Coffee Morn 050908:

Another varied and interesting Edinburgh Coffee Morning at Centotre this morn.

Ewan was there from Channel4's 4ip. Blogger/Photographer, Darcie from DarcieCondie.com. Derek Hoy from SnowCloud, As was copywriter Chris Muir, Me, of course, Andy from recentchanges, and last but certainly not least Jon from Force.com.

Unbelievably we hardly discussed the iPhone or any iApps this week, (a first for quite a while), though we did cover Darcie's series of photographs of a Leith based tagger who's been spraying her initials everywhere. (She's 'repackaged' the work to promote herself via a lovely set of Moo post cards.)

We couldn't wheedle a damn thing out of Ewan about any top secret Channel4 stuff he was up to, but he did talk about/show us some lovely C4 animation/trailers currently being aired.

Jon told us about a book on creativity that influenced/influences him; Richard Ogle's Smart World.

I made a prediction that a new social media job title to watch out for is 'Social Profile Manager.'  A bit like a Community Manager, (Jon's job), but babysitting/mentoring the digital footprints/social media usage of key executives, for the benefit of both brand and curious consumer.

(I also banged on again about how FriendFeed, or at least the concept behind rich content aggregation, life/brandstreams, brand/key executive orientated 'rooms' & threaded comments is/will be a 'big-deal'.

As usual, everybody smiled politely, said, "yeah, yeah, yeah Mike." Then found something much more interesting and fascinating to look at in their coffee cups.)

Chris told us about his new method of dealing with loud iPod music spilling out irritatingly from fellow travellers' headphones: He starts dancing to it.

We talked a bit, randomly, and not really worth linking-to-ly about the Edinburgh Entrepreneurs Club, looked back nostalgically and a bit piss-takingly at the early days of First Tuesday, Wondered out aloud why the Edinburgh geeky, gamey, techie, marketing, web 2.0-y groups, don't meet each other more, (like they did at the Guardian gig a while back.), why I was wearing a suit again, the Twitter FAIL! Whale industry, and creative 404's on flickr and in general.

Er, that was about it, then it was time to go to work.

Comments

[Darcie]

Professional?! I wish! Someday... I dream...

Come along, the more the merrier!

[Chris Miller]

(Oops. See what I mean? Notice how I mangled the grammar in the final sentence. Verrry unprofessional.)

[Chris Miller]

Huang, you needn't be intimidated. I know many of those guys, and I'm pretty sure that a few of them would be mortified to be described as a professional.

I know I would; but that's all hypothetical as no one ever has.

[Huang He]

So many professionals here! i want to join you guys... i am still student though...

[Jon Mountjoy]

Nice summary Mike. I think you're a bit hard on yourself there - you make a good point about Social Profile Manager. I wonder if that's what new-PR will morph into. Good new-PR. Old-PR will simply attempt to control the message more tightly, leading to, uh, doom and oblivion. Unless you're Apple (who have an "event" today).