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August 6th, 2008 by WayneSutton
Hello everyone, another NC workshop is schdule for the month of September. It’s called CakePHP, details below.
CakePHP Workshop, Sept 6&7, Raleigh NC USA
Event Info: Raleigh, NC (4140 Parklake Ave)
Date: September 6 + 7 (Saturday + Sunday)
Seats: max 25
Costs: 600 USD / seat (Students pay 100 USD less)
Signup: Signup page
Speakers
Garrett J. Woodworth (President of the Cake Software Foundation)
Nate Abele (Cake Lead Developer)
Felix Geisendörfer (Cake Core Developer)
Tim Koschützki (Cake Core Contributor)
More information about CakePHP workshop here.
WordCampRDU Update
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WordCampRDU is a conference organized by the NC community and the creators of WordPress for users and developers.
When:
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Where:
Edge-Office, Raleigh, NC — Map
Why
To get WordPress users together, learn from each other, figure out the future of publishing on the web, and have a good time.
Blog
http://2008.rdu.wordcamp.org/
Yahoo upcoming page
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/977680/
We’re working with the automattic team, so be on the look out for speaker announcements, space is limited!
Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina.
Thanks, now: retweet, re-plurk, re-dent, re-blog - share and be social.
I’m @Wayne Sutton and I’ll see you online!
July 30th, 2008 by WayneSutton
Hello everyone it’s been a while since we’ve had a blog post on Social Carolina but here’s a mini review and update of a few events planned to close out the year in NC. If I’ve left anything off the list, let us know in the comments and add to the google calendar as well. Speaking of the google calendar I want to thank everyone who have been adding events, but we still need more people helping out. Also some people have asked for a reminder feature added. I’ve thought about implementing http://spongecell.com/promote services but due to time I’ve haven’t had a chance, so if anyone wants to give that a try let me know. Here’s the list.
1. Blogger Bash July 30th (TODAY) Edge-Office 7:00 P.M. - FaceBook event page: http://bit.ly/zXflG Big Announcement at 7:30 p.m.
2. BarCampRDU - August 2nd - need I say more, 250 attendees, sold out!
Dave Johson has done a great job with BarCampRDU this year! http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/
http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU
3. Online Reputation Management Workshop August 7th, Sigma Xi Center, RTP, North Carolina
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/live
4. Tweetups! (Twitter meetups)
a. August 6th 7:00 p.m. Triangle Bowling Tweetup at Western Lanes Bowling Center see @DTRaleigh for updates
b. August 21st 7:00 p.m. - Triangle Tweetup 4.0 at iContact (also a plurk, identi.ca, micro-blogging meetup)
c. September 19th 7:30 p.m. - Triangle Funpark Tweetup
All the tweetups details information here: http://triangletweetup.pbwiki.com
5. Todd Warfel’s full-day workshop on effective prototyping - Monday, September 15th - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
at Council for Entrepreneurial Development
More information here on http:/triux.org
Register here: http://triupa.org/ EffectivePrototyping
6. Converge South - October 16 & 17th at NC A&T State University in Greensboro
http://2008.convergesouth.com
7. Blogher 08 - October 18th at NC A&T State University in Greensboro
http://www.blogher.com/blogher_conference/conf/3/city/3
8. iPhoneDevCampRDU - tentative date is October 4th, Raleigh, NC
http://barcamp.org/iPhoneDevCampRDU
9. dCampSouth 2008 - TBD - follow the wiki for updates
http://dcampsouth.pbwiki.com
10. WordCampRDU or NC - location & date TBD
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A WordPress dev/how-to one day conference/workshop
11. CED’s Tech 2008 (DEMO) - October 29-30th at the Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC
http://www.cednc.org/conferences/tech/2008
12. NC Faith Blogging Conference - Monday, November 10, 2008
Follow: http://twitter.com/faithblogging and http://twitter.com/mistersugar for updates coming soon.
13. Internet Summit 08 - November 19th, The Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC
http://www.internetsummitevent.com/
14. SocialMediaCampRDU - location & date are TBD but we’re looking at early November
Follow the wiki for updates: http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialMediaCampRDU
WOW! Who said the West Coast had all the fun?
Notes
I want to thank Edge-Office & @DiMambro for hosting RTP Startup Weekend along with @JessMartin and everyone who attended and helped out.
The Charlotte community is growing too, follow @93Octane, @rosebeezy and @capitalfellow for updates and announcements in Charlotte.
Be on the look out for two new coworking spaces in Carrboro and Durham:
1. Carrboro Coworking http://carrborocoworking.com
2. Durham TechShop - http://durham.techshop.ws/
Please continue to support the monthly meetups such as the Social Media Club, Triangle Net Tuesdays, Social Entrepreneur ,Refresh the Triangle and other SEO, blogging events. Also be on the look out for some upcoming MyNC Citizen Media meetups (plug)
Guest Bloggers
We’re still looking for a few guest bloggers and technology evangelist to blog for Social Carolina. If you’re interested contact us via the comments or events [at] socialcarolina dot org
Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina.
Thanks, now: retweet, re-plurk, re-dent, re-blog - share and be social.
I’m @Wayne Sutton and I’ll see you online!
May 11th, 2008 by WayneSutton
Also for a review of blogcarolinas take a look at the sonecast venue here: http://venues.sonecast.net/venue/blogcarolinas
April 14th, 2008 by Social Carolina
From: http://www.google.com/events/smallbus_apps/#charlotte
The Google Apps team will be camped out at the Ballantyne Corporate Park location of Back Yard Burgers, where you’re invited to help yourself to a serving of information about Google Apps along with your 100% Black Angus beef burger, lean chicken sandwich, or sinfully rich milkshake - whichever you happen to be craving today.
Date:
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Location:
Back Yard Burgers
13736 Conlan Circle
Charlotte, NC 28277
Time:
10:00am - 6:00pm
For more details, visit http://www.google.com/apps/citiestour
Who’s going?
April 14th, 2008 by Social Carolina
Monday
6pm The Raleigh Second Life meetup
Tuesday
7pm Ruby Meetup
Wednesday
7pm Raleigh Advanced SEO Meetup
Thursday
Carrboro Creative Coworking
See the google at http://socialcarolina.com for more local events.
Guest Bloggers
We’re still looking for a few guest bloggers and technology evangelist to blog for Social Carolina. If you’re interested contact us via the comments or events [at] socialcarolina dot org
Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina. Also remember to tag your blog post and flickr photos with socialcarolina.
Thanks, share and be Social.
March 25th, 2008 by Rosie Reilman / @rosebeezy
Guy Kawasaki, thanks to Network Solutions visited Charlotte this evening to talk about Small Business/Entrepreneurship.
In his talk, Guy discussed the Art of Innovative Solutions - meaning how to start a business that is innovative. I like how Guy started out by saying jokingly - define a niche that’s small enough and you will dominate it. While he was referring to him being the best Hawaiian, 53 year old hockey player that lived in Northern California, the message seemed to have some continuity to what he was saying through the rest of his presentation. Here’s a rundown of the major themes he talked about:
Make Meaning vs. Making Money
The idea here was that you want to make meaning instead of your business being all about money. When you make meaning, success follows. Which more than likely means you’re going to end up making money.
Once you decide you’re going to make meaning and change the world, you need a mantra on how you’re going to do that. Or rather a 3 or 4 word phrase as to why your business should exist. The problem with mission statements is that they are too long, use the same, typical words like strategic and partnership. He compared difficulty level of writing a mission statement to giving birth. How often do you sit down and read an entire mission statement? Even if you do how many people actually understand what is being said after they read it? It reminds me of the saying, “Keep it simple, stupid!” He used the example of Wendy’s mantra being “Healthy fast food” or Target as being “Democratize Design” So make meaning and find 3 or 4 words to communicate why your business should exist.
Jump Curbs & Don’t Worry Be Crappy
Innovation is about being different. So Guy suggests not trying to make the same thing better or bigger. Do something completely different. He said to jump curbs - so get off the worn and beaten path and leap frog over your competition. Create products that are Deep, Intelligent, Complete, Elegant and Emotive. There is so much stuff out there that not everyone is going to love everything you do. And that’s ok. Indifference to your product or business is worse than someone hating a product.
When your business is jumping curbs you’ll have moments of crappiness. He’s so right because in today’s business market with the websites coming and going so fast, you just have to act and then figure things out. Guy phrased it as shipping then testing. The point isn’t that you make a bunch of crappy products but that sometimes there will be parts of a product that you push out that need tweaking.
Adapt & Evolve
Sometimes when a product is sent out you’ll find that people you didn’t to buy your product will. These people then use it in unintended ways. He stresses that you should take the money. Instead of asking why your intended audience isn’t buying, ask the unintended customer why they saw value in your product and go with it. In this stage, go into denial. Guy talked a little about the recession and how a lot of people will say that now is a really bad time to start a business. Sure it’s hard but in reality you can really make a dent in down times with a small amount of marketing money. Decide to do it and go for it. But at some point you have to turn off the denial and ‘churn,’ as he put it. Meaning, you have to be flexible in your business so that you can evolve. The key is to find a happy medium between having a good valued product that is unique and at a good price point.
We did have a shortened Q&A time due to time constraints but someone asked him why it took him so long to get into blogging. I found interesting that he thought it was really self centered. But I guess he warmed up to it because people requested his thoughts.
You can follow Guy Kawasaki on Twitter or read his Blog.
Also some fellow Charlotte Twitterers who attended the post-event Tweetup (which by the way is how most of us heard about tonight’s event): Myself (@rosebeezy), Lauri (@UpsideUp), Scott (@capitalfellow), Lyell (@93octane), Joe (@pseudojoe), Justin (@jruckman), Shashi (@shashib), Ben (@budesigns), Matt (@mtyndall), and Katie (@kdfrankl). I hope that I didn’t miss anyone. If I did, I apologize and please feel free to give a shout out in the comments!
Thanks to Network Solutions for bringing Guy out and to Sonoma staff who did an awesome job taking care of us all.
March 25th, 2008 by Social Carolina
Charlotte, NC
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
6:00 pm ET - 8:00 pm ET
Author and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki, Network Solutions and several small business experts in your area to learn how to make your Web site work for you, and more importantly, for your bottom line.
http://networksolutionscharlotte.eventbrite.com
http://twitter.com/guykawasaki
Location:
Sonoma
100 N Tryon St
Charlotte, NC 28202
Post-event Tweetup at The Gin Mill on S. Tryon (1 Mile south of Sonoma)
Follow - Lyell http://twitter.com/93octane for tweetup update
Raleigh, NC
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
6:30 pm ET
March Social Media Club:
Live Streaming and Real Time Conversations for Fun and Business
Wayne Sutton will take us on a tour of the live streaming services, cover the pros and cons of one way video streaming sites, and look at some of the newer sites thats have launched with multiple camera support and two-way video conversations via the web.
Wayne will also take us through the best services for live conference streaming or for personal use.
http://twitter.com/waynesutton
For more information see:
http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/march-social-media-club-live-streaming-and-real-time-conversations-for-fun-and-business/
Location:
Edge office
400 Glenwood Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27603
Map & directions
Guest Bloggers
We’re looking for a few guest bloggers and technology evangelist to blog for Social Carolina. If you’re interested contact us via the comments or events [at] socialcarolina dot org
Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina. Also remember to tag your blog post and flickr photos with socialcarolina.
Thanks, share and be Social.
March 11th, 2008 by Social Carolina
After two weeks of 14 different meetups, this week we have only two.
The Raleigh-Durham Web Design & Markup Group March Meeting
http://webdesign.meetup.com/36/calendar/7320574/
Topic: March: Designing with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Tuesday, March 11th 7:30 p.m.
Panera Bread
8000 Briar Creek Parkway (near Acc Blvd) (7480 Alexander Promenade Place)
Raleigh , NC 27617(919) 293-0900
Triangle Linux User’s Group
http://www.trilug.org
Thursday, March 13, 7:00 p.m.
Red Hat HQ, Centennial Campus, Raleigh
Speaker Mark Spencer of Digium, “From Project to Product”
RTP Web Tech meetup update
There are 46 members in the RTP Web Tech Ning group, http://raleighwebtech.ning.com anyone ready to step up and take a lead? Let us know in the comments.
Guest Bloggers
We are looking for a few guest bloggers and technology evangelist to blog for Social Carolina. If you’re interested contact us via the comments or events [at] socialcarolina dot org
Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina. Also remember to tag your blog post and flickr photos with socialcarolina.
Thanks, share and be Social.
March 3rd, 2008 by Social Carolina
Eight meetups this week, with four on Thursday (Second Life, Java, SEO, Social Media, Ruby, Usability, Tweetup) & Co-working) date and time below. For updates and reminders subscribe to the Social Carolina calendar.
Monday, March 3rd
7:00 p.m. - The Raleigh Second Life March Meeting (1st meeting)
http://secondlife.meetup.com/23/calendar/7394692/
Tuesday, March 4th
6:00 p.m. - Java Hack Night
Panera Bread @ Streets at SouthPoint
Wednesday, March 5th
6:00 p.m. - Social Media Users Group - March ‘08 Meetup
http://socialsoftware.meetup.com/26/calendar/7289585/
7:00 p.m. - Morrisville SEO Meeting: How to Program Your Site so It’s Search Engine Friendly
http://seo.meetup.com/94/calendar/7272060/
Thursday, March 6th
9:00 a.m. - Carrboro Co-working
http://www.carrborocoworking.com
5:30 p.m. - TriUPA - Presentation & Demo at Montie Design
http://www.triupa.org
6:00 p.m. - Ruby Hack Night
http://ruby.meetup.com/3/
7:00 p.m. - Triangle Tweetup
http://triangletweetup.pbwiki.com
Up-next:
A Refresh review of Justifying Design via Ryan & Wayne
Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community and we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina. Also remember to tag your blog post and flickr photos with socialcarolina.
Thanks, share and be Social.
February 27th, 2008 by Social Carolina
Hello Social Carolina, the next two Thursday’s are filled with events.
Thursday, February 28th
6pm: Henri Petroski: Success and Failure in Everyday Things
Turning Product Failure into Success
MCNC Auditorium (RTP) More details and registration at:
http://www.productinnovators.com/carolinas/events/index.htm
6:30pm: Refresh the Triangle - Refresh 004
Justifying Design with Rob Goodlatte - http://robgoodlatte.com/
Location: iContact, Durham, NC
For more information: http://refreshthetriangle.org/posts/refresh_004/
9pm: Entrepreneur & Social Entrepreneur Meetup #14
Entrepreneur & Social Entrepreneur Meetups
Description: This is a group for attendees of the Entrepreneur & Social Entrepreneur Meetups in Chapel Hill at Ryan, James, Bob, Anthony, and Roey’s house. For more information see the Social Entrepreneur Facebook Group
Next Thursday, March 6th
9am - Carrboro Co-working - http://www.carrborocoworking.com
5:30pm - TriUPA - Presentation & Demo at Montie Design - http://www.triupa.org
6pm - Ruby Hack Night - http://ruby.meetup.com/3/
7pm - Triangle Tweetup - http://triangletweetup.pbwiki.com
BlogTogether Monthly meetups
If you’re missing the monthly blogger meetups then volunteer on the blogtogether wiki. http://wiki.blogtogether.org
Conferences on the way:
CarolinaCon - http://carolinacon.org
BarCampRDU - Details coming soon - http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU
Blog Carolinas - http://insideconversation.wordpress.com/
Updates:
Andy Ciordia - imiphotography.com added to Charlotte Team
Upcoming Conferences updated on http://socialcarolina.org homepage.
Social Carolina Job Board: A job board just for us, if you’re looking for a job in social media, technology, blogging or have a job offer in one of those categories then the Social Carolina Job will be the place for it.
Disclamer
I know there are more meetups and conferences, forgive us if we have left you off, it could be we just don’t know about your event. To fix that email us at : events [at] socialcarolina dot org or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RDCH and DM us. Also we’re not responsible for the events if the date or time changes, please contact the event coordinators. But we do need your help to grow the Social Carolina Community, we’re looking for a few Tech Evangelist to post meetup reviews and updates to Social Carolina. Also remember to tag your blog post and flickr photos with socialcarolina.
Thanks, share and be Social.
