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BarCamp Des Moines - more sites and news
This weekend the BarCamp Des Moines planning team was hard at work promoting the event and spreading the word to bloggers and other technology focused groups. We are getting very close the event and there is still much work to be done however the excitement and buzz is there.
To start capturing the buzz around us [...]
Counting down to Des Moines BarCamp 2008
With less than a month away we are starting to count down the numbers of days we have left to plan and promote the Des Moines BarCamp 2008. Traditionally, a la word on the street, BarCamps are planned in an ad-hoc fashion typically providing three to four weeks to pull the event together from idea [...]
New project in the works
This weekend I started work on a new project with a good friend that I actually met through twitter. Over the last few weeks we have been kicking around ideas and helping each other with our own independent projects when an idea formed that neither of us could stop thinking about and this last weekend [...]
New goal: Learn and apply SEO
In the social media industry word of mouth is golden but the truth is the search engine is king and required to ensure a website is discoverable, thus search engine optimization (SEO) comes into play. SEO is the practice of designing the structure of the site including code base and content in such a way [...]
Day two of non-corp work and #dmJelly
Today I had the pleasure of taking advantage of another mental health day from my corporate job and some needed time to continue work on my blog and other side projects. To ensure today would be as productive as the last I joined the Jelly at Daniel Shipton’s house in Des Moines. With me [...]
Jelly in West Des Moines
It was a small and late announcement on twitter however I am hosting a Jelly at my house for those in the area and looking for a place to work for the day. This is all of course part of the plan to make today and tomorrow as productive as possible as I am taking [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk rocks Des Moines
Gary Vanyerchuk of Wine Library TV and garyvaynerchuk.com came to Des Moines this past weekend as part of his whirlwind, community driven book tour and rocked the house. If you missed the event you missed much more than a book signing. In his two plus hours on stage Gary talked about his passion for wine, [...]
Des Moines BarCamp in the works
Today I had the pleasure of meeting up with Matt Vincent of Source Allies and Aaron Webb for breakfast and a great planning session for 2008’s Des Moines BarCamp. Aaron and I spent much of the meeting interrogating Matt with questions about the 2007 BarCamp. From what we learned last year’s camp was very true [...]
