This month, we are participating in a networking event called Ignite NEWDA Hudson. The presentation topics will focus around Marketing, General Business, Technology, and the Internet.
The Ignite program is an international networking event that has presentations followed by activities, libations, and networking. The presentations are all 20 PowerPoint slides at a duration of 15 seconds each, so a total of 5 minutes per presentation.
The pilot event will be held on Tuesday, November 16 at the Harvest Cafe in Hudson, MA.
Our objective is to build the model of a successful event and help run similar events throughout New England in the spring of 2011.
Ignite NEWDA Hudson Dates
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 7PM
Event Schedule:
7:00 – 7:30 Registration
7:30 + Presentations
After: Networking
Event Details:
Cost: $10 (snacks provided, cash bar)
Location: Harvest Cafe, 40 Washington Street, Hudson, MA 01749
Dan and I took a trip to the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge to attend the iaugural edition of Wordcamp Boston. This was a great opportunity to meet with other WordPress enthusiasts, find out what others are doing, and search for partners to work with for future projects.
We learned a breat deal, met some amazing people and renewed some old friendships. I didn’t have an opportunity to do allot of video work, but I was able to capture three Wordcamp Boston luminaries:
1) Jake Goldman, one of the event organizers, shares the genesis of the first Wordcamp Boston event. Jake is the Director of Client Services at C. Murray Consulting in Providence, RI
2) Karen Rubin of Hubspot, an inbound marketing leader, gave a great presentation on blogging at the conference, and here, she shares a little secret.
3) Ned Watson, of 1080d Consulting, showed how he’s using WordPress for Time Inc. and some of their online titles such as Entertainment Weekly and People. Here, he shares some of his enthusiasm for a new project he’s working on: an online wireframing application, that sounds pretty exciting.
Many organizations are in complete chaos with advent of free on the web. You don’t have to look any further than the music and publishing industries to see the the mayhem.
Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and Author of the bestseller, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” explains about the new economies of our favorite word: FREE.
Recently, we hosted an educational/networking event at the CommAREus worldwide headquarters (Al’s house) and the topic was The ABCs of Social Media, presented by Kevin Skarritt at Acorn Creative.
This was one in a series of events for the New England Web Developers Association, NEWDA. (You can see Kevin’s complete presention with accompanying PowerPoint on the NEWDA home page.)
As with most things with the internet, there’s so much to it. So how does one get started? Learn to earn! Dan and I have started to read a couple of the books recommened at the event:
Here is Kevin’s suggested reading list: The New Rules of Marketing and PR – by David Meerman Scott Groundswell – by Charlene Li and Josh Burnhoff Naked Conversations – by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble Citizen Marketers – by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba Wikinomics – by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams
Recently, Dan and I, along with a group of fellow collaborators, launched a group called the New England Web Developers Association or NEWDA.
As many know that have followed the formation of CommAREus, we have run several edu/networking events over these past two years. It’s a great way to meet others in the web world and to share ideas and jobs. There are a few that think that they can do it all themselves, but it’s apparent to most of us that you really need a team of people to create a great website.
