BarCampMiami will be held on February 28th from 4pm to 8pm, in conjunction with the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) Miami conference at the glorious Carnival Center of the performing arts. Since opening the registration last week, about 90 people have signed up. BarCampMiami attendees are entitled to 50% off the price of FOWA Miami and the first 100 get a free tshirt. The FOWA coupon code is available upon signing up for BarCamp.
What topics or services would you like to see presented? A few days after registration was opened, we added a question to the signup form on what types of topics people would like to see presented. Here are the answers:
1. Amazon Web Services 2. Free and Open Source for Geospatial
All kind of topics concerning web applications, mobile servcies, and maybe a little bit of semantic web...
Anything cool about web :-)
Blogging
Community building and publishing related. Monetization on community sites, are subscriptions models dead?
development of mobile platforms
Entrepreneurship, Web Design and/or starting and promoting a startup.
ERP SOLUTIONS.
Flash Techniques and Animation. XML integration and a bit of Animation/Cartooning
I will be volunteering with project management.
interface design
landing page optimization profit models
Microformats
Microformats, APIs, state of the languages (Django, Rails, etc.), subscription/payment options
monetization of web apps and metrics.
New media. New technology. Art. Music. Software.
new technologies...
optimization
Photoshop Design to CSS
rapid app development, .NET libraries, AJAX, dynamically generating .swf files
Ruby on Rails development
Ruby, productivity tools, promoting a healthy technology community in South Florida, office ergonomics, does anyone still use Java anymore?
ruby, rails
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, electronics, robotics, graphic design.
SEM, Social network marketing
Server side and client side frameworks. Internationalization.
social networking, mobile, ventures
usability, information architecture
BarCampMiami presenters. The following people indicate they would like to present:
Alex Hillman Founder/Fearless Leader IndyHall
website: http://www.indyhall.org
blog: http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com
I'd love to present about coworking, if you'll have me!
Blake Macleod Business Development PeopleBubble
website: http://www.peoplebubble.net
I would like to give a demonstration of PeopleBubble, a web app we are developing.
Brian Breslin CEO infinimedia
website: http://www.infinimedia.com
blog: http://webpl.us
Yes. Leveraging the social graph for fun and profit.
Brian Oberkirch Founder Small Good Thing
website: http://brianoberkirch.com
Designing for Portable Social Networks
Chris Saylor Senior Web Developer TodobebÈ
website: http://todobebe.com
blog: http://justhack.com
Possibly on Globalizing Your Web Applications
Christopher Haupt CTO Collective Knowledge Works Inc
website: http://buildingwebapps.com
blog: http://blog.buildingwebapps.com
We just launched BuildingWebApps.com as a service to the Ruby on Rails focused development and design community. Behind the scenes, we are building tech to organize information for communities in niche knowledge domains. Would love to show it to folks and find out what new learners most wish they had (or could point new practitioners to to get them up to speed).
Edward Toro Developer Scrapblog
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
Maybe. Intro to Adobe Flex? Agile development processes (Scrum)? IdeaFestival Do-Tank meeting style?
Elliot Murphy hacker Canonical
website: http://canonical.com
blog: http://elliotmurphy.com
Distributed revision control for web developers.
Greg Pederson Director of Technology Nsightdevelpoment.com
website: http://www.nsightdevelopment.com
I can talk about using CSS positioning along with one graphic file that contains all the sites reused images to save space, download times, etc.
Gregg Pollack Code Monkey RailsEnvy
website: http://www.RailsEnvy.com
blog: http://www.RailsEnvy.com
I'd like to do a presentation on Intro to Ruby on Rails. If there are too many people there already familiar I might switch to a more advanced topic like BDD/RSpec or ActiveRecord.
James Hoskins Software Engineer Avatar International. Inc.Undecided topic
Jason Perry Prime Mover Paint.itRed
website: http://paint.itred.org
blog: http://ambethia.com
Unsure, perhaps in the lightning round if there is one.
Joey Primiani Web Designer Freelance
website: http://www.joeyprimiani.com
blog: http://www.joeyprimiani.com
Yes, I plan to present new ways to visualize live analytics (other than Google Analytics) to get a better idea of what users like on the page. Or the latest (past two months) ajax libraries that include amazing ways for increased user interaction and experience.
John Rife CEO Interactive Expeditions
website: http://www.FindingAmerica.tv
blog: http://www.ALocalFolkus.com
Transmedia Story Creation: Telling stories with today's tools - but as Ryan Price said above "It's not about the tools"
Joshua Hoskins IT Director OrlandoJobs.com
website: http://www.orlandojobs.com
I would like to, at BarCamp Orlando I presented on GoogleBase. I may do that again or something with Ruby on Rails and Integration.
Kevin Murphy Managing Director Statiksoft, LLC
website: http://statiksoft.com
blog: http://kevinnmurphy.com
Doing a talk on either django templates, or decoupling django apps.
michael galpert C20 A.viary.com
website: http://A.viary.com
blog: http://A.viary.com/blog
deskop software vs online software or something along those lines
Michael Montgomery President Montgomery Studios, Inc.
website: http://montgomerystudios.com
blog: http://michaelmontgomery.net
Yes. Possible topics include web standards or accessibility.
Michael Nunez Founder Suluta Corp
website: http://www.suluta.com
Monetizing your work online.
Nathan Rambeck Founder Rambeck Group
website: http://rambeck.com
blog: http://rambeck.com/blog
Building social networks with Drupal.
Ptah Dunbar Web Designer / Developer
website: http://ptahdunbar.net
blog: http://ptahdunbar.com
no sure.. I could present a service if possible.
Ron Akanowicz Information Architect Softerware Consulting, PA
website: http://www.softerwareconsulting.com
I Haven't been asked, but could...
Ryan Price Drupal Developer Petentials.com
website: http://petentials.com
blog: http://ryanpricemedia.com
Podcasting is not about Tools
Sean Murphy Web Application Architect Statiksoft, LLC
website: http://statiksoft.com
blog: http://IamSeanMurphy.com
I'd be happy to present on either Comet, or improving user experience with JS form validation.
Tantek «elik
website: http://tantek.com/
blog: http://tantek.com/
microformats lab - a hands-on lab for folks wanting either an introduction or help with adding microformats to their sites.
Tate Stickles Attorney Grossman Law Group
website: http://www.ecomputerlaw.com
I'd be interested on presenting on a legal topic relating to the interests of other attendees. Such as protecting intellectual property, privacy, etc.
Tyler Hunt
website: http://tylerhunt.com/
blog: http://blog.tylerhunt.com/
Possibly something on Amazon FPS.
William Couch Multimedia Artist Orlando Sentinel
website: http://orlandosentinel.com
blog: http://williamcouch.com
Possibly, about prototyping/generating Flash projects quickly for breaking news.
And myself, Alex de Carvalho Community and Marketing Dir. Scrapblog.com
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
blog: http://www.tapio.com
Object-centered sociality
More BarCampMiami participants. Here is the remainder of the participant list. Everyone is welcome to present:
Adam Teece Lead Designer Aberrant Designs, Inc
website: http://adamteece.com
blog: http://aberrantabsurdity.com
Alex Harris Creative Director Alex Designs LLC
website: http://www.alexdesigns.com
blog: http://www.alexdesigns.com/blog/
Alison Wadsworth Research Director Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com
Allan Branch design/ui less everything, inc
website: http://www.lesseverthing.com
blog: b.lesseverything.com
Bruno Miranda Developer Ninja Todobebe
website: http://www.bopia.com
blog: http://www.brunomiranda.com
Carlos Granier-Phelps Social Media Strategist RED66.com
website: http://red66.com/
blog: http://technosailor.com/category/espanol/
cathy colmenares Sr Director, Integrated Marketing Todobebe Inc.
website: http://todobebe.com
blog: http://mitodobebe.com
Chris Campbell Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com
Cristopher Carillo Owner Tequesta Enterprises
website: http://www.linkspro.com
Daniel Dye
Daniel Kirsch
Danny Sanchez Senior Producer Orlando Sentinel
website: http://www.orlandosentinel.com
blog: http://www.journalistopia.com
David Moore Music Teacher Broward Schools
David Parmet Owner Marketing Begins at Home, LLC
website: http://www.parmet.net/pr
blog: http://www.parmet.net/pr
David Rhugnanan Web Desinger Trinity Effects Inc.
website: http://trinityeffects.com
Diego Sanz Web Consultant Sanz Consulting
website: http://brickellmiamicondos.com/real_estate/home/
Eduardo Henriques Managing Partner Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com
Frank Deoleo
Giannina Amato Team Leader Nobox
website: http://copywwwriter.wordpress.com/
blog: http://copywwwriter.wordpress.com/
Giovanny Gutierrez Dir. of Interactive Media Tinsley Advertising
website: http://www.tinsley.com
blog: http://www.giogutierrez.com
Guilherme Ambros Digital Solutions Director Wunderman, Young & Rubicam
website: http://www.wunderman.com
Gus Goodall Senior Designer British Army
website: http://www.armynet.mod.uk
blog: http://www.armynet.mod.uk
Gus Goodall Senior Designer British Army
website: http://www.armynet.mod.uk
blog: http://www.armynet.mod.uk
Jason Baptiste CEO Publictivity
website: http://publictivity.com
Jason Hawkins Video guy Make Film Work
website: http://www.makefilmwork.com
blog: http://www.solmi.net
Jennifer Cardew Graduate Student North Texas
website: http://www.twitter.com/jencardew
blog: http://www.anthroblogs.org/jcardew
Jordan Fulghum Scrapblog
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
blog: http://blog.scrapblog.com
Jorge Perez Director of Marketing Alienware.com
website: http://www.alienware.com
Josue Rodriguez Web Developer
Judson Collier Macteens Magazine
website: http://macteens.com
blog: http://judsoncollier.com
Justin Tarrants Biz Dev Government
Katie Novak
ken scott UNIX network security admin prolexic
website: http://www.prolexic.com
Kevin Hale Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com
Kevin Wiesner
Marco Castro CEO MTEK
website: http://mtek.tv
Marco Castro CEO MTEK
website: http://mtek.tv
Marco Castro
Maria Bouza Project Manager dotCMS
website: http://www.dotcms.org
Maria de los Angeles Lemus Wily Wordsmith & Rogue Cartoonist Freelance
website: http://wilywordsmith.blogspot.com
blog: http://sexandthebeach.blogspot.com
Matias Blazevic Sr. Copywriter Y&R Brands
website: http://printpreview.wordpress.com/
blog: http://printpreview.wordpress.com/
Meagan Fisher User Interface Designer Helium Report
website: http://www.heliumreport.com
blog: http://www.iheartthe.com/blog
Michael Rose IT Manager
Naomi Butterfield Web Applications Developer ADS
website: http://www.techcfl.com
blog: http://rorblog.techcfl.com/
Nate Roise Founder Magnetic Properties
website: http://www.urbanhoming.com
Nathaniel McNamara Associate HIG Ventures
website: http://www.higventures.com
Nick Dominguez
website: http://www.nickdominguez.com
blog: http://nickdominguez.com
Nicolas Scafuro Latam Search Manager Yahoo Inc.
website: http://www.yahoo.com
Pablo Godel
Paul Kruger PHP Consultant Speeduneed Inc
website: http://miamiphp.org
Rick Bartl Managing Director, Marketing FedEx
website: http://www.fedex.com
Robert Meireles
Roberto Bouza
Ryan Campbell Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com
Stani Henriques Art Director Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com
Steven Bristol programmer Less Everything, inc.
website: http://www.lesseverything.com
blog: b.lesseverything.com
Tim Spence Senior .NET Developer Scrapblog
website: http://scrapblog.com
blog: http://blog.scrapblog.com
Timothy Kersey
website: http://www.twitter.com/entangledstate
blog: http://friendfeed.com/entangledstate
Zac Brown Programmer N/A
website: http://zacbrown.org
blog: http://blog.zacbrown.org
BarCampMiami is made possible through the generous contribution of our sponsors:
Ourscene: http://www.ourscene.com
FunAdvice: http://www.funadvice.com
Global Roaming: http://www.celtrek.com
Less Everything: http://www.lesseverything.com
RailsEnvy: http://www.railsenvy.com
The Boaters: http://www.theboaters.com
Myxer: http://www.myxertones.com
ServerGrove Networks: http://www.servergrove.com
DC Media Graphics: http://www.dcmediagraphics.com
infinimedia: http://www.infinimedia.com
Hyku: http://www.hyku.com
Victoria & Associates: http://www.victoriaassociates.com
Todobebe: http://www.todobebe.com
Scrapblog: http://www.scrapblog.com
And our partners!:
FOWA: http://www.futureofwebapps.com
RefreshMiami: http://www.refreshmiami.org
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January 15, 2008 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
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Earlier this year I attended the excellent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, where I ran into my friend Nicole Simon, a leading German blogger, podcaster and social media consultant. She has kindly extended the following offer to my readers.
The O'Reilly and CMP Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on Nov 5-8, 2007, features the latest Web 2.0 startups and strategies. If you’d like to register, you may use this 100€ (100 Euro) discount off the conference or a free Expo Pass by using the code: MLVLBE64
The days preceding the conference, Nicole is organizing the BarCamp and PodCamp Berlin free events. And adjacent to Web 2.0 Expo will be the free Web 2.0 Open conference.
These events are great ways to connect with the European web community; unfortunately I won't be attending either this conference or LeWeb3 in Paris in December. Maybe LIFT in February?
That'll depend on the dates for FOWA Miami, which have not yet been announced.
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October 30, 2007 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Miami Geek Dinner for FOWA
Originally uploaded by alexdecarvalho.
We're looking forward to FOWA, which will be key to raising the web/tech profile of South Florida. We held a "geek dinner" tonight to welcome Mel Kirk from Carsonified, who's in Miami planning the next FOWA conference. I've posted some photos on Flickr.
Over drinks. we mentioned holding another BarCampMiami to coincide with FOWA. The date is yet to be determined, but it will be in February 2008. After a great first BarCamp-Miami, it's great to see momentum building for another one. Please sign up to attend or to help organize.
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October 29, 2007 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
BarCampBlock was held this past weekend (18-19 August 2007) in Palo Alto, to celebrate the third anniversary of BarCamp. Over 600 people showed up to assist over 100 presentations and discussions on a wide range of mostly tech-related topics. Some of these were great, particularly the talk over "Opening the Social Graph" and "Social Network Portability". Here's a scrapblog of the weekend:
In comparison, the BarCampMiami I helped organize earlier this year was more of a DemoCamp, where local startups presented their services. There's BarCampOrlando coming up in the third week of September, and we'll be organizing a DemoCamp this fall at the University of Miami.
Thanks, Tara and Chris, for letting me work out of Citizen Space on Monday.
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August 22, 2007 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
I'm pleased to announce that after years of work, the team at Scrapblog, which I recently joined, has officially launched their awesome service!
From Carlos:
An exciting journey starts today, and you are in the driver’s seat! Scrapblog is live for the entire world. After over two years of hard work, we finally have a version online that is faithful to our vision. That said, what we are launching today is only as far as we could take Scrapblog on our own. Now, it is up to Scrapblog’s growing community to define where we go from here.
Shel pitches in:
And from David, our PR guy:
Whatever the designers and coders came up with, it’s nothing compared with what you, the community, will show us with what you can do with our tools. Go at it and enjoy.
However much work into getting this version out, it's just the beginning. Over the next few weeks and months, we'll be stabilizing the new version and ensuring our content delivery network is robust; we'll be adding new features to the Builder; we'll be creating and getting new themes; and we'll be improving the functionality on the site, to make it more social. We hope you'll check back with us regularly and most importantly, tell us what we're doing right and what could be done better. Our feedback email is feedback[at]scrapblog[dot]com
Thanks!
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April 2, 2007 in Starting up, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
We're very close to sending out our first invites at Scrapblog it hurts ... and our developers have had their longest week getting everything ready. It's really an amazing application, but then again, I would say that, wouldn't I, considering I work there ... ;)
But you can be the judge of that as well. Michael Pick and Robin Good at MasterNewMedia reviewed Scrapblog recently and made some great screencasts of Scrapblog, which I've embedded here:
If you'd like a preview invite, please comment below or email me privately.
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March 27, 2007 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Between travel to Austin, my hard drive crash and the launch of Scrapblog, I haven't had the occasion to talk about RefreshMiami. The easiest is to post this e-mail, from Brian. By the way, I think this will be a great Refresh meeting:
Hey folks,
Your friendly organizer here, just wanted to give you all a heads up on the exciting stuff we have planned for [tonight], one of our biggest yet.
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March 21, 2007 in Starting up, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
This is another placeholder, I'll repost the Scrapblog slideshow I created when we open up our firewall again in a few days.
March 21, 2007 in Miscellaneous Stuff, Starting up, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Customer service is the new black. The Customer Service is the New Marketing panel at SXSW talked about how "online businesses that provide superior customer service are earning fanatical devotion ... Doing business online is anything but impersonal and an obsessive attention to customers *after* the sale is a killer advantage." The panel featured Thor Muller, Managing Dir, Satisfaction Unlimited, Heather Champ, Community Mgr, Flickr, Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com and Nick Wilder, Principal, 30 Boxes
Heather spoke in good detail about how Flickr manages their community:
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March 15, 2007 in Marketing-Advertising, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
I'm sitting at the "Turning Projects Into Revenue Generating Businesses" with Jeremiah Owyang, Brian Oberkirch, Adam Darowski, and Lionel Menchaca.
Jeremiah is live blogging this event as well here.
The speakers are:
Ted Rheingold, Top Dog, Dogster Inc, panel moderator
Tara Hunt , CoFounder & CMO, Citizen Agency
Gabe Rivera, CEO, Techmeme
Shanalyn Victor, Owner/Designer, Pixelgirl Shop
Ryan Carson , Dir, Carson Systems
Ted gave a 5-minute walk-through of the many ways people are making money online. Microsponsorship stands out as one of the truly new ways for people to cover costs and start making money online.
Ted: did you all plan to make money or how did it happen?
Shanalyn started Pixelgirl Shop as a free site but had to start a shop in order to pay for the hosting fees, that were exploding. For Tara and Chris, they needed to support their passion, the work that were doing, because rent is definitely not cheap in San Francisco.
Ted: did anyone study business before running a business?
Ryan encourages everyone to keep trying to get funding for side projects, it is doable.
Ted: how much can you find out on the internet or do you need to seek mentors?
Tara and Chris seek mentors to get new perspectives and may eventually hire a CEO to run the business. Shanalyn found that the "mentors" she found were thinking too small and she was shooting higher. Before your site is popular, people wlll forget about you, so it's a constant effort to get top of mind. Ted's mentor urged him to spend 50% of time selling, if not, "you're going to fail". Tara agreed: everytime you post to a blog, when you post pictures, when you travel and meet people, all these things keep you top of mind in the community.
In fact, you have to be part of the community you serve, and luckily it comes naturally to some. But you need to find ways to get involved, not really in a "selling" way, but in a "learning" way, with your peers.
Ted: how do you determine the pricing of what you're selling?
For Ryan, the only way to know is when you see people buying the stuff. The worst thing to do is to offer too much for free, because people will take it and not pay. So there needs to be a balance. Tara: do your research to see what the market will bear. Shanalyn had to raise the pricing of everything to lighten the amount of work she was doing fulfilling the orders. For Ted, it was about getting a first good sponsor. Once you have that, you understand where the floor is, and it makes it easier to get the next sponsor. But he's gotten the price point wrong many times and has had to adapt and experiment.
Essentially, the best pricing model is to open an excel sheet and figure out how much you need to make to quit your day job.
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March 10, 2007 in Starting up, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
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