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Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs

At the Bar

With March almost upon us here I wanted to let you all know about a blogging event that I have put together. It is called Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs. I’ve been spending quite a bit of time downtown at The Speed of Thought Playhouse. I’ve been there for an improv comedy show, I’ve been there to see bands perform, I’ve been there for a Stand up comedy show and I even sat in and watched the improv class one night. Eventually I will get up the nerve to join in the class.

Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs will take place on March 13, 2009 at 6:30pm. That is when bloggers can show up. Then there is a $10 charge to stay for the Speed of Thought Players Comedy show. The comedy show is certainly worth the price of admission because it is funny and it encourages audience participation. We may even work out some way to display real time Tweets for suggestions in the improv games. Here is the information that I’ve already posted to Upcoming.com, Going.com, a couple of Rhode island message boards, Craigslist and of course facebook.

“BenSpark.com in collaboration with Speed of Thought Playhouse present Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs. This is the first meeting of bloggers in the Greater North Attleboro area and beyond.

(You don’t have to live in North Attleboro to attend, if you want to come to the event we are happy to have you no matter where you live.)

The night will begin with a meet and greet in the Speed of Thought Playhouse. There is free wi-fi so feel free to bring a laptop or other wi-fi enabled device. During the Meet and Greet you will have a chance to Enter BenSpark’s PhotoBooth for a chance at cool swag. Also I am an IZEA Insider and I’ll be able to talk to you about some great sites like IZEA and SocialSpark.

At 8:30 the Speed of Thought Players will perform their hilarious comedy improv show. The cost of the show is $10. Bloggers are encouraged to stay for the show. You can bring cameras and video cameras with you.

I will try and broadcast the event Live through USTREAM and also be live Twittering and also sending Live posts to UTTERLI.

So come on down to the Speed of Thought Playhouse for a great time, some laughs, some beers and other bloggers.

Host: BenSpark.com & Speed of Thought Players
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009
Time: 6:30pm – 11:30pm
Location: Speed of Thought Playhouse
Street: 39 North Washington Street
City/Town: North Attleboro, MA”

What I am really excited about aside from meeting some new and interesting people is BenSpark’s PhotoBooth. I have been working really hard securing sponsors for this event and I got some great ones and some great prizes. I’ll be supplying a few BenSpark.com hats, IZEA Swag, BluFrog Energy Drink, Ten Bills.com T-Shirts, an XShot or two and I also received two PoGo printers from ZINK Imaging along with over 100 sheets of PoGo ZINK Paper. But you are going to have to wait till March 13 to see what I do with that.

Here is the flyer I made for the event.

sotpflyer-copy

Santa Shorts

Santa Shorts
Photo-A-Day #1350

Today was a good day! Why? Well it started off with me recording a video reveal of the winner of BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!. You can watch the video below but I’ll tell you, the winner was Baba of Babas Farm Life. She is really excited and her Big Box of Awesome! is on its way to her as of 4:30pm today. She wrote a really nice post on her blog about winning and she gave me one of my favorite descriptions of my self ever. “Who is Ben Spark you ask? Just the funniest geek techno family blogger and wonderful photographer around the blogosphere.” It must have been the shorts. 🙂

Also in the mail is a broken ipod shuffle, it is going to JoeTech.com to see if he can fix it and then give it away on his blog. Cross your fingers.

The Big Box of Awesome! contest was so much fun, here are some stats on the contest. 29 other bloggers “revealed” items in the box. There were 42 items in the box. 39 were revealed online (one on Market Leverage TV too) and there were 3 additional items tossed in after everything was said and done. In the past month that post was the highest for pageviews. My readership increased by about 50 and I learned how to make use of many social networks to promote the posts that the 29 other bloggers wrote. I think this was a pretty successful contest seeing as I merely gave away items that I would no longer use. I learned quite a few things from this contest, most important was that bloggers are some damn nice people.

I took a few more photos tonight of Eva wearing daddy’s ho ho ho hat (type that on a Flickr note to get a Santa Hat to appear). And one really sweet one of Allison and Eva.

So Happy

To Big

It Fits

Oh and I have to explain the card. This was a Christmas card from Dina at Market Leverage. She sent it to me out of the blue, just like she offered to put one of my items on Market Leverage TV. Thanks Dina.