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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Bottleneck: Getting connected more efficiently</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2018-11-05T16:00:00" datetime="2018-11-05T16:00:00">Monday, November 5, 2018 from 4</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2018-11-05T18:00:00" datetime="2018-11-05T18:00:00">6pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202396081'><span class='fn org p-name'>Tilt Eastside</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">22 Northeast 2nd Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97232</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=22%20Northeast%202nd%20Avenue,%20Portland%20OR%2097232%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>What if once a month, one of us agreed to block a couple of hours for a series of 10 minute meetings with folks who have been trying to get on your calendar?</p> <p>I know, crazy right? No wait. There’s more. What if this block of meetings occurred at a coffee shop or maybe even a bar?</p> <p>Still with me? Because here’s where it gets wacky.</p> <p>What if we all showed up at that same place those meetings were happening? Because we were invited. Not because it was random or something. And we invited other community members to hang out there too, like a happy hour. Then we ask the folks having meetings to do their homework to make the meeting efficient, to show up early for their meeting time, and to stay late so they get to meet more people — and get connected more quickly. It might even be that in the middle of one of our 10 min meetings, we could just point at someone in the crowd and be like “That’s the person you need to talk to, right there.”</p> <p>In my head, I’ve been calling the “Bottleneck.” Because that’s what I am. And that’s what I’m trying to solve for. And I thought it might be a solution that could work for you. And our community. And I’m down to beta test it as the meeting-haver if a few of you are willing to join me as the happy hour-ers.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="https://siliconflorist.com/2018/10/30/frustrated-by-neverending-calendar-bingo-maybe-this-will-help-break-the-bottleneck-and-build-community/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>