{"id":171,"date":"2009-08-20T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-08-20T21:13:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T20:13:15","slug":"open-coffee-culture-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2009\/08\/open-coffee-culture-ni\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Coffee Culture NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-80\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=80\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-80\" title=\"open coffee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/open-coffee-150x133.jpg\" alt=\"open coffee\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>Open Coffee Coleraine hosted their second meeting last night and was once again a resounding success &#8211; more new faces which was great to\u00a0 see &#8211; the word is getting out.\u00a0\u00a0 Personally I don&#8217;t have a problem walking up to complete strangers and introducing myself &#8211; after all &#8211; that&#8217;s why we are there.\u00a0 As I was in a bit of a hurry last night (the cupboards were bare at home and a quick shop in Asda beckoned) I was a bit like a speed dater &#8211; on speed!!\u00a0 I met some interesting people from a variety of industries who all seemed genuinely interested in what I do.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not necessarily about passing business,but forging business relationships, sharing ideas, networking and having a chat over a nice cup of coffee (or tea).<\/p>\n<p>I am delighted to say that the first Open Coffee Mid Ulster will take place somewhere in the Magherafelt District on Wednesday 9th September 2009.\u00a0 Interest is high and we are anticipating a healthy turnout.<\/p>\n<p>The Open Coffee movement has it\u2019s roots in London \u2013 originally putting the emphasis on entrepreneurs\/business start ups.\u00a0 However the we are keen to point out that the key word for the Mid Ulster Open Coffee Club is \u201cOpen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For more details go to www.ocmidulster.com, find us on facebook or follow us @OCMidUlster.\u00a0 Venue to be confirmed asap.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Coffee Coleraine hosted their second meeting last night and was once again a resounding success &#8211; more new faces which was great to\u00a0 see &#8211; the word is getting out.\u00a0\u00a0 Personally I don&#8217;t have a problem walking up to complete strangers and introducing myself &#8211; after all &#8211; that&#8217;s why we are there.\u00a0 As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2009\/08\/open-coffee-culture-ni\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,8,6,3,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}