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oh Sandy; Well you came and you gave without taking

July 11, 2007 at 2:55 pm ·

Our good buddy Sandy Kemsley was recently interviewed by Maggie K. Fox. of the Social Media Group. It is a great listen and I encourage you to check it out.

[audio:http://media-c02.libsyn.com/podcasts/54f394de1913fe5f1c0790e69ae5f698/4694cfec/socialmediagroup/SMT20_SandyKemsley.mp3]

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Open Cities Toronto 2007

June 24, 2007 at 8:00 pm ·

UPDATE – Now in Silverlight.

If you don’t have Silverlight, Get it. If you want to see the Flash Video it is here.

Open Cities was a great event and I hope that we can get alot of material up on the wiki. I’d like to try to put up new topic of conversation that we could continue on the wiki shortly.

So be sure to check out the flickr photos and blog posts.

For now I have 3 recordings from the sessions yesterday that you can download below.

Open Source Chamber of Commerce hosted by Mark Surman

[audio:http://www.thechickentest.com/vid/OpenCitiesToronto2007/Open_Source_Chamber_of_Commerce_Mark_Surman.mp3]

Download the MP3 of Open Source Chamber of Commerce ( 22 megs )

Open and Weak vs Closed and Strong hosted by Luigi Ferrara

[audio:http://www.thechickentest.com/vid/OpenCitiesToronto2007/Open_and_Weak_vs_Closed_and_Strong_Luigi_Ferrara.mp3]

Download the MP3 of Open and Weak vs Closed and Strong ( 30 megs )

Collaborative Municipalities hosted by Mike Smith

[audio:http://www.thechickentest.com/vid/OpenCitiesToronto2007/Collaborative_Municipalities_Mike_Smith.mp3]

Download the MP3 of Collaborative Municipalities ( 37 megs )

Video Embed Code
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[tags]opencities, opencitiestoronto2007[/tags]

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Energize IT – no Bunny just a Rooster

June 18, 2007 at 5:02 am ·

UPDATE – Now in Silverlight.

If you don’t have Silverlight, Get it. If you want to see the Flash Video it is here.

Microsoft put on a great event this weekend. 2007′s EnergizeIT was a good day.

Thanks to everybody who encouraged me to go from Microsoft – Mark, John, David, Jean-Luc, Barnaby, Paul, Daniel, Qixing, Bristowe

If you want to play this on your site try this code
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[tags]EnergizeIT, Microsoft, Democamp[/tags]

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UX and Community Podcast; How did I miss being in that?

June 7, 2007 at 3:49 pm ·

Get the Quicktime version here.

Jeff Parks puts out a great Podcast called the IA podcast and last week he was at Mesh. So he did a session with a bunch of great people on UX & Community and I wasn’t in it. WHATS UP WITH THAT. Bryce is in it but not me. Well you should go check it out anyway.

[tags]userexperience, ux, jeffparks, torcamp, mesh07, barcamptoronto, thechickentest[/tags]

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Interaction Satisfaction

June 4, 2007 at 8:14 pm ·

Another weekend another BarCamp… well InteractionCamp actually. By all accounts we had a great day. I know I really have a lot to think about after the event. The crowd was different then our normal BarCamp crowd, as we hoped it would be and many of the people there have never been to an unconfernence. I think we may have some new converts. I hope this is the start of many more events like this within our community.

My co-organizers Audrey, Kaleem and Lindsay worked very hard to put the event together. I hope they got as much out of the event as I did.

Session notes and slides from the event.

• Jon Lax – The Experience Divide
• Sam Ladner – TimeandIxD
• James McNab – Values-based IxD
• Audrey Carr – Designing Sustainable Conversations Through Social Media
• Lee Dale – Brand Communities

I encourage people to keep adding material to the wiki.

Our great sponsors

We had great sponsors for the event and I’d really like to thank them for their support.

• Microsoft
• Critical Mass
• Techsmith
• Usability Matters
• Canux 2007 by nForm

Keep the community going

I urge people to check out more events by Barcamp Toronto (TorCamp) and the UXIrregulars like the upcoming CaseCamp, VisThink , Energize IT and Open Cities events.

Another event people should really check out is this years CanUX. CanUX2007 – The Canadian User Experience Workshop. I have attended these for the past two years and it is the best kept conference secret going.

[tags]InteractionCamp, BarCampToronto, TorCamp, EnergizeIT, OpenCities, Visthink, CaseCamp, Canux, Cannu2007[/tags]

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Web2.0 NOT Web2 – Semantics are important

May 31, 2007 at 8:08 pm ·

To get it in Quicktime

There is a silly trend by business people to call web 2.0 web2 and that is wrong and lazy. Keep social media about geeks and community. Semantics are important
Call it Web Two Point Oh.
Web Two has got to go.

I’m going to start using silverlight & silverlight hosting soon but I want to update my whole blog.

[tags]mesh07, barcampttw, enterprisecampttw, torcamp[/tags]

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