B4L Assembly - no comments

Thanks to everyone who made the meeting in the House of Commons yesterday, especially to Tom Watson for arranging the room and for being our host.

It was great to see so many people, and to collect lots of good ideas. I haven't yet had time to go through my notes and organise them, but I've started out by posting the minutes of the meeting on the forum; I'll also email everyone who put their email address down on the list. A number of the ideas will come in handy for Thursday evening (as discussed) and beyond.

Here are a few accounts of the evening I've found so far, the latter account showing that highly-trained security guards are human beings too...

Update: As discussed, I've set up some PayPal subscriptions, which can be found on the new donations page. In an ideal world I'd like to see this organisation funded by small, regular, donations by a wide range of readers and member bloggers, and hopefully these subscriptions (£2, £5, or £10 per month) will help that happen.

B4L General Assembly, London, 23 April - 4 comments

All Labour bloggers and elected members are invited to an event on Monday, 23 April, at Committee room 8 in the House of Commons. If you haven't visited before, I've only been once, and it wasn't a problem. Start time is yet to be confirmed, but I think 7.00 pm is a safe bet. The meeting will last no longer than two hours, and we can accommodate 50 people.

An agenda will be distributed shortly, but it can be summarised as:

"How can we make Bloggers4Labour the most useful resource it can possibly be for the growing Labour blogosphere, especially at election-time?"

This is your big chance, so please bring your selves, your thoughts, and your questions. Until the agenda appears, you can start by reading this, or heading onto the forum and looking here and here.

Guest speaker: again, to be confirmed. Let me know if you have suggestions or volunteers.

Update: Could people indicate, one way or another, if they think they'll be coming, and - if so - whether they'd be able to help out on the night?

Update II: OK, the agenda is here: http://bloggers4labour.wikispaces.com/assemblyAgenda