Your First Blogmeet

It's an interesting thought about going to your first gathering of fellow bloggers. You don't want to feel like you're going to be an outsider for some reason - but then why should, your a blogger as well.

I have a few things that might be interesting to prepare yourself:

1) Revise your knowledge of techy speek - PHP, CGI, XML feeds, processor speeds etc.
2) Make sure you're the type of person that enjoys socialising. If you're not then you're going to be a bit of a boring arse for everyone else and you're not going to like the situation either.
3) Where casual clothes - bloggers are new and hip and coming all smartly dressed might make people hang away because you're a business type and maybe not coming across as cool and new.
4) Do a little research into other people you know may be coming. Read their blogs - do some further reading on the subject the've written about so you can be prepared for an indepth discussion.
5) Bringing a partner might not be a good thing because you will make other people feel like outsiders - perhaps on a subsequent meetup you could introduce them.

These are just a few things that might make it a bit easier to prepare yourself and maximise your enjoyment of the meetup. Just jump into it and have fun.

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