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Happy Labor Day and Some of the Best of Solutions Are Power

Here in the United States we are celebrating Labor Day which is the “unofficial end of summer” and when everyone is heading back from summer vacation ready to get back to work. We won’t be publishing anything else today but in the mean time there are two things we wanted to share with you:
Grow Smart [...]

Gnomedex Recap – Day 2 – The awesome TED-like experience continues

This year’s Gnomedex in Seattle was the ninth in its history and my fourth. I am continually blown away by the people in the crowd and on stage who provide a TED-like experience for a fraction of the price and no pretension (no invite only BS).
Chris Pirillo is the creator of Gnomedex and is know [...]

Ken, Steve and the Swami are attending Gnomedex 9.0 this week

Last year, Shashi and your humble correspondent attended one of the most rocking tech conferences on the continent, Gnomedex.
It is put on by, Chris Pirillo, the Original Gnome or “OG” and his Lockergnome crew in the beautiful city of Seattle. As I said in my post last year, “I have been to many conferences in [...]

Using search engines in a whole new way with Viewzi

This past August, Shashi Bellamkonda (AKA Social Media Swami) and I had the opportunity to attend Gnomedex 2008. This past August, Shashi Bellamkonda (AKA Social Media Swami) and I had the opportunity to attend Gnomedex 2008. Gnomedex is like the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) in that it has innovative speakers, a cutting edge variety of topics and [...]

Greg Cangelosi on Building Killer e-mail marketing campaigns

I have know Greg Cangelosi for a long time – about nine years to be exact. We met during the first dot com boom. I was working on my first start up while he was working for a web site design firm. We both eventually moved on from each of those respective ventures. Right before [...]

Gnomedex 8.0 Day 1 – Friday Evening Party at the Showbox

It was a late night for most who went to the party at Showbox, a Seattle landmark where I personally have seen Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and Nirvana in my much younger, grungier, and thinner days.

There was lots to talk about from a very busy and exciting first day. Viewzi sponsored the party and their cool [...]

Gnomedex 8.0 Day 2 – Closing Thoughts

As we wrapped up Gnomedex 2008, it got me thinking, how can I use the social media tools out there to make change? This is my second Gnomedex, with my first being last year. I attended the BarCamp session after the conference and I have to tell you that they listened to all the feedback [...]

Gnomedex 8.0 Day 2 – Saturday Afternoon Sessions

After another great lunch and conversations in the hallway, we began the final afternoon session of discussions. If it was anything like yesterday, it shouldn’t disappoint.
Jon Malkin of Vocal Joystick
Jon works with user interfaces and there is no easy way to describe this session other that a really cool way to interface with a computer. [...]

Gnomedex 8.0 Day 2 – Saturday Morning Sessions

Well, its the final day of Gnomdex 2008. It was a late night for most who went to the party at Showbox, a Seattle landmark where I personally have seen Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and Nirvana in my much younger, grungier, and thinner days.
We jumped right in with another presentation of more highlights from Ignite Portland [...]

Gnomedex 8.0 Day 1 – Photo Tips in 15 Minutes with Kris Krug

Kris Krug or KK as he is know on Twitter started out the speakers line up after the Ignite Portland presentations with a 15 minute presentation on how to take great pictures. I think every conference should start like this because this Gnomedex came out being one of the best photographed (I mean quality, not [...]