Comments on: Social Media Cafe Manchester – poll update and August meetup

By: Upcoming Manchester geek events « Technical Faults

Upcoming Manchester geek events « Technical Faults — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:03:40 +0000

[...] blogged my thoughts in July on the use of the BBC as a venue and it was useful to get Julian’s feedback on the challenges surrounding finding a suitable [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:52:26 +0000

Hi Julian,

Thanks for the comment and the info. As you say, the Beeb is definitely helpful in terms of equipment and setup, which is a great strength, as well as meeting the requirements for the social media cafe which I understand, grow as it becomes more popular.

I’ll be keeping an eye out for possible venues and hopefully others will feed in comments too.

By: julianlstar

julianlstar — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:07:20 +0000

Hi Josh,

I think from talking people informally your poll is about right. Although we are holding the September event at the BBC, it’s just makes life a lot easier I think to find other venues around town would be good. I did enjoy being at the Northern but it was quite difficult to organise, equipment and liaising with the venue wise.
So anywhere in the City Centre that has WiFi, equipment we can take over and has capacity for 100+ people would be good. Suggestions please