TweetAs an interesting follow on to the previous session on blog monetization, I attended a panel on maintaining integrity on blogs when you do advertising or promotions on your site, featuring Danny Brown, Gini Dietrich and Eden Spodek. A lot of this is about transparency and disclosure; one audience member said that she writes paid [...]
Tagged pcto2011TweetThe next session that I attended was Andrea Tomkins talking about how to make money through advertising on your blog. She started with ways that blogs can pay off without direct monetization, such as driving other sorts of business (just as this blog often drives first contacts for my consulting business) and leveraging free trips [...]
Tagged pcto2011TweetI arrived at PodCamp Toronto after the lunch break today; “PodCamp” is a bit of a misnomer since this unconference now covers all sorts of social media. My first session of the day with Brian Cugelman on the psychology of websites was a bit of a disappointment: too much of a lecture and not enough [...]
Tagged pcto2011TweetThere are few things that will get me out of bed early on a wintry Saturday morning. ChangeCamp is one of them: an unconference dedicated to re-imaging (Canadian) government and citizenship in the age of participation. My friend Mark, who is passionate about government, change and unconferences, is one of the ringleaders here, but there’s [...]
TweetThis past Monday, I went to a little party called HoHoTO. Here’s how it all came about, thanks to Twitter and the amazing community in Toronto:
TweetMost of the unconference "camp" type events that I attend are technology-related, but today I’m attending TransitCamp in Toronto, originally conceived by a few of my TorCamp friends and now happening in other cities as well as becoming a vital part of the greater Toronto area transit planning process. What started out a year ago [...]
TweetNormally I would just provide a link to this in my daily Links post, but this is such a great example of how Open Space technology (e.g., BarCamp, MashupCamp) can be used for more than just holding geeky tech unconferences: last year, three people from the TorCamp community organized TransitCamp to provide a place for [...]
TweetWe’re having our 15th DemoCamp in Toronto on October 29th, where anyone with something to demo can sign up to show their stuff in 5 minutes. There will also be some Ignite-style presentations (a 5 minute presentation with 20 slides x 15 seconds per slide where the presenter does not have control over the slide [...]
TweetI’ve been a big LinkedIn fan in the two years or so that I’ve been using it, but there’s a couple of things that really bother me about it. First, until recently, you couldn’t remove someone from your list of contacts, you had to email LinkedIn customer support to make it happen. It happened pretty [...]
TweetThere’s a new survey for technology-related businesses in the Toronto area available from now through September 7th; fill it out and you’ll be entered in a draw for a 30GB iPod. If you’re involved in the Toronto BarCamp community, use “TorCamp” as your survey code. Update: More from Mark Kuznicki on the importance of the survey: [...]
TweetTime for another Enterprise 2.0 event in Toronto, this time in conjunction with Toronto Tech Week. Our last one was a less formal, more camp-like event back in January; this one will be a breakfast panel with Anthony Williams (co-author of Wikinomics) followed by a camp-style workshops for the remainder of the day. As Tom [...]
TweetI’m not sure why Bryce Johnson thought that he’d have full turnout at 9:30am on a Saturday, even for something as exciting as EnterpriseCamp, but a few of us managed to make it on time. Of course, my brain is still in a time zone some where east of here and I’m waking up at [...]
TweetOn the weekend, I attended BarCampTdot (aka BarCampToronto aka TorCamp), where we semi-officially launched BlorHerNorth. We held a session to talk about the vision for BlogHerNorth and to gather ideas on what participants might want to see; lots of ideas, no decisions. We won’t be running a full-scale conference this year, possibly in the spring, [...]
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