Brian Russell suggests in a comment to the post below that a possible solution to the meetup predicament (i.e. large region, hard to find place where everyone would be able to meet regularly) is to hold weekly local meetups – Chapel Hill, Durham, Cary and Raleigh – and a monthly regional meetup. Add to that the idea of 3 rotating state bloggercons (Piedmont-Triangle-Charlotte) and we could have a good framework for supporting the local, regional and state blogging communities. Your thoughts?

Tomorrow being the third Wednesday of the month, the Greensboro bloggers meetup commences at 7 p.m. Details here.

I’m still struggling to find the ideal location for the Chapel Hill bloggers meetup, as well as to figure out how to facilitate similar meetups in Durham, Cary and Raleigh. “Start slow, start small,” my ni-Vanuatu counterpart during my Peace Corps service told me. So, our first Chapel Hill bloggers meetup will be this Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. at Caffe Driade. Join me then and there and help me brainstorm better locations (Caffee Driade is ideal except it has no wifi). Details of the meetup are on the wiki page. Makes sense to plan a meetup in Durham and one in Cary/Raleigh. Anyone in those cities care to lead the effort? Perhaps we could alternate weeks: first and third Wednesdays in Chapel Hill, second in Durham and fourth in Raleigh, or some variation thereof.

Quite a few of the bloggers who attended the Triangle Bloggers Conference indicated their interest in a regular bloggers meetup in the Triangle. At the Scripting News brunch, Dave and Ruby both urged me to work on this. The result is an updated Blog Together wiki and this companion weblog, which is meant to be a conduit of information about future North Carolina bloggercons, the regular meetups throughout the state and any ad-hoc get-togethers.