Cyber Salon, The Reality

Have you ever imagined something and known the reality would probably not quite ever live up to your idea. Last spring/summer I dreamed up this idea of having Cyber Salons, like the intellectual Salons of the 18th and 19th centuries. Heck…even the Paris Salons with America ex-pat writers. Part of what I imagined was the combination of laptops and live talking and back channeling, and beer of course! A group of us starting meeting this past fall and have been meeting monthly ever since. Although we are still struggling to find a standard day of the week & month, this last meeting we did it…we met my idea(l) of the Cyber Salon.

Thanks to CogDog for the pic!
CogDog was in Vancouver, Befitt was at home; both Ustreaming. Coop, Nooccar and myself (w/my partner in crime as well), were at a bar in Phoenix. With Ustream, Twitter, Tumblr, beer, and the passion to geek out…we were talking, geekin, back channeling, listening to one another from different countries…it was a cyber party! All I can say is that it was a dream come true.

March 09 2008 | Posted in Cyber Salon