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Conferences

Pix from Gnomedex

August 23, 2007

Not sure why I didn’t think of this before, but thanks Paul Stamatiou for reminding me of this lovely tool. Here is a slideshow of my Flickr pictures from Gnomedex 2007. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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Gnomedexmen ’07 comic book cover

August 13, 2007

Ah Comic Life, how I’ve wanted to use you for some time. Gnomedex ’07 was full of comic book characters so it only seems appropriate to create a comic to summarize the experience. I had a great time at the conference and met a lot of great people. Now, to go get some social network [...]

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Gnomedex 2007

August 8, 2007

I’m a wee bit excited about this year’s Gnomedex. Not as excited as that man —> , but excited nevertheless. Last year was my first and my good pal Jeremy Zawodny (who is mysteriously absent from this list) was kind enough to show me around and introduce me to folks. I met a lot of [...]

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Wordcamp 2007

July 22, 2007

Great meetup of the WordPress faithful this year in San Francisco. More comments later, cause man am I tired.

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Down in SF this week

April 18, 2007

Just a quick note to anyone and everyone… I’m down in SF this week for Boxbe, Web 2.0 expo and Podcast Hotel if you want to meet up. Give me a call or shoot me an email. cell: 415.297.4215 email: randy@boxbe.com

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Austin bound – SXSW this weekend

March 10, 2007

I’m beginning to think conferences are my job… I think SXSW will make my 4th conference this year…oy. Maybe I’m just fulfilling my dream to be a trucker being on the road again. If you’re in Austin this week(end) give me a shout! Email me at randy@boxbe.com if you want to talk social media, Boxbe, [...]

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Mac blogger toolkit – Northern Voice 2007

February 26, 2007

CBC columnist and Mac geek, Tod Maffin ran another great session at Moosecamp around favorite productivity tools. Below are my favorites from the session. ImageWell – Swiss Army knife for images (free) Paparazzi – takes screenshots of full web pages. TextExpander – condenses messages, phrases or code that you might reuse all the time into [...]

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PhotoCamp at Northern Voice

February 26, 2007

Kris Krug, photographer extraordinaire, organized a conference within a unconference within a conference at this year’s Northern Voice. He collected an exceptional panel of other photogs and tech geeks. High end consumer cameras Tim Bray did a talk on high end compact cameras. Made me think about using the G3 again. It does shoot in [...]

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Pix from Northern Voice

February 24, 2007

Chris Heuer, Social Media Club founder and all-around nice guy, has a great set of pictures up on Flickr from the conference so far. Check them out here. All Northern Voice photos on Flickr are here. Photo by (or at least in his feed) Chris Heuer

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Northern Voice this weekend

February 22, 2007

So, given how blog lazy I’ve been lately, I’m a little embarrassed to go to a blogging conference this weekend, but nevertheless, there I’ll be going. Hell, I guess any excuse to get back to the beautiful city of Vancouver is good enough for me. If you are at Northern Voice this weekend, drop me [...]

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10 tips for meeting people at industry events

February 8, 2007

My friend Andrew Chen has posted his thoughts on meeting people at conferences. Great list if you are in the mood to meet folks in your industry. Here are a few of the points: Use pre-conference time wisely Arrive early for some 1:1 time Sit next to interesting people, and introduce yourself Bring business cards, [...]

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Macworld 2007

January 10, 2007

Just a few quick general impressions from the show today. iPhone and AppleTV First, iPhone and AppleTV are two huge new platforms for Apple to develop and deserved the spotlight today. That said, not really being able to touch or to truly get a “live” demo of the iPhone was a bit of a bummer. [...]

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MindCamp 3.0

November 13, 2006

Image by chadum I’ve got a crazy week this week, but I wanted to say a few things about MindCamp 3.0 this weekend. First off, Andru, Stuart and the rest of the gang – Thanks for putting on such a fine unconference. This was my first unconference and to quickly organize chaos so well was [...]

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Web 2.0 and Web 2.2

November 6, 2006

Alas, I’m stuck in the rain in Seattle this week, but hope everyone is doing well at the Web 2.0 conference and better yet, the Web 2.2 unconference. So you’ve heard of the Web 2.0 conference, the one that O’Reilly and John Battelle have put on for the last several years, but not Web 2.2? [...]

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John Battelle and Economy of Intention

November 1, 2006

I had a great time at last week’s Blog Business Summit. I met a lot of people whose work I respect a great deal and people that I found that I had a lot in common with. John Battelle is someone that I hold in very high regard because he inspired me very early on. [...]

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The Scobles’ 10 tips for a killer blog

October 27, 2006

At the Blog Business Summit this morning, Robert and Maryam Scoble give their 10 tips to a killer blog. picture by respulveda Blog cause you want to. Read other blogs. “This will make you an authority on the marketplace” Pick a niche you can own. Maryam – “Two types of bloggers some make things, break [...]

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