http://eastcoastblogging.com A Look At The Local DC Tech Scene and Other Technology and Social Media Musings Sat, 17 May 2008 01:50:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I battled the traffic to head down to see Chris Dorobek, editor of Federal Computer Week, speak about government and technology. Chris gave a great talk, I totally enjoyed hearing his take on government and technology. It was a really good time and as usual the ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/16/recap-social-media-club-dc-chris-dorobek/ Got tipped off on this one from the host himself, the Social Media Swami himself, Shashib .   Network Solutions in partnership with DC Media Makers is holding a pretty cool little event coming up in early June, the 4th to be exact at Busboys and Poets. The evening will be ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/14/event-powerful-solutions-for-small-businesses/ As great as the event was this past weekend in Baltimore, what was even better was how it came together. There was a very short lead time and David, Ann, and Keith did an awesome job pulling together such an organized event in such a short time.  But who knows, it ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/12/socialdevcamp-east-community-power/ Our friend David Troy, creater of Twittervision, and host of the recently awesome SocialDevCamp East, has gone and added a cool little nugget to the Twittervision.  Whereas previouosly Twittervision showed us the tweets on a full map, we now have the ability to look a little more local.  He released ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/12/new-twittervision-adds-local-capability/ Much has already been said and written about the event in Baltimore yesterday. SocialDevCamp and the Baltimore Scene SocialDevCamp was a Success SocialDevCamp, the Future of the Social Web SocialDevCamp East: Awesome People, Awesome Day I can only say that Dave, Ann, and Keith did an increible job of bring this together in such ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/11/recap-socialdevcamp-east/ Many of us have some to be a "startup" purely from an idea that we had and have acted to make it come to fruition. But along the way, we are bombarded with so many intricacies of being a business, much less a startup business. I know personally I often ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/11/a-great-startup-business-resource/ I will have a more complete wrapup of a really great event, but wanted to put up this video collage of the pics I snapped during the day. Photos in the collage courtesy of: Jeff Kubina Shashi Bellamkonda Jared Goralnick Jimmy Gardner http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/11/socialdevcamp-east-video-collage/ Made it to Baltimore for the SocialDevCamp East.  We are getting into the voting on the sessions and about to break out into the sessions. Make sure to follow the hashtag #socialdevcamp, or look to flickr for the socialdevcamp tag. Also we will try to get up some Utterz for your listening ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/10/socialdevcamp-east/ I wanted to take a moment to give a "shout out" to our good friend Aaron Brazell, the Lead Editor of Technosailor, whose blog is about to turn 4 years old. In theses days where blogs come and go, it is a true testament of Aaron's staying power and his continued ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/09/technosailor-birthday-bash/ No I don't really know of 297 twitter uses, but it seems like there is a lot.  At SXSW, we saw Twitter used by the crowd to start a mini-twitter riot during the Zuckerberg interview.  Well at the Web 2.0 Expo the other day, Tim O'Reilly used it in another ... http://eastcoastblogging.com/2008/05/09/twitter-use-298-interview-questions/