Introducing mEatDrinkBlog Melbourne

For the Melbourne food blogging community, it has been a long time between drinks. The last time the community (aside from the odd tweetup here and there) was together was probably EatDrinkBlog, the first food bloggers conference around this time last year. That’s too long ago. Today, I’m announcing the next part in that series.


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It is a regular meetup – every month or 2. A time for a group of food bloggers to have a sit down, catch up, learn a little, eat a lot and drink. Here’s the deal. On the 31st of March, at the Rising Sun Hotel in South Melbourne we will have room for 30 keen bloggers to listen to 2×10 minute talks, each with a few minutes for questions and then enjoy a pub meal and a few beverages. It starts at 7, with the talks to start at 7:30 and dinner at 8.

The pub is just a short walk form the 112 tram in South Melbourne and chef’d by the venerable Mr Ron O’Bryan.

There is no cost for the event itself, but the food and drink isn’t included, so you’ll have to sort yourself out. The meals are no more than $30 unless you want a big slab of steak.

Well, you’ll mostly have to sort yourself out. Terroir.me will be putting enough money on the bar so that everyone can grab a tasty glass of Pinot or beer and get that conversation flowing.

Speakers

We are looking for speakers for this night and nights in the future. I’ve asked @tammois to moderate the evening, so if you’d like to speak about anything relevant to food blogging, please contact her at tammois@gmail.com with a brief outline of what you would like to talk about. If you aren’t sure about topics, checkout the program for the conference last year as an example. If you aren’t available on the 31st, but might be for the next event, drop her an email anyway and let her know.

I’ve already put up my hand and I’ll be doing an introduction on Google Analytics. Delving in a little bit deeper than just seeing how many people have visited your site in the last month.

Who’s invited?

If you are a interested in food, wine, coffee or anything mildly related and you either have a blog, or tweet about it a lot. You are! Really, we aren’t fussy and if you are interested in coming along then you are more than welcome. There will be plenty of people to bounce ideas off, encourage you to start a blog or otherwise help out with any of the hairy technical or other problems. Come along! The more the merrier.

Count me in!

If you are going to attend, leave a comment in the comments here with your name and correct email address and we will keep you updated on any changes. Just be sure to let us know if you can’t make it so that we can get the numbers right for the venue.

Many thanks go to Ed and Tammi who’ve helped pull this together.

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39 Responses to “Introducing mEatDrinkBlog Melbourne”

  1. Nola commented:
    March 4th, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    Count me in! I will be there between 7.30 and 8pm though please start without me :)

    Great idea!

  2. mEatDrinkBlog Melbourne! » Tammi Tasting Terroir commented:
    March 4th, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    [...] Michael over at My Aching Head has come up with a brilliant plan to bring the Melbourne food blogging community together on a regular basis to a) eat, b) drink, c) talk all things food blogging. You can read about the details, including our first venue & date, on his blog. [...]

  3. Tresna commented:
    March 4th, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    YES!

  4. Reemski commented:
    March 4th, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh! I wanna come!

  5. Emma @CakeMistress commented:
    March 4th, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    Love the idea of a regular series. Will be great to thrash out ideas and things in person again. I’m in for the 31st too.

  6. Cindy commented:
    March 6th, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    Sounds excellent – sign me up!

  7. Duncan | Syrup and Tang commented:
    March 6th, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    An interesting idea! I hope I can make it (often work late on Thursdays, alas). Will have to confirm later.

  8. Anthony Key commented:
    March 7th, 2011 at 4:23 pm

    Think I’m gonna get me one o’ dem blogs. One cannot live on tweets alone

  9. Ceri | Healthy Party Girl commented:
    March 7th, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    I’ll definitely be down for that!

  10. Jetsetting Joyce commented:
    March 7th, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    Fab idea! Will try to make it, if not will certainly try to come to future meetups so keep me updated please :)

  11. Jess commented:
    March 7th, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    I’m in.

  12. Ed commented:
    March 8th, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    Bugger! I booked in for the Rick Bakas event on the 31st but I should be able to get there by 8 so it looks like I may be in.

    And yes, I know I owe you the logo. Just have to set up my old desktop and will sort this week.

  13. penny aka jeroxie commented:
    March 9th, 2011 at 10:06 am

    me plus ONE! Will be there by 8pm though. Awesome!

  14. Z commented:
    March 9th, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    Hey Cats,

    Sounds great. Please mark down Zenon, David and George from The Burger Adventure.

    Cheers

  15. Emily commented:
    March 10th, 2011 at 8:50 am

    Great idea!

    I can’t come along on the 31st but would love to be put on a mailing list so I can attend future meet ups.

    Excellent work!

  16. Anna commented:
    March 10th, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    I’m in for 1!

  17. Agnes commented:
    March 10th, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    Great idea – I’m in!

  18. Maree commented:
    March 11th, 2011 at 9:27 am

    I’m in + 1 : )

  19. Amber Jamieson commented:
    March 14th, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    I’m definitely interested in coming along.

  20. Ashley Ng commented:
    March 14th, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Sounds like fun! Should be able to make it!

  21. Kat (Spatula, Spoon and Saturday) commented:
    March 15th, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    Count me in :)

  22. Pat commented:
    March 24th, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    I’m a starter if all the seats aren’t taken

  23. Jo - secondhelping commented:
    March 24th, 2011 at 2:42 pm

    Count me in too please!

  24. christine commented:
    March 24th, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    I will have to juggle a few things but I hope to get down there from my village “Daylesford-Hepburn Springs”…. Can I b pencilled in for now with a formal confirmation closer to the date?

  25. Pat commented:
    March 29th, 2011 at 11:13 am

    Sorry – I can’t make it after all. Drat.

  26. Ani commented:
    March 29th, 2011 at 11:52 am

    I just stumbled across this – sounds like fun. Is there still room?

  27. Stickifingers commented:
    March 29th, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    What a great idea. I would like to come to the inaugural, but think it’s unlikely this week. Please keep me in the loop for further events.

  28. Ani commented:
    March 30th, 2011 at 8:50 am

    Also bringing a plus 1 :-)

  29. claire commented:
    March 30th, 2011 at 8:57 am

    I’ll be there!

  30. another outspoken female commented:
    March 31st, 2011 at 8:05 am

    I’m a definite maybe.

  31. Amber Jamieson commented:
    March 31st, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    Sadly I’m going to have do to a last minute cancel on this one, apologies. Will definitely try and get along to the next one.

  32. Kat (Spatula, Spoon and Saturday) commented:
    April 1st, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    Thanks for a great time everyone! Shame to miss those who couldn’t make it.

  33. Fitzroyalty commented:
    April 3rd, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    How was it? Am keen to come next time.

  34. Clance commented:
    April 12th, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    Hey Michael.
    Great blog.
    Count me in for this!
    Clance

  35. Clance commented:
    April 12th, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    Oops, that was march – it’s already April!
    When’s the next one.
    ?

  36. John commented:
    May 30th, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    I am really keen to attend any melbourne food events
    let me know about the next one :)

    john (at) toplocal.com.au

  37. Photomonkey commented:
    May 31st, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    I am also keen to know when the next one is on.

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    June 20th, 2011 at 11:23 pm

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