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Going Camping' – BarCamp NewsInnovation and WordCamp Iowa

Posted by tom.altman on December 4th, 2008

BarCamp NewsInnovation

A large family tent for car-camping, with a gazebo

My buddy Jason has “roped” me into BarCamp NewsInnovation.  OK, I’m not kicking or screaming – I work with him at an old media/newspaper outlet and we can only complain and moan so much before we have to act, and I guess this is the act.

It is actually really cool, it kind of steamed off a Live Blog (here is the replay) our CEO Chucky P (is my nickname for Chuck Peters) did from an API Summit.  Jason launched a BarCamp wiki and it grew from there

I will be updating the main BarCamp NewsInnovation wiki page to reflect this very soon. I am happy to add more locations as needed. People can either comment on this entry contact me via email (Jason).

WordCamp Iowa

I’ve been getting more and more interested in WordPress.  It is just such a versitle application.  I’ve been preaching the WP open source for a while at the same old media/newspaper and I think it is starting to catch on.

I’ve renctly created my first plugin, it’s for a sidebar widget for adding an issuu to your side bar.  (Check it out here.) In learning more and more, checking out a WordPress podcast along the way – I’ve just really feeling the WordPress groove.

So – I want to jump in with both feet and committ to a WordCamp in Iowa (more than likely Eastern Iowa) sometime Spring ‘09.  Please contact me if you are interested.  I’ll need all the help I can get.

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CEO's, API, live blogging and barcamps

Posted by tom.altman on November 21st, 2008
BarCamp Orlando

Image by hyku via Flickr

After our CEO Chuck decided to live blog the API Summit – it stirred up some interesting convo.  Some was positive, some not so much, but I think the end result will be very good.  He posted a very nice summary on his blog.

From the “non-CEO crowd”, there was my buddy Jason.  He’s also had some very good comments on his blog:

I don’t envision an environment where the likes of Jeff Jarvis, Steve Outing, Alan Mutter and those types get up and preach to the choir. They are fine and do a lot of good and I have no problem with any of them.

But the kinds of people I want in a room that can really end up making real change in our industry are those like Nick Bilton, Ryan Sholin, Pat Thornton, David Kohn, beat blogger Matt Neznanski, Tom Altman, and those on the Crunchberry team.

What it boils down to is we’ve got to stop talking and do SOMETHING.  Yes, let’s get it on.  And the best way “we” know is to treat this like any other “new”, “new media”, “web 2.0″ problem…we must BarCamp.

Now presenting BarCamp:newsinnovation (not me – Jason set it up and a bunch of people have already said “yes”).  I like the verbiabe he uses:

The idea is to get energetic, tech-savvy, open-minded individuals who embrace the chaos in the media industry because the ability to do really cool things still exist. We also need find those people outside of our industry who love to consume news and information and are great thinkers and innovators.

So we’ll see how it goes…please join in and help out.

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