Back in July, I wrote about making it to my very first BarCamp in Chattanooga… well the bug has bitten! This weekend I’m headed up to Memphis for SocialCamp Memphis on Saturday and its all because of the trip to Chattanooga.
There were lots of smart and interesting folks at BarCampChatt and one that I had the pleasure to meet and share a couple of sessions with is Dave Barger, aka @lalunablanca via Twitter. Dave is a wealth of knowledge on topics of social media and a driving force behind Social Camp Memphis.
Heck, I’ve even submitted a topic for a round table discussion (what am I… crazy?). Social Media: Transparency or Trespassing… hopefully it will be a thought provoking discussion about just how open we are or should be online and what, if any, exposure our online persona should have on our off-line lives. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Also, can’t get out of here without dropping a plug for WordCamp Birmingham coming up September 26 & 27. @acnatta and the crew are working hard to put on a great camp and I’m really looking forward to being there. And a special note to all you WordCamp Birmingham attendees… my wife Vickie is making her first tech meeting appearance… be sure to tell her hi, it will make her day!
@jtrigsby
This is the first installment in the series, A Little "About Me" Time. Right out of the gate I’m examining my quest for the Digital Nomad lifestyle. Enjoy!
Confirmed Internet junkie, blogger, and marketer pursuing the digital nomad lifestyle. Oh, and I LOVE a good debate, Shiner, and my Bride!
Much to my surprise, when I looked to that pervasive compendium of human knowledge that is Wikipedia, I discovered that… well, let’s just say I think I’ve found something it doesn’t know! (I’ll fix that right after I finish this post!)
So I set off on a quest. Surely someone somewhere has undertaken the arduous task of defining this thing we seek…right? I did manage to find DigitalNomads.com, a site dedicated to the lifestyle… awesome find, but still no concrete definition. So I did what any good social media practitioner would do, I tried a little crowdsourcing and put out a Tweet.
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I’ve been thinking about a series for a while now that explains my bio that seems to be floating all over the Internet these days. It never even occurred to me that it needed explaining until I was quizzed on it recently. Since then I’ve refined it a bit, swapped out a few words, and now I think it is a pretty good description of, well… me. I’ve actually struggled with whether to do this or not, I didn’t want to come off too "about me" but, after all, this is my blog… its kinda like visiting my house and seeing the collection of stuff that describes me… so why not. Oh, BTW, its not really going to be in any particular order. For instance, today’s entry is about the Digital Nomad Lifestyle, mainly because I saw a related post on GigaOM that got me thinking on the topic. I’ll update this post as a Table of Contents of sorts when new posts in the series go up. Hopefully, when they’re all done they’ll make more sense. Thanks for reading so far! SO, without further ado… here we go!
Confirmed Internet junkie, blogger, and marketer pursuing the digital nomad lifestyle. Oh, and I LOVE a good debate, Shiner, and my Bride!
Enjoy,
@jtrigsby
