#140conf – Day 2 Recap from 140Conf LA

November 5, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Starting out on Day 2, my brain needed some caffeine fuel so once I hit a very popular chain and got my Cafe Americano to jump onto the 140 Conference here in LA. This day started with some intense topics – education, public health and the mainstream media.  So let’s get to the recap of [...]


#140conf – Day 1 Recap from 140Conf LA

November 4, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

I arrived on Monday in Los Angeles to attend the “Very Important Characters (VIC)” event and got to see some old friends and meet some new ones. After a great evening I got a great night’s sleep and got to the Kodak Theatre early to see everything kick off.
I have been to LA more times [...]


Twitter Conference #140Conf – Here at the Kodak Theater

October 27, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Good morning everyone, I am here at the Kodak Theater ready to listen to the Twitterati talk about the power and impact of this new platform. The first event was in New York and since it is in LA, Jeff Pulver decided that this event will have a special focus on the use of twitter [...]


Jeff Pulver and the 140 Conference in LA Tomorrow

October 26, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Starting tomorrow, I will be attending the #140Conf in Los Angeles, CA at the famous Kodak Theater (this is where the Oscars are held).
According to the web site Jeff says “At the #140conf events, we look at twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. Over time it will neither be the only [...]


Event Reviews: DC Google Meetup and TechCocktail DC 6

August 31, 2009 :: Joe Loong

Here’s a followup to my entry about DC-area late-summer social media meetups; this week, I went to two of the events from the list.
The first was the First Official DC Google Meetup, at the swank Lima Restaurant and Lounge in DC. (So swank, in fact, that a would-be attendee posted to the Meetup event page [...]


Upcoming DC Area Social Media Events: Blog Days of Summer Edition

August 17, 2009 :: Joe Loong

We’re in the dog days of summer (blog days of summer?), so things are supposed to be slow, although it just seems to mean there’s more time available for events, meetups, and other types of social media schmoozing and networking.
Here are a few things upcoming for the metro DC area, culled from DCTechEvents.com, Social Media [...]


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

August 17, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

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 [...]


Event Review: Unintentional Entrepreneur Workshop DC

August 11, 2009 :: Joe Loong

Wednesday night was the DC-area installment of the Unintentional Entrepreneur series of workshops, held by Network Solutions and Outright.com as a way to help guide entrepreneurs into building and growing their businesses.
Along with traditional entrepreneurs, in this economic climate there have been a bumper crop of unintentional entrepreneurs — people who, through circumstance, have found [...]


Unintentional Entrepreneur Event in Atlanta with Network Solutions

July 22, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Many of you might not have heard of a new blog from Network Solutions called the Unintentional Entrepreneur. The Unintentional Entrepreneur is focused on providing tips and advice on accounting and finance for small business owners. They also are starting events around the country called, you guessed it - The Unintentional Entrepreneur. Here are the details for the Atlanta event [...]


Unintentional Entrepreneur Event in San Francisco with Network Solutions

July 10, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Many of you might not have heard of a new blog from Network Solutions called the Unintentional Entrepreneur which is a joint effort between Network Solutions and up and coming accounting software company, Outright. Outright is an accounting system that is offered in a software-as-a-service model and connects seamlessly with Shoebox and Freshbooks through their [...]