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In Honour of Anzac Day

25 April 2008 – 9:59 pm

Day 116 - Project 365 - 25th Apr 08: Lest We Forget (Anzac Day Memorial 2008)

I was not born in this country. I do not know all its aches and pains, joys and triumphs… I have yet to understand what it fully means to be Australian. There’s still a lot of things that I’m learning about this country that I now embrace as my home.

But, even though Australia has only considered me as one of its own a few years ago… I feel that it has loved and welcomed me. That is why I find it easy to love it back.

I appreciate its beauty. And, I recognise its complexities and issues. I’m honoured to be a part of its land and its people.

That is why I want to dedicate this post to those who fought in many wars for this country.

I may not have any family or friend who defended this land. But, I do appreciate the many Australians who offered their lives. Thank you.

Arch of Remembrance (Anzac Day Memorial 2008)

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Report: Adelaide Bloggers & Social Web Media Meet-up (April 2008 Edition)

20 April 2008 – 12:07 am

Day 109 - Project 365 - 18th April 08 : Adelaide Bloggers & Social Web Media Meet-up

It was a bit of a challenge to organise Adelaide blogger meet-ups to start with. I remember wanting to do this four years ago. Then, I finally managed to do my first call-out to fellow Adelaide bloggers about 8 months ago. Although there was interest, it wasn’t enough to push things along.

Then, I finally decided just to give it a go in Jan 08. It ended up as a quiet party that made me wonder if there were really enough folks who’d be interested in web-to-F2F meet-ups.

Well, in the last couple of months, my local contacts online seem to have grown a lot due to various social networks that I’m a part of. And, with the encouragement of fellow web enthusiasts here in Adelaide, we’ve finally managed to pull off a full get-together - with a real a mixture of folks from Twitter (via SATUB), Adelaide Social Web Facebook Group, Bloggers’ Meetup Group, and some Flickr friends.

All you need to do is to read some of the comments by meetup attendees in various parts of the web during the last 24 hours to know how the get-together turned out. But hey - I’m not going to let you hunt for folks’ comments. I collected some of them for sharing in this post (see below).

Anyway, here are the 20+ folks who made it to the meeting at Bocelli’s Caffe Ristorante on the 18th of April 2008 (links lead to people’s online profiles and sites):

Thanks again to all who attended the meet-up. I really had a fantastic time meeting all of you. It’s always wonderful to see faces and smiles… to hear voices and laughter. It makes such a huge difference!

Anyway, if you’re keen to see my profiles too, you can find me on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, among other places.

And, to see photos of the meet-up, I’ve posted them on the Meetup group and on Facebook. Janette Toral and Kay Walker also posted some photos on Facebook.

Here are some of the comments about the meet-up:

“An inspiring Meetup! A welcoming gang of enthusiasts! I had fun! Laughed and chatted and shared and learned heaps! Thanks everyone. Congratulation Shai for a fantastically successful meetup.” - Bridie Gallagher (via Meetup page)

“is happy to have met a lovely group of friends face to face tonight. online is great. faces are better.” - Charlie Robinson (via Twitter)

“met an amazing array of peeps at a webloggers meet.” - Kay Walker (via Facebook)

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By Shai Coggins | Posted in Australia Buzz, Blogging & Bloggers | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (8)