Who’s Coming To The Meetup? Here’s the List
I’m so excited about meeting so many of you at the Atlanta Bloggers Meetup next week! Between going to Catalyst and hanging out with other bloggers, it’s going to be like my birthday and Christmas all rolled into one.
I also found out earlier this week that the Dealy Viper Shin-Dig will be taking place later that evening at the same location as the Blogger Meetup so if you hang around you’ll get a chance to meet Mike Foster, Jud Wilhite and the rest of the Deadly Viper crew. The one-and-only Anne Jackson will also be on hand capturing all the juicy details for CatalystBackstage and I’ll finally get to meet one of my favorite bloggers, Jon Acuff (StuffChristiansLike). We may even have a surprise visitor stop by!
Many of you have been asking who all is going to be at the meetup. Here’s the list of everyone who has registered so far. If you have some time before the conference check out some of these amazing bloggers:
Remember, Twitter will be abuzz with activity during the conference as well (#catalyst08 is the hash tag to use and follow). I’m looking forward to meeting and hanging with all of you! See you next week in Atlanta!
BLOGGER MEETUP FULL!
We are no longer accepting reservations for this event. We had a tremendous response and are now at capacity. Sorry if you missed out! Just be sure to find me at Catalyst so I still have a chance to meet you.
- Brad Ruggles
Atlanta Meetup Nearly Full!
I just checked our numbers and we are already over 60 people who have signed up! That’s so awesome! I’m looking forward to meeting all of you.
I’ll be posting a list of everyone who is coming in the next day or two so check back soon to see who’s going to be joining us.
We only have room for just a few more so if you’re planning on going and haven’t signed up yet, you better do it quick!
A Night For Africa with Foxworthy & Donoho
I just found out about a special event immediately following Catalyst on Friday, October 10. When Catalyst is over things will turn around in the Gwinnett Arena as we join thousands of other people for our Night For Africa! This amazing event will be hosted by none other than the hilarious Jeff Foxworthy and the equally funny and crazy Lanny Donoho.
5 Reasons Why You Need to go to Catalyst
Consider this my completely unsolicited plug for the Catalyst event next month. I’ve been a devoted fan of Catalyst since my first event back in 2005. That one experience single-handedly reshaped my perspective on leadership and the church’s influence in culture.
I’m just a blogger writing from my little corner of the blogosphere but if I were to sit down with you over coffee and found out you weren’t going to Catalyst, this would be what I would say to you.
The first amazing thing about Catalyst is their ability to attract the highest quality leaders, authors and innovators to speak. There are messages I’ve heard that are as fresh and applicable to me today as they were when I heard them years ago.
I’m constantly challenged by the amazing speakers I hear each year - leaders who are impacting the church and transforming culture. This year’s lineup includes Andy Stanley, Jim Collins, Seth Godin, Craig Groeschel, Tim Sanders, Steven Furtick and Matt Chandler. Come prepared to be challenged and inspired to action.
One of the things I love about Catalyst is their ability to create a fun, unique experience. They know how to have fun. From the moment you arrive there is an air of expectancy as you wonder what’s going to happen next? Some of the highlights from past years for me include:
Participating in the world’s largest pillow fight- The always-amazing red-carpet experience where you’re treated like a celebrity with paparazzi snapping pictures of you as you step out of the stretch limos that pick you up
- Watching an entire stadium throw thousands of miniature dodge-balls at the world-champion dodgeball team
- Getting free massages during a break
- Surprise visit and comedy show from Jeff Foxworthy
- Amazing, dynamic, powerful times of worship
- Digging through the bag of surprises when you arrive to see what crazy thing they’ve got planned next
Reggie Joiner and Lanny Donoho, the co-hosts of the event, always keep you in stitches and help make the event fun and memorable. I guarantee that at least once or twice during the event you’ll be calling a friend back home saying, “You won’t believe what we just did!!”
I’ve told people for years that the money you’ll save from meeting new vendors during the break is worth the cost of the ticket alone. If you’re involved in any aspect of church leadership - from worship to children’s ministry to youth - you will find and connect with new resources to save you time and money.
Catalyst attracts the best-of-the-best for their display booths in the corridor around the stadium. I make a new file every year when I come back of new ministries and organizations to follow up with. You won’t find a better collection of top-notch church and leadership organizations anywhere.
One of my favorite parts of Catalyst every year is meeting and connecting with other like-minded people.
You’ll have plenty of time during breaks or at the end of the day to hang out with new friends or re-connect with old ones. This will be my first year attending as a blogger so I’m super excited to finally meet some of you face-to-face! If you come When you come be sure to find me and say hi!
The best thing I walk away with every year is a new perspective about what God is doing in the church around the world. Catalyst describes the event this way:
The Catalyst Conference is the largest gathering of young leaders in the country, but it pains us to call it just a conference. Catalyst is more than just a three-day event - it’s a movement, a convergence, an experience where you find yourself fully immersed in learning, worship, and creativity. Catalyst brings people together - the influencers, the do-ers, the cultural architects, and the change agents who will reclaim our communities and culture for good.
This is the one event I look forward to every year to charge my batteries and inspire me to keep investing in the lives of those God has called me to serve. There is just something about sitting in a stadium filled with thousands of leaders - there is a sense of anticipation for what God has in store for this generation. We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity and Catalyst has helped shape a movement of cultural transformation in the church.
Everybody say hey-ho!
This isn’t going to be a site that gets updated daily like my blog. My main purpose for creating it was to have a place where we could facilitate and promote blogger meeetups across the country. And in keeping with my typical over-achieving, can’t-leave-well-enough-alone personality a simple sign-up form turned into this.
Feel free to leave a comment here to let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions for what features would be valuable to you. Or just leave a comment and say hey.
Who’s Coming To The Meetup? Here’s the List
I’m so excited about meeting so many of you at the Atlanta Bloggers Meetup next week! Between going to Catalyst and hanging out with other bloggers, it’s going to be like my birthday and Christmas all rolled into one.
I also found out earlier this week that the Dealy Viper Shin-Dig will be taking place later that evening at the same location as the Blogger Meetup so if you hang around you’ll get a chance to meet Mike Foster, Jud Wilhite and the rest of the Deadly Viper crew. The one-and-only Anne Jackson will also be on hand capturing all the juicy details for CatalystBackstage and I’ll finally get to meet one of my favorite bloggers, Jon Acuff (StuffChristiansLike). We may even have a surprise visitor stop by!
Many of you have been asking who all is going to be at the meetup. Here’s the list of everyone who has registered so far. If you have some time before the conference check out some of these amazing bloggers:
Remember, Twitter will be abuzz with activity during the conference as well (#catalyst08 is the hash tag to use and follow). I’m looking forward to meeting and hanging with all of you! See you next week in Atlanta!
BLOGGER MEETUP FULL!
We are no longer accepting reservations for this event. We had a tremendous response and are now at capacity. Sorry if you missed out! Just be sure to find me at Catalyst so I still have a chance to meet you.
- Brad Ruggles
Atlanta Meetup Nearly Full!
I just checked our numbers and we are already over 60 people who have signed up! That’s so awesome! I’m looking forward to meeting all of you.
I’ll be posting a list of everyone who is coming in the next day or two so check back soon to see who’s going to be joining us.
We only have room for just a few more so if you’re planning on going and haven’t signed up yet, you better do it quick!
A Night For Africa with Foxworthy & Donoho
I just found out about a special event immediately following Catalyst on Friday, October 10. When Catalyst is over things will turn around in the Gwinnett Arena as we join thousands of other people for our Night For Africa! This amazing event will be hosted by none other than the hilarious Jeff Foxworthy and the equally funny and crazy Lanny Donoho.
5 Reasons Why You Need to go to Catalyst
Consider this my completely unsolicited plug for the Catalyst event next month. I’ve been a devoted fan of Catalyst since my first event back in 2005. That one experience single-handedly reshaped my perspective on leadership and the church’s influence in culture.
I’m just a blogger writing from my little corner of the blogosphere but if I were to sit down with you over coffee and found out you weren’t going to Catalyst, this would be what I would say to you.
The first amazing thing about Catalyst is their ability to attract the highest quality leaders, authors and innovators to speak. There are messages I’ve heard that are as fresh and applicable to me today as they were when I heard them years ago.
I’m constantly challenged by the amazing speakers I hear each year - leaders who are impacting the church and transforming culture. This year’s lineup includes Andy Stanley, Jim Collins, Seth Godin, Craig Groeschel, Tim Sanders, Steven Furtick and Matt Chandler. Come prepared to be challenged and inspired to action.
One of the things I love about Catalyst is their ability to create a fun, unique experience. They know how to have fun. From the moment you arrive there is an air of expectancy as you wonder what’s going to happen next? Some of the highlights from past years for me include:
- Participating in the world’s largest pillow fight
- The always-amazing red-carpet experience where you’re treated like a celebrity with paparazzi snapping pictures of you as you step out of the stretch limos that pick you up
- Watching an entire stadium throw thousands of miniature dodge-balls at the world-champion dodgeball team
- Getting free massages during a break
- Surprise visit and comedy show from Jeff Foxworthy
- Amazing, dynamic, powerful times of worship
- Digging through the bag of surprises when you arrive to see what crazy thing they’ve got planned next
Reggie Joiner and Lanny Donoho, the co-hosts of the event, always keep you in stitches and help make the event fun and memorable. I guarantee that at least once or twice during the event you’ll be calling a friend back home saying, “You won’t believe what we just did!!”
I’ve told people for years that the money you’ll save from meeting new vendors during the break is worth the cost of the ticket alone. If you’re involved in any aspect of church leadership - from worship to children’s ministry to youth - you will find and connect with new resources to save you time and money.
Catalyst attracts the best-of-the-best for their display booths in the corridor around the stadium. I make a new file every year when I come back of new ministries and organizations to follow up with. You won’t find a better collection of top-notch church and leadership organizations anywhere.
One of my favorite parts of Catalyst every year is meeting and connecting with other like-minded people.
You’ll have plenty of time during breaks or at the end of the day to hang out with new friends or re-connect with old ones. This will be my first year attending as a blogger so I’m super excited to finally meet some of you face-to-face! If you come When you come be sure to find me and say hi!
The best thing I walk away with every year is a new perspective about what God is doing in the church around the world. Catalyst describes the event this way:
The Catalyst Conference is the largest gathering of young leaders in the country, but it pains us to call it just a conference. Catalyst is more than just a three-day event - it’s a movement, a convergence, an experience where you find yourself fully immersed in learning, worship, and creativity. Catalyst brings people together - the influencers, the do-ers, the cultural architects, and the change agents who will reclaim our communities and culture for good.
This is the one event I look forward to every year to charge my batteries and inspire me to keep investing in the lives of those God has called me to serve. There is just something about sitting in a stadium filled with thousands of leaders - there is a sense of anticipation for what God has in store for this generation. We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity and Catalyst has helped shape a movement of cultural transformation in the church.
Everybody say hey-ho!
This isn’t going to be a site that gets updated daily like my blog. My main purpose for creating it was to have a place where we could facilitate and promote blogger meeetups across the country. And in keeping with my typical over-achieving, can’t-leave-well-enough-alone personality a simple sign-up form turned into this.
Feel free to leave a comment here to let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions for what features would be valuable to you. Or just leave a comment and say hey.
Our first Bloggers08 Meetup took place in conjunction with the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta on October 8-10. It was an awesome time of fun and meeting new bloggers.
If you’re interested in hosting or organizing a Bloggers meetup in your area be sure to let us know. Our goal is to help facilitate and promote local Blogger meetups across the country.