[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":767},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-\u002Fnews\u002Fintroducing-hampshire-events":3,"site:reading-news-introducing-hampshire-events":443,"news-rows":524,"site:og:\u002Fnews\u002Fintroducing-hampshire-events":765},{"id":4,"title":5,"answeredBy":6,"atAGlance":6,"author":7,"blocks":6,"body":8,"date":393,"description":394,"events":395,"extension":400,"gettingThere":6,"image":401,"imageAlt":402,"imageCredit":403,"interview":6,"kind":404,"lifted":6,"means":6,"meta":405,"navigation":406,"now":6,"organisers":6,"path":407,"photos":6,"pick":6,"pull":6,"questions":6,"quote":6,"readMins":408,"scene":6,"seo":409,"source":6,"sources":410,"span":6,"standfirst":436,"stem":437,"steps":6,"tags":438,"town":6,"updated":441,"venues":6,"was":6,"__hash__":442},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fintroducing-hampshire-events.md","Introducing hampshire.events: one checked list",null,"hampshire.events",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":382},"minimark",[11,15,18,23,40,49,76,85,88,92,95,121,134,138,141,271,283,287,295,299,308,317,320,324,341,345,370],[12,13,14],"p",{},"Hampshire has plenty of rooms where people who run businesses meet: breakfasts before work, groups that gather every week, talks, workshops, walks, expos and awards nights. Until now they were spread across chamber diaries, networking groups' own pages, booking sites, social media and word of mouth, and it was hard to tell which listings were still right. hampshire.events puts them on one list for the whole county, and a person checks it every week.",[12,16,17],{},"This piece explains why we built it, what \"checked\" means, and how to use it to find something that suits you.",[19,20,22],"h2",{"id":21},"why-one-list-for-the-county","Why one list for the county",[12,24,25,26,33,34,39],{},"Hampshire is a big place to keep track of. 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Venue pages describe arrival in the order you need it: the way in, what happens on arrival, parking, the nearest station, and buses. They come from the venue's own information, with a date for when we checked. Access is shown carefully: step-free details appear where they have been checked, and our ",[27,291,293],{"href":292},"\u002Fguides\u002Faccess-at-business-events","access guide"," explains what to ask a venue before you go.",[19,296,298],{"id":297},"why-the-smaller-rooms-matter","Why the smaller rooms matter",[12,300,301,302,307],{},"It is easy to assume the useful contacts are the people you already know well. The research points the other way. In 1973 the sociologist ",[27,303,306],{"href":304,"rel":305},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1086\u002F225469",[31],"Mark Granovetter"," asked professional, technical and managerial workers in a Boston suburb how they had found their jobs. 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