The Beer and Blog family expands to include two more people and two more chapters
Last week we announced the addition of Michelle to the Portland Chapter as the Chapter Provost. This week we’re proud to announce the addition of two more people to Beer and Blog: Kelly Guimont as Mistress of Organizer Affairs, and Christine Kistner in charge of Development.
Most of you know Kelly as @verso on Twitter. You may not know that she is active in the Portland tech community as a participant in many events, including Volunteer Coordinator at Ignite Portland and as an organizer of WordCamp Portland. As the Mistress of Organizer Affairs she will help new chapters get up and running as well as ensure communication between the organizers is flowing smoothly.
Christine is bringing her financial background and strong support to Beer and Blog by leading the charge on Development. That means she’ll be helping obtain and distribute swag, coordinate sponsorships, and assist with marketing. She is almost done with her degree in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics from the Art Institute of Portland. She is following her dreams after 4 years in banking.
Please also welcome our two newest chapters: St. Louis and Eugene.
Beer and Blog St. Louis will be hosted by Lisa, who many of you may remember as a sponsor of Cyborg Camp. We geeked out for about an hour about the inspiration she got from the Portland scene, some politics, and some blogging. She has some awesome ideas about incorporating many of the non-tech members of the St. Louis community to introduce them to the spirit of Beer and Blog. Looking forward to seeing where they go with it. BTW, is there good beer in St. Louis? 
Beer and Blog Eugene will be co-hosted by Rob and Dave. They are planning to hold the meet ups at East 19th Street Cafe. In his request email, Rob said:
Yes! We want to empower a vibrant local creative and development community, and, between Dave and myself, we already know many people who would be very into a Beer and Blog type gathering.
So it’s on like Donkey Kong. Keep your eye on their blogs to find out more such as the meet up time and deeper contact details, such as a Twitter account.
mediaChick (Michelle) said:
Boy am I in good company. Welcome to all! Now…let’s get our Beer and Blog on!
January 6th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 06 » Silicon Florist said:
[...] The Beer and Blog family expands to include two more people and two more chapters at Beer and Blog Via the Beer and Blog mothership “Last week we announced the addition of Michelle to the Portland Chapter as the Chapter Provost. This week we’re proud to announce the addition of two more people to Beer and Blog: Kelly Guimont as Mistress of Organizer Affairs, and Christine Kistner in charge of Development. Please also welcome our two newest chapters: St. Louis and Eugene.” [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 12:02 am
missburrows said:
When will we get the Beer & Blog dancers? You know, for half time and all?
January 7th, 2009 at 9:37 am
admin said:
After enough beers, I suppose we could end up with dancers!
January 7th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Kram Namloc said:
Wow what a crew! I guess we’re on track to dominate the world, yo.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for January 06 : Oregon Startup Blog said:
[...] The Beer and Blog family expands to include two more people and two more chapters at Beer and Blog Via the Beer and Blog mothership “Last week we announced the addition of Michelle to the Portland Chapter as the Chapter Provost. This week we’re proud to announce the addition of two more people to Beer and Blog: Kelly Guimont as Mistress of Organizer Affairs, and Christine Kistner in charge of Development. Please also welcome our two newest chapters: St. Louis and Eugene.” [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
PB said:
Boy am I in good company. Welcome to all! Now…let’s get our Beer and Blog on!
May 26th, 2009 at 11:27 pm