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Last night was a quick and dirty drop in at the TBEX Preparty at Tryst NightClub. I was quickly reminded of why these types of social situations make me awkward – it’s not liming, it’s not true networking and everyone seems to know someone else.
- Walking up to people who’s blogs you’ve read but never commented on, is difficult.
- Not having a travel website business card can make you feel lame. Those business cards are like a blogger’s resume. Weird!
- Eating your tacos and avoiding a conversation about your tacos can make people think you’re rude.
- The stories you will hear from other travel bloggers can be amazing and inspiring. If you ever need fuel or inspiration to travel more, just talk to a travel blogger for 5 mins – you’ll be stoked!
- Nothing better to give you a dose of reality about your blog than reading writers who are better than you and who pour their soul into it.
- Having a travel blogger party in a nightclub venue can only work, if the organizers are socially aware of the music. People are there to talk and network – not hookup.
- Networking in a corporate setup is way easier than networking at a travel blogger party – but maybe it’s because I don’t know the rules and I don’t know the important people.
- My hatred of Twitter is not good when networking with travel bloggers … I said hi and immediately people asked for my twitter handle. It made me wakeup this morning and redo my twitter introduction – I tried to be funny, factual and something else … lemme know if it works
- Tonight is another event : http://twtvite.com/TravelMassiveTBEX13 – to see if I can get some traveller business cards to hand out by 8pm tonight – I doubt this is going to happen though! Ah the sweet optimism of the morning!
- I have to get with the times and work at Twitter!!
