<p>Hi Nick,<p>Thanks for the comment.</p><p>The only other idea I would add is to try http://www.eventbrite.com/directory to find people you can work with too. Aside from that, LinkedIn would be my ideal place to grow out a local SEO group, I would probably go quite diverse and see if you can speak to people such as web designers, business owners, startups etc who would be interested in SEO.</p