The Jeff Pulver Blog: Recap of: Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and Friends) in Miami

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February 24, 2008

Recap of: Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and Friends) in Miami

Back in December I hosted my first breakfast in Miami with four other people. When I hosted my recent breakfast on February 21, 2008, it was great to see our group double in size and include a number of my twitter friends from Miami. I thank Jeffrey Sass (@sass) for the suggestion that the breakfast take place at the Rascal House again. Mostly because the Rascal House is scheduled to be torn down before the next time I will be in Miami for a breakfast and I have a number of fun memories from going to Rascal House as both a kid and an adult.

Picking up on the trend I started in the breakfast in Providence, RI, I broadcast most of the breakfast live on BlogTV. And one of my highlights of the breakfast was when @ViceQueenMaria did a "shout out" in the event chat room for @AnnOhio and the message we received a few minutes later when @AnnOhio was there and she joined our breakfast remotely.

I enjoyed catching up with: Jason Baptiste, Alex De Carvalho, Jeffrey Sass, @ViceQueenMaria, Marc Kevin Hall, John Fleming, Michelle Koh Potts, Matthew Chamberlin, Carlos Caranier-Phelps and Nick Braanger.

Towards the end of breakfast, those who were still around spoke about the experience of “Becoming real-world friends after first connecting with someone online.” (We didn't invent any terms.)

Special thanks to EVERYONE who came out for breakfast. And to Rob Suarez for trying to join us but who ran into car trouble on his way to our breakfast.

I look forward to hosting another breakfast in Miami in the Spring.