Network Solutions - Small business conversations and working together for small business success » ommunity http://blog.networksolutions.com Small Business tips, interviews and conversations that provide advice and discussion about small business. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Solutions Out Loud is a podcast from the Solutions Are Power blog team at Network Solutions. It offers tips, interviews and conversations that provide advice and discussion about small business. Network Solutions no Network Solutions smedia@networksolutions.com smedia@networksolutions.com (Network Solutions) 2007-2009 Solutions Out Loud Small Business, Technology, News, Management, Marketing Network Solutions - Small business conversations and working together for small business success » ommunity http://blog.networksolutions.com/wp-content/themes/NetworkSolutions/images/NetSol-Logo-Sm.jpg http://blog.networksolutions.com A Visit to BarcampDC 2008 http://blog.networksolutions.com/2008/getting-the-most-out-of-a-barcamp-event/ http://blog.networksolutions.com/2008/getting-the-most-out-of-a-barcamp-event/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:57:55 +0000 Steve Fisher http://blog.networksolutions.com/?p=307 This past weekend I attended Barcamp DC which was the second iteration of Washington’s version of BarCamp, a technology workshop or “unconference” meant to demonstrate new business ideas and promote discussion of the top tech issues. An “unconference” is meant to be an informal gathering. So informal that the makeshift schedule was made with blue masking tape on the wall.

The stuff on the wall ran the entire spectrum of interesting topics.

Barcamp Schedule - Photo by Joe Logon

Source: Joe Logon

There was a case study on how C-SPAN launched their social media site for the election in about 11 days. There was a session on CEO’s discussing their pain and problems in a sort of therapy session. There were demos of products, tips on using javascript and even a session on juggling. Yes, juggling. You can see the full schedule here.

About 150 self-described geeks got together Saturday in a Georgetown at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University who generously donated their space for our use. We all spent the day consuming free breakfast and lunch courtesy of a great list of sponsors (including Network Solutions) and wrapped everything up over a beer at a local Georgetown bar to do some serious, yet fun networking.

All in all, a great day and I look forward to the next one.

If you want to see what other people thought, check out coverage of the event at Justin Thorp’s blog and the Washington Post.

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