Hello 2012 and welcome to what we know will be an incredible year of blogging here in Australia!

We hope you are well rested after Christmas and New Years break, even those of you that still have the kiddies home on school holidays!

We’ve got a few exciting events in the pipeline for this year including the return of Blogopolis, but firstly, we’d like to kick-start the year with the re-introduction of Nuffnang Mini-Meets.

What are Nuffnang Mini-Meets?

These are small, blogger-organised and hosted, blog meets that can take place in any city right around Australia! We want to give you more time and a small budget to get together and hang out with all your blogging mates!

There are, however, a few guidelines to keep these mini-meets in good, working order…

1. A Nuffnang blogger shall nominate themselves to host a blog meet in their respective city. Hosts will be responsible for everything from organising the blog meet, choosing the venue, sending out invitations, promoting the event and monitoring RSVPs. Attendees do not have to be Nuffnang bloggers.

 2. The mini-meet must be Nuffnang branded.

 Example: “Nuffnang Melbourne Fashion Meet”

 3. We will allocate a capped budget of $150 to each host. Each blog meet will receive the same budget. To ensure this budget is fairly allocated, your blog meet will need a minimum of ten (10) confirmed RSVPs. It is not logical or fair to offer a $150 budget to a blog meet with, say, only four attendees. If RSVPs are below the minimum required, the budget will be revised and lowered in accordance with the number of attendees and made known to you prior to the event.

4. The number of monthly events that we can provide budget for will be capped at three (3) per month. We will make sure we provide budget to a mix of hosts and blog meet categories, keeping the process open to provide an equal opportunity to all bloggers.

5. These blog meets are strictly a brand/advertising-free zone. We want our bloggers to enjoy each other’s company over a coffee, pizzas, etc for a few hours without having to worry about brand discussion and product pimping.

6. After the event, the host will be required to email through a scanned copy of the bill receipt along with their direct debit bank details to info@nuffnang.com.au. The amount owing (up to $150 – or the agreed value if attendance is below 10, please refer to point 3) will be reimbursed into your account within five working days.

7. If you are interesting in hosting a blog meet, please email info@nuffnang.com.au with the subject line “BLOG MEET”. In the body of the email, please also include your:

- Name
- Blog URL
- Blog Meet City
- Blog Meet For… (ie: Parents, Foodies, Fashionistas etc)
- Month and estimated date you would like to host event (please, no requests for further than two months in advance)

 We will look through all requests receive and approve three per month.

Once a month we will endeavour to blog a wrap up post of all the Nuffnang mini-meets that were held for that month so please feel free to take a heap of photos and share them with us! We’d also love to see a twitter hash tag created for each event!

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