Yesterday Kiong had a call from our AMBC counterpart from the NSW chapter, Bill Wilkinson. Bill asked us if we would like to go along to an event being hosted by a friend and colleague of his in Brisbane on Tuesday night at the Jade Buddha at Riverside for Publishing Australia. Basically a networking evening for those in the printing and publishing industry. He invited us along because he thought that Paradigm Infinitum's extensive networks could be of interest to members of Publishing Australia. We agreed to go along, although we had a lot on our plate this week, and we were glad that we did.
It was a very vibrant networking evening with a good bunch of people. Although we don't work in the area of publishing or printing ourselves, we do have an interest in media more generally. From the perspective of our own business, it was also interesting and I have to say inspiring to hear about new developments in the printing industry and the possibilities that brings for advertising, promotion, and also training materials as well. There were quite a few people up from Sydney and we met quite a number of people that would never otherwise have met, and really enjoyed the opportunity. However, neither we nor the organisers were impressed by the service offered by the staff of Jade Buddha - while it has nice decor, it was noisy, and the staff were exceedingly inflexible, non responsive and slow with orders. We were shocked by what we saw and felt bad for the organiser who does not live in Brisbane and thus could not check out the place first. Note to self, not a venue for AMBCQ functions!
On a positive note, we met some great people and hada rally nice time. To our colleague Bill Wilkinson, President AMBC NSW, we thank you!
Great evening and lovely people!
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