Pray (photo courtesy of Mas Wirjawan)
Do you believe that everything in life is all about the money?
(Baca versi Bahasa Indonesia)
Pardon me for posting everything related to Blog English Club’s first meet up last Saturday for the next few days this week.
The first thing that I would like to write is how could we manage, held the event, for free. Some of our members asked us about this. That was the exact question that we asked ourselves before deciding to go with the first meet-up. We want to make it free, or at lowest possible cost.
First, communication wise, we try maximize chat applications available. We decided to use WhatsApp as our communication platform between admins (and up to date we still use it for the group). We discussed so many things back and forth. We even set Saturday night (often late at night) as our regular meeting schedule.
Further issues is how about documentation, poster to announce the event and also ticketing. We tried to find a way that we will represent BEC quite professionally yet without paying a dime. Luckily we found Piktochart to design invitation and Eventbrite to sell tickets. As for documentation our choice is Google Docs as we already use it for BEC group administration. It’s quite powerful, with more than 100 members we can manage the data easily among the five of us.
Once we decided to go with the meet-up, we started to think how to get a great speaker to share his/her knowledge. Luckily Deva is quite active in twitter and she follows a numbers of well known and experienced people. She started mentioning them and asking their willingness to share their vas knowledge. Surprisingly, we got some responses. The first one confirming her availability was Miss Ollie founder of kutu-kutubuku.com and co-founder of nulisbuku.com.
Inspite of her vast knowledge and abundance experience, She willingly came as a speaker for free. Pro-bono. Her reason was that she is very interested to know more about our community and it’s a good cause to improve bloggers’ English skill as it can help to represent Indonesia in Internet world.
We also receive other supports from various generous people, namely Millie Cakery that provided snacks for 50 people, get party.inc to provide us decoration for the venue thanks to Nita and Mr. Wawan who shared his deep knowledge on Internet Security and even we get a live streaming coverage from Idcaster. Thanks to Ryan for his extended circle of friends so that we can get so many things from live streaming to picture documentation.
Apparently you only need a good cause, sincere heart and the universe will conspire to help you to make it through.
The very important thing I learnt is to always have good faith on people and not to hesitate to help a good cause.
What do you think?
[MtM] It's (Not) All About The Money
02/03/2015
zilko
True! Sometimes unexpected things can happen if we keep trying and believing 🙂 . Congratulations on the successful first BEC meet up!! 🙂
dani
Thank you Zilko! This make me believe even more that there are goodness in people! 🙂
jampang
wah…. acaranya mantap banget, mas
dani
Alhamdulillah Bang lancar. 🙂
Dita
masih sedih karena gak bisa ikut
duuhh mba Ollieeeee T_T
dani
Next time semoga ada lagi ya Diiit. Huehehehe. Siapa tahu malesmandi jadi sumber. Ihik
Dita
aamiin semoga ada lagi 😀
da aku mah apa atuh mz, postingan bahasa inggris aja masih blm brani nulis x)))
ranselijo
Dan dari event kita, aku semakin yakin bahwa semakin pintar seseorang maka semakin tinggi keinginannya untuk share pengetahuan kepada sesama! 😉
dani
Betuuuul!! Setuju bangettt!! 🙂
ranselijo
Acara kedua langsung gelar apa? kabooooor xD
dani
Huahahahaha. Hayuuuuk. Nagih ya Deev.
ranselijo
Hahahaa…penasaran aja sih ngadain acara dengan pembicara si itu ituh xD
dani
Iyaaaaaa. Eh yang mana sih?? X))
ranselijo
Itu yang….aku heboh pas beliau bilang dia bisa untuk bulan Maret. Itu lhoooooo…
dani
Iya yuuuuuk
ranselijo
Lanjut grup bang hahahaa…
Nadia Khaerunnisa
I sense there’s going to be something interesting in March! hmm…
hahaha
I see this as the importance of having a lot of friends a good networking
dani
Indeed Nad. A good networking is very valuable. March? Is there something in March?
Nadia Khaerunnisa
1000 teman itu berarti emang gak cukup ya kayak di peribahasa haha
siapnguping
dani
Iyaaaaa. 1000 teman kurang 1 musuh cukup.
Gara
I won’t be tired in saying congratulations on your first event. It really went well. Very well. With the streaming and stuff. And although I could only follow the last part of the second speaker afterwards, it somewhat made me felt like I was there, too.
Dan teteup, saya jadi mupeng banget kepingin ikutan event selanjutnya. I’m waiting for the next event.
Semoga kesuksesan ini menular pada pengelolaan grupnya, semoga BEC bisa berkembang jadi grup besar yang aktif berkontribusi bagi dunia per-blogging-an Indonesia bahasa gw yaolo… ups.
I’m looking forward to our next event very much… hopefully all of the members, admins, and mentors will be present at that event :hehe.
nyonyasepatu
Keren banget Dani 🙂 kasih jempol
dani
Makasiiih Mbak Nonii. 🙂
mandor
Lhooo ini kapan acaranya dimana? kok saya gak tahu kejadiannya
(sedih, garuk-garuk tanah di pojokan)
dani
Sabtu kmrn Bang. Kmaren kurang bliwup memang ya. Biar gak kebanyakan peserta. Huhuhuhu.
Pungky KD
Mantap banget pak…. 😉 semua bisa gratis tis tis… 😉
Selamat ya ….semua berjalan sangat lancar….
dani
Amiiiin. Maturnuwun Maak.
limaumanes
Ngak heran mas klo udh d handle org seperti kalian mah. 😀
dani
What is the maksud?
Puji
Keren bangeeet!!!!! Seandainyaa bisa datang
dani
Iya mbak Pujiiii. Sayang sekali ya kemaren. Semoga next time bisa yaaa.
Puji
Amiiinn
bemzkyyeye
Keren Dan..
Sayang kmrn ga bs lama2 dsitu 😀
dani
Iya Ye. Btw sori belom bisa pasang link. Ntar gw update lagi di rumah yaaaa.
Crossing Borders
Selamat ya Dani.. Meski gak ikutan BEC, saya ikut merasa senang..
Dian Rustya
Kalian keren Dan ^_^
Kmrn sempat ngliat foto2 kalian di FB-nya Ollie. Kliatan banget acaranya seru *mendadak mupeng*
dani
Wah. Bahkan Ollie sudah upload di FBnya ya. Kereeen
Ryan
Wah. Ini yang Mba Dian maksud ya. Gak punya FB dia sih. Penasaran foto2nya
MS
sekali lagi selamat buat susah payah admins
aku bacanya sampai merinding.., nggak nyangka banget banyak yg bantu …,
berarti langkah kanan Dan, niat baik semuanya buat belajar jadi blogger yg lebih baik itu memang banyak yg simpati
riemikan
Just awesomeness that’s what I think. Now I just made up that word
Ryan
Capek tapi menyenangkan. Walau bbrp kali sempat bolak balik.
joeyz14
You guys are so great! Salute to all the admins. Too bad ga bisa join. Semoga yg ke 2 gue bisa dateng. semoga gak sabtu lagi…baca manta hahaha
azzuralhi
Wahhh selamat mas.
Kemarin sempat liat info acaranya.
Semoga bisa berlanjut.. 😀
Christa
Ikut ngebayangin serunya 🙂 keren bgt euy! Mudah2an berikut2nya bisa dateng…
bukenip
i thought that i got tons of knowledge from the event, but when i read this behind the scene story, wow…there’s too many new things that i just knew, including the piktochart and other similar stuffs you guys used. Don’t stop to help a good cause 🙂
rabbani75
yang bisa memberi adalah org punya, demikian juga sharing sebuah ilmu.thank ulasannya
rabbani75
thank for share
Arman
networking, connection and relationship are definitely worth as much as the money 🙂
dani
indeed Ko Arman.
Beby
Bener, Bang. Ngga semua hal selalu tentang uang. Termasuk dalam pertemanan ya 😀
Kapan lagi dongs meet up nya? Aku mesti ikutan nih! nabung
yance
Keep the faith dan…..
desweet26
the power of great connection ya Dan..
emang keren banget dah BEC… ;))
Fanny Novia
Kepengen ikutan BEC, ikutan challenge tiap Jumat, tapi kok masih ga berani nulis dalam bahasa Inggris ya?Hiks
Ah keren memang ini BEC dan para adminnya, Allah selalu bersama niat-niat baik, Mas Dani! 🙂
dani
hihihi. Ikutan aja Mbak Fanny. Tips dari Ollie untuk oede nulis dalam bahasa Inggris ya langsung nulis aja.
mulyaheart
Turut senang dg kesuksesan first meeting Of BEC’s members 😀
u all have done well 🙂 Congratz!
Nia Sari Nastiti
I think if many people share something good for free, the people who got the advantage also want to share again the experience with another people also for free. Hihihi. And I agree with you Mas, if we have a goodwill for many people, the universe will conspire with what we want to do. Many doors will open.
Hopefully all the admin never tired to arrange the next event, I smell something good on March from Mba Deva’s comment. I think the admin can ask from the member being volunteer for the next event. Thank you so much again n again dear all admin 😀
dani
Ahahahaha. Hopefully.. Hopefully.