What are these events like?

TWO days in London this week has meant a bit of a struggle keeping up with messages and looking to see if anybody has visited the website.

The beginning of the week saw quite a lot of web traffic. Putting the idea for Peterborough Business onto Facebook (here and here, I'm still working out the difference between the groups)alerted all my work colleagues. I got about half a dozen messages of encouragement via Facebook, email and a comment from Dan on one of the postings here. This one particularly thrilled me because Dan and I spar online over our ideas around traditional and future publishing.

I particularly like having colleagues with different opinions who also find it very easy to say good things to each other. I’d like to see quite a lot of that in Peterborough Business.

Because I was staying in London on Thursday night I couldn’t summon the energy to go along to Charters on Wednesday evening. I’d seen that the Chamber of Commerce was holding an informal networking evening there and I rarely need an excuse to go to a decent pub for a couple of hours.

I emailed someone at the Chamber with my idea for Peterborough Business at the beginning of the week. I haven’t had a reply yet, but hopefully that will happen before the next informal meeting at Charters and I can go along for a face-to-face chat.

I’ve also noticed that the Peterborough Business Club UK is meeting at The Bell in Stilton on January 28 and February 11. If any of you reading this has been to Chamber and Business Club events, it would be great if you could post some comments on the forum. How many people go? What businesses are represented? What is the age range? Were they friendly? Was it useful?

This is a shockingly busy time at my proper job, so I’ll struggle to get to these events before April. In the meantime it would be great to get your feedback here.