That is down to one reason, and one reason only, and that is your support. A huge thanks to you all for joining the MeetUp group, attending the MeetUps and contributing to this site. Also a big thanks to our sponsors – we really appreciate it.

We have sent out a Press Release which you can see here.

So far we have had three Meetups, where nearly 100 people have attended. The group is growing every week, and the feedback has been brilliant. We are keen to improve, and so please, don’t be shy, don’t just read this and click off, leave a comment, an idea or a topic you would like to talk about. We will be announcing the next MeetUp very shortly and already have 3 great talks lined up from a variety of interesting speakers. We hope to be posting about hitting 200 members soon, so please do encourage your friends and work mates to sign up!

The time has been flying, and we have our first MeetUp tomorrow in Hull – full details can be found here >>>> click!

This is the first event, so very much a meet and greet. A few items we will want to cover are location for next meeting and also topics for discussion and presentations.

We look forward to meeting you all!

The Hull Digital Team

Trust the all important factor in a successful relationship with you customers.

The graph above comes from a recent US study in Q2 of 2008, from Forrester Research, where Jeremiah Owyang works. You can see his original post here.

What is of particular interest here for the Hull Digital community are the top trust sources:

Email from people you know

Consumer product ratings and reviews

Portals / Search engines

From a personal perspective, the Hull Digital hunt for ANY sort of product starts online and usually ends online too. User reviews are a massive help with choosing items, and Word of Mouth can be a huge driver for the success, or indeed, failure of something.

This amazing transparency and choice-network can also allow almost instant feedback to a company who is listening online, and importantly connecting and making matters better, trying to fix problems and taking the feedback in a thankful and constructive manner.

The bottom line is that if you really trust a company, you are much more likely to use them, and recommend them.