Dust off your stetsons: we're back!

Naturally, most people would assume that, as Moseley Barcamp is our current priority, we wouldn't have time to organise anything else. Well, we got a bit itchy - 12 weeks isn't the sort of lead time we're used to. We needed a challenge: something to get us a bit cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof dancy. So, we're running Sue Ellen's Almighty Hangover on 28th May. It'll kick off at 7pm in the Spotted Dog, Warwick Street, Digbeth.

Why are we doing this? Ok, well in the same way that a few folk wanted to get involved in something because they couldn't be in Texas for SxSWi, we were a little bit surprised that we weren't aware of Screen WM's sold-out Postcards from the USA event. It's proved popular - so much so, that by the time we knew about it all the tickets were gone, which we most certainly doff our caps to the organisers for - and very bloomin' interesting it looks, too! Clearly, a rogue plague of cable-chewin' varmits got at Screen WM's database and ate our contact data and, having spent come time talking with Jason Hall from Screen WM, I have instructed him to seek out the varmits and start feeding them proper stuff - fudge cake - to keep their pesky teeth away from the wires. As Jason says:

  "Having failed spectacularly at bringing together SXSW and WXWM under one roof, Screen WM is delighted to lend our official support to your defiantly no-approval-necessary-from-the-likes-of-us event in a non-officious way. Let's continue this thing as it started . Two groups joined in spirit, separated by distance (hundreds of yards instead of thousands of miles) and communing through blogs, tweets, Qik, Flickr or any other means necessary. Heck. May even see you for a pint after. Should be fun!"

So, if you are lucky enough to have bagged a ticket, we sincerely hope you have a fab time at the event! But. if you weren't able to get a ticket, fear not - because you are very welcome to come and join us for an evening of beer and banter to talk about a plethora of things relating to WxWM, social media, the web... and maybe even special running pants. There's no set agenda as such - but hopefully we'll have a couple of talks from some of our finest cowboys from the original event. This is about likeminded folk who'd like to get together to talk about things that they're interested in and find out more about the what's, when's and who's of Brum social media mayhem in true WxWM style. If you want to share your experience of the original WxWM event, debate a relevant issue, have a question or want to talk about your latest online project, then please be our guest! In fact, bring a question with you - a question, a dongle and a stetson, that's all we ask!