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New Media Think and Drink: Focus on Community: Oct 16, 2009 (part two)

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:04:12 +0000

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John Rife, Darren McDaniel, Julie Norris, Chris Blanc, Lance Turner, Gwendolyn Anello, and Ryan Price gathered with an audience of Central Florida's community organizers, marketers, independent publishers and entrepreneurs to discuss the ways they communicate with their respective groups, clients, users and the media.

Speakers for the New Media Think and Drink: Focus on Community

Gwendolyn Anello is a co-owner of Anello Consulting out of Merritt Island. She consults several organizations in the areas of communications, market development, community and public affairs, and fundraising.

Chris Blanc is the Marketing Director for the Enzian Theatre and the Florida Film Festival. As if that wasn't enough, he's involved in several other local communities, and had a hand in creating the Dandelion Cafe.

Darren McDaniel is the creator of a feature film (The Essence of Irwin), the founder of a local internet startup (Petentials), former programming director at the Downtown Media Arts Center, and has done PhD-level research Sociology at Vanderbilt.

Julie Norris is the owner of Dandelion CommuniTEA Cafe and the host of Front Porch Radio on WPRK 91.5FM every Wednesday. She's also a new mommy! Congrats!

John Rife was a media missionary in S. Pacific / Asia, a founding member of Interactive Expeditions, is an independent documentary filmmaker, a video blogger and is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Media at UCF.

Lance Turner is the founder of the Ourlando movement and the owner of AEonBlu in Winter Park. You'll see Lance at tons of local events snapping pictures or signing up small businesses to bring the local color.

Ryan Price is the creator of the Florida Creatives Happy Hour and a partner in a web, media and training company called DrupalEasy. He produces several podcasts and blogs when he's not busy organizing events and community functions, or posting to local websites.

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New Media Think and Drink: Focus on Community: Oct 16, 2009 (part one)

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:37:22 +0000

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Length: 43:38

Speakers for the New Media Think and Drink: Focus on Community

Julie Norris is the owner of Dandelion CommuniTEA Cafe and the host of Front Porch Radio on WPRK 91.5FM every Wednesday. She's also a new mommy! Congrats!

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FL Creatives 27: Erika Wilhite

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:46:59 +0000

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Actress and teacher Erika Wilhite tells us about her upcoming production of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, her pending move to Fayetteville, Arkansas, her experiences with the Orlando Fringe Festival and Hysteria!

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Viewpoints WTF? - the voice you hear is Erika - during War of the Worlds rehearsal

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Erik Hersman's TED Talk

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:27:31 +0000

At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries.

Blogger (AfriGadget, WhiteAfrican), geek and power networker Erik Hersman is a key member of the African blog revolution. As a builder of Ushahidi, he helps expand the power of everyday people to share vital news via text.
http://www.ted.com/talks/erik_hersman_on_reporting_crisis_via_texting.html

Erik Hersman grew up in Kenya and Sudan and is, as he puts it, "one of those guys who's much more 'at home' in Africa." From his home in the US, he keeps two influential blogs: WhiteAfrican, where he writes about technology on the African continent, and AfriGadget, a group blog that celebrates African ingenuity.

During the Kenyan post-election crisis of 2007-2008, Hersman helped create the website Ushahidi, a place to report incidents of violence via the web and texts. The original Ushahidi tool was written in two days; later that year, it won the NetSquared Mashup Challenge (and a nice check to help further development). Now the Ushahidi team's next project is to build the Ushahidi Engine, a free and open-source tool for crowdsourcing information and seeing communities online. And you can help.

Erik Hersman is an alumnus of the TED Fellows program, having attended TEDGlobal 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania, and TED2009 in Long Beach, California. Find out more about the TED Fellows program.

"The constant bridging of worlds (African and American) started at such a young age that it has become embedded in my character. I find it easy to switch between cultures and enjoy friends and associates on either side of the ocean." - Erik Hersman

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FLCreatives 26: Thomas Thorspecken

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:56:33 +0000

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Length: 28:16

If you've been out at cultural events in Orlando in 2009, there's a good chance you'll see a man looking down at his sketchbook with his watercolors out. He's Thomas Thorspecken, and he's drawing and painting the scene around him. Check his blog in a few days and see the results.

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Thomas' Blog, Analog Artist Digital World
23rd International Sketch Crawl Orlando
More to come...
Florida Creatives on iTunes

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FLCreatives 25: Chris Jones of Caring Compy

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:47:00 +0000

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In 2008, Chris Jones put together a charity project which collects unused computers, installs free software, and trains a needy family or organization in the care and use. Caring Compy will soon have non-profit status, and we couldn't be more proud of our Florida Creatives membership.

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FLCreatives 24: CoLab Orlando

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:22:06 +0000

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Length: 55:22

There have been some great things happening down at Orlando's coworking space, CoLab. We have a show recorded by Robert Dempsey and Greg Pederson live on Ustream, and a roundtable from the Florida Creatives Steering Committee at the end of February 2009, with Tim Rosenblatt, David and Rachael Rogers, and George Drage. Hosted by Ryan Price.

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Find out more about CoLab Orlando
Get info about Orlando's Coworking Movement
Florida Creatives on iTunes

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FLCreatives Steering Committee Jan 2009: Project X

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:20:44 +0000

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Project X Meeting - Jan 12th, 9PM

Gregg Pollack
Greg Pederson
George Drage
Eric Marden
Ryan Price
David Rogers
Rachael Page
Joshua Blount

After discussing plans for BarCamp in 2009, we also discussed a program similar to Google's "Summer of Code" where we solicit projects, mentors and interns from the local talent pool.

Listen to part one of this meeting at FLCreatives Steering Committee Jan 2009

David/PHP - Workshops - certification - mentoring

Eric Marden - mentoring? people get involved with selfish intent
-- good for the mentee and mentors
-- interns

Ryan - FLCreatives Jobs group - http://floridacreatives.com/group/jobs
- reach out to schools (college), hold an event
- I have contacts at the three major schools - UCF, Valencia, FullSail

Rachael - would this look like a user group on campus?

Eric - expand beyond web developers
- an application - a form for the potential mentees to volunteer for something
- a la Summer of Code
- find non-profits or worthy causes, assign a mentor, get them involved

David - Les, from the Knowledge Shop - older folks interested in learning

Eric - what questions do we ask? what info can we collect?
- creative internship this summer

Ryan - create a wiki page with potential projects, mentors, mentees
- also, give them a venue to show off what they've done, get some validation

Eric - or do a special event, "awards" ceremony

George - agrees that students are looking to learn

David - there is plenty of thirst for knowledge
- it's a worthwhile practice to tutor someone

Josh - specific tasks, and specific time frame - a la Summer of Code
- it's measurable, kids and projects benefit

Ryan - United Arts of Central Florida - professional development grants
- 3-to-1 matching, also a specific time and task

Josh - also, some of our knowledge is worth it, whether or not money is involved

Eric - looks like we need two types of data collection, one for mentorees and one for projects
- have the event in the fall / winter

Ryan - use the Steering Committe group for discussion http://floridacreatives.com/group/steering-committee/

Other Events

Perl Oasis - Jan 17th - Kissimmee
Ruby User Group
Otronicon
Drupal User Group
DrupalCamp - Feb 7th
Coworking Tuesdays - CoLab
Orlando SCRUM

You can edit the Orlando WiFi page or the wiki page for other cities at http://floridacreatives.com/wiki/florida

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FLCreatives Steering Committee Jan 2009

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:21:07 +0000

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Length: 19:49

Here is a summary of what we discussed on the call:

BarCamp Meeting - Jan 12th, 9PM

Gregg Pollack
Greg Pederson
George Drage
Eric Marden
Ryan Price
David Rogers
Rachael Page
Joshua Blount

Gregg

has been talking to Wall St. about Ignite and BarCamp
One day event instead of 2 days

More venues - CityArts? CoLab?
Evening event - CityArts? other downtown venues that don't open until later, but it would be nice to give the business to Wall St since they were so nice with the space

Monetary

$2000 food from Wall St - per day
$2000 t-shirts
$ 600 promotional materials - signs, posters, flyers
$ 150 chars - 200 chairs - kirby rental
$ 25 nametags
$FREE A/V, projectors, sound, (donations, or available by venue)

Dates

FOWA - last week of Sunday, Feb 22nd - 24th
massive coworking at Brik-o-lodge on Monday
Avoid April 12th - Easter
-- email the list to ask about dates - Eric Marden
-- if you want to get more involved, Florida Creatives Monday the 19th
Eric will also make an official BarCamp wiki page

Coordinators

sponsors -- David Rogers david@ethos-consulting.com
food / venue -- Gregg Pollack greggpollack@gmail.com
shirts / graphics / eventbrite / wiki -- Eric Marden eric@xentek.net
tangibles / promo / posters / cards / badges / web -- Joshua Blount hello@joshuablount.com
facilities / Wi-fi / AV / sound -- Thomas Meeks thomas@thomasmeeks.com
media / press releases / blog badges -- Ryan Price rprice@ryanpricemedia.com
Wi-Fi - repeaters? Mike Blake, contacts with the city of Orlando?

You can listen to the other half of this call at the Project X half of the conference call

You can edit the Orlando WiFi page or the wiki page for other cities at http://floridacreatives.com/wiki/florida

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FL Creatives 22: Tisse and Direct Art

info@liberatr.net (Liberatr.net) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:32:59 +0000

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Length: 37:35

Tisse Mallon has created a school near Virginia and Mills in Orlando called Direct Art that lets students sample or "taste" different art forms in short and inexpensive classes. Get more info and a list of current offerings at tastethepassionnow.com

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Get more info at Direct Art's website and online catalog
Find out more about Tisse
Florida Creatives on iTunes

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