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		<title>What happened at Last Orders?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very lucky to have Mark Wilson as one of our taverners as he writes up brilliant blogs to remind everyone who was there what happened and to show those who were not able to make it what they missed.
Mark again has been a star and here is his blog for you to check out.
Also for those of you who loved Leemail (the service that lets you sign up to any website, subscribe to any newsletter and never worry about what may happen to your email) but missed the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2012/01/27/what-happened-at-last-orders/</link>
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		<title>Last Orders at The Bar – The details</title>
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A message from Matt Bagwell 
&#8220;On the eve of the Last Orders at the Bar Fantastic Tavern event, I wanted to whet your appetite for the evening ahead and ensure that come rain or shine (mostly rain I suspect), you brave the weather, make the trip and are with us by 7pm at Ravensbourne.
I have worked with Ravensbourne, their students and incubating companies, Greenwich Council and their start up businesses and The Future Laboratories to make sure we have plenty of thoughts on 2012 trends to hear about and assess. We ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2012/01/25/last-orders-at-the-bar-%e2%80%93-the-details/</link>
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		<title>The Fantastic Tavern &#8211; Last Orders at the Bar</title>
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Here is an update from Matt for those of you who have signed up to the TFT on the 26th, and a reminder for those of you who have not signed up yet….
“Some three years or so ago, I started the Fantastic Tavern. It was to be a meeting of people who cared about ‘digital’ – as it was then – gathering in a pub and having a conversation. Over the months, we have run 28 events and the community has grown to over 1000 Taverners.
We have explored so much ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2012/01/12/the-fantastic-tavern-last-orders-at-the-bar/</link>
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		<title>The Fantastic Tavern (ROI of Social) is this Thursday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With just a few days to go, things are taking great shape for our evening together on Thursday 13th October at 6:30. Once again, we will be hosted by The Brickhouse at 152c Brick Lane, E1 6RU. The food is good, the beer and wine will be flowing and they always go their upmost to make our evening great fun, and it is open until 2am….
If you haven&#8217;t booked a place, please email michelle.flynn@emc.com quickly – you don&#8217;t want to miss out.  If you are one of the 180+ people who have ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2011/10/10/the-fantastic-tavern-roi-of-social-is-this-thursday/</link>
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		<title>Eulogy to 9/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago on September the 11th I was bound to Nice on a flight to see my family. My partner had returned empty-handed from the Bally concession – apparently the Internet was down in the terminal and they couldn’t sell anything. Strangely, all the televisions were off too. Sat in a bar, I received the first text. “Small plane hit Twin Towers.” 
By the time we had walked to the departure gate, I’d received a second text.
We decided to fly. Many didn’t. I later found out the airport shut ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2011/09/09/eulogy-to-911/</link>
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		<title>The next TFT &#8211; can we find social&#8217;s holy grail &#8211; money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello again Taverners
It feels like a long time ago when we ran our last evening – all about gamification. Hopefully now, the holiday season has come to an end, the kids are back at school and we can get back to the business of having a few beers together and working out how to do more for – or with – our brands and the people who use them, buy them and interact with them.
The next event is on Thursday October the 13th 6:30 for a 7pm start and I&#8217;m hoping ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2011/09/05/the-next-tft-can-we-find-socials-holy-grail-money/</link>
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		<title>Spot the difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my mind, all the events that the Fantastic Tavern runs are different and everyone knows about them. Then again, I often think stuff in my head is clear to others and that&#8217;s often far from the truth. So here is a run down of the Fantastic Tavern today and how you can be involved.
The Fantastic Tavern itself is the main event. The invites to it go to all the Taverners in the community, all 900+ of you. I try to anticipate what the community would like to have a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2011/08/18/spot-the-difference/</link>
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		<title>Sunny days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It might appear that it&#8217;s all been very quiet at the Fantastic Tavern and that we&#8217;ve closed for the summer!
In reality, quite the opposite is true.
After the boisterous evening discussing Gamification, Tom Hopkins from Fortune Cookie and I returned to the Cancer Research UK headquarters, armed with all the ideas that had been generated for them on the night. We met CRUK to help them determine which of the ideas could be developed further and what the value might be. It was a useful exercise as we established measurement criteria ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2011/08/18/sunny-days/</link>
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		<title>Game over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stood on the stage and looked across at three floors of Taverners and thought “how the hell did this happen?” 250 people looked back at me, possibly asking the same question. How did we all come to be in a cabaret club listening to presentations about gamification and then spending the rest of our evening ‘working?’
Maybe it is because we fundamentally like work. We like tasks that challenge us, we like laboring to a goal and we like to feel we have achieved something, especially as part of a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2011/07/13/game-over/</link>
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		<title>Game on!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were moments at the start of this year when I wondered if I should continue to run The Fantastic Tavern. Believe it or not, this seemingly spontaneous and unstructured event takes a lot of planning and organisation. However, I thought I&#8217;d throw caution to the wind and do another evening and see how I felt &#8211; and how the community felt &#8211; afterwards.
Then something happened.
Maybe its the theme of &#8216;gamification&#8217; that appealed, the lure of a more central location, the whiff of beer or word of mouth hitting a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://thefantastictavern.co.uk/2011/07/05/game-on/</link>
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