The products shown were great very exciting stuff but the demos were honestly not very exciting. We may need to do a DemoCamp on how to do… Demos. Mike has written about it and Alec and Howard presented on it at BarCamp Ottawa. Now before you think I’m an asshole for ragging on the great people who are will to come out and share with us remember my motivation is to make a our community one that is Better Stronger Faster; the best community that science can create. The community should be like when your mom used to point out that your face was dirty then spit on a Kleenex and start scrubbin. Demoites should know when they have some schmutz on their face. DemoCamp Über Alles.
So last week was the first EnterpriseCampEnterprise2.0 Toronto and after everything I said about bringing it to DemoCamp above I’m starting to feel a little embarrassed about the presentation I did with Bryce (luckily Carsten was there to contribute). See I don’t really prepare; I kinda wing it and hope the audience will help me make it happen. The presentation was recorded and I’ll be posting it here soon. Next time I’ll make sure I deliver the goods.
Thomas has a great write-up on the first Enterprise2.0 Toronto.
Sacha Choa talked about how social media transformed her experience as a graduate researcher and employee of IBM. The money quote of the evening from Sacha “social media transformed my perspective of IBM from cold and overwhelming organization to and organization full of individual people and friends”
Sacha’s talk was very honest and engaging; you can see it below, albeit from the back of the room.
This was my idea for a comic band called The Scope Creeps a group of software developers by day and crime fighters by night… oh and somewhere in the middle they played in a band. It’s totally a Buckaroo Banzai ripoff.
Anyway Anthony Garone has called dibs on the name, DAMN I should have done something earlier.
People have be nice enough to counter my views on what I think TorCamper events should be. I have heard you, I will not do it again but I just want people to know that I don’t want to be an asshole I just want to make sure that our events are not turned into gatherings pumping out bland drivel ;-) OK, OK maybe that is a bit harsh and to be honest I’m sure we are all sick of talking about this right now.
I do still want to talk about it but I will wait a while. Me thinks (I saw pirates this weekend) I should also buy some people drinks.
Just to add a little perspective this video by Zakkar and OfficePirates.com has been viewed 10 time more then the one I posted.
On a final note I’d like to address something that I have been thinking about with all the excitement over the past couple of days. Leesa Barnes of Podonomics, who also presented at CaseCamp, wrote in her blog that she was upset that I posted Andrew Baron’s entire speech on YouTube. (UPDATE: She has clarified her position below) She said that Eli promised that there would be no recording of the talks which honestly I never heard; if it was said and I missed it, sorry. Andrew never asked me personally to take it down but I did remove it as soon as Joey said that Andrew asked him to take his video down. I wrote Andrew and asked him if he could let me know if or when I could put the video back up. Andrew wrote me back very quickly to let me know that he thought about it and he decided that I could put it back up.
What I would like to address is that whether or not I was a responsible or irresponsible citizen journalist doesn’t really matter to me because I am not a citizen journalist that is a term that journalists apply to people; I am a BarCamper.
BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees.
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.
I think that Eli should clarify this with presenters at CaseCamp or call his event something else if that is not palatable to marketing people. We have worked hard to build an open, engaging community in a Toronto and it would really be a horrible shame if people latched on to the TorCamp train without paying the fare. Don’t get me wrong, Eli is a great guy and I know he gets what BarCamp is about and the value of the community.
I week ago I was sending messages back and forth with Kristan and Rehan off the TorCamp list because they decided they wanted to record and podcast the demos at DemoCamp. I told them it might not be a good idea because some of the presenters may not want their presentation podcasted. I was wrong.
Everyone loves the idea of social networks and Web 2.0 and community building when it is taking from big corporations like Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft but when it time for them to participate then it is a different story. If you want the insight, feedback and other benefits of participating in our community then be prepared to share; if you don’t want to share DON’T COME OUT.
I this evening attended Eli Singer’s CaseCamp and was treated to hearing Andrew Baron tell us his side of the story of the recent turmoil at Rocketboom. I had my digital camera with me so I shot this video of his talk.
I really appreciated what Andrew had to say and I hope that Rocketboom will emerge better then ever. Andrew was a great speaker I think it would be interesting if he got in front of the Rocketboom camera for a while but he has other plans for the direction of the show.
I am not offering this video for download incase Andrew wants me to take it down, I mean I know that flash is not super secure but I’ll do what I can. PodChick was also there so I assume she will be posting her video of this as well.
UPDATE: Andrew says it is cool for me to start showing the video again :-)
So I haven’t posted in a while it has been kinda busy at the office and I tend to slow down in the summer as I am not a huge fan of the heat. I’ve been watching the HBO summer lineup including the new Louis C.K show “Lucky Louie”
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