Really hope you can make your final Play Fest Planning Session this evening. Your involvement so far has been fantastic.

We are live on Twitter between 8.30-9pm (using the hash tag #PlayFestPlanning) and on Facebook from 9-9.30pm. We’d love for you to join in the fun chat and have your input on how we grow Play Fest and get things done in 2012.

Over the past few weeks during Play Fest planning you have collectively identified a vision and goals for 2012, you have created 52 topics for next year and you have identified how we can do a better job at supporting mummy and daddy bloggers through Play Fest and IzziwizziKids.co.uk.

This evenings Play Fest is all about how we can work together as a community to help Play Fest to grow to become even more brilliant and to get things done in 2012.

Let’s quickly recap on the vision of Play Fest:

The vision is to become the most fun online play community for parents in the world.

This evening we’d like to have a bit of a brainstorm as there are a couple of things that we need to be creative about.

- Every parent in the world is welcome to join in the Play Fest community and have a space to exchange play ideas with other like minded parents for kids. This evening we’d like to look at:

• Ideas on how we could start to structure the Play Fest community to widen the scope for more people to get involved without overcrowding;
• Ideas on how we can retain that friendliness, closeness, openness and inclusivity as Play Fest grows;

-  The second part of the planning session will be dedicated to getting stuff done

• Ideas on how we can organise the creation of directed, unique and brilliant play content on a large scale;
• Ideas on how can we get the fantastic content that Play Fest produces more widely distributed across the internet to benefit more parents;7

- What resources we need to put in place for all of this to happen.

And now that we’ve had the session, here is how we are going to get things done in 2012.

Al Boxall-Gordon

I am the founder of IzziwizziKids.co.uk and the Play Fest.