Geek is the New Black

Our inaugural Jozi Geek Dinner with wine kindly sponsored by the genius clan at Stormhoek was an enormous success – the first of many more I hope.

We had a great turnout (thanks to all of you who came), a nifty venue (thanks to Primi) and some really cool talks from friends, bloggers and of course marketing guru Seth Godin who generously gave of his time and energy to put together a customized message for us Jozi geeks and marketers. Watch this space as I’ll be posting the 3 minute riff for download soon.

I must also mention that Hugh MacLeod of the brilliant Gaping Void blog (and also Stormhoek’s blogging consultant) donated time to record a conversation with me earlier in the day which I promptly screwed up. We hoped to call Hugh from the venue live but unfortunately our connectivity wasn’t great. Sorry Hugh!

We had some inspiring talks from the likes of Graham Knox – wine expert and Stormhoek makulu, Max Kaizen – hunter of genius, Aiden Choles – storyteller extraordinaire and Christof Appel – goat lover and allround talented young bloke (just ask peas).

Thanks to Rich and the guys at Missing Link for the cool logo, Carl Spies for help organising and tech, Dericia for taking some pics for us (her photostream can be found here).

It’s good to be geek.

Updates:

Roger sums things up beautifully.
Mac-evangelist-in-arms Carl delivers on his genius (and has some awesome pics too).
Peas gives us a celebrity review.

7 Responses to “Geek is the New Black”
  1. duzbin 7 October 2006 at 12:36 pm #

    Hi Mike

    Thank you for the dinner, we met very briefly.

    I was talking to your brother, Dave. He asked if I could post a comment, so that you could put him on contact with me (Jonathan).

    Thanks a lot.

    Thanks again for the dinner, really enjoyed it…

    Reply
  2. Marketing Geek 8 October 2006 at 12:40 pm #

    I’m bleak that I couldn’t make it to this installment of the Geek Dinner series! By all accounts I’ve heard that it was an epic event and I’m reaaaaallly looking forward to the next one in Joburg (or Durban perhaps?).

    Reply
  3. Mike 8 October 2006 at 7:22 pm #

    Hey jonathan. Email me at mstopforth at gmail dot com and i’ll put you in touch with him

    Reply

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