Charl Norman is a web entrepreneur behind local social networks 
Just a quick note that I will be doing my “Building and Managing Social Networks” talk at Cape Town’s 27 dinner this coming Sunday. You can RSVP here
Category Archives: 27 Dinners
Cape Town 27 dinner
February 28, 2008 – 11:34 am
Last night I attended the 27 Dinner hosted by cool guys Dave Duarte and Mike Stopforth (who flew in especially for the event and stayed at my place). My good friend and Wordpress guru Adii was the speaker for the night, he discussed his premium news theme business and showed us all how successful it has been. The event was held at the Wild Fig who had a space issue initially as to many geeks rocked up. I think Dave and co should print out the wiki guestlist and use that as a entry to the dinner.
The reason I go to the 27 dinner is to network. I finally met uber programmer, Charl van Niekerk, the lovely Catherine Lückhoff, Feisty Female Beverley Merriman, Gavin and Shelly Levin from Traffic Synergy, Henk from Skyrove and Kerry-Anne from Cape Town daily photo.
Later today it’s the 24.com party at their in house bar at 24 HQ - looking forward to that and will take pics.
More coverage of the 27 dinner
Just got home from Feb 27 Dinner
Cape Town 27dinner At Wild Fig
The Bagley’s first appearance at a 27 Dinner
The Source - Feb 27 Dinner info postÂ
27 Geek Dinner
November 28, 2007 – 5:21 pm
I attended my first 27 Dinner amongst the Bentleys and gold diggers at Primi Melrose Arch last night and had an absolute blast. I rocked up quite early as I was anticipating bumper-2-bumper traffic coming from Sandton which was not the case. I cruised to the venue and walked into a half empty Primi with geeks scattered everywhere in their niche groups. Trying not to look totally lost I made my way to the bar and ordered my beer of choice, Millers. A few seconds later Ramon Thomas swooped on me (thank goodness - I knew someone) and we had a interesting chat about networking, seminars and hiring bloggers to write on your blogs.
Then suddenly the power went off - at first I thought Primi had a power trip but then realized we had been hit my Escum’s load shedding (log onto my site and complain). This resulted in me meeting the lovely Simone Puterman from Biz Com in the dark. We proceeded to walk outside for some light and bumped into Nic Haralambous - who link baited me a few weeks ago - and discovered he’s actually a rad guy. We had the fattest chat about blogging, social networking and SA broadband. Didn’t see that one coming. Read More
Photos from my trip to Silicon Valley for the MIH Tech conference.
I appeared on channel MK TV's new hip hop and car show WOELAG. They interviewed me on our automotive social network Zoopedup.
I have been nominated for ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa 2008. Now to even be nominated is a great honour for me seeing as last years winner of the award is internationally renowned Vinny Lingham.
