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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 [...]

Gnomedex 9-Day 1: A Conference Unlike Any Others I’ve Been To Before.

Last week I was off to Seattle for yet another conference. Having attended a few over the past year, I had my expectations that this one wouldn’t be any different – you sit there and learn more about how these presenters talk about how social media is the greatest thing since sliced bread and talk [...]

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 1 – Highlights of the Friday Morning Sessions

The morning got off to a rough technical start with the audio not working on the live stream and the huge wifi pipe going up and down. But after lots of quick work we got over that hump we got a great 15 minute session on photography by Kris Krug who just got back from [...]

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 [...]

Shashi and Steve at Gnomedex 8.0 – Pre-event party

Last night after walking through the chaos of Pike’s Place watching people throw fish and wait in long lines at the first Starbucks, we got back to the hotel and got ready for the Gnomedex Pre-event party at the Bell Harbor Conference Center.

We saw lots of old friends and met many new ones. Sara Lacy [...]