Bloggers' Update

This evening saw me at the Dogget's Coat and Badge again for the monthly London Bloggers Meetup. Andy Bargery organised an excellent event as usual, and I enjoyed chatting to another mix of interesting and creative folk that gathered there.





This month's get-together was sponsored by the Shine Communications PR agency, in their guise as the promoters of Paramount's Home Entertainent Division. They gave us a brief overview of what they do, promising that they wouldn't subject us to any 'hard sell'. In all honesty, hard-sell about Paramount's UK DVD releases is something that I wouldn't have any objection to - I'll be putting up my own review of the Star Trek DVD as soon as I can lay hands on a copy. I've been waiting for it since watching the film (three times) at the cinema earlier this year, and I trust it won't dissapoint in terms of the extras - an area where Star Trek films are generally quite weak. Shine were also generous enough to come along with a rather large goodie bag - there was a raffle for a set of their recent DVD releases, and my pal Tiki Chris (from London Daily Photo) won a huge widescreen HDTV!



Marko Saric was up next to give the assembled audience his top tips on promoting and monetising your blog. I got some great ideas from Marko, and you can find more inspirational thoughts from him here, at howtomakemyblog.

From London Bloggers Meetup November 2009

All in all, a great way to spend an evening - if you're a blogger living or working in London I'm sure you'd benefit from popping along :)