Hey what's up everyone? How is everyone doing?
In my previous post I spoke about going to a "Meet up" meeting. Last night I went to my second Meet up and this one was called a Scanners night: Idea storming.
It is hosted by John Williams who is the founder of Scanners night and bestselling author of "Screw work let's play".
Their introduction to the evening goes something like this "Scanners nights, your chance to immerse yourself in a room full of friendly like-minded people who are excited about writing books, building blogs, launching businesses, starting their own event, using social media to promote their art, and making their escape from the 9-5. Join us"
I must admit that at first it wasn't quite what I was expecting but by the end of the evening I walked away quite excited and had definitely learnt something new.
Instead of teaching us all the things they said they were (which would have taken ages!) going too, what they did do was show us quite a few websites that are there for everyone to use which will change what they are doing in their life if you want too...
So for instance if you want to publish your own book then there are two great websites to check out. The first one is called http://www.lulu.com which is a self publishing book printing solutions company that does books, eBooks, photo books this is great for people trying to write and publish their own books, other people can then buy what you have written that's if you want them too...
Another website for publishing a book is called http://www.blurb.com
Something else they spoke about was a website called http://www.blogtalkradia.com which is a Internet radio station website where you can create an online radio show, blog talk radio. It's the largest Internet radio network. By just using your phone and a computer you can broadcast your own Internet radio show from anywhere and share it which everyone, this is great because you can add a widget to your blog and people can access it from there too.
The next website was great it's called http://www.qik.com there you can record and share live video from your mobile phone, what you do is download an App for your phone. You can then send a live video feed that can then be sent live to friends and family you can automatically post it to social media networks or broadcast to your own blog and video sharing sites.
Another site that is pretty much the same is http://www.livestream.com
The next website was called http://www.kickstarter.com which is great for people who are looking for funding to start their own projects and need funding to do it. What you do is write down what you want to do and how much money you need to complete your project, if people like your idea then they sponsor you.
We then got to hear from other people that were there and got to share our ideas and see if we could help them with their ideas and to see if anyone could help us on our projects...
I walked away from the evening really bubbly and excited to try and put my ideas into practice.
I am already trying to find the next Meet up to attend, I can't wait!!
Anyway have a good day everyone and try join a Meet up
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