I went to 'NFPTweetup' on Wednesday. For those of you who don't know what NFPTweetup is, it is a quarterly event where fundraisers, PRs and the like get together to discuss the burning social media issues of the day.
I have been to a few of these events but I have always gone away a bit more baffled than when I arrived. Some people who went to earlier events discussed QR codes like they were pizza and scoffed at me when I didn't know what they were. It made me feel quite ostracised and I ended up not really enjoying the events.
This one was so different. Through the wonder of twitter I have been talking to fantastic and it was an opportunity to put faces to names. I won't mention them all by name but it was a feast of delightful Beautiful World folk, Aston Villa and West Ham fans and a fair few Scots! New friends were also made and great conversations were had.
Once you start really talking to people, you realise that sometimes they know as much or as little as you. I had some really honest chats with people about various aspects of comms/fundraising where I heard some brilliant ideas.
I am not the best 'networker' I think it's a bit crude to network. The people I met are either new friends or refreshing old friendships. It's a good little community that appears to support each other very well.
I'd recommend you all coming along to the next one but it's always so massively oversubscribed that I don't want the competition for tickets!
We all went for drinks afterwards and fun times prevailed.þ
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