Tomorrow morning (Friday 28th March), the “Social Media Cafe” in London’s Soho district will open for (I think) the 6th time.

What is the Social Media Cafe? Well, a few months back, a visionary chap by the name of Lloyd Davis came up with the idea that it would be good to have a fixed location where social media types (bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, geeks, techies, creative folk, entrepreneurs, shameless self-promoters et al) could get together to chat, swap ideas, socialise, co-work, make deals and generally inspire each other. (See Lloyd’s original post on the subject).

It’s an excellent idea and Lloyd has done a fantastic job in making it happen. It’s now a weekly occurence, upstairs at the Coach & Horses in Greek Street every Friday between 10am and about midday. Although I’ve only been along to one so far (number 3 I think, which was indeed a very rewarding experience), reports from attendees are always overwhelmingly positive.

There’s always a danger with Social Media tools like Twitter and Facebook of only connecting with people online. What I love about the Social Media Cafe is it gives people the opportunity to go along and meet face-to-face and make real personal connections. Whilst “Web 2.0″ is great for connecting with and communicating with people, there’s no substitute (and I don’t think there ever will be) for real human contact.

So I’ll be going along tomorrow morning in the hope of meeting some interesting people and having some stimulating conversations. See you there?