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As previously, we’ve limited it to 4 per person given how quickly they all went last time.

See you on Thursday!

Alan, Caryn and Joe

WebBlast is back for another evening of networking and generally catching up with old acquaintances. Proudly supported by Anchor Hosting, Happener, Sassy SEO, Microsoft and Campaign Monitor, it will be at the Pumphouse Bar in Darling Harbour as usual – full details below.

Date: Thurs 24 June 2010
Time: 6pm – 11pm
Venue: Pumphouse Bar, Darling Harbour
Cost: FREE!!

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Tickets will be made available at midday today – that’s Friday the 18th of June. You’ll need to come here for the link. According to past experience, they’ll be gone pretty quickly, although we are increasing capacity this time. There will be a limit of 4 per person, and if you find you can’t make it nearer the time, please recycle them to give other people a chance to attend.

If you haven’t been before, the Pumphouse is an excellent venue and there’s plenty of room to spread out and chat with your peers. There will be a free bar (until the tab runs out!) and also finger food provided through the night.

WebBlast has become a regular networking event on the calendar for all of us who love doing web the right way, and we look forward to seeing you all next week to share thoughts and experiences!

Date: 24 June 2010
Time: 6pm – 11pm
Venue: Pumphouse, Darling Harbour
Cost: FREE!!

Still tightening up some details, so keep your twitter-ears peeled and your grapevine sensors poised as the “tickets” from the last event sold out in a few hours. Yes I know it is a free event to participants, but all the same, we have to restrict the numbers. A full announcement to follow once all the sponsors are signed and we get the eventbrite page completed.

As usual, the evening will be an eclectic mix of cross- industry professionals, from designers, developers and sysadmins to producers, architects, suits and creatives; with the odd CTO, recruiter or journalist thrown in. The venue, the ever welcoming and salubriously stocked Pumphouse in Darling Harbour, with it’s extensive beer menu and comfortable couch areas contributes to the conversations. The sponsors will be supplying a drink or two, and some bar nibbles but the rest is up to you. The purpose of the evening is to catch up with colleagues and industry connections and make a few more while you’re there.

In the meantime,. we plan on some improvements to this site, some additional features and services, as well as some wonderful suprises and prizes on the night.

Looking forward to it!

Just a quick bit of housekeeping, if you can have your tickets with you, that will speed up getting you in.  Also if you can try not to all come at 6.01 that would be lovely, there should be plenty of beer to go round for a while!

Just also for those of a Microsoft persuasion, there will be several MS people there to answer any questions about their upcoming REMIX event in June.  If it’s anything like the Las Vegas one a couple of weeks back, there should be quite a bit of buzz around with IE9 and HTML5 and the like.

Anyway looking forward to seeing everyone tonight,

Alan, Caryn and Joe

http://webblast-autumn2010.eventbrite.com/

We’ve limited it to 4 per person given how quickly they all went last time.

See you all in a couple of weeks!

cheers

Alan, Caryn and Joe

Date: 25 March 2010
Time: 6pm – 11pm
Venue: Pumphouse, Darling Harbour
Cost: FREE!!

The next webblast has been scheduled and locked in for late March so warm up your vocal chords, and brush up on your card-handing-out skills. Tickets will be made available on Friday morning so set your alarms, follow @webblastsyd, and be aware of the twitter buzz so you can secure your place. The link to tickets will be posted on this site Friday morning at 9AM.

Our first 2010 event will be a relaxed and open event, geared towards mingling, making new friends in the industry and finding out more about what people are experiencing in their own spheres of expertise. As always, a great place to learn more about your fellow web professionals. If you haven’t been before, the Pumphouse is an excellent venue and there’s plenty of room to spread out and chat with your peers. There will be a free bar (until the tab runs out!) and some finger food.

We have our first 2010 sponsor, Happener, who have committed sponsoring us through the year, carrying on from their stellar suport since we started the events on a shoestring and a contact list, back when it was a WSG Casual event. Many thanks to Greg and Markus for their generous and passionate support for webblast. In addition, Campaign Monitor continues to support webblast (remember those great t-shirts from xmas?) as do SassySEO/The Rohans, who have always supported in spirit, and more recently as a sponsor.

All tickets went in record time this morning – thanks to everyone who has registered. We’ll send another email out in the next day or so outlining the plan (how you get in, all that kind of stuff) – as well as introducing our lovely sponsors.

In the meantime, as this is now totally subscribed, if you can’t go for whatever reason, please recycle your ticket by letting us know at contact@webblast.com.au. We’ll let people know of any spaces becoming available through our @webblastsyd twitter account, so watch that space if you’re ticketless.

cheers

The WebBlast team

A special thanks to the  un-official photographer of all things web, The wonderful JJ Halans who took some pics of the night.

And a very special thank you to everyone who showed up, had a natter with people they would otherwise not have nattered to, and mixed and mingled.

We’ll be emailing you all about the special offer from JustInMind and adding more info on the site here over the weekend.