Time For Virtual Coffee?

If you are in the technology community in Ireland you might have come across the Open Coffee clubs such as Open Coffee Dublin and Cork Open Coffee.

You will find a Jaiku stream for Irish Open Coffee Clubs where you can keep up to date with what’s happening where.

Well I am afraid to say that I never seem to manage to get along to any of the Open Coffee events - yes I know I am not a techy but I do know that the Open Coffee Community is very welcoming so don’t be afraid if you don’t speak geek!

So I was delighted to pick up through my Twitter feed that James Corbett has started up a virtual Open Coffee using Skypecasts.

You can connect to others every day and James posts details of how to connect on Twitter - just subscribe to @CoffeeCooler on Twitter.

I think this is a terrific opportunity to connect with others and I am sure some interesting business opportunties and collaborations will be born through meeting at the virtual coffee cooler.

You can find out more about the Coffee Cooler at James’ blog.

I think this is a really interesting innovation of social media in Ireland and making a half way home from a totally virtual network such as Twitter and Jaiku to the face to face in person networks of Open Coffee Clubs.

I hope to meet you soon at the Coffee Cooler - oh and mines a tea with milk as I don’t like coffee!