"Will it stay like this or get too businessy?"
It stayed like that, mostly. Sometimes it did get too businessy, but we soon dealt with that.
It's ten years this week since we had the first regular Tuttle Club meeting "to prototype a social media caf茅 for London" upstairs in the Coach & Horses in Greek Street. This picture was taken a couple of weeks later once we'd decided that it could and should be a weekly thing. It's been going (pretty much) every Friday since. Yes once or twice, it's been me, a cup of coffee and a couple of pigeons and yes, there have been weeks when I haven't shown up, but over all, it's ten years of putting another bead on the string and I'm proud of it.
I feel the need to something to mark the anniversary, other than having a bunch of grumpy old social media folk drinking tea, eating cake and moaning about how it isn't like it used to be in the good old days of 2008.
About a year ago, I started writing stuff about it. By now I thought it would be a book, but it isn't, most of that writing still isn't published, and there's still a lot to write. And I'm not certain that a book is the form it should take. Maybe I had to wait for the ten years to be up to really get down to it.
I'd like to do a couple of things to celebrate. One is to open some space to get people talking together about what we did and get them to record what was important for them. The other is for me to go round the country (and beyond!) interviewing people who came and getting some stories together about why it has mattered, why it continues to matter. I think this is more of a movie. Not just talking heads - and it should include bits of other media, but mostly it'll be that.
I need to start making some new lists!
PS Don't worry I haven't forgotten about SteemCampUK!
