[Sigia-l] Report of Amsterdam IA Cocktail Hour

[Peter Boersma]

Wow! This Tuesday we had another Amsterdam IA Cocktail Hour and I am very,
very happy with the outcome.

We had Peter Morville attend until he had to leave for the User Experience
2004 speaker dinner. He was clearly the center of attention for the first
hour. Then Eric Reiss really livened up the evening and we ended up having
dinner with him and eight other die-hards until midnight. I think in total
25 to 30 people attended.

It was good to see the the visiting UX2004 conference attendees mix with the
usual suspects as well as the people that had promised to show up some time
and choose this event to do that. I really enjoyed just walking around from
group to group and hear them, well...network, basically. It was
heartwarming!

I again received some requests to make the Cocktail Hours more formal, and
even got an offer for a suitable space. Since it always has been my
intention to mix educational aspects with socializing and networking, I am
going to try and arrange this. Soon we'll have another IA Cocktail
Hour-with-a-projector. My only request will be that there needs to be a case
of beer in a corner somewhere :-)

Cheers,
Peter
For more information about the Amsterdam IA Cocktail Hours, consider joining
the Yahoo!Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IACocktailHourAmsterdam/
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