Sojust last week we had our 3rd Philly Steem meetup and overall it was another successful event. This one had a lower attendance than the first two, but probably had the best vibe over all so far.
I attribute that at least in part to the chill musical sounds provided by my good friend and ally 
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It was also more structured than the first event and less structured and informational than our second one. Not to lower the value of either of our first two events, because they were both great in other ways.
However our primary goal is to make these meet ups a warm, relaxed environment where people can easily make connections, where conversations can flow freely, and valuable information can be shared without any pretension or serious egos involved. And in this regard I think this our third event really hit the nail on the head.
I'll try to keep this post short and let the pictures tell most of the story. A few of us got there early to set up the DJ system, sign in sheet, etc. It's always a good thing to have more than one person present at the beginning. We had the tunes going and then people just started showing up, mingling and having a good time. :)
It was a really nice mix of people both those who attended before and those coming for the first time, with smooth friendly conversations all around.
People were having such a good time hanging out chatting about Steem and everything else that it got late and some people were already leaving before we discussed the planned topics!
So we turned on the projector in order to make sure we had some kind of information rich segment of the event.
I talked very loosely about Steem as a social currency economy. I quickly realized from the blank reactions I need to refine my talking points and / or speaking style. :D But I only spoke for a few minutes anyway.
So Matt delivered the goods mainly by continuing his conversational threads from the evening in front of the room and talking about how the voting mechanics work, the importance of leaving good comments, as well as bots and voting explained more in-depth. These topics never get old.
Then we did look at a few posts and authors to discuss why they worked well.
This was one of the focal points in our program, but when we got to it, there were a lot of absurd jokes and humor thrown in from various places including our friend 
