BarCamp Buffalo #3 (May 4, 2009 @ 6:30PM)

We’re trying something a little different this time — we’re going to have a theme at this BarCamp, which this time around will be Social Media (anything related to blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). You can still present on anything, but hopefully it’ll be related in some respect to the theme.

We’re starting a little earlier, 6:30pm — with plans to begin presentations at 7pm. We’re going to do 10-minute presentations. We’ll do 6-8 presentations, then take a 30-minute networking break (where you can speak with those who just presented).

Then we’ll do another 6-8 presentations, then allow people to dive into further conversation with the speakers on their topics, as well as other networking.

Here are some ideas of what you might present on (or others will present on):

• Building a Twitter app
• Software/tools to help you blog, tweet, build FB/Twitter apps, etc
• How LinkedIn can help you find a job
• Everything you do on the web is there forever, don’t screw up you reputation
• How to make money from a Facebook or Twitter app
• Building a Facebook app
• Ideas for making your app viral
• Getting attention

Wish to present? Sign-up here: http://barcamp.org/BarCampBuffalo

Follow what others are saying about the event on Twitter (@BarCampBuffalo):
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=barcampbuffalo

Suggestions? Comments? Do share, we want to hear them. Just tweet a message with ‘@barcampbuffalo’ in it, and everyone will see it.

Please RSVP to event here:
http://digg.com/u1Qtn

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  • Steve Poland

    On May 4, we’ll be doing our 3rd BarCamp in Buffalo — we’re still learning. The biggest problem has been satisfying the geeks and the business/marketing crowd. A presentation on JQuery is great to the geeks, but a bit too techy for the non-programmers.

    A few of us just went to Rochester’s latest BarCamp this past Saturday, we picked up some tips.

    We’re going to do two presentations at all times. One side of the room will be a geeky presentation, the other side will be a non-technical presentation. In future if we can sustain it, we’ll have 3 presentations going on at once. This provides everyone with options — if they find they don’t like a presentation, they can go over to the other one.

    We will have a prominent big white paper on the wall that’ll have each time slot broken out. We’ll make them 15-min slots.

    Please start RSVP’ing to the Facebook event page, and then please put on the wiki what your presentation will be on. I know we haven’t enforced this, but we’re going to start — everyone in attendance needs to be presenting on something. It can be anything, literally! Some new software you’re using to be more productive; some new programming library you’ve messed with; some blog post you read that could start an interesting discussion; how to make the perfect Mojito; etc!

    Those who signup on the wiki page with their presentation will get first dibs on the time slots. By stating what you’re going to present on, people that will be attending can look forward to what you’ll be presenting on — increasing your visibility to meeting some new people with similar interests.

    Also, I spoke with Pearl Street — we’re still on the 2nd floor, but they are going to try to make it quieter in the connected room. I also mentioned that the bartender disappears sometimes (apparently he’s grabbing food orders), so they are going to try to work on it being better staffed.

    May 4 agenda: 6-7pm registration/drinking/networking/buy food if you want. 7pm we’ll start the presentations.

    Our theme for May 4 is ‘social media’ — attendees have listed some speaking topic suggestions they’d like to hear about under “Topic Suggestions” here:
    http://barcamp.org/BarCampBuffalo

    Please post what you’ll be speaking on here:
    http://barcamp.org/BarCampBuffalo

    Please RSVP to BarCamp 3, here:
    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=65322868818