Today's guest writer is Lance Weber.  Lance, take it away!
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Thanks to Jason for letting me guest host today and not sharing his cold with the rest of us; I know it caused a little confusion at first since we look so much alike!

More importantly, I'd like to thank the great folks who dropped in for some coffee and camaraderie this morning. I think we ended up with somewhere near 25-30 people, with about a 50/50 mix of old hands and newcomers. Some quick highlights:

Several people who made it to Startup Weekend Boulder II talked about the experience. I'm a huge fan of Startup Weekends, I like to think of them as Amish barn raising for the digital age. I highly recommend adding "Live through a Startup Weekend" to your Life Experiences TODO list.

Goldie gave us a shout out about the Colorado Podcamp event scheduled for this fall. Anyone with an interest in new social media should definitely check this out.

We also tried out a second iteration of Cluster Discussions, where you are encouraged to present a problem to the entire group, then as we break up into networking anyone with input/interest in the topic can gather and discuss. Feedback on this has been good, and I think it makes for a great ice breaker and segue point into the networking part of the meeting.

That's all the updates I have from the meeting this week. On a personal note, I like to measure the success of events like these by how energized I am afterwards. I'm always pleasantly surprised at how pumped I am throughout the rest of my Tuesdays when I've made the time to drop in and spend some time with everyone here. Thanks and see you in two weeks!
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* Luckily for the rest of you I only had about 5 minutes notice which left no time to prepare a highly elaborate yet extremely sophomoric April Fools Open Coffee Meeting event. *sigh*