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The most delicious meet-up. Ever.

I’ve been a fan of Ping Pong Dim Sum since they opened one of their first restaurants on Great Marlborough Street, a convenient 30-second sprint from my then office. I’d usually woof down a veggie lunch menu with some lusciously sticky rice and magically shiny baked puffs, while staring intently at a glass of jasmine [...]

I admit defeat

3 blogs, 2 Ning networks, 3 meet-ups and 3 Twitter accounts later, I admit defeat. It is folly. Something’s gotta give. Perhaps it’s a good time to kill off Girl about Web. Would I rather debate the London internet scene or the superiority of cowboy over English boots? You know the answer. See you at [...]

Ning vs Meetup

Building a casual riders social network on Ning – FAIL. Creating a horse riding weekend meet-up on Meetup – WIN. Silicon Stilettos on Meetup – 300 passive members, on Ning –  113, but it’s a vibrant community. Do I grudge paying Meet-up £50 every six months? I don’t. Small price to pay to ‘eliminate the barriers [...]

One down, more to come

It’s been almost a week since more than 80 Silicon Stilettos met for the very first time at LVPO in Soho. It was loud, it was dark/awfully bright depending on whether the camera lights were on or off, but the free bar lasted all night (thank you Winston & Strawn/Bootlaw) and I bumped into a [...]

And then there were 120

It’s been a month since I spent a whole Sunday putting the Silicon Stilettos logo together and some words for the meet-up page. I thought: cool, we’ll get 20-30 members, will meet in a pub and exchange war stories. I was wrong.
We are at 120 members, including honorary ones (sponsors and those who are involved [...]