Well folks, what can I say, what a hoot!!!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Edinburgh Coffee Morning Beer Evening, the food & drink sponsors Stewarts Brewing, Illegal Jacks & Vino Wines, the cash sponsors Eden Scott and Attacat, all the incredibly generous raffle prize donors, the cake bakers and each and every single person who attended the event and helped with retweets along the way and basically allowed us to get the event off the ground!
The buzz of folk from Scotland’s Social Media and Digital scene enjoying themselves was fantastic and it was great to see a number of people who hadn’t seen each other for a very long time reconnecting. I think Stills as a venue really came into it’s own on Thursday night and from the enquiries since, I don’t think it’ll be the last!
The bake-off was a resounding success & boy did they look good! Juliet’s Club Tropicana cakes taking the prize of the evening!
The raffle raised over £600 for The Ambeciles / Edinburgh Sick Kids which was a brilliant effort. (And Baxter was so delighted with his Attacat mug that he didn’t let it out of his sight all night!)
We also tried, perhaps a little belatedly, to unlock the foursquare ‘swarm’ badge but were sadly somewhat short of the 50 log-ins required, lesson to self for the next one, prepare folks in advance!
I understand the Chilli was a spicy ‘belter’ although I seemed to spend the whole night chatting and never actually got to try and of the food or cakes, possibly contributing to a somewhat sore head on Friday!
The ‘after show party’ went on until the wee hours (as my head the next day could attest to!) and I feel finished the proceedings off with much aplomb!
It really was a superb evening and despite the head I was still buzzing from it myself on Friday! It was also great to meet so many folk in person who I had only ever previously met online!
Just leaves one question, when shall we do it again??
Andy from Queens Hall took some fantastic photos of the evening http://bit.ly/cBUlRr
& a few of mine can be found below and here http://bit.ly/cXLEXA
I’d love to hear your comments on the event as well………….
2 of The Ambeciles
Some of the Bake-off entries
We did it!
Jonathan Melville
July 18, 2010
Well done on organising this with your gang, it was a great night for a good cause and I hope we see another one in the city very soon. Also, good luck to the Ambeciles on their project!
Nadine Pierce
July 18, 2010
Thanks Jon, have to get the thinking caps on see how we can top it! :0)
Dan Frydman
July 18, 2010
Superb job everyone. What an amazing evening and I only caught the early bit.
Stills is a great venue and as Stills sponsors Inigo Media will be holding a set of blogging / social media training events there in the coming school year. More details to come.
Let me know if you’d like to be involved.
Nadine Pierce
July 18, 2010
Dan, massive apologies for forgetting you guys on the sponsors list! Big oversight, you guys have been doing a fantastic job with Stills on their website and think the new e-commerce site will go down a storm!
Dan Frydman
July 20, 2010
Hi Nadine, no worries – we weren’t official sponsors of the evening, otherwise you have to go down the Habitat, Edinburgh Council and Scottish Arts Council route to be fair and transparent… or actually in reverse order.
Fraser Edwards
July 19, 2010
Really enjoyed the evening – thanks for all the work that went into organising it
p.s. you need to add http:// to the links mentioned in the post as they don’t work at the moment.
Nadine Pierce
July 19, 2010
ahhh, will need to take a look at that, thanks Fraser!
we didn’t get to meet either, what a shame! glad you enjoyed it though
Fraser Edwards
July 19, 2010
Yeah sorry we didn’t meet. One of those kind of nights where you speak to loads of people and still miss loads more
John Moffat
July 20, 2010
A fantastic evening from everyone invloved, have to agree that there was not enough time to speak to everyone. Great work on raising so much for the Ambeciles.