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Baltimore Barcamp - Saturday June 20

As you all know I am a big fan of Barcamp events.
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
On Saturday, June 20, BarCamp is coming back [...]

Wordcamp Mid-Atlantic 2009 - Anil Dash, Mark Jaquith, Thesis and Aaron Brazell

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to visit where I went for my undergraduate degree at the University of Baltimore to attend Wordcamp Mid-Atlantic. It was put on by Aaron Brazell AKA Technosailor who is well known in the wordpress community and in on his previous lives was Director of Technology for B5 Media which was at the time the largest blog network running on Wordpress. He has some serious street cred in the Wordpress community and currently has a consulting practice working with some great firms implementing Wordpress as part of their strategy.

He kicked the morning off with a thank you to sponsors and an introduction to the event as well as integrating in some great Ignite Baltimore presentations to keep things lively and not just Wordpress lectures. Mario Armstrong gave his personal branding presentation to start and we jumped into the first keynote of the day from Anil Dash of Six Apart. Yes, I wrote that right. Read on…

Thoughts on Coworking: Beehive Baltimore CoWorking Space Officially Opens

You might be aware that I am huge supporter of the Coworking concept and on Friday I had an opportunity to be a coworker for the day and hang my hat at the newest and from what I can research, the only Coworking space in Baltimore called Beehive Baltimore.
It is based at the Emerging Technology [...]

Social Media: User Driven Experience - A GBTC Event in Baltimore on Jan 27, 2009

If you are in the Baltimore/DC area this Tuesday, the Greater Baltimore Technology Council is holding a great event on Social Media and how it has evolved. We will be there to blog and cover the discussion for those that can’t make it. They were doing something a little different and let registered attendees vote [...]

Review of SocialDevCamp East - Fall 2008

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was headed to SocialDevCamp East on Nov 1, 2008 for their fall session. They held their first one back in the spring and Alex Hillman wrote about Dave Troy organizing Social Dev Camp East which was to address a 37 signals blog post about building web companies [...]

Upcoming Event: SocialDevCamp East on 11/01

SocialDevCamp East is the Unconference for Thought Leaders of the Future Social Web.
Following up on the successful premiere of SocialDevCampEastSpring2008, held in Baltimore in May, SocialDevCamp East Fall 2008 once again invites east coast developers and technology business leaders to come together for a thoughtful discussion of the ideas and technologies that will drive the [...]