UPDATE, September 2, 2010: The most popular input for the Meetup start time is 11 AM, so we will begin at 11 AM. Also, you should have no problem finding us at Dollop, but call me through the Creative Social Club Google Voice number at [masked] if you do.

[KEY ADDENDUM: As Aporia astutely points out, 10 AM on a Saturday might be a tad too early. I have set this Meetup such that when you RSVP, the system will ask you what time you would like to start, in addition to two other questions on content. After receiving your inputs, I will schedule this Meetup to accommodate the highest number of people for that day.]

Our Conversation Salons have been among the best Meetups we have had, and it is time for not one, but TWO new Conversation Salons. The second of these new salons will be "Coffee Salon: Creative Show-and-Tell, Design Chit-Chat, and Other Shop Talk". It will be held on Saturday, September 18, 2010 at Dollop, 4181 North Clarendon, beginning at 10 AM (tentatively).

Dollop Coffee & Tea (http://dollopcoffee.c...) is a North Side coffee shop with reasonable coffee-snob street cred and has been used by other Meetup Groups for their events. It is relaxed and fairly cozy (actually, I consider it a bit dingy, but dingy is ideal for what I want to do with this Meetup), has free WiFi, and is not far from the Red Line. Best of all, it has a wealth of board games in the back room for Henri and I to play in case we are the only two people who show up.

This Conversation Salon will be a departure from past Salons and any other Meetups we have attempted to date with the Creative Social Club. No, it is not just the daytime scheduling and the lack of alcohol. In this Meetup, we do not want to consume or appreciate other people's creative work. In this Meetup, WE CALL ON ALL CREATIVE MEMBERS TO SHOW AND TELL US ABOUT YOUR WORK, ideally (but not necessarily) on a laptop, whether it be some design, video, photographic, music, written, multimedia, or other creative work. If you do not have your own work, you can show and tell us about the work of someone else which you like (or even dislike, for that matter) in particular. The idea here is to get into the nitty gritty of creativity, and to begin a monthly Saturday coffee dialog among creative people about creative things.

WE WANT ACTIVE SHOW-AND-TELL PARTICIPANTS, so please tell us what you would like to discuss. Topics in this salon include but are not limited to the following, and this list will be refined as the date approaches:

• The design logic that went into the Creative Social Club Web site (yes, there actually is a logic and custom elements)
  
• Online color tools that I use
  
• My favorite blogs
  
• Henri's show-and-tell
  
• YOUR show-and-tell
  
• How are you using social media to advance your creative pursuits?
  
• Other creativity-related technologies you would like to discuss (in some Meetups, we have discussed the joys of PHP, as one example)
  
• Creative goings-on in Chicago
  
• If all else fails, board games!