ReadWriteWeb

On November 15, many of us and many of you took part in a worldwide ReadWriteWeb meetup. I was overwhelmed with the outpouring of support from this blog's community. Of all of these, including the fabulous ones that were put on in St. Louis and Boston, the ReadWriteWeb Seoul meetup was one of the most intricately planned meetups I learned about, and while I'm typically a non-planner, I was very, very impressed with the happenings at this meetup.

I asked the meetup planner, David Lee, Founder & CEO of Shakr Media, a Seoul-based startup, to recap the meetup so that the rest of us could live vicariously through his notes (and video!).

Meet-ups make me nervous. Like a teenager at a birthday party, I'm never sure if people are going to show up or not. Last night, ReadWriteWeb writers David Strom, Joe Brockmeier and yours truly walked into The Drunken Fish (yes, that's really the name of this sushi joint), dropped off our "go here for the ReadWriteWeb meet-up" signs, and marched upstairs to the lounge area where we anxiously awaited the arrival of fellow tech enthusiasts to the St. Louis ReadWriteWeb meet-up.

As the lights dimmed on the second-floor of this swank, lounge-y spot in the Central West End neighborhood, we ate too much sushi, talked about the future of e-commerce and mobile payments with Aisle411.com COO Matthew Kulig, met the future of IT in the form of Washington University students, and found ourselves fascinated with Openly Disruptive, a collective that believes the future is "too important to leave to the professionals."

Hinds Hall, Syracuse University campus, 5:31 am ET November 11 - There comes a time with every long, drawn-out project where you begin bargaining with yourself. The best way for me to think about how to finish this next stage, you find yourself saying, is if I were something closer to horizontal than vertical. Something tells you your brain will work better if it were tipped 90 degrees for 30 minutes, in exchange for hard work for 60 minutes. It might be a false bargain, but there's only one way to find out. And you might not remember what happens after that.

On November 15, 2011, there will be a ReadWriteWeb Meetup near you! If you don't see a Meetup near you, be sure to add your city to the list.

There are several meetups planned already in North America. Here are a few that caught our attention.

On November 15, 2011, we're throwing a ReadWriteWeb Meetup near you! There are several great meetups planned already, but it's not too late to put one together for your locale.

The meetup in Seoul will be held at Shakr Media HQ and is going to be held at 7:30pm. More information on the location can be found on the Seoul Meetup page.

The ReadWriteWeb Global Meetup is coming next week and we have a bunch of great locations lined up for our readers to congregate and talk tech, social media and the evolution of the Web. The Boston contingent of ReadWriteWeb is ready to rock with a fine group of people coming from all over the field of technology, from startups and entrepreneurs to students to some of the finest public relations folks in the industry.

We will be meeting at Meadhall, in the shadow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology right across the Charles River from Boston in Cambridge next Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 6:30 p.m. We are trying to make the ReadWriteWeb Boston meetup the biggest of them all, so come on out and say hello. Libations are sure to flow.

Hinds Hall, Syracuse University campus, 12:27 am ET November 11 - The students in the MLB.com College Challenge are thinking about beginnings. There's eleven hours left in their project, and that's still double-digit territory. Their task is to assemble a funding pitch for a group of venture capitalists, who will be portrayed later in the morning by staffers from the MLB.com Web site.

The first official ReadWriteWeb meetup in Portland, Oregon was so successful we decided to take it world-wide! Next Tuesday, November 15th, ReadWriteWeb is having a Worldwide Meetup.

There's a great write-up on Elana Zak's 10,000 Words blog about the event. Basically, we want to get tech enthusiasts out and about and meeting one another.

Coming up on November 15, some of the best conversations locally will converge in your town at the ReadWriteWeb Worldwide Meetup.

There are almost two dozen meetups already set up and there's still plenty of time to get one of your own local meetups ready. Take a look at the list below to see if there are already local meetups happening in your area. If not, check out the ReadWriteWeb Meetup page and start one of our own with just one click.

Photo: Marshall Kirkpatrick, VP Content Development and Lead Writer, and Richard MacManus, Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Last week we had our first official ReadWriteWeb meetup at the Green Dragon in Portland, OR. Why Portland? Well, for starters, it's got the highest concentration of ReadWriteWeb staff, but also because Portland is a great city, with one of the most active tech scenes out there. The meetup was great, with just the right mix of people, conversations and beer.

But not everyone can get to Portland to talk tech, so we wanted to make sure we gave you all a venue to do just that in your own area.