Author Archives: hollyjunesmith

[This is a excerpt from Ange's blog, originally posted May 2010] A few weeks ago I’d seen a hash tag being floated about on Twitter: #themeetup140 People were tweeting and retweeting it. Then came a tweet from Mark ( @markofrespect ) asking if we were going along. From what I’d read about these meetups (from [...]

[This is an excerpt from Rhona's blog originally posted in December 2010] Standing upstairs in Musa on Thursday night, I surveyed the roomful of people who 5 months ago I wouldn’t have known from Adam. Not only that, but because we’re such an incredible cross-section of the population, our paths would have probably never crossed down [...]

[This is a post from Geraldine's blog, originally posted August 2010] Stranger: One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance? That is how the dictionary defines a stranger. I added the question mark because I am not sure I agree. To me a stranger to me is just someone I haven’t got to know yet, someone [...]

We’re gearing up to celebrate our first birthday next month and looking back on an amazing year of meet ups. We’ve been lucky to have met some truly inspirational people through themeet140 so we’ll be sharing their posts with you over the next few weeks. What started out as a small gathering in a pub [...]

When it comes to planning themeet140, we like to choose venues that are unique, easily accessible and with a great atmosphere. The people who come along are what makes themeet140 a success but we pride ourselves on hosting somewhere that you can feel relaxed and have some great food and drinks too. Here’s a look [...]

Last Thursday, 13th January 2010, saw the first #themeet140 by the sea in Brighton. Myself and Steve Ward (@cloudninerec), my partner in crime co-organiser, were both really excited about the event. There’d been a great buzz in the build up to the event, with a brilliant crowd of Sussex based twits keen to get along [...]