Beersphere - Wednesday 15th August

Hey guys, it's the best planning event of the summer - Beersphere.
In the Eagle just near Old Street tube. Planners and other communications people drinking and chatting in a pub.

Full details here at Faris's blog.

I'll be there from 7:30 onwards. Woop!

Powerpoint Karaoke

Powerpoint Karaoke in action, originally uploaded by cubicgarden.

I read about this just now when I was searching for something to do with Powerpoint. There was the first London event on the same night as Anomaly's Wildfire BeerSphere.

Anyway the idea is fantastic - people have to get up and present a random deck (sourced from Google) that they've never seen before, to the amusement of the crowd.

I firmly believe that, other than stand-up comics who've worked in the corporate sector, ad-planners would be the best at this. We should organise training/challenge night sometime. Maybe an addition to the next BeerSphere?

plannersphere-beers

Last Wednesday night a bunch of planner-esque people with blogs all met up and drank beer in Shoreditch. Thanks to Faris for organising. The phrase which seems to fit best is "jolly good show" and I enjoyed meeting everyone and putting faces to URLs.

Anyway, this has given me an excuse to act on Russell's post about the science scout badges, which I loved. I've made an inaugural plannersphere beer badge - BeerSphere I, for all the attendees, whom I think are (sorry if I missed anyone):

Faris, Stuart, Caroline, Ed, Dan, Asi, Amelia, Nicola, David, Corporate Blawg, Rachel, Franjse and Izzy


(The background colour differences are just for different blogs. Click through to the images on flickr , and click the 'all sizes' button to get the code so you can proudly display them on your blog. Or not)

Which leaves questions:

1. What do you guys think? I personally like badges, but I grant they don't do much.

2. What other badges would anyone want? Powerpoint related ones? Maximum number of diagrams drawn to explain one strategy? "Metaphor III"? Post of the Month and APSotW I guess.

Let me know in the comments section and we can all get more badges. Also if you want the Photoshop file, I can email it to you - I certainly don't want to have a monopoly on badge construction.