Last week I met Kim from IdolBlog. She’s been on the site for a few years now and it was fun to see each other in person and hang out for a little while at a local cafe (photo).

Here’s her take on the meetup - her comments are quite funny:

I was expecting Rachel to be really nice, but quite quiet and serious - not particularly friendly. Then I expected Regan to be very friendly and talkative, but rather obnoxious at the same time. They kind of like.. switched. Rachel was incredibly friendly and talkative (btw not obnoxious in the slightest :P), and Regan was rather quiet and serious (but friendly when he did talk :P). Oh and Dad postponed a meeting so I could meet them and he thought they were “very pleasant”…

Most of the people I do design work for I’ve never met face-to-face. We’ve communicated via email, IM, Writeboards, Skype, and occasionally on a real phone.

Of course, I’ve met a tonne of other people after knowing them online first (the other most recent example was meeting Lee Lefever). They’re usually like their online presence and they usually say I’m just as they imagined. So I hope you haven’t got the impression that I’m not that friendly Although, my role at IdolBlog is more about keeping people from being too naughty