Hull Internet Creatives

Tonight was the inaugural meetup of Hull Internet Creatives!

Aka three of us in a pub.  I got beer.

It was very nice (and not just because of being able to enjoy a beer on a school night!), we had some great ideas about what to do with the group, it was great to see a real mix of desires, from wanting to understand how to get creations on the internet, to information about web design and SEO.  Plans are to keep on growing the membership, and to perhaps next time do a seminar about blogging.

If you live somewhere near Hull and would like to have a chat about blogging, YouTubing, podcasting, or other internetty stuff, join us!

Call Me Vlad

Hopefully you enjoyed the little April Fool blog post, the Fruit Webcam - it was very much spur of the moment!  Rest assured that my fruit is in no danger of losing its right to privacy.

Due to, amongst other things, my current lack of motorised transport (not for much longer - hopefully I will have new car in a week or so) I've been out of the office for a few days.  When I did go in today I noted this image attached to the side of one of my colleagues computers:

Vladimir is watching you work.

Apparently he found some old passport photos and decided to make a decoration for his PC.  In the interests of free access to art, he provided me with a copy of the original to share:

Enjoy.

He went on to suggest that Vladimir could be some sort of perhaps dark version of me.  I'm considering doing a video this weekend of Vladimir - unfortunately I don't have the beard at this time, but I do have a selection of stick on moustaches.  Suggestions for the video are welcomed!

In other news, my new group for local web creators, Hull Internet Creatives, was featured in the Hull Daily Mail today which was lovely (thanks to the brilliant Natalie from the HDM who made it happen), I'm hoping that it might lead to getting perhaps half a dozen people together for the first meeting planned in a few weeks. Fingers crossed!

Hull Internet Creatives

I've been wanting for some time to do more collaborations with people, particularly on my YouTube channel, but also on blogs, but I've had the difficulty of now knowing many other people locally interested in getting involved in stuff.

As a result, I am launching a new networking group for web creators - Hull Internet Creatives!

HULL INTERNET CREATIVES (HIC)

A group for those in the Hull region to meet, network, and promote their web creations.

Do you:

·        Make YouTube videos?
·        Write blogs?
·         Record podcasts?
·         Create internet content?

Would you like to:

·         Promote your creations?
·         Collaborate with others?
·         Share ideas?

HIC is a group for those people that generate internet content, be it blogs, videos, podcasts, or other materials.  It is a forum for people to connect and work together, to find partners for collaborations, share ideas for topics, and to discuss ways to both improve the quality of their content and increase the popularity of their content.

The group is planned to meet every other month, with the first meeting on Tuesday 21st April 2015 at 7.30pm.  All interested people are welcome, please drop me an email at mike.raven@gmail.com to let me know that you're coming.  The venue is Red Sails, 2 Beacon Way, Hull, HU3 4AE (http://www.redsailspubhull.co.uk/). 

We also have a Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/HullInternetCreatives/ - please join and say hi!

If you'd like to watch me say the above (can't imagine why) here's my video on the group: