Have you heard about OpenCoffee?
Its all started with an Idea from a man known for his ideas - Philip Wilkinson (Co-founder of Crowdstorm a Social Shopping service), and then after telling a few event planners (he told me last year and I bulked at the effort required) a brave soul Saul Klein stepped up to the plate (north american analogue from baseball).
Saul started what has become known as the OpenCoffee phenomenon. First he organised a few events which went so well everyone kept saying Saul (this is me adding drama) do more, do more. These are great parties/socials/etc.
So Saul took the next step and started a Ning site Opencoffee.ning.com and people started joining like crazy and if you haven’t I recommend you do, its turning into a niche (Web2/Social Media/Web-head/VCs/Marketing/etc) version of LinkedIn.
Now as though this wasn’t enough our man Saul started a Meetup group for us Londoners (/Canadians).
So if you are one of those interested types then join the phenomenon, join our man Saul and make some noise.
Thanks for making the monumental effort of organising this stuff and Phil - GREAT idea buddy.
One last thing I would like to make abundantly clear is Phil came up with the seed idea but everything that OpenCoffee is, from name, to planning, to style, etc is all Saul and I don’t want to make it sound like he doesn’t get tonnes of props. Both deserve their due credit for their parts.
See you at 10am Thursday (this week)…. 
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Philip Wilkinson 04.09.07 at 11:28 pm
Thanks for the mention Roger. Credit to Saul for running with the concept and making it a reality. As I always say “it’s not how many ideas you have, but how many you make happen”
Roger 04.09.07 at 11:59 pm
I couldn’t agree with you more Phil and I do remember you saying that and me nodding my head. Props to Saul for doing what people were saying they wanted but no one was willing to deliver.
By the way I passed that little nugget of knowledge onto a young man just a few days ago.
When I run into him again I will refer him to this post and your comment.
Philip Wilkinson 04.10.07 at 12:28 am
Thanks for the mention Roger. Credit to Saul for running with the concept and making it a reality. As I always say “it's not how many ideas you have, but how many you make happen”
Roger 04.10.07 at 12:59 am
I couldn't agree with you more Phil and I do remember you saying that and me nodding my head. Props to Saul for doing what people were saying they wanted but no one was willing to deliver.
By the way I passed that little nugget of knowledge onto a young man just a few days ago.
When I run into him again I will refer him to this post and your comment.