks of working for Microsoft, (from an ex-Microsoftie no less), BarCamp Scotland, (more when people from the other end of the table get back to me.)

SecondLife and businesses / politicians (what is the point?) Plus also a refreshing Linden lawyers letter to the guys at getafirstlife.com - in the blog comments at DarrenBarefoot.

Also discussed were finding time to Blog and how to handle comments, what actually constitutes "Web 2.0" and how to persuade clients to get involved and if not cede control, then at least to consider a gentle loosening of their grip on a campaign, in an effort to learn and encourage feedback.

As an aside on the k800i front, we've decided this morning that we need
to have a mini golf tournament - get practising!

A fine sight first thing on a crisp Scottish morning; Centotre beckoning.

Brad and Alice.

Fraser, Jamie, Mrs.C, Mark.

Fraser, Jamie, Mrs.C, Mark, Phil, Ian, Nev, Brad, Alice.

Ian, Nev.

Jamie, Mrs.C, Mark, Phil.

Mark, Phil.

Mrs.C, Mark.

Phil, Ian, Brad, Uncle Mike.

Alice still going strong after 8 cups of coffee!

Comments

[Fred Shively]

So how did the Flickr vs. SmugMug debate turn out?

[Mike]

Ewan, you traded a heady dark brown Italian  brew with a frothy head, for a heady dark brown Irish  brew with a creamy head?

Mmmm, sounds like a no-brainer to me! (Or was that the morning after when you had a no brainer;-)

Also, when you get to Brussels next week, no doubt you'll be substituting coffee mornings for trappist beer evenings?

A tough job, but somebody's got to do it.

Hopefully, we'll still be here when you get back, but I have a feeling mere coffee just won't measure up any more.

Actually, strike that, after going on the bevvy in Ireland AND Belgium, I think an Edinburgh Coffee Morning, is JUST what you'll need. Lot's if it.

Bon Voyage, (or however those wacky Belgians say it.)  Mike.

[Ewan McIntosh]

Sorry I missed the haircut, Mike, as well as the banter. Would have loved to chip in with the SecondLife debate. I, too, am beginning to wonder what the point is for businesses and politicians.

Dublin went really well - about 160 Irish converted to the cause if the feedback is anything to go by ;-) I've been invited back to speak to the national education ICT agency, a new tech project and a regional conf in Tipperary - I've never been.

It's kind of like the Irish franchise of the Coffee Morn, in a way!

[Tim Maguire]

fair dos michael. Hope to see you next week x

[Mike]

Tim,

I think Pecha Kucha is a good idea, for say PK evenings, with an audience and start-stop times.

The thing about Coffee Morns, are that they are informal, unstructured digital natters, spilling out and wandering all over the place.

I'd hate anyone to think they had to 'do something' even if it was turn up on time, rather than halfway through a topic.

As you see from previous CM posts, the conversation free-flows over lots, and lots of different digital thing in a 'will of it's own' kind of way.

So my vote goes for; The only rule is that there are no rules.'

Hope to see you and Juliet there/here? next week.

M

[Tim Maguire]

Sorry I missed it. Looks as though you almost filled the building!

I really think you're doing a great service to openness and communication here Mike, well done.

I was talking about it to Don Smith (who was also there last week) and he suggested it might be an idea if you were to suggest a topic every week that we could come and talk about in a kind of pecha kucha way - everyone talks on the topic for a very short time before going to general discussion. What do you think?

[markgorman]

great chat, great forum, great almost instant blogging.