Barking

Is that too many acronyms for a Tuesday morning? If so, allow me to translate - ‘We’re off to Future of Web Apps thanks to Sun Startup Essentials‘.

We’re part of the excellent Startup Essentials program from Sun designed specifically to help startups get off the ground rapidly and at lower cost. We’ve taken advantage of some of the excellent discounts on hardware, and are going to be looking into to their expertise when it comes to some nifty hardware/software configuration/optimisation too.

We’ve won a stand to exhibit Tactile CRM at FOWA London next week and are now busy planning what to do on the stand. Our neighbouring stand, Fav.or.it have an awesome Lego Death Star to build, and I am hearing rumours of some beach and hawian shirt action from Stewart at Sun. So what do we have?

We’re still planning at the moment, but needless to say Denver the Tactile CRM dragon will be making a reappearance, we’ll have some beer, a demo of Tactile CRM, and more. So watch this space!

Coventry based Tactile CRM are helping to bring the traditional Harvest Festival into the 21st Century by sponsoring this week’s brand new ‘Harvest Twestival‘.

‘Harvest Twestival’ is collecting food and money for The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields, to help the homeless. Following the tradtional Harvest Festival format of collecting tins of food, it’s being brought into the 21st century by being organised via the social networking site Twitter to bring together people from all over the country to help support this worthy cause.

Jake Stride - Managing Director, said “We’re really pleased to be involved in the World’s first ever Harvest Twestival and hope more people are able to leverage the Internet, and the friends they make online to try and make a difference to those less fortunate than themselves.”.

On Thursday 25 September, over 200 people who know each other through Twitter.com will descend on Doon, an exclusive venue in Trafalgar Square, for Harvest Twestival, a tweet-up with a social conscience.

The event will bring together fun people, fresh ideas and a few surprises for what promises to be an unforgettable event. All profits from the night will be donated to The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields, a community centre based in Trafalgar Square that works with homeless people.

Amanda Rose, one of the organisers of Harvest Twestival, said “We’re expecting the who’s who of the UK Twitter scene to attend. Social tweet ups like this are a great way to meet the faces behind those avatars while raising lots of money for a fantastic cause.”

The event is sponsored by UnLtd World, Huddle, Diffusion PR, Tactile CRM, Winston & Strawn LLP and Just Giving.

To find out more about Harvest Twestival, go to the official event website at www.twestival.com or follow @harvesttwest on Twitter. For more information on The Connection at St-Martins-In-The-Fields, go to www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk.

We recently won a place on the Digital Mission to New York so I’ll be at the Web 2.0 Expo from the 16-19th September if anybody is interested in catching up and finding out more about Senokian, Tactile CRM, or Resolve RM.

I’m going to be at LeWeb’08 on the 9th - 10th December if anyone is around and fancies meeting up and/or finding out more about Tactile CRM. Drop me an email at jake dot stride at senokian dot com or give me call on 07713 627304.

Also if anyone has any recommendations for accommodation that would be awesome.

Incidentally, for those of you who like useless facts, I was the 32nd person to sign up.

I’m going to be at FOWA on the 8th - 10th October if anyone is around and fancies meeting up and/or finding out more about Tactile CRM. Drop me an email at jake dot stride at senokian dot com or give me call on 07713 627304.

I’m going to be at MiniBar London on the 27th June if anyone is around and fancies meeting up and/or finding out more about Tactile CRM. Drop me an email at jake dot stride at senokian dot com or give me call on 07713 627304.

I’m going to be at the Fuel Conference in London next week on the 13th June if anyone is around and fancies meeting up and/or finding out more about Tactile CRM. Drop me an email at jake dot stride at senokian dot com or give me call on 07713 627304.

After the success of the first Coventry Open Coffee Club, I have finally got round to organising the second one.

It’s going to be on 5th June 2008 at 6pm. Full details are on Upcoming, please feel free to invite anybody you think might be interested. This isn’t intended to be a boring business networking event, rather an opportunity for like minded people to meet up and chat.