If you’ve been following jtrigsby.com for any amount of time, you’ll know that BarCamps are relatively new events for me… and I’m a HUGE fan! November 14th folks will gather from around Memphis, and I guess farther away… because I’m going, for BarCamp Memphis 2. After doing such a great job hosting SocalCamp back in September, the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering has offered their space again for BarCamp!! If you’ve never heard of MASE, check them out.
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences (or unconferences) – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. –wikipedia.org
So with BarCamp Memphis coming up, I thought it would be a great time to cover a few ideas for how to make the most of your time at this or any other BarCamp style meeting.
Decide On A Goal
What’s your goal for BarCamp? Do you want to meet new people and network? Do you want to learn about a new technology, programming language, or paradigm? Do you want to share some of what you have learned with others that may be interested in knowing?
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TEDx is a new program that enables local communities such as schools, businesses, libraries, neighborhoods or just groups of friends to organize, design and host their own independent, TED-like events.
TED.com
It all came about in pretty short order. I think I found out about TEDxHuntsville on Wednesday night, probably through a LinkedIn post. So what did I do… I tweeted it of course!
Welcome to TEDxHuntsville
The event was this past Sunday at Cre8ive Partners in downtown Huntsville. Their offices were Awesome! Exposed brickwork and rafters with a huge glass top over former mortise and tenon beamwork for a conference table. Wow… just wow!
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A few weeks back when I started my Follow Friday Series, I had no idea how popular they would be. I simply wanted to take a few extra minutes to tell you why I was recommending someone rather than just spill out a list of names and handles. Well, apparent there are some fans of that method out there, thanks so much for stopping by.
Dave Barger - @lalunablanca
This week I’d like to recommend Dave Barger (@lalunablanca). I had the pleasure of meeting Dave at BarCamp Chattanooga and we’ve been running into each other ever since! He is one of the most energetic and tireless advocates for social media that you will ever run into and definitely a great person to follow!
“Facebook is nearly always my first recommended stop [when getting started] followed by Twitter. In either case, [my advice is] to lurk first and get a feel for the rhythm before jumping in.”
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