Local Chicagoland Bloggers Meetup?

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I was just swapping emails with one of my readers, and I suggested to her to start up a local meetup group in the hopes she could get some face time with a certain A-Lister that happens to live in her town.

Which then made me realize that this would be a pretty cool thing to do ’round here.

I know I have readers here in the Chicago area. Anyone up for a blogging meetup?

Drop me a line and if there is enough interest I’ll put one together for us!

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1. On February 10th, 2007 at 9:16 am, Dan and Jennifer said:

Hey Wendy,

Great idea. We just set up a Pro Blogger Meetup group for Dallas about a month ago. Here’s the URL:
http://blog.meetup.com/377/

We haven’t had our first meeting yet, but planning it for the end of February. Jennifer and I just moved and and also migrated our site from TypePad to Wordpress - which was a bit of a handful BTW, but well worth it.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

2. On February 10th, 2007 at 10:05 am, Wendy said:

Let me know how it goes, Dan!

Yeah, I started this blog on NucleusCMS, and about the time I realized this blog was getting some attention, I decided I had better get my blog switched over to a stronger platform while I didn’t have a lot of posts to move.

It was one of the best decisions I made on this blog! Good luck to you - I feel your pain!

3. On February 10th, 2007 at 6:15 pm, Liz Strauss said:

Tell me when and where and I’ll be there. Oh heck I’ll help you plan it.

4. On February 10th, 2007 at 7:12 pm, Mike Maddaloni said:

I’m interested!

mp/m

5. On February 10th, 2007 at 7:16 pm, Wendy said:

Woot - there’s three of us now! Nice to meet you Mike!

6. On February 10th, 2007 at 10:18 pm, Dan and Jennifer said:

We’ll be there in spirit unless you folks have a dial-in bridge number.

You guys have fun with it.

Dan

7. On June 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pm, Karen said:

There’s a Chicago Bloggers meet up group that meets every couple of weeks. I haven’t gone to one yet but if you set one up, I’ll go! Let’s have it in Oak Brook. LOL

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